Wedding Photos of Arbor

The following “Arbor” images were created by documentary wedding photographers from the WPJA, who regularly submit their best candid moments, artistic portraits, details, and scene setters for review by our WPJA competition judges.

WEDDINGS + ELOPEMENTS + ARTISTIC PORTRAITS & DETAILS + ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS

Some of the “Arbor” marriage photography samples below may have come from the getting ready events, the actual wedding ceremony, the reception after-party, an engagement session with the couple, or possibly be artistic portraits or detail shots.

FINE ART WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: Our Artistic Guild award winners take a more creative approach to wedding day Portraits and use their innovative skills to capture the Details of each couple’s special day. The Artistic Guild’s Scene Setters are some of the most notable and breathtaking from within the artistic WPJA contest categories. Playing with light and shadow, special effects, and post-production editing, these images embrace the artistic component of wedding photography.

PRE-WEDDING ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY: The story of every couple starts long before the wedding day, and the engagement marks one of the most important milestones in their story. Engaged couples often want to celebrate the occasion and announce their upcoming wedding with a photoshoot. Pre-wedding portraits of an engaged couple can be just as moving and compelling as the images taken on the wedding day. Engagement portraits can win a Diamond Award, an exclusive WPJA award whose winner is selected from the best engagement photography in the world.

Flamm Bodrum, Turkey: A couple poses under an arbor of white flowers for a creative wedding portrait, with their image captured through the reflection of a cellphone held by the photographer

Bodrum, Turkey: A creative wedding portrait captures a couple under an arbor of white flowers

During the photoshoot on their wedding day in Zuid Holland, Netherlands, the photographer decided to capture a unique portrait shot of the couple by using reflection as a creative element in the picture.

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This smiling couple was captured during their pre-wedding photoshoot in the backyard of their home in Atlanta, joyfully laughing and celebrating their upcoming nuptials

Atlanta backyard: Joyful couple, pre-wedding photoshoot, celebrating nuptials

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At the beautiful Ballantyne Country Club in North Carolina, the wedding guests laughed as the officiant shared a funny story of the bride and groom, surrounded by an arbor of yellow sunflowers

The joyful laughter of the wedding guests and couple echoed through the yellow sunflowers as the officiant shared an amusing story of the newlyweds

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The sun shone softly through the trees over the private villa in Tourtour, creating an idyllic scene as guests erupted in laughter at the bride's joyful outburst

Laughter filled the air as the bride let out an outburst under the sun-dappled arbor of green trees

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A spectacular Stirlingshire wedding couple photograph from Scotland showing the Bride and groom backlit under the arbor

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