Wedding Photos of Church ruins

The following “Church ruins” 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 “Church ruins” 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.

Bride and groom kissing among the ruins of Abbaye de Fontaine-Guerard in Normandy

The bride and groom are affectionately depicted in a portrait, embracing amidst the ruins of the Abbaye

Portrait of the Bride and Groom in front of their Wedding Ceremony ruins church and vintage car during their portrait session at Antigua Guatemala

The couple's portrait session at the ruins of the wedding ceremony church featured them in front of their vintage car

Guatemala church ruins Antigua black and white Guatemala Photographer vintage car

At La Casa de la Ruina, Santa Rosa, Antigua, Guatemala, the bride and groom laugh while exiting the ceremony surrounded by confetti

The bride and groom laughed joyfully as they exited the ceremony in the church ruins, surrounded by confetti that had been thrown in celebration

church ruins Antigua Santa Rosa La Casa de la Ruina confetti Antigua Wedding Photographer exiting ceremony

A newly engaged Charentes Maritimes couple poses in the ruins of an old church at sunset by the sea for an engagement announcement portrait in France

Silhouette portrait church ruins France photographer Charentes Maritimes Jeremie Sangare

An after the wedding proposal engagement picture session in Charentes Maritimes, France illustrating the Ring of fire around a couple at sunset in front of the ruins of a church

Charentes Maritimes Jeremie Sangare France sunset engagement Charentes Maritimes Photographer Ring of fire church ruins

San Galgano Abbey, Siena, Italy fine art church ruins wedding couple picture of the bride and groom are kissing after the ceremony

San galgano Abbey Italy bride and groom Fine art kissing church ruins Siena

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