Wedding Photos of Sitting

The following “Sitting” 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 “Sitting” 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.

Paolo Blocar Engagement Photographer: A Couple Over the Shipwreck Bay

Engagement Photography with A Couple Over the Shipwreck Bay

England engagement photography: Lytham St Annes | It is all about us

England engagement photography is all about love and being together

pre wedding location Lytham St Annes Lytham St Annes engagement session grass fields smiling Lytham St Annes sitting

Oregszolok, Hungary Picnicking Couple - Wine at the Portrait Session

Picnicking Couple with Wine at the Portrait Session

grass field pre wedding session Oregszolok Oregszolok engagement photos wine sitting Oregszolok

Versailles Gardens, France Couple Portraits | Red pants, blue door. Engagement session

Gardens Couple Portraits with Red pants, and a blue door during their Engagement session

pre wedding location Versailles Gardens couple Versailles Gardens engagement session doors Versailles Gardens Versailles sitting

Olde Kamp Drenthe portrait of an engaged couple - hot coco and fire places

portrait of an engaged couple with hot coco and fire places

couple drink Drenthe engagement photographers sitting Drenthe Olde Kamp

Aachen, Germany Engagement Photography - Image contains: red, brick, sitting, couple, cobblestone

Engagement Photography with a red brick wall

Aachen pre wedding portraits engagement photo Aachen Aachen cobblestone red sitting

Sofia Couple Portraits - Bulgarian National Library Engagement Photography - Image contains: steps, building, back, sitting, flags, concrete, pillars

Couple Portraits at the National Library for Engagement Photography

Sofia pre wedding portraits building concrete flags sitting pillars

Umbria Engagement Couple Session - Image contains: sitting, couple, stairs, village, hug

Umbria Engagement Couple Session with a sitting couple stairs

Umbria pre wedding shoot Umbria stairs couple hug Umbria engagement photographers sitting

Tuscany, Italy Engagement Shooting in their home

black and white home pre wed shoot location Tuscany Italy Tuscany engagement session sitting

RS, Brazil Engagement Picture Session - Portrait contains: colorful, stairs, sitting, red, blue

RS, Brazil Engagement Picture on colorful stairs of red and blue

Brazil stairs Brazil engagement session RS red sitting Blue

Hagen pre wedding photography - Bonn couple down by the river

Hagen pre wedding photography with a Bonn couple down by the river

sitting river Hagen tree Hagen engagement session stump

bride portrait with the window light shining upon her

sitting France portrait bride Bride Portrait window light window light shining France Bride

bride sitting and writing her vows

Rio de Janeiro bridal image sitting bride Rio de Janeiro writing Rio de Janeiro wedding photography

Roden engagement shooting on cold days - warm souls in the snow

snow village Roden wedding couple door Roden pre wed town small town

a young child sitting in the lap of his mother at a wedding reception table

reception table Varese wedding image mother Varese photographer Varese Varese photography

Hossegor engagement pre wedding session in black and white

Hossegor engagement photos high angle black and white sitting Hossegor wedding engagement overhead

Wedding reflection image of the bride sitting near mirrors

Cotes dArmor wedding photographer Hong Phuc Bui wedding father sitting mirrors

photography of emotion between father and bride during wedding ceremony

wedding ceremony Saint Benin d Azy emotion photography father Chateau d Azy Sybil Rondeau

Bridesmaids sit in another room while the bride gets her hair done on this black and white picture

bridesmaids bride China Fujian wedding preparations Fujian getting ready getting ready picture Wallpaper

Igreja de S. Miguel de Vila das Aves - Portugal | Ceremony Photography showing the godfather's emotion

Ceremony image showing the godfather's emotion

emotion holding hands Igreja de São Miguel Godfather sitting flowers dress

Photo of the bride sitting in the Make Up Artists chair as she is prepared for her Cotswolds wedding.

Photo of the bride sitting in the Make Up Artists chair as she is prepared for her wedding

preparing sitting bride wedding getting ready painting makeup

A couple smiles at each other while sitting on a dock during their engagement shoot at Montreal Botanical Gardens

A couple smiles at each other while sitting on a dock during their engagement shoot at the Nature Botanical Gardens

sitting dock Montreal engagement photography smiles botanical gardens Montreal Botanical Gardens Montreal

Playa del Carmen Engagement Photoshoot - Kisses on the boardwalk

Tropical Engagement Photoshoot for a couple with Kisses on the boardwalk

Tropical Engagement Playa del Carmen Engagement Playa del Carmen boardwalk sitting kisses

Guests sit and wait for the ceremony to begin in Shandong in this photo by a China wedding photographer.

Guests sit and wait for the ceremony to begin in this photo

China Shandong wedding image Shandong weddings guests before the ceremony Shandong waiing

Engagement photos from Bakersfield, CA | Under the sky, sitting on the grass With a sun umbrella

Engagement photos Under the sky, for a couple sitting on the grass With a sun umbrella

Sky sun umbrella sitting CA engagement Bakersfield grass Bakersfield Engagement Photography

Wedding photograph from Enschede NL - the bride sits while waiting for the groom

Wedding image from Enschede NL of the bride sitting while waiting for the groom

Enschede NL Enschede Netherlands groom sitting Netherlands wedding image NL bride

Swallows nest wedding photo just moments after the signing the register

sitting bride and groom Swallows nest England wedding venue Sherbourne United Kingdom

Valladolid pre-wedding session - sitting on concrete holding hands - couple shot from above

A pre-wedding session captures the couple sitting on concrete and holding hands, with the shot taken from above for a unique perspective

from above holding hands Valladolid Engagement Photography Valladolid Valladolid pre wedding sitting concrete

Jalisco couple sitting by the water framed by rows of tall palms during a BW engagement shoot

Tropical loving couple sitting by the water framed by rows of tall palms during a BW engagement shoot

Jalisco e session water palms sitting bw engagement Jalisco couple rows

Wedding shoot at Colstoun House with Haddington couple sitting during speeches

Haddington marriage venue Haddington photographer Colstoun House stones sitting wedding reception Colstoun House venue

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