Wedding Photos of Warm sunshine

The following “Warm sunshine” 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 “Warm sunshine” 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.

A Bozeman wedding photographer captured a couple on a wooden, arching foot bridge in Montana, embracing in the warm sunshine.

Embracing Love: Arching Foot Bridge Romance in Bozeman, Montana

In Duino, Trieste, Italy, the couple enjoys an intimate pose, cuddling in the warm sunshine. Their noses touch in a tender gesture, creating a close-up, emotional frame. - Sunlit Embrace: Intimate Connection Captured

Sunlit Embrace: Intimate Connection Captured in Duino, Trieste, Italy

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In Northern California, San Francisco, the couple embraces, holding hands in front of a black-yellow barricade, capturing an urban city vibe illuminated by the warmth of the sunshine. - Urban Love in City Glow

San Francisco: Urban Love in City Glow

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Amid the Tuscan Winter in Casole d'Elsa, Siena, Tuscany, this engagement portrait features the couple seated on a bench, basking in the warm sunshine, creating a serene and intimate feel

Casole d'Elsa Serenity: A Tuscan Winter Engagement Portrait

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A playful bride lies on her back in a field of tall grass, basking in the warm sunshine at a private farm in Hampshire, UK

Sun-Kissed Serenity: A Whimsical Bride Embraces Joy in the Hampshire Countryside

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The couple enjoyed the warm sunshine as they crossed the street for their pre-wedding portrait session in the West Village

In the West Village, the couple walked the street for a lifestyle portrait session in the warm sunshine

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The engaged couple bask in the warm sunlight at Stirling Gardens in Perth, Western Australia during their pre-wedding portrait session, smiling in each other's embrace

In Perth, Western Australia, the engaged couple enjoy the warm sunshine at Stirling Gardens

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An engaged couple enjoyed a lifestyle session while walking by the sea in Muggia, Trieste, Italy with his arm around her shoulder and the blue sky and water illuminated by the warm sunshine

The happy couple embraced and smiled as they walked by the sea, his arm around her shoulder illuminated by the warm sunshine and blue sky above the water

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As the sun shone, guests were in high spirits playing the bouquet ribbon game at the Orangerie du Chateau in the Vendée

The bride and guests joyfully played the bouquet ribbon game in the warm sunshine, their spirits lifted by the magical wedding atmosphere

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The playful romance between the soon-to-be-wed couple captured in their Frenchtown, NJ engagement portrait speaks to the depths of their love

The happy couple enjoyed a playful embrace in their engagement portrait, bathed in the warm sunshine as he kissed her cheek

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At a Backyard Wedding in Virginia Beach, cheers and a drink toast to the couple

The warm sunshine was the perfect element needed for toasting the couple with cheers and drinks at a backyard wedding

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Bride arriving at wedding ceremony with maid carrying her wedding train at The Oratory Birmingham, UK

The bride's majestic entrance in the warm sunshine, with her maid carrying her luxurious wedding train, was truly breathtaking

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The beautiful bride as she looked over her shoulder surrounded by lush greenery at her wedding reception venue in Hünxe, Germany, bathed in the warm sunshine

In Hünxe, Germany, the bride, bathed in warm sunshine, looked over her shoulder surrounded by lush greenery outside her wedding reception

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A Save the Date in Montpellier. France portrait of a couple sitting on rocks in the warm sunshine

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Hertfordshire wedding photographer caught this image of a couple kissing while the sun shines behind them in this engagement photo taken near St. Pauls Walden Bury

A wedding photographer caught this image of a couple kissing while the sun shines behind them in this engagement photo

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A garden full of nature's colors surround the bride in the wedding image in Sri Lanka.

The bride is surrounded by an artistic array of vibrant hues in the garden

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