Wedding Photos of Winter

The following “Winter” 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 “Winter” 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 France Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, adventurous portrait of this Megeve couple in the moment before a kiss in the snowy landscape

An extraordinary Annecy wedding picture by a pro France photographer revealing the Groom is throwing the bouquet to the single men outdoors in the winter snow outside the venue

outside venue Haute-Savoie Annecy Annecy wedding picture France photographer throwing France

Best Big Sky documentary wedding photography from Montana showing the bride on a horse drawn winter sleigh

Montana mt wedding photography sleigh Big Sky documentary Big Sky montana bride

Adventurous Two Harbors, MN pre wedding photo session at Split Rock Lighthouse State Park in a white out blizzard on the shores of Lake Superior

Lake Superior Rock Lighthouse State Park Two Harbors MN pre wedding photo snowing winter blizzard

Adventurous and scenic West Lake Tahoe engagement session in Northern California as the couple Snuggles on the snowy fence

fence snowy winter snow snuggles Lake Tahoe

Szeged, Hungary pre-wedding engagement photoshoot with a young, playful couple

winter HU couple Hungary Szeged wedding photography Csongrad Szilveszter Szabados hugs

A prewedding Central Park, NYC engagement session with a couple that knows how to have a good time with their dog

couple NY couple session trees NYC engagement session NY prewedding dogs winter

On location St. Mary's Glacier, Colorado engaged couple makes their way across a bubbling alpine stream

Colorado engaged couple mountains St Marys Glacier msw photos snow winter alpine stream

View this imaginative Aspen wedding pic of The groom running up a snowy halfpipe while the groomsmen wait below, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at the Buttermilk Lodge from the WPJA

imaginative Aspen wedding pic of The groom running up a snowy halfpipe while the groomsmen wait below, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at the Buttermilk Lodge

winter CO photographer running Aspen wedding pic Buttermilk Lodge Colorado wedding photography groom

Pagosa Springs, CO nuptial day award-winning image of Bride flipping her hair while walking through snow on her way to her outdoor ceremony

winter snow snowy Colorado Colorado photographer colorado bride CO

Squaw Valley Lake Tahoe outside environmental couple prewedding photoshoot showing footprints in the fresh winter snow

winter Lake Tahoe footprints Squaw Valley snow Squaw Valley couple portrait prewedding photoshoot

Iceland environmental couple pre wedding image session in the winter by the water with icebergs

cold Iceland icebergs Iceland couples Pre Wedding Image winter Iceland photographer

View this pictorial Sprague Lake wedding image of A couple standing on the bridge during winter elopement, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at the Rocky Mountain National Park from the WPJA

Sprague Lake wedding image of A couple standing on the bridge during winter elopement, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at the Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park bridge winter elopement co couple Sprague Lake winter RMNP wedding photography

Aspen Mountain Resort nuptial day award-winning image of The bride falling down after skiing down the mountain following their micro wedding ceremony

snow Aspen Mountain Resort skiing bride and groom skis winter

Colorado wedding art couple portrait of the Denver bride and groom toasting at their elopement in the winter snow of the mountains

Denver toasting Colorado Shea McGrath snow Colorado wedding elopement

Surreal Vianen, Utrecht wedding portrait of a Netherlands Bride and groom standing so beautiful in the winter sun on the old wall

old wall sun standing Netherlands bride and groom Vianen winter Utrecht

Ponte Sospeso, Tuscany wedding artistic image session for a couple portrait during a winter Covid wedding

Ponte Sospeso couple portrait Tuscany wedding Tuscany Tuscany couple portrait covid wedding

Two Harbors, MN couple e-session walking in the snow

snow MN engagement portrait winter Two Harbors walking MN couple

Modern Bear Lake wedding portrait in the Rocky Mountain National Park of a Colorado bride as she twirls in her unique silver gown in the snow and fog

twirls Bear Lake Rocky Mountain National Park weddings RMNP snowy Rocky Mountain National Park fog

Carl Schurz Park couple e-shoot in NYC, keeping warm by sharing body heat on a snowy day

engagement portrait Casey Fatchett snow keeping warm snowy day Carl Schurz Park couple e shoot in NYC winter

True Love Engagement Picture Session in Fargo showing a couple looking at each other in a winter wonderland

Fargo engagement winter Fargo Engagement Picture Session formal wear Winter wonderland

Aix-les-Bains wedding couple artistic image session of the couple standing the snowy field

formal wear couple snow snowy field Aix les Bains wedding couple Savoie

Jean-Drapeau Park, Montreal, Quebec on-location portrait e-shoot with an Engaged couple under a bridge in the winter snow

snow Montreal couple portrait winter bridge Quebec Engaged couple Quebec photographer

Illinois wedding photographer created this image of the Groom holding bride as they trudge through the winter snow back to their apartment for their reception

groom walking winter streets reception illinois wedding photographer snow

Megeve, French Alps on-location portrait e-shoot in the winter sunshine on the snow

winter Megève French Alps on location portrait sunshine snow e shoot

Abisko, Sweden portrait e-session on a frozen lake in February

Sweden couple portrait Sweden photographer Sweden e session winter Abisko February Elodie Ruelleux Dagorne

Abisko, Sweden on-location winter portrait e-shoot on a frozen lake

snow frozen lake Abisko Sweden winter Sweden portrait e shoot fire

Abisko, Sweden environmental engagement e-session in front of a frozen waterfall

snow winter waterfall Sweden engagements Sweden frozen Sweden environmental portrait

Emerald Bay, California on-location portrait e shoot of a couple looking at each other dearly

CA e shoot jackets snow couple Emerald Bay California

Loveland Pass, CO couple session of snuggling together to stay warm at 11k feet

Loveland Pass CO couple session CO engagement photographer snuggling Colorado CO mountains

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