Wedding Photos of Woods

The following “Woods” 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 “Woods” 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.

TN True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Foothills Parkway in Tennessee illustrating a couple looking at each other as they stand next to a tall tree

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at the Foothills Parkway in TN of a couple looking at each other as they hug in the middle of the forest

Foothills Parkway TN pre wedding Photoshoot forest embrace TN trees hug

True Love Engagement Picture Session at Moss Beach, CA showing a couple under tall trees in The mist in the woods

Tyler Vu CA couple CA Moss Beach CA engagement picture woods trees

Saratoga portrait e-session with an affectionate kiss in the woods

sunshine sunlight trees woods Saratoga forest

Moss Beach, California portrait e-session with some BW Love amongst woods

trees Moss Beach California couple portrait bw California Tyler Vu CA Wedding Photography

Prosser Pines environmental engagement e-session of a dancing couple in the woods

Prosser Pines Loop Trail Prosser Pines woods New York Middle Island Engagement

Siena, Tuscany Fine Art Pre Wedding photoshoot with their lovely dog

Tuscany woods dog pets nature sunlight Arturs Sulainis

Siena, Tuscany Pre Wedding Photoshoot w Fine Art Style for a couple planning to get married in '22

Siena couple open space meadow field trees Siena Arturs Sulainis

Udine, Italy Artful Engagement Picture from under the blue skies and showing strong Silhouettes

silhouette woods Italy contrast nature dusk late afternoon

Saratoga engaged couple picture session with some Peeking through the giant tree trunks

Saratoga tree trunks nature woods sarasota engagement session

Bassin D Arcachon couple engagement pic session showing Two men in love with each other have a beautiful eye contact

bw photo BASSIN D ARCACHON eye contact woods

Hautes Vosges engaged couple picture session showing them Alone in the woods and trees

woods Hautes Vosges bw photo French photographer

Hautes Vosges couple engagement pic session while are waiting for sun and temperature

france engagement photographer forest engagement woods Hautes Vosges

Vagney pre - wed image in BW in the trees Just before a kiss

Vagney woods kiss bw image trees france engagement photographer

Santa Cruz pre - wed image of a couple in the woods

woods Santa Cruz engagement photographer Santa Cruz park Tyler Vu trees

Georgia couple engagement pic session at Smithgall Woods Helen with a kiss on top of the mountain

woods Smithgall Woods Helen Ga engagement pic session trees Georgia Smithgall Woods Helen GA kiss

Vail playful winter pre wed photo shoot

snowy trees winter cold CO pre wed photo shoot Vail Vail couple

Lover's Lane, San Francisco couple portrait in the woods on a winded trail

woods trail CA Photographer Lovers Lane San Francisco couple portrait trees balloons

Scottsdale woods couple portrait in black and white

Arizona black and white Scottsdale couple Scottsdale state capital bw monochrome

Big Basin, California forest pre wedding shoot

trail California pre wedding shoot forest woods Tyler Vu trees California

Estes Park outside forest picture session before the wedding day in the woods during the Golden hour

Estes Park couples outside Estes Park Estes Park picture session forest woods

Borken, Germany wedding couple posed portrait session in the middle of the forest

woods Germany wedding couple Germany Borken posed sunlight trees

Hampshire woods mini embracing couple photo session before the wedding day next to cut and stacked firewood

woods Hampshire photo session Hampshire couple Hampshire Hampshire pre wedding photo firewood

Richmond Park, London, England mini sitting couple photo session before the wedding day sitting on a very large log

woods Richmond Park large log Richmond Park photo session forest England

Frankfurt creative wedding Couple portrait in the woods, as seen from below them and the forest trees

forest creative wedding from below Frankfurt Couple portrait Frankfurt bride and groom trees Frankfurt

Tables de Crespin, Denat South of France creative wedding day portrait with Lights on the wedding couple

The sun was bursting through the trees in the woods, creating a romantic backdrop for the creative wedding portrait of the couple

South of France woods romantic backdrop forest portrait France Tables de Crespin Denat Photographer

Breckenridge, CO outside forest picture session before the wedding day of a couple on a dirt road

nature woods CO Breckenridge outdoors dirt road Breckenridge engagement photography

Houston Arboretum outside forest picture session before the wedding with a Couple under a lush tree awning

Texas nature outdoors trees Houston Arboretum TX

Nazère, Saint-Léornard, Gers, France outside forest picture session before the wedding day with A couple in the countryside

Gers engagement photography outdoors trees France Gers Saint Léornard

Dolly Sods - West Virginia pre-wed picture session on a Foggy afternoon in the woods

foggy West Virginia woods nature outdoors wv

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