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The 400 Best Photo Ideas of Architecture-Themed Engagement Portraits

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Feb 18, 2020 - Pre-wedding engagement portraits featuring couples who appreciate good architecture. Get inspiration from Diamond Award-winning photography by the Wedding Photojournalist Association for photos that show off unique designs, original buildings, and intriguing structures. If you like what you see in the pictures below, make sure you contact a WPJA photographer to bring your dream urban photoshoot to life.

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Silhouette engagement portrait of couple hugging in a fortress
Corina Oghina
IT pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers before building columns in Venice
Carlo Bettuolo
Castelluccio di Norcia pre-wedding portraits with a sweet Kiss
Mirko Vegliò
China Academy of oil painting - Engagement portrait of a couple looking Like a painting
Vincent Mu
The Barbican, London Alternative engagement session in England
Kari Bellamy
Engagement Photography for Seattle, Washington - Portrait of a couple standing next to building
Ron Storer
Pre-Wedding Engagement Portraits in Beijing
Xiaoye Sun
The Knoetzie beach is known for the castle's and I used them in the background to give this photo that extra interest.
Christelle Rall
Beijing China Athletic Couple pose for an outdoor engagement portrait in the city.
Xiaoye Sun
Painted Hall, London - Pre Bride and Pre Groom engagement portrait
Obi Nwokedi
Engaged couple kisses in front of the main entrance of the Appeal Court historical building during pre wedding photo shoot.
Cristina Tanase
Beijing, China Pre-wedding Portrait of a Couple - Image contains: building, art, black, white
Xiaoye Sun
Paris pre-wedding engagement pictures of a couple near the Eiffel Tower | couple photography session
Simon Cassanas
engagement love from Forte dei Marmi - window portraits of this couple
Matteo Originale
Denver urban engagement photography of couple against red brick building.
Alison MacLean
Engagement Photos from California - San Francisco - Portrait contains: couple, shaft, light, shadows
Chris Shum
Campinas - São Paulo couple in front of the door, kissing for prewedding portraits
Vinicius Fadul
Engagement photo of a couple in the reflection of a building in San Francisco.
Raymond Nguyen
Italy engagement photo shoot riding a water taxi in Venice
Carlo Bettuolo
Washington DC couple Pose for engagement portraits - black-and-white In to triangles
Mantas Kubilinskas
Bursa, Turkey engagement pre-wedding shoot of hugging lovers
Nilufer Nalbantoglu
Hong Kong Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Black and White
Liam Collard
Hradcanske Namesti, Prague Castle, Czech Republic Pre Wedding Portraits | A couple shares a late summer night kiss underneath the impressive gas lamps at Prague Castle
Kurt Vinion
Engagement Photographer | fort point highlights
Ian Chin
Engagement session in Lisbon for a couple's portraits before their wedding day
Fabio Azanha
Siracusa afternoon portraits of a couple in the sunlit streets
Simona Cancelli
York Minster Sunset engagement photography | Norfolk England wedding photographer
Rob Dodsworth
Slovakia wedding engagement photographers | pre-wedding photography
Martin Almasi
Engagement shoot at the Vijay Runn Palace, Jaipur, India of a couple running during mid-day with two strobes
Sunny Pariani
Brazil engagement session with lovely couple late in the day
Vinicius Terror
Samabe Hotel prewedding photo portrait session in black and white.
MangKhris Santika
London Engagement Portrait Session - Colour image of couple standing on bench
Ashley Davenport
Baltimore, Maryland engaged couple holding hands and walking under the word Love, spelled out on a brick building
Kathleen Ricker
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK engagement photography | A couple, facing into the sunlight, embrace at the university where they first met.
Rob Dodsworth
A couple kisses as the sun beams through large columns in this black and white pre-wedding portrait by a Venice, Veneto photographer.
Carlo Bettuolo
London pre-wedding shoot - urban minimalism
Ashley Davenport
Tower Bridge, London engagement portrait | The activity this couples does the most is read to each other, so they wanted to have a shot of them reading during their engagement session
Kari Bellamy
CN pre wedding portrait session with a Couple in the mirror in china hangzhou
Mango Gu
A couple is silhouetted against the building at Denver's Union Station during their engagement photos in lower downtown
Justin Edmonds
Engagement Session Shoot at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York
Tim D. Yun
Lifeguard beach Love Engagement Session with glass reflections in CA
Scott MacDonald
London bridge Engagement Photograph
Gyula Lovaszi
Engagement Picture Session from San Francisco - Romance at the fort
Chris Shum
Vrtba Garden staircase portrait session with newly engaged couple.
Matouš Bárta
BG engagement photo shoot at night in front of the Sts. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia, Bulgaria showing Two lovers in front of the library columns
Lubomir Jiponov
Couple is standing on the stairway during prewedding photoshoot at Bilkent University
Orçun Yalçın
an Aguilas - Spain pre wedding portrait using light and Shadows
Eduardo Blanco
A Boston engagement photo shoot session of a couple | Massachusetts photographer
Simi Rabinowitz
The cross, the couple and the church - Sofia Engagement Photographs
Tsvetelina Deliyska
Chicago wedding engagement pictures by IL photographer
Victoria Sprung
San Francisco Engagement Portraits
Chris Shum
Union Station, Denver, CO - This couple poses together at twilight in front of Denver Union Station during their engagement photos.
Justin Edmonds
London UK Pre-Wedding Shoot with Couple in the City
Ashley Davenport
Engagement Photographer | CCBB - Brasília - Brazil - Looks like the man is flying. There is no photoshop composite. The man just jumped.
Gustavo Lucena
dumbo Portrait of engaged couple in afternoon sunlight
Wenjie Han
Engagement Photographer | Patterson Park Observatory Engagement Session
Scott Josuweit
Engaged couple in love with red background during their indoor pre wedding portrait session
Samuel Berthelot
Newly engaged couple embrace each other in the pavilion in the backyard of Xining Hotel, Qinghai
Binbin Wong
Engagement Photo from Taj Mahal, India in the early morning
Chin Whei Tay
Engagement Photo from Budapest /hungary Budapest Hilton Hotel - Couple standing on street in a good light
Emre Nesli

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