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The 580+ Best Photo Ideas of Architecture-Themed Engagement Portraits

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April 17, 2021 - 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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Burano, Venezia, Italy pre wedding couple portraits | Surrounded by the colours
Paolo Blocar
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
Hoi An Lighting During Pre Wedding Picture Session
Anh Phan
Engagement Photographer for Barcelona - Image contains: couple, trees, arch, building, kiss
Marcos Rodriguez Pedrosa
A pre wedding photo in London at the British Museum, UK
Ufuk Sarisen
Roma - Piazza di Spagna Engagement Session in the urban city at sunset
Marco Colonna
Engagement Sessions | University of Toronto Arch Couple Portrait
Aniket Sananse
Ho Chi Minh destination wedding photography | Vietnam engagement photographers
Khoi Le
Italian engagement photography in the city with tall buildings.
Massimiliano Beccati
Joaquim Egidio campinas engagement portraits couple on the steps
Vinicius Fadul
Xiahai Chenghuang Temple Photography - The engaged couple were kissing in front of the incense burner of the temple.
Will Tee
Javea Pre-Wedding Portraits - Valencia Engagement Photography
Toni Miranda
San Francisco pre wedding portraits with a Couple at the Palace
Chris Shum
Union Station, Denver, CO - This couple poses together at twilight in front of Denver Union Station during their engagement photos.
Justin Edmonds
Sunset silhouette engagement potrait in Melaka, Malaysia
Thai Le
Lincoln at sunrise - Maryland Engagement Photo Sessions
Kathleen Ricker
Melinda Guerini Temesi, of Budapest, is a wedding photographer for
Melinda Guerini Temesi
Knoetzie Beach, Knysna engagement portrait | The beach is known for the castle's and I used them in the background to give this photo that extra interest.
Christelle Rall
Engaged couple in a field for their DC engagement session
Kathleen Ricker
a young engaged couple standing by the art work at Philadelphia Museum of Art during a portrait session
Wenjie Han
Vietnam Da Lat Pre Wedding Portrait - Light up with colors
Tuan Duong
A couple poses in front of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
Johnny Shryock
Engagement Portrait from Bellapais Monastery, Kyrenia, Cyprus - Couple is kissing in front of a highlighted wall
Orçun Yalçın
Italian pre-wed portrait at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence showing The couple is kissing into the rain and in the backlight
Laura Barbera
engagement photo in Milano, Italy with a young, beautiful couple
Michela Bocciarelli
Portrait session in black and white at an old castle in Belgium
Caroline Elenbaas
Engagement Photos from California - San Francisco - Portrait contains: couple, shaft, light, shadows
Chris Shum
Couple Engagement Photo Session | A couple stop for a kiss while exploring a Havana neighborhood
Ron Soliman
Lombardy pictures of a couple by a top Milan wedding engagement photographer
Massimiliano Beccati
San Francisco, California engagement portrait - Round like a record
Tyler Vu
Budapest, Hungary Proposal in Budapest - Couple Portraits in the Snow.
Melinda Guerini Temesi
El Morro, San Juan PR Engagement Portrait of a Couple - Image contains: Framing the couple with the arches and the door behind couple.
Alexis Rodriguez Montalvo
Engagement Portrait from session at the Peasant Museum in Bucharest
Petrica Tanase
Detroit pre - wed image at General Motors with a silhouette by the water
Eric Corbacho
San Francisco engagement portrait session at the Golden gate Bridge | the wind blows her hair as the fog obscures the bridge
Raymond Nguyen
Couple Engagement Photo Session | An engaged couple in love is kissing in Florence
Laura Barbera
China Academy of oil painting - Engagement portrait of a couple looking Like a painting
Vincent Mu
A prewedding portrait session in front of Luxembourg Opera
Samuel Berthelot
San Francisco engagement pic session with The couple outside the church
Chris Shum
Lisbon Engagement Photographer: An early sunrise at Lisbon, challenge the couple to be on the monument and give a kiss, but when they are going there, right on the middle they starting acting super natural, and i make the shot
Nuno Lopes
Prague PreWedding Portraits - Couple with a Circus tent
Matouš Bárta
San Francisco Engagement Portraits
Chris Shum
Boathouse Row engagement photographer: I saw the bridge, used a long lens and made it sexy.
Miguel Gonzalez
Engagement shoot with a couple posing in front of the Mogosoaia Palace
Petrica Tanase
AZ engagement photoshoot & pre-wedding session in Downtown Phoenix with a couple and a sun flare
Laura Segall
David Butler II, of Connecticut, is a wedding photographer for
David Butler II
Africa engagement portrait with a posed couple in interesting light and a shadow geometric composition in Marrakech, Morocco
Steven Rooney
Valencia engagement photographer captured this image of a couple embracing at sunset on a city block in Alcoy
Toni Miranda
Abbazia di San Galgano engagement portrait of a couple under the arch
Filippo Ciampoli
Istanbul engagement photographer captured a couple in a geometric frame under Galata Bride
Emre Nesli
Slovakia wedding engagement photographers | pre-wedding photography
Martin Almasi
Couple's apartment building elevator hallway - Silhouette engagement portrait in Arlington Virginia
Anastasiia Polyakov
Couple's portrait in Central Park by NY wedding and engagement photographer
Denis Gostev
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil engagement session with bricks and stones
Clara Sampaio
Chicago wedding engagement pictures by IL photographer
Victoria Sprung
Engagement photos in Florence - This is one of my favorites corners to take engagement photos in Florence
Simone Miglietta
Ashley Davenport, of London, is a wedding photographer for
Ashley Davenport
João Neiva, Espírito Santo, Brazil neck kiss for engaged lovers
Kássio Silva
Crete Senesi, Tuscany Engagement Photo Session
Alessia Bruchi
Engagement photo session of a young couple sitting on a motorcycle in front of a brick building in San Francisco.
Raymond Nguyen

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