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180+ Engagement Photos with Stairs and Steps

April 17, 2021 - Hold a unique and unexpected photoshoot on stairs, staircases, or steps. Get ideas for portraits taken on the steps of churches and cobblestone streets, the expansive staircases of skyscrapers or towers, or the steps in or around your venue or home from the best engagement photographers of the Wedding Photojournalist Association. WPJA members are your best step in the right direction for engagement photoshoots that will allow your individual personality and style to shine through.

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Zuid Holland wedding engagement photos in the green forest for Netherlands couples

Gerhard Nel

Boulder Engagement Photography session on the stadium bleacher seats.

Jesse La Plante

Southbank Centre, London, England Engagement Portraits on the Stairs with Yellow Walls

Kari Bellamy

Mantas Kubilinskas

Portrait session in black and white at an old castle in Belgium

Caroline Elenbaas

Engagement Picture Session from Chalkidiki, Greece - A couple hugging by the sea

Manos Skoularikos

Santa Ana, California Arts building Engagement portrait session in the city

Shaun Baker

Milano, Italy engagement photo with a couple and a background with repeating lines

Massimiliano Beccati

Engagement Portrait from Santorini - Photography contains: black and white, couple, indoors, window

Yudi Shao

France engagement photo shoot on concrete stairs with a Couple in Paris

Ronan Jégaden

Marco Odorino

Sofia, Bulgaria Portrait of a couple in the underground area walking down stairs during engagement session

Tsvetelina Deliyska

Pre-wedding portrait session at SiPH hospital, Bangkok, Thailand | The couple stop in the middle of staircase | Love is in the air

Maythee Voranisarakul

Brooklyn Bridge Engagement session - DUMBO pre-wedding portraits in silhouette

Tim D. Yun

Baltimore City Engagement | Industrial Photo Session with a young couple getting married.

Kathleen Ricker

Engagement Portrait Session in Hong Kong - Photos on the brick steps with a couple in love

Stam Chananakhon

Potrero Hill, San Francisco city skyline couple portrait looking out over the city while standing on a fire escape stairway

Tyler Vu

San Francisco Humorous Engagement Portraits

Chris Shum

London Underground Escalators - Couple kissing on the escalator during engagement shoot

Paul Tansley

Casarão Serra do Ouro Pré-wedding portrait photo shoot with a couple coming down on the indoor stairs

Claudia Amorim

Engaged Couples Photography | Portovenere Love engagement gement

Matteo Originale

Istanbul Turkey - Engagement session for portraits under the bridge

Derya Engin

Engagement Portrait Session - Image contains: Sunset in Almería

Eduardo Blanco

Meridian Hill Park, DC pre wedding couple photo session on the stairs

Brittany Diliberto

Bordeaux, France Couple Portrait Session on the Stairs

Franck Petit

Baltimore, Maryland Engagement Session - Couple kissing on the stairs for portraits.

Ron Storer

San Francisco, California engagement portrait - Round like a record

Tyler Vu

Minneapolis, MN Couple Portrait at Varsity Theater during engagement session

Penny McCoy

engaged Couple on bridge in Crescent Park during their New Orleans, Louisiana pre-wedding photo session

Maria Newman

Virginia wedding engagement photos for Arlington couples

Brittany Diliberto

CHATEAU DE TERTRE, FRANCE PHOTOGRAPHY - Engagement session Bordeaux, before their wedding in HK

Isabelle Bazin

Wedding photographer in Arlington for Virginia engagement photography

Brittany Diliberto

During this engagement shoot, a couple is framed by two sets of large arches while they embrace on the Bethesda Terrace stairs in New York City

Tim D. Yun

London Couple sat on bench while posing for their engagement pictures.

Ashley Davenport

Engaged couple is standing in front of an amphitheater highlighted with colour orange at Bilkent University Main Campus, Ankara

Orçun Yalçın

San Francisco pre - wed image with a couple hanging onto love on the steep steps

Chris Shum

Yountville, California Engagement Couple Portrait - Image contains: stairs, artistic, fine, art, blue, kissing

Ian Chin

This black and white photo was taken at Da Nang | Engagement Photography

Tam Nguyen

Walt Disney Concert Hall Engagement Photo Session for a Couple in Los Angeles, California

Tanya Parada

Sofia, Bulgaria Couple prewedding portrait on the stairs in the afternoon sunlight.

Tsvetelina Deliyska

Austin, TX - Downtown Engagement Photo of a Couple - Portrait contains: couple, Contrast image in front of a store

Jill Goehring

Couple sits on steps together for Manhattan New York Engagement Session

Michelle Arlotta

Vignamaggio, Florence, Tuscany Engagement Photography | Couple, sitting, kissing, steps, stairs, green, bushes

Marco Vegni

France engagement photoshoot & pre-wedding session from below on some stairs in Strasbourg

Marck Yvan

Jenni's Ice Cream Washington DC - For the Love of Ice Cream - Engagement portrait with couple - Can't buy me love but you can buy me ice cream

Kathleen Ricker

Engagement portraits with a couple at Vizcaya Museum, Miami, Florida

Lukas Guillaume

LA Pre Wedding Engagement Photography - Walt Disney Concert Hall Photographers

Tanya Parada

Georgia Tech University Campus Couple posed on steps in the afternoon sunlight

Cindy Brown

Engagement Portrait - Couple kissing in the escalator of Toulouse in France

Lukas Guillaume

Afternoon engagement photos of a couple | Occitanie photographer pre-wedding portrait session

Kerry Morgan

Opera - Vienna Austria engagement photography | A couple kissing on the escalator

Michele Agostinis

Ho Chi Minh City prewedding portrait on concrete stairways

Nien Truong

The Doors | black and white engagement pictures of a couple in the streets | Arezzo photographer pre-wedding shoot with photographer

Simone Bacci

highline park, ny pre-wedding engagement session with a couple kissing on stairs

Wenjie Han

Milano, Italy - best italian engagement photo - black and white

Michela Bocciarelli

National Gallery of Art couple portrait on stairs - Washington DC engagement photographer

Kenneth Clapp

Steinway Mansion Engagement Session - Photo of a Kiss on the stairs

Denis Gostev

Couple engagement portrait in the Natural history museum of London

Kari Bellamy

Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Engagement Portrait at the stairs with trees.

Chris Shum

China engagement photos of a couple on white stairs | Fujian photographer pre-wedding portrait session

Joy Qin

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