Wedding Photos of Cappadocia

The following “Cappadocia” 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 “Cappadocia” 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.

The couple in their coordinating red outfits were photographed standing hand-in-hand in front of a historical building in Cappadocia, Turkey, for their lifestyle engagement portrait session

In Cappadocia, Turkey, the couple posed for a lifestyle engagement portrait session in red

On their wedding day, the couple enjoyed a romantic horseback ride in Cappadocia, Turkey, stopping to take a break near the towering rock formations beneath the beaming sun

The newlyweds celebrated their union with a picturesque horseback ride, pausing to admire the breathtaking scenery of the towering rock formations illuminated by the sunny sky

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An engagement photo session in Cappadocia, Turkey featured a couple in formal clothing with horses running past them in the Goreme Horse Range

A prewedding couple portrait session featuring the couple in formal clothing and horses running past them

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Engaged couple lifestyle session in Cappadocia, Turkey, with vibrant colors in the sky, hot air balloons filling the sky, and silhouetted embracing couple

A prewedding couple portrait session featuring a silhouetted embracing couple with vibrant colors in the sky and hot air balloons in the background

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An engaged couple had a pre-wedding photo session in Cappadocia, Turkey, embracing under a deep blue sky as hot air balloons lifted off of the desert floor

A couple embraced under a deep blue sky as hot air balloons lifted off the desert floor for a prewedding portrait session

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An engaged couple lifestyle session in the Cappadocia desert, Turkey, with the woman wearing a large flowing red dress

An engaged couple had a prewedding portrait session with the woman wearing a large red dress

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Turkey Couple Portrait with Running Horses | Cappadocia pre wedding photo session at the horse ranch

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Cappadocia engagement announcement couple photo session with her red dress and pillars

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Cappadocia engagement announcement photo idea in Turkey with arched columns and stairs

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Cappadocia destination engagement shoot for a Turkey couple against a red and orange hot air balloon at night

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Cappadocia couple posing for a desert engagement announcement shot against the desert fairy chimneys

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A Turkish couple at the Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site, near chimney rocks during an engagement announcement portrait session

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A Turkey couple poses for a panoramic portrait with some of hundreds of hot air balloons, as they prepare to announce their Cappadocia wedding engagement

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A newly engaged Turkey couple poses near some chimney rocks, ash hardened into a porous rock that was covered by a layer of basalt, during an Cappadocia engagement announcement portrait session

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A Cappadocia couple poses near fairy chimneys at a World Heritage Site during their Turkey engagement announcement portraits

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A Turkey modern couple poses for a Cappadocia engagement portrait after hot air ballooning in Cappadocia during a night in Morocco's Agafay Desert

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A backlit couple portrait in a museum hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey, is silhouetted in a bright orange frame, illuminated by the fire of the setting sun to the right

A silhouette couple portrait in Cappadocia, Turkey, is framed by the setting orange sun

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In Cappadocia, Turkey, at a museum hotel, a vintage and rustic looking detail pic of rings on an old wooden stick

A vintage-looking ring photo was taken on old wood at the museum hotel in Cappadocia, Turkey

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A couple's portrait in the city center of Cappadocia, Turkey, with a red brick wall pattern as the backdrop, creates a beautiful setting at a wedding venue

In Cappadocia, Turkey, a red brick wall pattern makes an urban, rustic backdrop for a wedding portrait

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Documentary wedding photographer at an event venue in Cappadocia, captured bride and groom outdoors in the snow heading to the Lunar Hotel

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A Save the Date in Cappadocia. Turkey portrait of the couple during a pre wedding desert session at the sunrise

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She said yes, post marriage proposal picture session in Cappadocia, Turkey with the bride wearing a red dress at the desert cliffs

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An after the marriage proposal Cappadocia engagement photograph showing the bride and groom in formal clothes in the desert

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An after the wedding proposal engagement picture session in Cappadocia, Turkey with birds in flight overhead

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A romantic engagement session at Cappadocia, Turkey above the rock cliffs and below launching hot air balloons

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Turkey Engagement. A young Cappadocia couple posing during a pre wedding portraits created in a vendor booth with a chair

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A pre wedding photoshoot from Cappadocia, Turkey with the couple walking and holding hands as they climb on the rocks of love

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Cappadocia Engagement. A young Turkey couple posing during a pre wedding portrait session at the launching zone of the hot air balloons

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Couple photography in Cappadocia during a pre wedding engagement shoot near a rustic wooden fence below the rock cliffs

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Cappadocia post proposal portraits from a Turkey couple engagement session at a beautiful landscape, mountain, hill, desert, formation, cliff, terrain, geology, badlands, turkey, plateau, landform, ancient

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