Wedding Photos of San Francisco

The following “San Francisco” 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 “San Francisco” 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.

Sausalito post proposal engagement session with a San Francisco wedding photographer showing a silhouette portrait at sunset

Sausalito post proposal portrait session with a San Francisco engagement photographer of a Bay Area couple sitting on the steps above the busy crowds walking on the sidewalk below

San Francisco photographer busy crowds sidewalk Bay Area Sausalito sitting on steps

Sausalito post proposal portraits by a Northern California wedding photographer of a happy San Francisco couple posing on the dock below a seagull perched on pier pylons

Sausalito Photographer seagull pier pylons San Francisco California - Northern Sausalito

San Francisco couples portrait lifestyle session in the city against two large green doors

California - Northern CA lifestyle session San Francisco city San Francisco couple green doors

San Francisco couples lifestyle portrait black and white photography as the two descend the spiral stairs

spiral stairs black and white photography spiral San Francisco couple bw stairs

A San Francisco lifestyle couple urban photo session with A kiss in front of a city cafe at the outdoor table

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A San Francisco couple poses during a Northern California lifestyle portrait photography session showing these CA Lovers are enjoying the sunshine on a city street after rain

street pose San Francisco couple California - Northern city sunshine

A California Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, adventurous portrait of this San Francisco couple walking upstairs surrounded by flowers and the beach

flowers walking stairs San Francisco beach California Engagement Photographer

A California Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, beach portrait of this San Francisco couple walking on the beach near the Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge portraits Golden Gate Bridge beach San Francisco couple California Engagement Photographer

A Northern California Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, scenic portrait of this San Francisco couple posing on top of a hill

California Engagement Photographer San Francisco couple hill posing scenic Northern California

San Francisco actual wedding day couple portrait by the seaside with the Golden Gate Bridge as their backdrop

United States San Francisco couple portrait California Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco backdrop

A great wedding day image from a San Francisco venue of dancefloor at the reception

dancing dance floor CA wedding day detail reception San Francisco San Francisco venue

A San Francisco couple portrait in BW with tall, bare trees against a white sky

bw white sky San Francisco California bare trees San Francisco couple portrait

An outstanding San Francisco wedding picture with this Northern California bride and groom created as a bird flies under the concrete structure

San Francisco concrete structure bird flying California bride and groom San Francisco wedding picture California - Northern

A spectacular San Francisco wedding couple photograph from Northern California following heavy rain, then at dusk the bride and groom ventured down to the pond and a little off camera flash really made this scene dramatic

San Francisco California - Northern off camera flash Northern California couple portrait pond San Francisco wedding photography

A creative black and white San Francisco wedding photo during a Northern California shoot in a wooded oasis on a wooden bridge, as the sky opened up, It started pouring rain

Oasis umbrella raining Northern California shoot black and white wooden bridge

An extraordinary San Francisco wedding picture by a pro Bay Area, Northern California photographer revealing The parents of the bride hoisted up on chairs during the dance party

California photographer bay area photographer chairs hoisted San Francisco San Francisco wedding picture dance party

A top San Francisco wedding photographer captured this picture of The brides mom giving the bride a hug after walking her down the aisle to the ceremony as The grooms family looks on with teary eyes

California San Francisco walking brides mom san francisco wedding photographer hug

A top San Francisco wedding photographer captured this picture showing It rained so hard during the reception even the ground underneath a massive tent was straight up mud and Here the bride gets help removing her muddy shoes

ground dirty wet san francisco wedding photographer tent rain

A fun San Francisco documentary wedding photography showing things quickly escalated to handfuls of cake being smashed into each others faces

cake California CA Wedding Photography smashed handfuls San Francisco documentary

A sweet and serene San Francisco engagement session with some CA kisses and warming Love

A sweet and serene San Francisco engagement session with some CA couple kisses and warming Love

kisses warming Love San Francisco engagement San Francisco CA couple

A romantic San Francisco pre wedding session with some Happy lovers in the bamboo garden

San Francisco pre wedding garden bamboo San Francisco couple San Francisco happy

Epic San Francisco pre wedding portrait for a Couple by the Sutro Bath ruins

Sutro Bath ruins CA couple bath Sutro San Francisco San Francisco pre wedding

A romantic San Francisco engagement picture at the Palace of Fine Arts during A walk with furry baby dogs through the majestic architecture

Palace of Fine Arts architecture majestic romantic walk San Francisco engagement San Francisco furry baby

San Francisco wedding reportage photographer captured this moment created as Mother and aunt of the bride kill time during hair and makeup

mother San Francisco hair bride MOB san francisco wedding photographer

A pre-wedding San Francisco engagement session with a couple that knows its time to get on this journey together

San Francisco Bay Area CA San Francisco engagement photographer public transportation California

San Francisco engagement photo showcasing the natural ease of their Dazzling love in the afternoon sun flare

afternoon sun sunflare Bay Area San Francisco San Francisco engagement photographer Silhouette portrait

A California wedding photojournalist at the St. Francis Westin Hotel in San Francisco captured this moment of The groom getting lifted by the groomsmen during the reception

St Francis Westin Hotel Brett Butterstein CA San Francisco CA groom groomsmen California

A top wedding photojournalist from San Francisco created this image of the bride saying to the groom, honey, get the little creature off my wedding dress

honey flowers little creature insect outdoor wedding trees

A California documentary wedding photographer captured this moment at the St. Francis Weston Hotel in San Francisco of A little girl sharing a secret with the bride on the dance floor during the reception

Brett Butterstein little girl reception CA wedding photographer San Francisco dance floor bride

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