Wedding Photos of Back to back

The following “Back to back” 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 “Back to back” 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.

A beautifully lit wedding portrait taken at Domaine de Kervallon à Caro captures a couple sharing a break together back to back, as they exhale smoke from their cigarettes against a colorful gel-lit backdrop.

Romantic Back-to-Back Moment: Couple Exhaling Smoke at Domaine de Kervallon à Caro Wedding Portrait

A romantic wedding portrait at Fűvészkert, Budapest. The couple plays a game of hide and seek, standing back to back and holding hands in the warm sunshine. Perfect harmony captured in a beautiful setting.

Hide and Seek Harmony: Romantic Wedding Portrait at Fűvészkert, Budapest Under Golden Sunshine

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A fine art portrait by a Brazilian wedding photographer, depicting a couple standing back to back in the middle of a road during a romantic sunset in Prudente de Morais.

Romantic Roads: Brazilian Engagement Portrait at Sunset in Prudente de Morais

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At The Tall Trees venue, a couple preparing to marry participated in an engagement portrait session, with their silhouetted heads and bodies turned in opposite directions, standing back to back.

Serenading Love: A Tale of Unity in Tall Trees

Bangkok PreWedding Session back to back opposite directions Bangkok The Tall Trees Venue Thailand silhouette

A couple about to be wed posed for their engagement portrait session at Siam, showcasing their relaxed indoors dynamic as they posed back to back, with her attempting to feed him overhead.

Love in Siam: A Playful Capture of Engagement Bliss

Relaxed back to back Thailand Thailand PreWedding Portrait couch sofa Siam

In the warm glow of golden hour, the silhouette of the couple stands out against the serene backdrop of Evergreen Lake, creating a captivating image as they pose back to back. - Golden Silhouettes: Love's Embrace

Golden Silhouettes: Love's Embrace at Evergreen Lake

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In a park, this award-winning wedding portrait captures a lovely pose between the brides. They stand back-to-back, holding hands and smiling at each other, with a bouquet of flowers in hand.

A Captivating Back-to-Back Brides' Pose in Nature

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Wedding photo in Metz Moselle, with couple seated on a bench near the water's edge. Surrounded by a metallic heart, they pose back-to-back in stylish stances.

METALLIC EMBRACE: Captivating Love Story Whispers on the Water's Edge in Metz

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Lake Park, Perequê, Porto Belo - Love and nature, a couple in reverse harmony, where one faces away from the other, hands held, connecting.

Lake Park, Perequê, Porto Belo: A Reverse Harmony of Love and Nature

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In a charming setting at Carmen de los Mártires, Granada, Spain, this engaging portrait captures a couple, framed within the wooden lattice wall, standing back to back with anticipation. Expertly captured by a skilled Granada wedding photographer.

Captivating Love at Carmen de los Mártires: Granada, Spain's Enchanting Engagement Portrait

Granada wooden lattice wall Spain back to back charming setting Carmen de los Martires Granada Engagement Photography

Engaged couple at the scenic Carmen de los Mártires in Granada, Spain, stand back-to-back, their gazes meet as they face each other, embraced by sunlit palm trees, captured beautifully by a Granada wedding photographer.

Carmen de los Mártires: A Sunlit Embrace in Granada, Spain - An Engagement Portrait

Carmen de los Martires looking over shoulder Granada Engagement Photography back to back Granada Spain palm trees

Pre wedding portrait of a couple at Ulvenhout, the Netherlands, showcasing their love in the picturesque woods as they stand back to back, hand in hand. Captured by an artistic NL wedding photographer.

Enchanting Engagement in Ulvenhout: Uniting Love Amidst the Idyllic Dutch Woods. Photographed with Skill by an NL Wedding Artist

forest Hand in hand Ulvenhout Ulvenhout Engagement Portrait back to back

An engaged couple in silhouette pose back to back, affectionately facing their dogs, against the backdrop of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

Engagement Bliss: Silhouettes Embrace Dogs amidst Buzzards Bay Beauty

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In the engagement portrait, the couple is positioned back to back, seated on a stone bench in Senlis

Capturing Love in Senlis: Intimate Back-to-Back Couple Portrait on a Stone Bench

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In the engagement portrait taken at Budapest Szúnyog sziget, the couple can be seen sitting back-to-back on a barrel

Capturing Love at Budapest Szúnyog sziget: Intimate Engagement Portraits Show Couple on Barrel

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This engagement wedding photography session takes place in Pieve di Romena, Arezzo, Italy, where a couple is captured enjoying a peaceful time while sitting in a beautiful lavender field, creating a warm and harmonious atmosphere

Pieve di Romena, Arezzo, Italy: Enchanting Engagement Wedding Photography Session in Lavender Field

Arezzo Engagement Portrait sitting in field Pieve di Romena back to back lavender field Arezzo warm atmosphere

A joyful couple in Sofia, Bulgaria, is captured in a stunning photograph as they showcase their love and happiness, with radiant smiles, against a wall

Sofia, Bulgaria: Joyful Couple Captured in Stunning Photograph Showcasing their Love and Happiness

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A beautiful photograph capturing a couple in Sofia, Bulgaria, as they lovingly hold hands while standing back-to-back against a wall, celebrating their engagement

Engagement in Sofia, Bulgaria: A stunning photo of a couple lovingly holding hands back-to-back against a wall

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The couple are sitting back-to-back in a field in Moselle with yellow flowers

Moselle, Back-to-Back in a Field of Yellow Flowers: An Engagement Photo

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A couple in Lyon, France, are smiling back to back on a bench in their engagement announcement portrait for their save-the-date

Lyon, France: Engagement Announcement Portrait of Smiling Couple on Bench

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The Caprigliola-Massa couple happily posed for their save-the-date engagement portrait in an urban, concrete setting, sitting back to back on steps and smiling

Rome, Italy: Caprigliola-Massa Couple Engagement Portrait on Urban Steps

urban portrait back to back Massa and Carrara Caprigliola steps Massa Engagement Photography

The couple, about to get married, posed back to back at sunset time in the beautiful Tarn Countryside of France for their lifestyle engagement photoshoot

In the Tarn Countryside of France, an engaged couple in love posed back to back at sunset for their romantic photoshoot

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The engaged couple posed for a lifestyle pre-wedding portrait at Meximieux, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, sitting back to back on a low wall with big smiles and symmetrical poses

The engaged couple posed with big smiles back to back at Meximieux, France

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A couple sitting on jagged rocks back to back near a big waterfall were captured in an engagement session in Mussourie, India

The soon-to-be-married couple sit back-to-back on jagged rocks near a majestic waterfall

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Cap Ferret post proposal portrait session with a France engagement photographer of a Gironde couple standing back to back near a brick building

Gironde France back to back Patrick Lombaert CAP FERRET France engagement photography brick building

A creative black and white Zhejiang wedding photo with back to back bride and groom silhouetted against white background with double exposure of a tree

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Pasadena silhouette evening couple portrait during sunset magic

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IT engagement portrait with a posed couple from Duino, Trieste, Italy showing off their Silhouettes

back to back blue sky trees Italy silhouette artistic picture

the couple is sitting back-to-back on the wall of the bridge while laughing over the waters

sitting wall bridge Florence pre wedding portrait back to back Florence engagement photography

Engaged couple stands back to back and admire the gardens - a Brenizer panorama

Denver wedding photography panorama Denver back to back gardens Denver pre wedding Denver Botanic Gardens

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