Wedding Photos of Couple embrace

The following “Couple embrace” 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 “Couple embrace” 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.

At Alcsúti Arboretum, this portrait captures a reflection in sunlight as the couple embraces. The scene seamlessly combines the surroundings with the intimacy of the engaged couple.

Alcsúti Arboretum: A Sunlit Embrace in Nature's Reflection

The bride and groom embrace each other in front of a beautiful sunset at their wedding in Fort Collins, Colorado. Wedding guests mingle in the background.

Love's Embrace: A Fort Collins Wedding Unveiled as the Sun Sets

Fort Collins Colorado couple embrace sunset Fort Collins wedding portrait

At the Ardeche location in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, an emotional wedding ceremony unfolded as the father shed tears and the mother held the microphone, trying to speak through her own emotions

An emotional wedding ceremony occurred at Ardeche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with parents struggling to speak

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An emotional couple and their daughters embrace in Barjols, France in a wedding photograph

The couple and their daughters share an emotional embrace in Barjols

Barjols wedding moment couple embrace couple and daughters Var mother and daughters joyous embrace

Matteo Originale is an artistic wedding photographer for La Spezia

Photo by: Matteo Originale - Bolano La Spezia

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A blissful minute is captured at the Briery Wood Country House Hotel, with sun streaming through the trees as a couple embrace and laugh with joy

A wedding photographer captured the pose of a couple embracing and laughing in a Country House Hotel with sun streaming through the trees

United Kingdom Briery Wood Country House Hotel sun streaming couple embrace The Lake District laughing Windermere

The engaged couple in Istanbul, Turkey embraced lovingly while their lovable pup happily wagged its tail in the foreground, creating a fun pre-wedding portrait

The couple's joyous love and their pup's enthusiasm were captured in a beautiful engagement portrait taken in Istanbul, Turkey

dog wagging tail Turkey dog tail couple embrace Istanbul engagement photography Istanbul

The couple embrace while posing for a save-the-date engagement announcement portrait, with the stunning Schwarzsee in the background

Schwarzsee: Engagement Announcement Portrait of Embracing Couple in Switzerland

Fribourg Schwarzsee Schwarzsee Engagement Photography mountains water couple embrace

The couple embraced with their reflection in a puddle along with the North Avenue Beach and Chicago skyline in a lifestyle engagement portrait

North Avenue Beach, Chicago: Couple embraced in lifestyle engagement portrait session, reflection in puddle

Chicago skyline couple embrace reflections in water Chicago north avenue beach Chicago engagement photography puddle

The bride and groom posed for a romantic portrait in front of the Cabins on Strawberry Hill, with the flames of love heating up their embrace from below

At Strawberry Hill Cabins, the loving couple posed for a romantic portrait, their embrace heated by the outdoor open fire

fire couple embrace flames Arizona AZ Arizona photographer Cabins on Strawberry Hill

The newly engaged couple smiles as they stop to talk along a snowy path in Kahle Park, Lake Tahoe California during their engagement picture session

The newly engaged couple beamed with joy as they embrace along the snowy path, their love radiating elegance and class in their engagement picture session

Lake Tahoe engagement session Kahle Park California couple embrace snowy path Lake Tahoe

couple embrace and soak in the sunshine

Channel Islands Photographer couple embrace Channel Islands red door Jersey St Helier

couple embrace while standing in a cobblestone alley

Boston couple embrace Boston photographer Kayla Rice Massachusetts Beacon Hill cobblestone alley

Under the warm sun of Waltrop, the man embraces his fiancée near the trees

Under the warm sun, the man embraces his fiancée near the trees

couple embrace Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Waltrop Waltrop Photographer

BW portrait from the Smithsonian Castle Gardens, created as the couple embraces in a garden

couple embrace DC photographer Smithsonian Castle Gardens garden engagement Washington DC bw portrait

At The Warf, Washington DC, a couple embrace on the stairs with nice backlight

At The Wharf, Washington DC, a couple embrace on the stairs with nice backlight

DC photographer stairs Washington DC Backlight couple embrace The Wharf DC standing on stairs

At the Constitution Gardens of Washington D.C., the couple embraces a warm hug

DC photographer Washington DC warm hug Constitution Gardens couple embrace

At the Collioure's Harbour, a couple hug at golden hour for prewedding portraits

Collioure Harbor Collioure Photographer Collioure Pyrenees-Orientales couple embrace golden hour

A Vosges wedding photographer created this warm portrait of a young couple embracing against a stone wall

Vosges stone wall Vosges photographer couple embrace

Vácrátót couple portrait in nature showing intense Love in the sunshine

couple portrait in nature showing love in the intense sun light

Hungary Attila Ancsin Vacratot couple embrace Hungary photographer sunshine

Colorado lifestyle photography session at Red Feather Lakes showing the couple embrace by some red rocks

Colorado Mark Creery Red Feather Lakes couple embrace Red rocks Colorado photographer

In Silverthorne, Colorado, a romantic embrace between the couple is captured as they share a passionate kiss while the sun sets over the river

Silverthorne, Colorado: Couple share passionate kiss as sun sets over river

kiss mountains Colorado sun setting Silverthorne couple embrace Silverthorne Artistic Photographer

Grado engagement photography portfolio image with an Italy couple embraced Together through the historical narrow streets

Italy couple embrace Grado Photographer historical neighborhood stone road narrow streets

A wedding photographer in a Siena Town Hall created this image of the bride and groom embracing during the ceremony

couple embrace bw moment Siena Ceremony Siena photographer Siena Siena town hall

A Singapore modern couple poses in a contemplative embrace for an announcement portrait of their Jurong Lake Gardens engagement

Charles Sng Singapore photographer Singapore couple embrace Jurong Lake Gardens

Wedding venue photo from the Talbot Country Club in Easton, MD of The bride and groom embracing as the end of the night fireworks are on display in the distance

Best wedding venue photo from the Talbot Country Club in Easton, MD of The bride and groom embracing as the end of the night fireworks are on display in the distance

Brittany Diliberto Talbot Country Club Maryland Bee Two Sweet fireworks couple embrace Easton

An after the wedding proposal engagement picture session Ashford Castle in Ireland during a Couple hug under the huge blue sky

Ireland photographer huge blue sky Ashford Castle couple embrace Ireland Jamie Gillies

A first class Montegabbione wedding portrait of this Italy bride and groom at Agriturismo II Colombaio as they embrace in the light of a restaurant window

Agriturismo II Colombaio couple embrace restaurant window Montegabbione Italy Montegabbione wedding portrait light

Outdoor Great Falls VA engagement photography portraits while the couple embrace on the rocks by the water

Johnny Shryock VA engagement Bee Two Sweet couple embrace Outdoor Great Falls portrait by the water

Smithsonian Castle, DC environmental pre wedding image session while The couple embrace in the afternoon light

DC Smithsonian Castle pre wedding image session couple embrace afternoon Light Brittany Diliberto Bee Two Sweet

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