Wedding Photos of Couple

The following “Couple” 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” 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.

Dubai wedding documentary photographer created this image as the couple Dances the night away Matching levels of energy

Best Rockville, Maryland documentary wedding picture from Glenview Mansion showing Bridesmaids getting ready while waiting on the couple

Rockville MD Rockville MD bridesmaids couple MD weddings Anastasiia Polyakov

Best Handelsbeurs documentary wedding photojournalism image in BW from the first dance by the bride and groom

dance floor couple Handelsbeurs bride and groom dancing first dance Handelsbeurs documentary wedding

Adventurous and scenic Rio Tatuiamunha engagement session using Contra light on the couple with the mangrove being illuminated and causing it to attract the couple to the background

couple background Rio Tatuiamunha engagement illuminated Contra light Fabio Melo mangrove

A romantic Vogel State Park pre wedding session for a couple enjoying a good laugh

parks Vogel State Park pre wedding Chattahoochee National Forest State Park couple Georgia

Scenic Sirmione, Garda Lake pre wedding photo shoot in Italy for A smiling couple against the sunset

smiling Northern Italy Lucio Zogno wind Italy bride and groom Verona Brescia

Scenic Montpellier engagement picture for a couple in France on a wooden foot bridge

couple Montpellier french montpellier engagement scenic bridge

Adventurous, outdoor Dans une forêt engagement image of the couple riding backs in a forest in Alsace

couple riding backs Dans une forêt forest Dans une forêt engagement image Alsace outdoors

Rio das Ostras pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for a couple / bride and groom to be, on the beach by the pier

bride Rio das Ostras Brazil wedding photography Brazil photographers Rio de Janeiro Nova Friburgo Brazil

World's top and most original Charlottesville, VA wedding portrait photography at Mt. Ida Farm of the couple embracing in front of their neon sign

Charlottesville bride and groom Brittany Diliberto embracing VA wedding portrait photography couple Mt Ida Farm neon sign

Orta San Giulio fun-loving couple modeling for a pre-wedding session during Golden hour on Lake Orta

modeling Orta San Giulio Lake Orta photographer pre wedding session golden hour couple

World's most innovative and best South Lake Tahoe wedding day portraits of The couple doing a dip kiss on a rad pathway in the middle of the woods

woods South Lake Tahoe wedding portrait Lake Tahoe dip couple kiss

Jurong Lake Gardens, Singapore pre-wedding engagement session capturing the couple at a famous tree structure actually made out of Metal and it is an art installation at this park

park tree Singapore wedding photography Singapore pre wedding structure metal Daniel Sim

Botanic Gardens, Singapore pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for a couple in a man-made cave with a waterfall and Added flash behind the couple to light up the textures of the cave

textures light Singapore couple couple engagement photoshoot man made cave Daniel Sim

World's top and most original Zurich wedding drone photography of the couple pretending to run Together on the boat dock

drone Zurich wedding water Drone photography docks Switzerland Mischa Baettig

Kansas City pre-wed portraits for a fun couple on the rooftop of a parking garage using their silhouettes with buildings

Kansas City wedding photography MO silhouettes KC pre wed portrait Kansas City buildings parking garage

A distinguished Illinois wedding image from a Yorkville photo session at Ashley Farm of a couple in a barn

farm Ashley Farm barn couple outside Yorkville IL

Guanajuato engagement photo Inside a small bathroom the couple got in and with dim light but with a luminous lens to enhance the colors

colors dim light luminous lens Jorge Alcala Goded San Miguel de Allende couple Ritrae Studio

Tarcal, Hungary pre-wedding session on a vineyard with a lovely couple, before their wedding day

Szilveszter Szabados Szeged HU portrait session Hungary vineyard couple Tarcal photographer

A pre-wedding Playa Conchas Chinas, Puerto Vallarta engagement session with a couple embraced on the sands of the beach

Puerto Vallarta engagement beach sand Jalisco Puerto Vallarta couple

Forli Lake pre-wed portraits for a fun couple holding a chalk board and showing us that life is beautiful

Caterina Errani Forlì couple chalk board IT Vincoli Ravenna Italy

Jardin de Coursiana, La Romieu couple engagement portraits with a couple embracing in love in a garden

embracing French Couple france engagement portrait couple Jardin de Coursiana La Romieu wedding photography garden

A top Netherlands wedding photojournalism example from a beautiful Utrecht ceremony location, Metaalkathedraal, showing the mother of the groom, walking down the aisle with the couple

mother of the groom couple aisle Metaalkathedraal Utrecht ceremony Netherlands wedding photojournalism walking

This Turkey wedding photojournalism picture is a top quality example of what candid, nontraditional Bodrum wedding photography looks like, as the couple have their first dance in backlight at Değirmen 81 hotel

Bodrum reception venue Muğla Province first dance Backlight couple Bodrum wedding photography

Praia do Francês couple pre-wed portrait of a couple in a loving moment at sunset

Maceió sunset sunlight pre wed portrait Praia do Francês beach couple

Rodemack, France pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for a couple under an arch

Rodemack engagement couple France pre wedding Rodemack photoshoot arch canopy Rodemack

A Staffordshire wedding reportage photographer captured this moment at The Upper House in Barlaston of The grooms young daughter, dressed for bed, running up to him for a hug during the couples first dance

first dance running Children daughter dressed for bed groom Barlaston

Singapore fun loving couple modeling for a Chinatown pre-wedding session

mural Singapore art Singapore photographer Chinatown pre wedding session hugging Charles Sng

Wheaton prewedding engagement photoshoot for a couple who genuinely likes to have fun at the Danada House in a field

Sarah Nader Wheaton prewedding session Wheaton Wheaton engagement photoshoot field Danada House couple

A prewedding Central Park, NYC engagement session with a couple that knows how to have a good time with their dog

NYC engagement session NY couple session winter trees dogs NY prewedding Casey Fatchett

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