Wedding Photos of Dark tones

The following “Dark tones” 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 “Dark tones” 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 WPJA wedding photographer captures an engagement picture at Beijing Paul Restaurant, showcasing the captivating blend of reality and illusion reflected in the mirror

Reflections of Love: A Captivating Engagement Portrait at Beijing Paul Restaurant

In Hertfordshire, UK, a couple prepares for their wedding with a lifestyle engagement photoshoot in Rowney Warren Woods, capturing the golden hour light and highlighting their love in dark-toned, dramatic images using off-camera flash.

Golden Hour Love: A Dark and Dramatic Engagement Portrait in Rowney Warren Woods

United Kingdom Rowney Warren Woods golden hour Hertfordshire dark tones Hertforshire Engagement Photography

An engagement portrait was taken in Sintra, Lisbon, featuring a couple positioned in the middle of tree branches

Enchanting Engagement Portrait in Sintra, Lisbon: Couple Captured Amidst Tree Branches

Sintra engagement photography dark tones Sintra tree branches black and white Lisbon

The engaged couple posed in a fine art style portrait in Hatton House, Watford, England, creating an effect of them escaping together

Fine Art Escape Portrait at Hatton House, Watford, England: Engaged Couple

dark tones Hatton House Watford Engagement Session Watford England Fine art portrait Watford Engaged Couple

The couple embrace on an upper walkway of the National Portrait Gallery, DC, with the museum's dark tones and geometric shapes providing warmth and depth to their engagement announcement portrait

National Portrait Gallery, DC: Couple's Engagement Announcement in Dark Tones and Geometric Shapes

geometric shapes National Portrait Gallery lit portrait Washington DC dc engagement portrait dark tones

The couple was snuggling in a Pine Lake, GA pre-wedding portrait session with their eyes closed against a dark toned background

In Pine Lake, GA, the couple closed their eyes during a lifestyle portrait session in nature

Georgia woods dark tones closed eyes Pine Lake Engagement Photography Pine Lake

The warm tones of the setting are highlighted as the light hits the couple in their lifestyle engagement portrait in New Delhi

New Delhi, India: A couple engagement portrait bathed in warm and dark tones

dark tones India new delhi New Delhi PreWedding Photographer warm tones

At Hof Herzberg, a lit bride and groom portrait featured the two in profile, aglow against dark hues

dark tones glowing background Hof Herzberg Germany Rhineland Palatinate germany photographer Essenheim

Toulouse couple forehead to forehead in front of a massive wood door

An engaged couple posed forehead to forehead in front of a massive door with dark tones on a clean background for a lifestyle session

Toulouse engagement photography clean background wooden door dark tones Toulouse head to head

The white beauty of the bride's shoe and veil contrasts strikingly against the dark machinery of the street motorcycle in Jaén, Spain

The stark contrast between the bride's light-hued ensemble and the dark tones of the motorcycle creates a striking visual composition

stark contrast black and white shoes Jaen photographer dark tones Andalusia bride

Lone Star Brewery Engagement Photos. Texas couple posing at a bar with dark tones and a rim light

Texas photographer Lone Star Brewery Texas rim light dark tones romantic engagement

An Australian Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, stylish portrait of this Perth couple at the Brookleigh Estate depicting them posing

posing stylish portrait dark tones Australian Engagement Photographer Naz Razak artistic perth couple

A classic and elegant wedding portrait from Guangxi showing a tight look at the bride and groom in dark tones with some rimlight

dark tones classic bride and groom China tight look elegant wedding portrait Guangxi bride

World's most artistic and best wedding couple portraits from Castelo Saint Andrews, Gramado showing the intimate bride and groom in dark tones

dark tones Brazil Bride and groom intimate Castelo Saint Andrews Gramado Brazil wedding couple portrait

World's most visionary and best wedding photography from Sao Paulo showing the dress detail in bw dark tones

dark tones dress detail bw Sao Paulo wedding photography São Paulo

A digitally enhanced Sichuan wedding portrait of the China groom as the light forms a diagonal spot

diagonal light China China groom light form Cheng Guo dark tones

An upscale China black and White Shanghai wedding couple portrait in formal clothes with dark tones

Shanghai wedding China bride and groom Shanghai bw Shanghai couple portrait China black and white

An original Mannheim wedding couple portrait from Baden-Württemberg, Germany created using a flash and a mirror

Germany bride and groom Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Baden Württemberg wedding venue mirror flash Mannheim couple portrait

A stylish Mexico wedding portrait of the Morelos bride and groom at Hacienda Acamilpa with strong light and a background with dark tones

strong light Morelos bride and groom Hacienda Acamilpa Mexico dark background Morelos

Saint Cast, France environmental engagement e-session with a couple in dark tones in a stone building cove

France photographer cove Saint Cast stone dark tones building Patrick Lombaert

Granada, Spain portrait e-session with dark tones, silhouettes and a lit archway

dark tones arches Spain portrait esession archway Night Granada photographer

Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil environmental engagement e-session in nature with palms and dark tones

nature Kássio Silva Brazil e Session dark tones Aracruz Brazil environmental engagement palms

São Paulo, Brazil portrait e-session with urban dark tones

sitting dark tones São Paulo Brazil portrait urban Night

Atacama Desert engaged couple picture session with dark tones and rocks

Atacama Desert dark tones São Paulo engagement photographer rocks

The bride and groom posed for a portrait outdoors in London, their smiling faces illuminated by harsh sunlight

The bride and groom took a photo together in London beneath bright sunlight with dark tones

outdoor couple dark tones wedding photography Outdoor photo smiling faces bride and groom photo outdoor London

a romantic portrait in Venice with a newly engaged couple - black-and-white pre-wedding photography

A romantic portrait with bold framing and a huge building in the background captures the newly engaged couple in dark tones

huge building romantic newly engaged couple Venice portrait Venice e session black and white Venice

cappadocia engagement shoot with hot air balloons

The engagement shoot with hot air balloons featured dark tones of blue and red, with the flame inside the balloon visible in the photograph

Cappadocia engagement blue and red dark tones Cappadocia e session Hot air balloons Cappadocia

Engagament Photographs from Tuscany Couple Shoot

The engagement photo shoot featured a couple with close faces in black and white, about to kiss, with dark tones

Tuscany bw portrait Tuscany engagement photo tuscany couple Tuscany engagement photography about to kiss dark tones

Silhouette Portrait Engagement Session - Frosinone Engagement Photo with Couple, Umbrella, Trees and a View

The engagement photo features a couple with an umbrella in front of a view with trees in silhouette with dark tones

Frosinone Engagement Photo trees Frosinone Engagement Session silhouette dark tones Frosinone umbrella

Walking on Boreas Pass Road for their winter engagement session in Breckenridge, CO.

The couple walks down a road surrounded by snow-capped mountains during their winter engagement session at dusk, captured in rich, dark tones

dark tones mountain engagement Boreas Pass Road Breckenridge Colorado Breckenridge e session winter engagement

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