Wedding Photos of Dusk

The following “Dusk” 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 “Dusk” 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.

Engaged couple is standing in front of an amphitheater highlighted with colour orange at Bilkent University Main Campus, Ankara

Couple is standing on a building highlighted with purple

Ankara Ankara pre wedding portrait low light Night lighting Bilkent University Main Campus

Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) Pre Wedding Photo shoot with atistic jars - universe with couple shilouette

lighting Toledo Night Toledo engagement photo Spain dusk

Sunset loving couple shilouttes during engagement photo session

Night Toledo pre wedding portrait dusk Castilla La Mancha Toledo engagement photo evening

Shanghai City Reflections during Engagement Shoot with a Couple at Night

evening Lights low light dusk Night China Moana Wu

Liberty State Park, NJ - Engaged couple standing for portraits

blue hour lighting Liberty State Park low light sunset Night

Hradcanske Namesti, Prague Castle, Czech Republic Pre Wedding Portraits | A couple shares a late summer night kiss underneath the impressive gas lamps at Prague Castle

Hradcanske Namesti Lights Night Prague Castle lighting evening

North Carolina wedding portrait of bride and groom outside Duke Chapel, lit by strobe for silhouette of church

Raleigh sunset lit Sky bride and groom lit portrait

Fort Fisher, North Carolina Couple Portraits - Engagement photo of future couple with bride's son running in silhouette

lighting NC wedding couple Fort Fisher lit portrait evening low light Lights

Siracusa Engagement Photography - Spring in Sicily during PreWedding Photos.

columns Siracusa engagement session Siracusa wedding couple Siracusa pre wed building Siracusa architecture

Engagement photo session in the Vail Village as the last bits of sun glaze the Gore Mountain Range in the background.

dusk Vail Village vail pre wedding portrait lit Colorado Gore Mountain Range

Sunset silhouette engagement potrait in Melaka, Malaysia

low light sunset evening Lights dusk lighting Melaka pre wed

Using some available light to highlight the engaged couple against the Union Station in downtown Denver during a portrait session.

sunset Denver Denver engagement session dusk Colorado Night

Discovery Park Engagement Photography - Couple walks on rocks near light house

sunset dusk rocks wa pre wed Lights Discovery Park lit portrait

Gers, South of France Engagement Portrait Shoot - Just before a big storm

Gers pre wed Gers wedding couple lit portrait Gers sunset Night

Engagement shoot in the village of Ouro Preto, MG

city portraits dusk Lights public places city photos Ouro Preto

Madrid, Spain Engagement Photographer - A couple smiling inside a kind of tent

lighting low light Madridengagement session Night Madrid pre wed dusk

The newlyweds, a bride and groom, stood in silhouette against the backdrop of the Atlanta city skyline at nightfall, their contours illuminated by the contrast of the red inner city lights and the darkness of the night at the Upstairs Atlanta

The bride and groom, newly married, were framed by the Atlanta skyline at night, lit up by the red city lights against the dark sky

Night bride and groom dusk wedding couple newlyweds Atlanta inner city

The newlyweds, a married couple from Hacienda de San Rafael, Spain posed for a beautiful wedding photo outside in nature at sunset, just as the late afternoon turned to dusk and nightfall

The couple, wed in Wolverhampton, smiled for a stunning photo outdoors as the sun set and night began

outdoors nightfall wedding couple late afternoon nature outside Wolverhampton

Brooklyn Bridge engagement couple portrait at night

Brooklyn Bridge, NYC engagement couple portrait at night

Night nyc pre wed skyline lit dusk NYC engagement session

Leshten wedding photographer | Rodopski Kyt bride, groom and their friends

An artistic wedding photographer captured the bride, groom and their friends toasting at dusk under strings of lights

dusk sunset Rodopski Kyt Leshten strings of lights silhouettes Leshten Wedding Photography

A wedding photoshoot was held in the gardens of Rathsallagh House, a venue located in Wicklow, Ireland

A wedding photo of the bride and groom was taken at Rathsallagh House in Wicklow, Ireland at dusk

bride and groom newlyweds romantic sunset Rathsallagh House outdoor wedding garden wedding Rathsallagh gardens

The St. Vrain Wedding Venue Photography | James Dean-esque portrait of the groom

An artistic wedding photographer took a James Dean-esque portrait of the groom outside the brick wedding venue at dusk

groom dusk artistic wedding photographer James Dean-esque portrait St. Vrain Wedding Venue wedding photography brick wedding venue

Charles River Boston engagement photo of a couple near a river

Boston MA Charles River engagement Boston couple Charles River Boston engagement

A couple had a silhouette session at dusk in Naples, Campania, with strings of lights illuminating the area for a lovely wedding photo

A lovely wedding photo was taken at dusk in Naples, Campania with hanging strands of lights illuminating the area

Strands of Lights illuminating lovely dusk Naples wedding silhouette Campania

A Naples engagement photography of a couple kissing on a city stairwell in Milano at dusk

dusk stairwell Milano kissing Naples city

Silhouetted couple hold hands as birds fly around them during their pre-wedding session in Mumbai

Anupa Shah Mumbai Mumbai wedding engagement birds fly blue hour dusk Mumbai engagement photos

A couple in Lavras Novas is silhouetted as they stand together in front of a large rock formation at dusk in this pre-wedding photo session by a Minas Gerais, Brazil photographer.

Minas Gerais Brazil Lavras Novas rock formation silhouetted dusk

Chicago - Chicago Athletic Association wedding venue photos | the best man's speech

lit wedding venue photos of the best man's speech

candles wedding photo table dusk bokeh Chicago

A couple in Saigon kisses in a garden at dusk during their pre-wedding photoshoot by a Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam photographer.

A couple kisses in a garden at dusk during their pre-wedding photoshoot

garden garden engagement dusk Saigon kisses Ho Chi Minh PreWedding Photography Vietnam

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