Wedding Photos of Elopement ceremony

The following “Elopement ceremony” 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 “Elopement ceremony” 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 couple's first kiss captured during an elopement ceremony at Acadia National Park by a professional wedding photographer.

Elopement Bliss: Stunning First Kiss at Acadia National Park, Caught by Pro Photographer

A black and white image capturing the bride and groom blessing their rings during their elopement ceremony at the Harbor House Inn in Elk, California, with the beautiful ocean view in the background.

Keeping It Ringal: Bride and Groom Blessing Rings at Oceanfront Elopement in California

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A couple in Yosemite National Park plays rock, paper, scissors to decide who will share their vows first during their wedding ceremony

Love amidst Nature: Couples' Decision-making Ritual Steals Yosemite's Spotlight

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A couple exchanged vows in a beautiful outdoor elopement ceremony surrounded by the majestic mountains of Yellowstone

The couple eloped amid the grandeur of Yellowstone's mountains

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A pictorial Colorado documentary wedding photography example from an outdoor, winter elopement ceremony

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Great wedding photography of the couple at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, California shortly after the bride and groom had their elopement ceremony

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A wedding photographer at the National Arboretum in DC created this image showing The bride cries during her elopement ceremony

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Black Hawk, CO bride and groom wedding portrait session during sunset after their elopement ceremony

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Pennsylvania Home wedding photo showing the Bride taking a moment with her two daughters before they leave the house to head into the mountains for their elopement ceremony

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Incline Village, NV image of bride, groom and their family toasting together after an intimate elopement ceremony at the top of a mountain overlook shrouded in wildfire smoke

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District Of Columbia wedding photography from an Elopement ceremony in Washington DC of The bride and the groom on their way to get married

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Pennsylvania wedding photographer created this image of a Philadelphia Ceremony of the Groom helping his bride touch up her makeup after the hike up to the top of this mountain for their elopement ceremony

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Pennsylvania outdoor wedding photography from the Ceremony location taken as the Groom was shedding a tear during their elopement ceremony in the mountains

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Black Hawk, CO wedding couple posing for a portrait during sunset after their elopement ceremony in Colorado

The newlywed couple was lit up as they posed for this sunset portrait in a flower field after their elopement ceremony

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Exchanging rings at your beachside elopement ceremony on a holiday weekend means unexpected guests will be cheering you on from afar in bathing suits at Ogunquit, Maine

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