Wedding Photos of Engaged

The following “Engaged” 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 “Engaged” 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 in Fort Collins, Colorado, captured a special moment together as they posed on a rock for their engagement portrait

Romantic Engagement Portrait: Fort Collins Couple Poses on Scenic Rock

In San Francisco, the engaged couple playfully goof around during their engagement shoot

Engagement Shoot Fun: Playful Goofing Around in San Francisco

goof around San Francisco couple playful engagement session Engagement photography San Francisco engagement

Grand Luxe lifestyle portrait photography for a Chicago couple who are engaged and looking up to see entire family in a hotel room on the floor above watching the entire proposal

hotel room Grand Luxe family engaged balcony proposal urban

Calle Recreo lifestyle portrait photography for a San Miguel de Allende couple who are engaged and make the kiss in a magical way and captured with a 300mm lens and taken from far away

Calle Recreo San Miguel de Allende engaged 300mm lens dip urban San Miguel de Allende couple

Mousson lifestyle portrait photography for a Meurthe-et-Moselle couple who are engaged and posing while holding hands in a cave opening

silhouette engaged France Jonathan Fortuna Meurthe-et-Moselle France photography posing

Argenton sur Creuse lifestyle portrait photography in Indre for a Centre-Val de Loire couple who are engaged and inked with tattoos

inked tattoos Indre Argenton sur Creuse lifestyle session engaged Centre Val de Loire couple

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden lifestyle portrait photography for a North Carolina couple who are engaged and enjoying running on the path under the water fountain streams in the park

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden fountain park path water NC portrait photography streams

Codorus State Park lifestyle portrait photography for a Hanover PA couple who are engaged and framed by leaves under the trees

PA couple engaged framed Codorus photography trees State Park lifestyle portrait Codorus State Park

DC Supreme Court lifestyle portrait photography for a Washington DC couple who are engaged and enjoying the spring weather

Supreme Court DC Supreme Court spring weather lifestyle engaged DC couple

Brown Mountain Beach Resort lifestyle portrait photography in Lenoir for a North Carolina couple who are engaged and standing near the water with two geese

Lenoir standing Brown Mountain Beach Resort North Carolina beach Brown Mountain

Philadelphia winter lifestyle portrait photography at Fairmount Water Works for a Pennsylvania couple who are engaged and loving the winter snow at dusk

snow engaged Fairmount water dusk John Ryan Winter snow

Western Australia lifestyle portrait photography for a Perth couple who are engaged and enjoying the rain from under an umbrella at dusk

engaged Western Australia perth couple perth Jacob Gordon Australia portrait photography dusk

Montreal, Quebec portrait e-session for Engaged couple embracing under willow tree branches at sunset

engaged sunset willow tree Couple embracing Quebec portrait Montreal

Jerbourg, Guernsey outside forest picture session before the wedding day during a walk towards the very spot that the couple got engaged at

outside Guernsey pre wedding walk forest couple Jerbourg Guernsey picture session

The silhouettes of an engaged couple during a shoot

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Silhouetted portrait of an engaged couple at sunset

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Illinois engaged couple pose under a shaft of light in chicago

an engaged couple pose under a shaft of light

pose shaft of light Chicago IL Chicago pre wedding portrait Chicago engagement photography

engaged couple portrait session with Love in the fall color

engaged fall color Redwood City love portrait session

An engaged couple sit around a fire in Binh Ba Island, Cam Ranh, Vietnam

An engaged couple sit around a fire for some night pictures

Cam Ranh engagement Binh Ba Island fire pictures Cam Ranh Vietnam Cam Ranh wedding image

Castle Hill Lighthouse engagement shoot - A sweet kiss in front of the lighthouse where they got engaged.

a Lighthouse engagement shoot with A sweet kiss in front of the lighthouse where they got engaged

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San Isidro couple portraits in-home on the floor.

engaged couple portraits in-home on the floor

San Isidro engagement photos San Isidro home San Isidro e shoot engaged overhead Dante Ceccon

Engagement Portrait from Fujian, China - Photography contains: sunset, beach, water, kiss, silhouette, couple, engaged, pre-wedding

Silhouette engagement portrait during a sunset at the beach

kiss engagement portrait Fujian e shoot couple beach silhouette Fujian

Engagement Photographer for Avalon, New Jersey Beach - Image contains: couple, kiss, beach, wine glasses, toast, engaged

Engagement Photographer for Avalon, New Jersey Beach couples

wine glasses engaged Avalon Avalon NJ engagement photos Avalon NJ engagement photographer couple

Engagement Photography for Yeu island, France - Image contains: beach, sand, trees, silhouette, couple, engaged

Engagement Photography for Yeu island, France with the beach, sand, trees, silhouette, and an engaged couple

engaged beach Patrick Lombaert couple sea trees France

Engagement Portrait from Milano, Italy - Photography contains: couple, red, brick, wall, engaged

Milano engaged wall Italy brick red

Engagement Photography for Milano, Italy - Image contains: town, street, pedestrians, buildings, couple, engaged, walking

buildings couple town engaged IT walking

Engagement Photography for Siracusa - Portrait contains: home, doorways, couple, engaged

Siracusa engaged couple home doorways

Engagement Portrait from Da Nang - Photography contains: intimate, couple, close-up, engaged, smiles

intimate close up couple smiles engaged

Engagement Photographer for Valencia - Image contains: couple, portrait, light, engaged

couple engaged portrait Valencia wedding photographer light Valencia

Engagement Photos from River Valley, Edmonton, AB, Canada - Portrait contains: couple, piggyback ride, greenery, fun, engaged

AB fun ab couple piggyback ride greenery River Valley engaged

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