Wedding Photos of Garden

The following “Garden” 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 “Garden” 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.

At Hotel de Russie in Rome, Italy, a bride was captured in a beautiful portrait spinning and dancing in the garden with the setting sun providing a stunning rim light effect

The bride was captured spinning and dancing with beautiful lighting

At Metz in Moselle, the newlyweds shared an intimate moment as they stood side-by-side in front of the town hall, surrounded by a garden of purple blooming trees

The wedding photographer captured the couple in front of the town hall surrounded by purple blooming trees

blooming trees Town Hall intimate portrait Metz Moselle garden purple flowers

A Georgia wedding photographer captured this couple posing for a creative save the date engagement announcement at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens during a walk in the garden

Atlanta Botanical Gardens: Couple Captured for Creative Save the Date Engagement Announcement

Atlanta Botanical Gardens walk garden save the date engagement announcement couple posing Georgia wedding photographer

At Hamswell House, Bath, UK, a documentary-style wedding picture captured a tranquil moment of the children seated on the concrete steps near the garden

At Hamswell House, Bath, UK, a tranquil moment of children seated on the steps near the garden

Hamswell House Bath Wedding Photography bath Children concrete steps UK garden

A happy couple in Lyon, France is laughing in anticipation of their upcoming wedding

Laughing, in Lyon, France, a happy couple anticipates their wedding

garden Lyon flowers Lyon engagement photography smiles courtyard France

The happy couple enjoyed a pre-wedding portrait session in Saratoga, twirling and smiling as they danced in the garden area near a fountain

In Saratoga, the couple twirled as they danced in the garden near a fountain for their lifestyle portrait session

garden twirling Black clothing fountain Saratoga California - Northern Saratoga Lifestyle Engagement Portrait

The couple embracing and smiling in the sun, surrounded by blooms, made for a beautiful portrait at Giardino Viatori in Gorizia, Italy

At Giardino Viatori in Gorizia, Italy, a portrait of a couple embracing and smiling in the sun, surrounded by blooms

Italy embracing italy engagement portrait garden blossoms Gorizia Giardino Viatori

An engaged couple was captured at Hampstead Heath, London, UK in a pre-wedding portrait, showing the deep affection and love between them with both eyes closed and surrounded by the beauty of spring

At Hampstead Heath, London, UK, a lifestyle portrait captured an engaged couple's deep affection and love

garden UK London Hampstead Heath eyes closed affection London engagement photography

The bride and groom were showered with a torrential downpour of confetti outside of Core Clapton in Hackney London

A couple was showered in confetti outside their garden wedding scene, basking in the natural light

confetti toss London photographer natural light outside Hackney London garden

The bride and groom mirrored each other's gestures in the Walled Garden in Nottingham, UK, with soft, out of focus flowers in the foreground

At the head table, the bride and groom affectionately mirrored each other's gestures, rubbing their eyes

garden Nottinghamshire emotions mirrored UK couple head table Nottingham bride

wedding party in a garden under a big tree

Art Institute of Chicago Chicago photographer wedding party portrait garden

She said yes, post marriage proposal picture session in the Smithsonian Castle in DC as the couple embrace in the garden framed by the buildings architecture

Brittany Diliberto Smithsonian Castle Washington DC architecture arched windows Washington DC photographer garden

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

North Carolina couple park path NC portrait photography Botanical North Carolina garden

Great wedding photography of the Italian couple at Villa Bernardini in Lucca inside a private garden at the sunset

IT wedding photography sunset private garden Lucca Villa Bernardini wedding venue

A Colorado Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this romantic, Garden of the Gods portrait of this Colorado Springs couple embracing each other in the garden

Garden of the Gods rocks lit Colorado Springs couple Colorado Springs Autumn Parry embracing

A Colorado Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this romantic, Garden of the Gods portrait of this Colorado Springs couple embracing each other in the garden

rocks embracing garden Colorado Springs lit Colorado Springs couple colorado wedding photographer

A Colorado Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, evening portrait of this CO couple at the Garden of the Gods at dusk

Colorado Springs Garden of the Gods rocks colorado engagement photographer garden co couple lit

A top Long Island, NY wedding photographer captured this picture of the Groom getting overwhelmed with emotion during the ceremony A top Long Island, NY wedding photographer captured this picture of the Groom getting overwhelmed with emotion during the

garden groom New York ny wedding photographer New York - Long Island outdoor wedding Long Island weddings

Best Biran, Gers documentary wedding photojournalism image with a little girl in front, the bride and groom behind

bride and groom Gers little girl trees Biran outdoor wedding France Isabelle Bazin

A Florida Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, sexy portrait of this Miami couple at Vizcaya in a garden

kiss dip Vizcaya ivy sexy portrait Vizcaya Engagement Photographer Rosina DiBello

Virginia wedding reportage photojournalist created this image during an outdoor Ceremony at home

A Fredericksburg, Virginia wedding photojournalist created this image during an outdoor Ceremony at home

outdoor wedding Sarah Sta Ana Fredericksburg wedding Backyard outdoor ceremony Virginia grass

An extraordinary Bedouin Bar wedding image by a professional Bulgaria photographer conveying the Bride and groom walking together as guests watch from the top of a stone wall

garden Bulgaria bride and groom Bulgaria photographer guests watch Bulgaria Bedouin Bar weddings walking

A romantic San Francisco pre wedding session with some Happy lovers in the bamboo garden

lovers San Francisco romantic San Francisco pre wedding garden happy

A superb example of a Budapest wedding detail in this Füvészkert Botanical Garden picture showing the Bride in the garden walking on stone steps

Budapest bride Gabor Kapuvari Budapest weddings walking Botanical Garden picture Hungary garden

Great wedding photography of the bride at Elte Fűvészkert outdoors in the garden

Elte Fűvészkert wedding venue Hungary wedding photography Hungary Budapest bride Budapest garden Gabor Kapuvari

Epic Metz engagement session from France taken in a botanical garden in front of a large tree

large tree garden Botanical Jonathan Fortuna Metz couple Metz Metz engagement session bw

A superior Scotland wedding couple portrait from the United Kingdom as the bride and groom stand near a garden gate entrance

Scotland garden United Kingdom gate Scotland wedding couple portrait standing Mike Cook

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

Isabelle Bazin La Romieu garden La Romieu wedding photography France Jardin de Coursiana French Couple

Jardin de Coursiana, La Romieu playful engagement image of a couple embracing in a garden

Jardin de Coursiana French Couple France La Romieu garden France engagement image embracing

A pre wedding session in Metz, France highlighting the fun that they are having together in a garden

Metz Metz pre wedding sunlight France photographer French Couple garden nature

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