Wedding Photos of Lovers

The following “Lovers” 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 “Lovers” 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 Kerpenhir Point, Morbihan, France, a couple of happy lovers are captured in autumn. Their smiles, laughter, and playful fun shine through the portrait session.

Capturing the Joy: Autumn Love at Kerpenhir Point

Embodied Love Story: Enigmatic Engaement Portrait in Oakland Forest

Oakland Engagement Photographer trees forest lovers sunlight head to head California - Northern

At the city hall in Isere, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the couple's love is immortalized as they passionately kiss beside a striking modern statue - a memorable wedding portrait.

City Hall Eternity: A Striking Modern Statue Immortalizes a Passionate Wedding Kiss

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Newlywed portrait artistic wedding photographer Isere City Hall bride and groom eternity modern

At Uzbaş Arboretum in Urla, İzmir, Turkey, a beautiful photo captures the bride and groom on their wedding day. The couple is portrayed in a high angle shot, relaxed on couches at their wedding venue.

Uzbaş Arboretum Unveils Picturesque Portrait of Lounging Lovers at Turkish Wedding

Turkey İzmir weddings lounging Uzbaş Arboretum artistic portraits Uzbaş Arboretum in Urla urla wedding photographer

Nakhonratchasrima couples lifestyle photography at the Khao Yai National Park in Thailand showing two travelers and nature lovers with good facial expressions and mood

Thailand nature mood Khao Yai National Park portraits Khao Yai National Park Vutiporn Supanish Thailand lifestyle photography

Moraine Lake couples portraits lifestyle session in Alberta, Canada with the lovers seated on a rock above the water in the mountains

Alberta lovers Moraine Lake couples AB pre wed portrait Canada couple session Canada

Bay Area lifestyle portrait photography for an Oakland couple who are engaged and offering their Lovers silhouette in the forest against the sky and trees

silhouette trees Bay Area lifestyle portrait Oakland California - Northern lovers

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

bamboo San Francisco pre wedding San Francisco happy garden San Francisco couple

Pre-wedding Muggia couple portrait-session in Trieste, Italy with the lovers holding hands and Walking by the sea next to a lamp

Muggia couple lamp Muggia photographer holding hands lovers Trieste Pre wedding Aria di Foto

Pre-wedding Cannaregio engagement image-session in Venice, Italy showing a couple of lovers kissing over a bridge and so are their shadows in the background

IT couple Venice kissing Cannaregio sunset Cannaregio engagement image

Pre-wedding Orléans couple portrait-session for Camaro lovers

lovers Camaro Orléans Prewedding Orléans couple portrait hot rod Piranga Studio

On location Jefferson University, Philadelphia couple portrait shoot with Two med school lovers who visited their alma mater for their engagement session

Philadelphia couple lovers PA alma mater John Ryan portrait shoot J&J Studios

On location San Francisco couple engagement portrait shoot with The lovers and their love shadows

love shadows San Francisco couple lovers ca engagement portrait

Paris environmental couple pre wedding image session under a metropolitan sign

pre wedding session lovers sign metropolitan Paris couple embrace Paris photographer

Woodside couple e-session with The lovers on the red motorcycle in CA

CA Woodside lovers CA engagement photo motorcycle Woodside couple

Quebec couple e-shoot in Montreal kissing after proposal

Montreal kissing lovers Quebec couple bw after proposal

Aguilas Murcia couple e-session with double exposure lovers In Shadows

In Shadows double exposure lovers Aguilas couple portrait MURCIA couple Aguilas

Swiss couple e-session in Steinhausen showing lovers Together on the road of life

Steinhausen lovers Steinhausen couple portrait Mischa Baettig bw black and white road

True Love Engagement Posed Portrait in San Francisco capturing Lovers by the beach, with a veil of fog covering Golden Gate Bridge as backdrop

Golden Gate Bridge beach waves San Francisco fog Bay area couple shoot

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Crete Senesi, Siena showing the Tuscany lovers piggyback in the rural country

Tuscany Portrait Session rural country lovers Siena Tuscany pre wedding

Bassin D Arcachon engaged couple picture session with two lovers by the sea sitting on the sand

BASSIN D ARCACHON lovers France engagement session beach engagement sand

San Francisco romantic couple shoot in nature

sunlight San Francisco lovers romantic kiss CA couple shoot nature

Paris Engagement ring detail during an artistic engagement photo session

paris love session embrace intimate Tenderness love Ronan Jégaden Paris

Poleymieux au Mont D'Or Love session for a pre-wed picture

embrace hugs lovers Castille Alma intimate Poleymieux au Mont DOr Tenderness

Domaine de Restinclières, France pre-wedding of intimate couple

hugs embrace lovers intimate Domaine de Restinclières france engagement portrait Ludovic Lieffrig

Montpellier France Couple embrace near a boat during a creative pre-wed session

Tenderness embrace lovers boat love Montpellier couple Montpellier

Montpellier France embracing couple in warm light during a pre-wed portrait shoot

Montpellier France embrace montpellier engagement photography lovers Tenderness hugs

Goias engagement photoshoot & pre-wedding session using artistic flares in Pirenópolis

embrace intimate lovers pirenopolis engagement Tenderness couple portrait session Pirenopolis Engagement photography

Virginia pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers dancing at the Library of Congress - They are each other's first love

silhouette creative portrait VA engagement silhouettes contrast dancing artistic picture lovers

IT pre wedding portrait session with engaged lovers in Grado, Italy showing their Love and tenderness

hugs Tenderness grado engagement image embrace intimate Italy

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