Wedding Photos of Nature

The following “Nature” 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 “Nature” 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 distinguished Estes Park wedding image from a Colorado couple photo session created as they go for a walk up a mountain

Washington DC couple pre-wed portrait of a couple that was truly having fun in the park

park DC wedding photography DC couple nature DC photographer Washington DC trees

Niteroi couple pre-wed portrait of a couple in a lovely setting in nature

Rio de Janeiro Niterói couple nature Niterói Brazil Niterói wedding photography

Torrevieja pre-wedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple walking through the salt lake

outdoor engagement session Salt Lake nature Spain Torrevieja couple water

Vrieselhof engagement photo showcasing the bokeh framing of the couple in the trees

woods Vrieselhof couple Vrieselhof engagement photo bokeh Vrieselhof trees forest

A pre-wedding session in Vrieselhof highlighting the fun that they have together in nature under the trees

woods nature sunlight Vrieselhof trees bw Vrieselhof engagement portrait

Dans un parc pre-wedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple at sunset in a forest

sunset trees Dans un parc bw Dans un parc couple pre wedding engagement Jonathan Fortuna

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

French Couple France photographer sunlight Jonathan Fortuna kiss nature Metz pre wedding

A top Cevennes documentary wedding photographer from France created this image While walking in nature the bride has taken her dress in a bramble, a guest comes to her rescue

nature Cevennes Cevennes photographer France wedding image bride Ludovic Lieffrig dress

Chicago pre wedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple as they pose under a willow tree at Tom Ping Park

willow tree Chicago Sarah Nader Tom Ping Park shadows pose nature

A Mexico documentary style wedding image showing a moment at Cenote Cristalino Puerto Aventura Riviera Maya during a Mayan wedding ceremony at the cenote

Cenote Cristalino Puerto Aventura Riviera Maya Mayan wedding ceremony sunlight smoke cenote Mexico documentary wedding image outdoors

Montpellier prewedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple as they hold one another

Montpellier prewedding wind Montpellier nature couple Montpellier Engagement Session

Montpellier engagement photo showcasing the nature surrounding them in this natural scene

Montpellier couple sunshine trees nature Montpellier engagement photo Montpellier

A top Nevada wedding photojournalism example from a beautiful Zephyr Cove wedding location at Logan Shoals showcasing the bride and groom holding hands during their ceremony

Zephyr Cove wedding Nevada Logan Shoals elopement NV bride and groom water outdoor ceremony nature

Alsace prewedding engagement session capturing the nature of a couple at the Wintzenheim Forest

Alsace nature Alsace engagement session Alsace prewedding couple rocks

Trois Châteaux, Eguisheim pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for a couple who genuinely likes to have fun in the sweetness of the sun

Eguisheim engagement photoshoot trees sun Eguisheim pre wedding grass Eguisheim nature

Pre-wedding Boston City couple photo-session on a trail in the grass of the nature park setting

Boston Pre wedding nature grass Boston photographer Boston City couple photo park Vinh Vo

Pre-wedding portrait-session in Hunterdon County, NJ showing off the fall colors outdoors in nature

nature fall colors NJ couple portrait new jersey photographer outdoors

Liverdun pre-wedding portrait-session in France in the garden like scene of nature

Liverdun Jonathan Fortuna nature France garden France photographer Liverdun pre wedding portrait

Pre-wedding Chicago portrait-session at Winnemac Park as a Couple kisses in front of a willow tree at sunset

nature couple kisses Winnemac Park willow tree sunset trail

Pre-wedding photo-session in Parnitha Mountain, Athens, Greece showing us that Love is here along with the sunshine

Anastasia Eleni Rassia greece photographer Parnitha Mountain sunshine hugging nature Greece

Pre-wedding portrait-session in Hunawihr for a A romantic toasting against the rock wall and ivy

toasting stones rocks Hunawihr romantic Hunawihr

San Jose CR Couple kissing in the middle of a river inside the Tabacon Hot Springs Resort during their engagement session

Photo by MAUG water Tabacon Hot Springs Resort nature kissing CR weddings river

View this picturesque Roosendaal wedding image showing couple is posing in the nature, with a low sun at the end of the day, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at Brasserie Visdonk from the WPJA

picturesque Roosendaal wedding image showing couple is posing in the nature, with a low sun at the end of the day, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at Brasserie Visdonk

end of the day Brasserie Visdonk posing for portrait nature sunlight fields wedding photography

Outdoor San Francisco couple engagement photography portrait showing some Indulging in nature

Indulging woods trees nature nature Outdoor San Francisco couple

Outdoor San Francisco couple engagement photography portrait showing some Indulging in nature

woods Outdoor nature Indulging San Francisco couple trees ca engagement portrait

Outdoor Estes Park, Colorado engagement photography portraits showing the couple enjoys an afternoon together in nature

Colorado nature afternoon couple CO portrait Outdoor Engagement photography

Raiski Zaliv, Goliama Zheliazna, Bulgaria outdoor marriage award-winning image showing The Bride on her way to the Ceremony

nature stairs Raiski Zaliv Goliama Zheliazna ceremony Bulgaria outdoor marriage

Los Gatos bride and groom to be, modeling for a pre-wedding picture in the serene woods

Los Gatos CA Los Gatos brides footbridge Los Gatos bride to be nature

Couches, France outdoor marriage ceremony award-winning image showing some runners in the middle of the ceremony

joggers ceremony couches France outdoor marriage nature trees Couches photographer

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