Wedding Photos of Overlooking

The following “Overlooking” 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 “Overlooking” 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 effortlessly poses on a rooftop picnic scene overlooking the sprawling cityscape of Istanbul. Birds gracefully soar through the sky, adding an air of tranquility to the beautifully captured scene.

ROOFTOP ROMANCE | A breathtaking engagement portrait capturing Istanbul's majestic skyline

Basking in love's embrace, the bride and groom share an intimate hug on a balcony overlooking Amsterdam. A truly captivating wedding day portrait captured by an award-winning photographer.

Amsterdam's Embrace: Intimate Hug of Bride and Groom in Love

basking in love Amsterdam Artistic Portrait Amsterdam overlooking balcony intimate hug

Luray lifestyle couples photography in Virginia for a Sunset engagement shoot in Shenandoah National Park overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains

Luray lifestyle Virginia engagement shoot kiss Blue Ridge clouds Blue Ridge Mountains sunset

Boston Seaport lifestyle couples portraits session in Massachusetts as they sit comfortably in the livingroom overlooking the city streets below the large windows

comfort Massachusetts view Boston large windows livingroom streets

A Chicago evening wedding day couple lit portrait at Cantigny Park on the deck overlooking the water at dusk

Cantigny overlooking evening dusk lit portrait Illinois IL

Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins pre-wedding engagement session capturing The couple standing on a rock overlooking the reservoir during sunset

rock couple standing Fort Collins engagement Fort Collins sunset Horsetooth Reservoir Colorado

Fort Collins picture session for a carefree engaged couple that is overlooking the city with a fun hug

Colorado Mark Creery CO engaged couple Fort Collins couple picture overlooking hug Fort Collins

A top Illinois wedding photojournalism example from a beautiful Chicago hotel overlooking the water and city skyline as the bride is geting ready

overlooking Illinois skyline water geting ready view city

Marseille, FR couple e-shoot during the sunset overlooking the sea waters

FR couple Thomas Orsatelli sea waters Marseille bride to be overlooking sunset

NV True Love Engagement Picture Session in Lake Tahoe, Nevada showing a couple embraces overlooking the water and views at sunset

Lake Tahoe NV Engagement Picture Nevada couple overlooking embraces Nevada couple Session

A Nevada True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Lake Tahoe showing a couple below a large pine tree by the water at embraces overlooking Lake Tahoe at sunset

tree Nevada couple Session Nevada sunset Nevada Pre Wedding Portrait Lake Tahoe

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot in Singapore's Golden Mile Tower of a couple overlooking the city at sunset

Timothy Sim sunset overlooking SG pre wedding Photoshoot Singapore couple Singapores Golden Mile Tower

Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins on location portrait e shoot of a couple kissing on the rocks overlooking a long reservoir

Fort Collins rocks Fort Collins engagement overlooking e shoot kissing Fort Collins portrait

Fort Collins Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style for a Sunset portrait on rocks overlooking a large reservoir and the foothills

water Fort Collins Colorado Colorado portraits Mark Creery reservoir sunset

Griffith Observatory Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style in Los Angeles overlooking the city in formal attire

Los Angeles Griffith Observatory LA Pre Wedding Photoshoot Matei Horvath formal attire city overlooking

Fort Collins, Colorado sunset couple portrait at the foothills overlooking a large reservoir

reservoir Colorado couple portrait Mark Creery foothills overlooking sunset Colorado

Yosemite National Park, California micro outdoor mountain photo session before the wedding day at a fabulous spot overlooking Yosemite Valley

California Yosemite National Park overlooking mountains Yosemite Valley fabulous spot

Berkeley University, California micro outdoor mountain photo session before the wedding day at sunset overlooking the campus where they first met

Berkeley University pre wedding photo sunset Berkeley University campus mountain Tyler Vu overlooking

Wedding photo from the cliff edge overlooking the pacific ocean near Stinson Beach, California of a really close potato sack race -- a time honored tradition

fun overlooking Pacific Ocean cliff edge California Stinson Beach fog

Wedding photography overlooking the pacific ocean near Stinson Beach, California of the bride and groom in a potato sack race

potato sack race overlooking CA Wedding Photography California Stinson Beach Pacific Ocean

Boulder, CO artistic wedding photo of the couple from A scenic viewpoint overlooking the mountains west of Boulder

mountains overlooking scenic couple Colorado boulder

Wedding photography showing The couple and the bride's brother cheers with their mini-champagne in the park overlooking Baltimore's Inner Harbor

Brittany Diliberto Inner Harbor the couple cheers bride brother overlooking

Outdoor ceremony wedding photography overlooking the water at The bridge of Avignon Before the ring exchange and vows

Vaucluse ring exchange overlooking vows outdoor Ceremony wedding water Avignon outdoor weddings

a Portugal Bride and groom playing on the top of a hillside overlooking a beautiful beach in Vale Furado, Nazaré

beach Nuno Lima pre wedding location Nazaré playing Nazaré hillside overlooking

portrait image of a couple overlooking the water and bay

Fethiye pre wedding overlooking Fethiye brides water Mugla bay

San Francisco, California engagement picture - Golden Gate Bride Over Looking SF

engagement picture taken at Golden Gate Bride OverLooking SF

California bridge California couples overlooking Golden Gate California e session california wedding photographer

Campania Outside wedding portraits - Couple session overlooking the water with birds flying overhead

Outside wedding portraits during a Couple session overlooking the water with birds flying overhead

birds Campania Campania Couple session flying Outside wedding portraits water overlooking

Dali, Yunnan, China Engagement Shoot On the road of Dali, the night view of the town and the couple

Yunnan pre wedding portraits Yunnan engagement photos night portrait Yunnan engagement photographer Yunnan Dali

A couple holds hands as they stand on a boulder in Rocca Calascio overlooking the plains in this engagement session by a Lazio, Italy photographer.

Rocca Calascio Italy bw plains Black & White Lazio

Santa Monica, California engagement session Overlooking the ocean

A sunset engagement session Overlooking the ocean of the Pacific

California engagement session Santa Monica CA overlooking ocean

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