Wedding Photos of Peaceful

The following “Peaceful” 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 “Peaceful” 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 unique wedding scene with a couple smiling behind two kissing llamas, one black and one white, captured at Biodome Esslingen venue during a peaceful outdoor portrait session.

Llamas Love: Couple Smiles Behind Black and White Kissers at Biodome Esslingen Wedding Venue

A nature portrait captured in Germany during the First Look session at a serene outdoor wedding venue, beautifully encapsulating the essence of the special day.

Enchanting First Look: Serene Nature Portrait at a German Outdoor Wedding Venue

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A wedding photograph taken in Ellsworth, Maine, showing the couple stealing a quiet session together by the lake just before a rain shower arrives.

Stealing a Quiet Moment: Idyllic Ellsworth Lakeside Wedding Before Rainstorm arrives

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In Napa Valley, California, a couple shares a tender kiss on a ranch backdrop during a peaceful outdoor portrait session on their wedding day, just before sunset.

Romantic Ranch Kiss: Sunset Wedding Portrait in Napa Valley, California's Tranquil Outdoors

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A romantic embrace on the water taxi in Venice's Grand Canal, a serene post-ceremony ride captured during a peaceful outdoor wedding portrait session.

Venetian Serenade: Love on the Water Taxi in Venice's Grand Canal Wedding Portrait Session

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A romantic wedding photo of a couple embracing on a water taxi on the Grand Canal, captured during a peaceful outdoor portrait session on their special day.

Embracing Love on the Grand Canal: Romantic Water Taxi Wedding Portrait Session

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In the elegant Guarda Golf Hotel in Switzerland, the bride's getting ready chaos is beautifully captured as everything falls into place in her room.

Swiss Elegance: The Bride's Getting Ready Chaos

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A couple is seen standing and enjoying some peaceful time together on a trail near a wooden fence in nature, as the sun sets in Biebersee, Cham

Biebersee, Cham: Couple peacefully standing near wooden fence on trail, enjoying sunset in nature

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Pre-wedding photo-session in Dallas, Texas with a peaceful, beautiful evening sunset

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View this graceful Shenandoah National Park wedding image of the couple lying down together and enjoying the peaceful nature scene inside a national park, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography from the WPJA

Shenandoah National Park wedding image of the couple lying down together and enjoying the peaceful nature scene inside a national park, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography

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wedding portrait in the autumn fog, as a motorcyclist drives by

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Tahoe City, Lake Tahoe engagement photo shoot | Walkin on the dock in deeps snow

The couple walks on the dock in deep snow during their lake engagement photo shoot, with the natural surroundings adding a serene and peaceful atmosphere to the scene

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Wedding engagement photography by the foggy lake in Maryland by Baltimore engagement photographers

Engagement photography by the foggy lake captures a couple embracing on a shallow stone jetty, with calm and flat water adding to the peaceful atmosphere

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Black and White England wedding engagement pictures by a Dorset photographer

Two trees stand tall and still against the stark openness of the plains, creating an atmosphere of peaceful tranquility for the black and white engagement photo

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Lakeside engagement images of a couple reflected in the water | RI photographer pre-wedding session for portraits

The beautiful lakeside provided the perfect backdrop for the couple's engagement photo, with trees and the still water reflecting its peaceful atmosphere

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