Wedding Photos of Picture Session

The following “Picture Session” 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 “Picture Session” 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 perfectly balanced composition captures a couple's picture session as they sit in a stone alcove at the Museum Hotel in Uchisar, Nevsehir, Turkey, with a stunning backdrop of numerous hot air balloons filling the sky

Nevsehir, Turkey: Stunning couple's picture session in stone alcove captures hot air balloon backdrop

Fargo, North Dakota outside forest picture session before the wedding day with the dogs running around in the winter snow

Fargo forest dog outside picture Session snow

Port Hills Christchurch New Zealand outside forest picture session with a Couple at sunset in the hills

Christchurch weddings Christchurch New Zealand hills Vutiporn Supanish outside picture Session

Engaged Couples Photographer | Black and White Session at Hotel Coronado

Black and White picture Session at the Hotel

Coronado Coronado wedding image Coronado engagement Coronado wedding photo black and white picture Session

Couple Engagement Photo Session | An engaged couple in love is kissing in Florence

An engaged couple in love is kissing during picture session

engaged couple kissing Florence love picture Session

Engagement Photo Session at Brant Point Lighthouse, Nantucket Island, MA - Couple at sunset during their engagement session.

Engagement Photo with a Couple at sunset during their picture session

Nantucket Island MA picture Session Nantucket wedding photography sunset couple Nantucket pre wedding

São Paulo couple on the flower field - Engagement pictures in the greenhouse

couple on the flower field during Engagement picture session in the greenhouse

Engagement São Paulo wedding photographer São Paulo bride greenhouse picture Session Brazil

Engaged couple in the center of Munich | Pre wedding picture session

Engaged couple in the center of the city for a Pre wedding picture session

Munich couples city Munich wedding photographer engaged couple picture Session pre wedding portraiture

Menlo Park, California engagement picture session at home - Breakfast in Bed

engagement picture session at home with Breakfast in Bed

bed Tyler Vu san jose couple images at home San Jose e shoot Engagement picture Session

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