Wedding Photos of Rural

The following “Rural” 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 “Rural” 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.

Capture from a wedding at La Subida Restaurant in Cormons, Gorizia, Italy where a horse is curiously sniffing the bride's bouquet in this unique and charming photograph.

Horse Sniffing Bride's Bouquet: Charming Moment Captured at La Subida Restaurant Wedding

Newlyweds standing in front of a farmers field with tractor stripes in the dirt, captured in a breathtaking wedding portrait at Domaine de Kervallon in Caro.

Romantic Newlyweds Embracing Amidst Tractor Stripes at Domaine de Kervallon in Caro

farm portrait rural couple rustic embracing farming

Surrounded by the rustic charm of a barn in Steamboat Springs, CO, the bride and groom share a romantic lit embrace, captured by an award-winning wedding photographer.

Steamboat Springs Barn Wedding: A Rustic Lit Embrace Under Love's Gaze

outdoors blue sky Barns bride and groom barn Colorado newlyweds

Wedding photo taken at Dreams and Dragonflies in Windsor, CO, USA. The bride and groom pose with an old barn illuminated by the photographer's lighting.

Golden Romance: Captivating Love at the Barns of Dreams and Dragonflies

outside barn Dreams and Dragonflies farm United States Artful wedding couple

A talented wedding photographer captured a beautiful portrait of a bride and groom at Dreams and Dragonflies in Windsor, Colorado. The couple is elegantly posed in front of an old barn, beautifully lit in a rustic setting.

Rustic Elegance: Dreams and Dragonflies Wedding Portrait in Windsor

wedding couple barn Passionate artistic portrait sessions Dreams and Dragonflies Barns newlyweds

A Fazenda Boa Sorte lifestyle photo session in Brazil with a Double exposure using the horses face and the couple

Fazenda Boa Sorte lifestyle Fabio Melo ranch horse Fazenda Boa Sorte face photo session Brazil

Montpellier lifestyle couples portrait photography with a romantic kiss to her neck near the rural corn fields

France portrait photography romantic corn fields France neck Montpellier lifestyle couple Montpellier

Cher lifestyle couples photography in Sancerre, France with a lift and a kiss at sunset time

couple photography Sancerre Cher lifestyle France couple rural open fields France sunset

Nebraska lifestyle portrait photography at a Private Residence for a Couple with a horse as sun goes down

Nebraska holding hands sunset farm horse rural

A Nebraska lifestyle couple photo session showing a girl kissed by her boyfriend in a cowboy hat

Nebraska lifestyle couple kissed farm cowboy hat Nebraska photo session rural

A Colorado Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, rural portrait of a Wyoming couple in front of a barn at their family farm

Wyoming couple Mark Creery rural Wyoming wedding photographer family farm barn

A California Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, rural portrait of this Santa Cruz couple embracing in the wildflowers

embracing California Santa Cruz rural California Engagement Photographer Santa Cruz couple

An Italy Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, rural portrait of this Monte Livata couple with horses gazing behind them

Italy grazing Monte Livata Italy engagement photographer horses rural Italian

An Italy Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, rural portrait of this Liguria couple kissing with a horse and stable behind them at Follo La Spezia

kissing stable Liguria Follo La Spezia couple portrait horse Liguria couple

A beautiful West Sussex couple portrait for the Bride and groom embracing in the cornfields at sunset

cornfields UK couple portrait West Sussez West Sussex Bride and groom rural embracing Jenny Rutterford

A spectacular Chateau de Janze wedding photograph from Marcilly-d'Azergues, France of the bride against red barn doors

France Bride rural red rustic Marcilly dAzergues Marcilly d Azergues weddings Chateau de Janze wedding photography

Villa Rossi scene setter wedding venue photography showing the cutting of the cake in a different way

Riviera del Brenta Veneto aristocratic Via Doge Pisani scene setter Palace Baroque style

Scenic Sancerre engagement photography in BW for a couple taking a Walk in the fog

walk rural France couple tree Sancerre Cher

Red Rock couple engagement portraits with a couple enjoying the rural farm scene in the countryside below the hills

countryside farm scene hills Red Rock couple Red Rock engagement portrait Red Rock photographer

Nova Friburgo picture session for a carefree engaged couple that is evident in this romantic image

fence Nova Friburgo engaged couple grass Nova Friburgo picture session countryside rural romantic

Sancerre picture session for a carefree engaged couple that is evident as they pose together on a country road

rural pose Sancerre couple picture Sancerre engaged couple trees Sancerre country road

Lago di Scanno pre-wedding portrait-session in Abruzzo, Italy on a rural path trail Under the trees

Aria di Foto rural Abruzzo path trail Italy trees

Pre-wedding engagement image-session in Crete Senesi, Tuscany with some leaps of love over the farmers wrapped hay bales

Crete Senesi hay bales countryside jumping farmer leaps fields

Pre-wedding Albatera engagement image-session in Alicante for a couple preparing a very special and personalized wedding with dads car

vintage Alicante couple rural headlights car Albatera engagement image

Domaine de Grillions, France outside environmental prewedding photoshoot showing A couple on straw bales look at each other

countryside prewedding photoshoot rural outside France France couple Domaine de Grillions

View this picturesque Belén, Heredia, Costa Rica wedding Couple kissing during golden hour while two beautiful horses stand close to see them kissing, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography at La Casona Pedregal from the WPJA

horses Mauricio Urena Costa Rica golden hour La Casona Pedregal weddings La Casona Pedregal Heredia

Marciac, France couple e-session of the engaged stretched out to connect

rural Engagement France couple grass engaged couple overhead Marciac engagement

True Love Engagement Picture Session at the family farm showing the future bride and groom on the family tractor

future bride Lille photorapher tractor bw rural family farm

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

Tuscany pre wedding rural country Tuscany Portrait Session Tuscany piggyback

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Steinhausen showing Love Is In The Air

Steinhausen engagement portrait Mischa Baettig dip Steinhausen couple kiss trail

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