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.

Gulf du Morbihan, France environmental engagement e-session with the young couple sitting on a large round hay bale in the open field

Colline de Sion on-location portrait e-shoot for a couple sitting on a rustic farm bench in the tall rural grass

Colline de Sion rural couple sitting Vosges wedding photography rustic vosges portraits

Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil portrait e-session against a log cabin looking structure

Espírito Santo e Session Aracruz couple image rustic log cabin Brazil rural

Camargue portrait e-session of couple embracing with nice light

nice light embracing nature Camargue couple sunlight Camargue portrait e session

Numana couple engagement pic session during a walk in the rural farm field

farm field rural wheat Numana engagement image water Numana

Charente couple engagement pic session in a field

hugs Audrey Morisson Charente rural Charente couple France field

Banovci, Slovenia creative open field wedding portrait of the Groom and bride standing on the wheat field

groom Slovenia bride and groom rural Slovenia wheat field wedding portrait Banovci

Schio, Vicenza, Italy micro outdoor mountain photo session before the wedding day of a couple kissing in front of some mountains

Vicenza wedding engagement rural Vicenza grass fields scenic Schio picturesque

Schio, Vicenza, Italy micro outdoor mountain photo session before the wedding day with a couple in the country

hay bales Schio engagement photos countryside scenic Schio picturesque

A Brno couple walk on the hill during a rural engagement shoot under the clouds

trail rural brno engagement image Brno Czech Republic walking trail hill

San Francisco Sweet couple by the mossy sea cliff during a pre-wed portrait session

SF wedding engagement hills countryside SF CA country scenic

Les Sables d'Olonne, Vendee, France Couple laughing during pre-wed session, shot through the mirror of their motorbike

country mirror scenic grass fields Les Sables dOlonne engagement photos motorbike picturesque

Austria engagement pre-wed photo with Love in the mountain

country grass fields Austria mountains countryside Austria wedding engagement

Love session in the Rain in Waalwijk Lido for engagement pre-wed photos

scenic Waalwijk Lido Waalwijk Lido wedding engagement countryside car lights auto lights rain

West Lake Tahoe Couple at top of rock sharing a moment during a pre-wed shoot

Tahoe engagement photos trees hills scenic grass field country

Ipioca, Alagoas wedding couple in nature and at sunset during an engagement photo shoot

Alagoas wedding engagement Ipioca scenic country rural countryside Alagoas engagement photos

Marciac, Gers, France couple kissing in front of a hay bale for a creative engagement shoot

nature France grass field outdoors Marciac farming rural

Poleymieux au Mont D'Or pre-wedding photoshoot of embracing couple

bw pre wedding photo black and white Poleymieux au Mont DOr monochrome fields black & white pics rural

Jura bride and groom posing during a portrait session standing on a stone wall in the countryside under dark clouds

The bride and groom stood on a stone wall in the countryside, posing for a portrait session beneath dark clouds

wedding countryside dark clouds Jura portrait stone wall Outdoor posing

A fall engagement portrait session at a Maryland farm of the couple sitting on hay bales stacked in a barn

stacked Maryland pre wedding portrait rural Maryland couple sitting engagement photos Maryland

creative wedding day portrait of A couple in a beautiful field of farm crop rows ready for harvesting

wedding couple creative wedding romantic wedding portrait rural burgundy wedding farm field wedding photography

Tamworth, Ontario wedding portrait of the bride and groom sitting at a grand piano in the meadows

Viara Mileva piano Tamworth Ontario fine art wedding image grass bouquet Ontario artistic weddings

Wedding Portrait of a couple and their horses in Parker, Colorado

rural wedding portrait Parker couple horses Colorado

England Family Farm couple engagement portraits out on the pasture with livestock

UK Lancashire rural engagement photo Lancashire Lancashire pre wedding portraits farm sheep

England Family Farm engagement portraits on the pastures with a Nosy cow

rural UK farm cows pre wedding shoot Lancashire cattle

an engaged couple walks for a portrait In the middle of the road, by the burned cornfield and the approaching storm in Pirinopolis, Goias

pre wedding location Pirinopolis corn fields tree rural Pirinopolis engagement session Pirinopolis dirt road

Turkey engagement shoot with a couple running on a dirt road - pre wedding image

an engagement shoot with a couple running on a rural dirt road

rural dirt road Turkey couple Turkey brides Turkey pre wedding Turkey wedding photography

White Cliffs of Dover, Kent, UK engagement photography - A silhouette of a newly engaged couple

engagement photography showing A silhouette of a newly engaged couple

White Cliffs of Dover dusk Kent engagement photos rural pre wedding session Kent fences

Sete Lagoas - MG - Brazil engagement photography session | In the vintage truck of my father

engagement photography session In a vintage truck

rural Minas Gerais engagement photographers truck Minas Gerais Brazil Sete Lagoas

Engagement Photo Session in Crete Senesi, Tuscany - round hay bale, field, holding hands

Engagement Photo Session in Crete Senesi, Tuscany with a round hay bale

farmer Crete Senesi round hay bale Tuscany hay Tuscany pre wedding portraiture rural

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