Wedding Photos of Sand

The following “Sand” 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 “Sand” 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.

The engaged couple embraced at a sunny beach for a pre-wedding portrait at Atlantic Dunes Beach in Delray Beach, Florida, featuring bare feet in sand and sea shore grasses all around

The engaged couple embraced at Atlantic Dunes Beach, Delray Beach, Florida, for a lifestyle portrait

The couple shared a romantic embrace on the beach, cuddling in the sand beneath the sun's rays and exchanging kisses

On the beach, the couple cuddled in the sand and shared romantic kisses in the soft light

Cuddling beach engagement Orleans Engagement Photography sand romantic embrace Orléans exchanging kisses

The engaged couple enjoyed a leisurely stroll along the beach, with the ocean's waves lapping at the shore

Le Porge beach: Couple strolled, waves lapping shore

Le Porge Beach Gironde couple Strolling seaside engagement waves sand Gironde Engagement Photographer

A couple in a lifestyle session on the beach in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, sat in the water facing each other and touching heads at the blue hour

The couple, as they prepared to wed, seated in the beach water facing one another

sand touching heads vendee engagement photography blue hour Pays de la Loire beach waves

The ceremony at Snow Canyon State Park in Utah was framed by the bright red rock walls and held on the sand dunes

A Utah Snow Canyon State Park intimate wedding ceremony was framed by red rock walls and held on desert sand dunes

Big Sky UT sand sand dunes dunes Utah Photographer Utah

At Help Beach, Fethiye, Turkey, a beach wedding party moment on the sand at night

Two women laid on the beach sand at night, creating a festive beach wedding party moment

Help Beach Fethiye Wedding Photographer Fethiye Turkey Night sand women

bride and groom portrait using small mirror placed in the beach sand

Spain Playa de los Genoveses bride and groom portrait Almeria sand Cabo de Gata

Best Zandvoort reportage style wedding photography award in the Netherlands showing the bride and groom during the beach ceremony in the sand under a blue sky

the bride and groom during the beach ceremony in the sand under a blue sky

beach ceremony Zandvoort Janneke Walpot blue sky Netherlands sand Netherlands photographer

Praia do Frances engagement photography portfolio image with an Alagoas couple hugging at the edge of the water in the sand at the beach

watersedge beach engagement Couple hugging Alagoas palm trees Alagoas photographer sand

Le Touquet Paris Plage destination engagement shoot for a French Couple hugging on the boardwalk stairs by the sand

sand French Couple sitting on stairs beach grass boardwalk Paris photographer Le Touquet Paris Plage

She said yes, post marriage proposal picture session in Zephyr Cove, Tahoe for the couple holding hands on the beach

Zephyr Cove water Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe photographer holding hands sand

After the wedding proposal engagement picture session in Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe for a Couple having fun near the water

beach engagement playing Lake Tahoe photographer Lake Tahoe sand Zephyr Cove

She said yes, post marriage proposal picture session at Perpignan Beach during some France Shamy

laughing sand Perpignan beach bw engagement Pyrenees-Orientales smiles Perpignan photographer

Les Sables d'Olonne Engagement. A young Vendee couple posing during a pre wedding portrait session while kissing between rocks on the beach

Vendee Photographer kissing on beach Vendee Jeremie Sangare beach engagement Les Sables d Olonne rocks on beach

A Maceio lifestyle couple photo session at the water showing some tenderness at the beach

Maceió picture session Renner Boldrino trees sand Tenderness Brazil beach

A Biarritz couple poses during a Basque coast, France lifestyle portrait photography session as they are watching the sunset from the rocks near the sand

sunset rocks France lifestyle portrait France photography session Charline Eberhardt sand Basque Coast

A Brazilian Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, adventurous portrait of this Alagoas couple at Praia do Francês depicting the couple having an intimate moment at the beach

wind Brazilian Engagement Photographer alagoas couple sand Praia do Francês beach Renner Boldrino

An Alagoas Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, adventurous portrait of this Brazil couple at Marechal Deodoro depicting the groom to be playing the gutiar for his fiance

Brazil Couple palm trees gutiar music groom Alagoas beach

A San Francisco Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, beach portrait of this Capitola couple walking on the sand at a beach

walking beach California Capitola couple san francisco weddings Capitola

A Vendee Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, aerial portrait of this Saint Gilles Croix de Vie couple lying down on sand with an overhead angle

Saint Gilles Croix de Vie couple aerial portrait Jeremie Sangare heli drone Saint Gilles Croix de Vie lying down

A Brazil Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this romantic, beach portrait of this Rio de Janeiro couple sitting in the warm sunlight on a beach

A Brazil Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this romantic, beach portrait of this Rio de Janeiro couple standing in the warm sunlight on a beach

Beach Portrait sand romantic Brazil engagement photographer Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro couple

A France Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this adventurous, beach portrait of this Cap Ferret couple running in the sand

sand France clouds CAP FERRET holding hands adventurous

A superb example of a wedding detail in this San Jose, California picture of the CA couple holding hands

Jipeng Han California outdoor weddings wood CA couple California - Northern San Jose sand

A beautiful Soester Duinen wedding portrait of the Bride and groom walking on a dune next to tree

NL wedding portrait restaurant NL tree Soester Duinen sand

Top, and timeless France wedding photography from Quiberon during a portrait session On a beach when the tide was low

Quiberon water sand low tide rocks ocean

Scenic Cappadocia engagement image created in the sand hills and formations of Turkey

Cappadocia hills scenic engagement Turkey formations sand

Adventurous Cappadocia pre wedding portrait with formal clothes and carved sand caves

Turkey portrait caves formal clothes Cappadocia bride and groom Cappadocia pre wedding sand

Scenic Rio de Janeiro pre wedding portrait shoot for a couple dressed in white holding hands walking on the beach sand by the Brazil ocean

walking RJ couple white beach Brazil sand

Epic Hossegor engagement session in BW overhead as the couple is lying in the sand

bw overhead Hossegor Couple lying Hossegor engagement sand

A pre-wedding session in Marechal Deodoro, Alagoas highlighting the fun that they are having together at the beach on the sand by palm trees

sand palm trees Alagoas Marechal Deodoro Maceió Alagoas engagement photographer Renner Boldrino

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