Wedding Photos of Sea

The following “Sea” 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 “Sea” 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 breathtaking pre-wedding photoshoot captures the enchanting love story of a soon-to-be-married couple, elegantly dressed, standing in the shallow waters of Tuz Gölü under a dramatic sky, while skillfully illuminated by the photographer

Capturing Eternity: Mesmerizing Pre-Wedding Shoot Immortalizes Enchanting Love Story amidst Tuz Gölü's Serene Waters

An engaged couple stands close together on the sandy beach of Praia da Cal, with the breathtaking combination of mountains and the sea in the background

Love, Nature's Masterpiece: A Beautiful Engagement by the Serene Praia da Cal

sea sandy beach rocks Praia da Cal Torres breaking waves ocean

The bride and groom celebrated their love with a kiss as they stood on a deck in the Italian coastal town of Lerici Ca Borghese, Liguria, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea with her veil over them

The bride and groom shared a romantic kiss overlooking the sea from a deck in a coastal town

bride and groom kiss sea coastal town mediterranean Mediterranean sea romantic Liguria

The romantic ambiance at La Madrague Beach set the perfect atmosphere for the engaged couple as they embraced each other barefoot on the rocks, rolling in the sea at sunset

The couple's engagement portrait captured the beauty of their love, with the sun setting and the waves crashing around them

barefoot Hyères Var standing on rocks La Madrague Beach hills sunset

A couple is soon to be wed, posing at Montara Beach, California, enjoying a romantic scene by the sea on a rock

At Montara Beach, California, a romantic couple pose on a rock by the sea

sitting on rocks sea rocks Northern California E session San Mateo County California - Northern Montara Beach

The couple was captured in an underwater pre-wedding portrait, embracing each other in the Malendure sea around Guadeloupe

In Guadeloupe's Malendure sea, the couple embraced in an underwater prewedding portrait

Guadeloupe ocean underwater engagement swimming Malendure Sea Guadeloupe Lifestyle Engagement Portrait sea

An Ionian Sea, Beach Caulonia Marina, Reggio Calabria portrait session with the couple standing in the sea with the calm, flat water surrounding their legs

sea beach engagement Reggio Calabria photographer Reggio Calabria standing in water Ionian Sea

A Scotland, on location couple lifestyle portrait in the Scottish grasslands over the sea

grasslands Scotland photographer sea Scotland

She said yes, post marriage proposal picture session in Les Goudes, Marseille showing The couple approached for a kiss just above the sea

Marseille Florian Maguin Les Goudes standing on rocks marseille photographer couple kissing sea

Maceio beach portrait lifestyle session with the couple smiling at the sunset

wind sun Maceio beach portrait Renner Boldrino Maceió ocean smiling

St Petersburg couples portrait lifestyle sessions with some Rockside Chatter on the ocean jetty

rocks jetty FL lifestyle session St Petersburg sea sunshine St Petersburg couple portrait

Pleneuf Val Andre couples outdoor portrait lifestyle sessions in France of the engaged pair jumping above the sea and silhouetted against the water and sky

Sky sea Brittany France engaged couple jumping Pleneuf Val Andre couple Patrick Lombaert Pleneuf Val Andre

A France Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, sunset portrait of this Hossegor couple silhouetted at dusk by the sea and surfers

France clouds Sky silhouetted France photographer dusk Hossegor

Breathtaking San Jose wedding image of a California couple embracing and showing their love by the sea on the cliffs above the water

Jipeng Han embracing water San Jose wedding image Pacific Ocean ocean California - Northern

Calabria stylish actual wedding day couple portrait of the brides veil swept by the wind by the ocean

swept IT couple portrait water Calabria wind brides veil bw

Top, and timeless wedding photography at Tunnels Beach in Devon, England during a portrait session for the Bride and groom embracing on rocks surrounded by the sea at sunset

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A Devon bridal portrait at Tunnels Beach in the UK embracing by the sea, surrounding by cliffs lit by a beautiful sunset

cliffs UK Devon portrait UK couple Devon Tunnels Beach wedding session sea Tunnels Beach portraits

A France Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this sweet portrait of this Montpellier couple embracing by the sea

Montpellier couple portrait Sky embracing beach sea france wedding photographer

A romantic Capitola pre wedding session by the sea with umbrellas and strings of lights at dusk

Capitola umbrellas Monterey Bay Capitola pre wedding coast Santa Cruz

Oceanic Rio de Janeiro engagement image with a couple dressed in all white standing on rocks at the beach in Brazil

beach Brazil crashing waves Rio de Janeiro engagement dressed in white sea standing

A romantic Le Pouldu, Finistère engagement picture in France while the couple is kissing over the Sea

Le Pouldu bride and groom clouds France couple Elodie Gentit romantic ocean waves

Maceio, Brazil pre-wedding photo-session using a Silhouette of a couple by the sea with sunshine and a low angle

Brazil photo session Renner Boldrino Maceió Brazil pre wedding sea sunshine low angle

Pre-wedding Maceió couple portrait-session with a couple embraced near the sea by a rustic board structure

Maceió photographer embraced rustic beach structure board Maceió

Pre-wedding Muggia couple portrait-session in Trieste, Italy with the lovers holding hands and Walking by the sea next to a lamp

lovers Trieste Pre wedding Muggia photographer Muggia walking lamp Muggia couple

Pre-wedding engagement image-session at the Mediterranean Sea, Wild Beach, Ravenna with a candid kiss in the sea at sunrise

Ravenna Pre wedding image Ravenna sunrise kiss water Wild Beach submerged

Pre-wedding photo-session at Lake Geneva on the concrete stairs near the ocean at dusk

stairs Pre Wedding Photo sea dusk Lake Geneva Lyon photographer concrete

Lake Geneva pre-wedding photo-session in Switzerland by the ocean at dusk with a sunset scene behind

sea ocean Lake Geneva Castille Alma Switzerland pre wedding photo Lyon photographer Switzerland

Pre-wedding Perpignan beach couple engagement image-session in France with some Kissing in the sea

Pre wedding Perpignan beach sea submerged kissing France engagement image France Perpignan couple

Black and white pre-wedding photo-session at Perpignan beach in France with the couple Dancing in the sea

prewedding photo sea dancing black and white submerged water

Pre-wedding Arraial do Cabo couple photo-session in Rio de Janeiro with crashing waves on the rocks by the ocean behind them

rocks Rio Pre wedding shoot wave Rio de Janeiro crashing waves Arraial do Cabo

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