Wedding Photos of Sitting

The following “Sitting” 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 “Sitting” 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.

An Italy Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, romantic portrait of this Rimini couple sitting on a hammock with creative tea lights

A Ravenna Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, sweet portrait of this Rimini couple sitting in a hammock in between two trees

hammock Rimini sitting IT wedding photographer Two trees rimini couple sweet portrait

A beautiful Rawa Mazowiecka bridal portrait in Poland of the bride sitting in a car

sitting Poland bw vintage Poland bride car

A beautiful Marburg, Germany bridal portrait in BW outdoors in a chair in natural sunlight

sitting bw outdoors Marburg bride Marburg Germany bridal portrait

An India Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, romantic portrait of this Chennai couple sitting on a bench as the groom to be kissing the shoulder of his future bride

India shoulder Chennai Chennai couple India engagement photographer bench

A Virginia Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, adventurous portrait of this VA couple sitting on a rock with the majestic view of the Shenandoah

Virginia majestic VA couple Shenandoah sitting rock virginia engagement photographer

An Italy Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, fun portrait of this Lucca couple sitting on boat at a beach at Forte dei Marmi

fun portrait beach sitting italy wedding photographer boat IT Italy

A Siena Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, playful portrait of this Lucca couple sitting on a deck at Forte dei Marmi

deck playful siena wedding photographer Siena Lucca couple Forte dei Marmi

A Virginia Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic, adventurous portrait of this VA couple sitting on a beach with an art mural on the wall behind themat Old Town Alexandria

art mural wall VA couple Old Town Alexandria Virginia sitting beach

Cambridgeshire wedding reportage photojournalist created this image at The Old Bridge Hotel in Huntingdon, UK of the mother of the groom sitting on a couch

couch Cambridgeshire UK wedding Cambridgeshire wedding reportage Huntingdon sitting

A Herault Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative, sunset portrait of this Montpellier couple sitting on a boardwalk dock by the water

water Montpellier couple Herault bride boardwalk sunset portrait Herault wedding photographer Herault

A Brescia Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this creative and artistic portrait of this Lombardy couple sitting on the steps at Lovere, Iseo Lake

steps sitting Brescia Wedding Photographer Lombardy couple artistic portrait Lovere bride to be Lovere

A beautiful Bellvue, Colorado engagement photo of a Couple embracing while sitting near a scenic lake

Mark Creery Colorado couple scenic sitting Colorado engagement lake embracing

Adventurous, outdoor Pleneuf Val Andre engagement image of The couple sitting on a tower of rocks in Plelan le Petit

Pleneuf Val Andre couple Patrick Lombaert Plelan le Petit tower rocks Pleneuf Val Andre engagement Outdoor

A sweet and serene Los Gatos engagement session with the groom to be saying I Love every minute being with you

sitting pedestrians bride kiss streets Los Gatos couple

An extraordinary Guangzhou wedding image from China showing The brides legs and bridesmaids legs and the brides dog

bridesmaids legs China China bride dog brides legs sitting seated

A romantic Venice pre wedding session with an Italy couple sitting on steps with pedestrians passing in motion blur from slow shutter speed

Venice sitting pedestrians slow shutter speed romantic passing

A beautiful Venice engagement photo at Palazzo Ducale at Doges Palace with the Italy couple sitting on a bench

Palazzo Ducale bench Michele Agostinis Venice Italy couple Doges Palace sitting

Epic Bourges pre wedding portrait for an Urban Couple Shot while sitting on the ground

Bourges ground low angle industrial urban couple Cher sitting

World's top and most original United Kingdom wedding portrait photography at the Oxford Town Hall of bride and groom sitting after their ceremony

after ceremony Oxford bride and groom UK couple photography United Kingdom wedding portrait Damion Mower sitting Oxford Town Hall

World's top and most original Newark, Nottingham wedding portrait photography of the Bride and Groom sitting outside colorful shop front

windows Nottingham Nottingham wedding portrait shop streets Newark photography Nottinghamshire

Hotel William Gray, Montreal pre-wed portraits for a Newly engaged couple sitting on hotel bed with helium balloons around them to celebrate their engagement

sitting celebrate balloons Newly engaged helium Montreal

A pre wedding session in Montpellier, France highlighting the fun that they are having together sitting on the dock at a quiet and still lake

quiet lake France sitting Montpellier pre wedding session Montpellier dock

Trois Châteaux, Eguisheim pre-wedding engagement photoshoot for a couple who genuinely likes to have fun in the sweetness of the sun

grass Eguisheim pre wedding couple Eguisheim engagement photoshoot trees sitting

Venice romantic engagement image of a couple sitting on the stairs at Chiesa di San Lorenzo

Italy Michele Agostinis romantic Chiesa di San Lorenzo church Venice engagement image Venice couple

Siracusa pre-wedding portrait-session in the trees during Spring in Sicily

spring Siracusa Siracusa pre wedding portrait trees Italy sitting

Perpignan beach pre-wedding photo-session with the couple Simply embraced at the beach fencing

couple bw embraced beach fencing sitting

Pre-wedding Montpellier couple photo-session while sitting by the water on a boat dock made from wood

sunset Montpellier wood sitting water dock Montpellier photographer

New Gloucester pre-wedding photo-session in Maine from a natural Engagement Shoot in the Woods

forest Maine wedding photographer sitting Vert New Gloucester prewedding photo Revolution Summer Photography Maine couple

On location Cividale del Friuli, Udine, IT couple engagement portrait shoot while Sitting on the stairs

Aria di Foto stairs Udine sitting engagement portrait shoot IT couple

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