Wedding Photos of Stairs

The following “Stairs” 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 “Stairs” 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.

True Love picture shoot at the Hotel Chalet Tirol in San Rafael de Heredia, Costa Rica showing a Couple laughing during their engagement session

Ohio wedding photography showing A moment caught by timing and remembered forever

ohio wedding photography stairs remembered timing bw steps

Aracruz, Espírito Santo, Brazil environmental engagement e-session with a dip an a tender kiss on her neck

neck stairs kiss dip Brazil engagement e session Aracruz Kássio Silva

Duomo di Siena, Tuscany on-location portrait e-shoot on a couple on stairs

stairs Tuscany Duomo di Siena Italy Italy couple Tuscany on location portrait

Rio de Janeiro on-location portrait e-shoot of couple standing on the stairs of a brick structure

structure Rio de Janeiro Brazil Couple brick standing Rio de Janeiro portrait

Paris portrait e-session on a set of stairs with art murals behind them on the wall

paris engagement image urban city paris couple portrait wall stairs murals

Riverwalk, Chicago Fine Art Engagement Image showing a couple on the stairs with reflection and color

stairs Chicago engagement Chicago red colorful Riverwalk

Luxembourg Fine Art Engagement Session at the Philharmony steps

steps Philharmonie Luxembourg structure kiss Luxembourg low angle

Capbreton France Pre Wedding Photoshoot in a Fine Art Style during an Engagement session on the beach

stairs France engagement session ocean clouds sand France Pre Wedding Photoshoot Capbreton couple

Paris Fine Art Pre Wedding Portrait in BW of a couple walking down a huge set of stairs below a church

black and white church stairs Paris bw Ronan Jégaden France

Val d'Orcia Fine Art Engagement Session for a couple in the city sitting On the stairs

urban steps Val dOrcia city Tuscany photographer town

Santorini engaged couple picture session surrounded by white buildings and stairs of Greece

Greece Santorini stairs white buildings Santorini engagement photography

Toronto couple engagement pic session with Two women madly in love cuddle in the background with the focus on their shoes, the soles a rainbow

women Toronto stairs Toronto engagement photographer Sandra Lee Layden rainbow colored shoes

Hong Kong pre - wed image indoors with window shadows on the wall behind the couple kissing on the stairs

HK engagement photographer Hong Kong couple kissing stairs window shadows

Portopiccolo, Trieste, Italy urban pic shoot before the wedding day with the couple Walking down the stairs

town walking trieste engagement photography Italy city urban

National Gallery of Art, East Building, DC urban pic shoot before the wedding day for a minimalist stairs portrait

An urban pic shoot before the wedding day for a minimalist stairs portrait

DC Minimalistic National Gallery of Art urban picture Brittany Diliberto DC engagement photographer stairs

Meridian Hill Park, DC pre wedding couple photo session on the stairs

A pre wedding couple photo session on the stairs

stairs Brittany Diliberto DC Meridian Hill Park DC engagement photographer eye contact

Istanbul black and white kissing couple portrait during snowy weather

A black and white kissing couple portrait during snowy weather

Nilufer Nalbantoglu bw Turkey snowy weather umbrella Istanbul kissing

The High Line Park urban couple portrait on city stairway

High Line Park park stairway stairs urban NY couple portrait city

Sevierville, TN mini urban pic shoot before the wedding day as The couple looks at each other as they stand in a set of stairs in downtown Sevierville

Sevierville wedding couple Bryan Aleman Sevierville engagement shoot stairs Sevierville urban stand

Tuscany wedding portrait of the child of the bridal couple in stairs

Tuscany wedding portrait Tuscany child tuscany weddings bridal couple stairs

Virginia wedding photographer captured the moment where the groomsen waited at the bottom of the stairs excitedly as the groom descends wearing Vietnamese traditional closthing for the first time

excitedly first time VA Traditional stairs Nam Trinh descends

Botanical Garden small indoor photo session with the couple before the wedding day showing The woman walks up the stairs to the man

Sofia indoor photo session Sofia pre wedding photo Sofia couple woman walks Botanical garden Tatyana Chohadjieva

Fujian home wedding photography of the full bridal party coming down the stairs with a red umbrella

stairs red umbrella Fujian wedding photo Shubin Shen coming down bridal party home

Central Park mini urban pic shoot before the wedding day using Lines and texture to create an artistic touch to the couple portrait

NYC couple portraits texture NY stairs city steps

Black and white wedding photo from Peso da Régua, Quinta da Pacheca, Portugal of the bride heading up the stairs

wedding photo Peso da Régua black and white portugal bride stairs Daniel Monteiro Quinta da Pacheca

Belgium wedding photography of the bride walking up the stairs to get dressed at her parents' house

parents house Fille Roelants bride walking get dressed Belgium wedding photo stairs

At the Sodafabriek old factory in Schiedam The Netherlands, The groom is standing in a cool pose on the stairs for an artistic wedding photo

Thomas Jongbloed groom standing artistic wedding photo pose stairs Sodafabriek

Netherlands wedding portrait of the groom looking at his bride while she is walking the stairs to the light at Kasteel Woerden

Netherlands bride Kasteel Woerden Thomas Jongbloed light groom walking

Chicago wedding photographer captured this artistic portrait of a couple of stairs at the Rookery Building

Rookery Building artistic portrait Chicago stairs couple Chicago wedding photograph

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