Wedding Photos of Steps

The following “Steps” 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 “Steps” 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 Baeza couple strikes a romantic pose as they dance on the steps of an old building, capturing the essence of their love in their engagement portrait

Capturing the Essence of Love: Baeza Couple's Romantic Engagement Portrait Dance

A couple from Siena was seen dancing in front of the Duomo during their engagement shoot, capturing their joy and love for each other

Dancing Couple from Siena Express Their Joy and Love in Enchanting Engagement Shoot in Front of Duomo

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The couple walks down the ornate steps of a picturesque Italian archway in Udine, Italy, a stroll to be treasured in their engagement journey

Udine, Italy: A Stroll to Treasure - Couple's Engagement Journey on Ornate Archway Steps

Italy Udine Couple Session Udine stairs columns Udine engagement photography steps

Artistic wedding portrait captured at La Torre Eventos in Martos, Jaen, Spain showcases the bride and groom standing on the steps, with the bride's veil gracefully flowing around them in black and white

Wedding portrait at La Torre Eventos in Martos, Jaen, Spain with bride & groom beautifully framed

beautifully framed wedding portrait Martos La Torre Eventos black and white Jaén Jaen artistic wedding portrait

The couple posed happily for their engagement shoot in the scenic location of the former church in San Lorenzo, Venice

The couple smiled for their engagement shoot in San Lorenzo, Venice

Venice San Lorenzo San Lorenzo Engagement Portrait old church massive doors steps

This loving couple had a beautiful and unique engagement photo session in the stone structures of Göreme, Nevsehir, Turkey, with the bride's long red dress gracefully flowing down the steps

The couple's romantic Göreme engagement portrait captured the bride's beauty, with her long red dress gracefully cascading down the ancient stone steps

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The Caprigliola-Massa couple happily posed for their save-the-date engagement portrait in an urban, concrete setting, sitting back to back on steps and smiling

Rome, Italy: Caprigliola-Massa Couple Engagement Portrait on Urban Steps

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In Brabant Wallon, Wallonie, a local fanfare girl is bringing balloons into the church for a special ceremony

A wedding photographer captured the local fanfare girl bringing balloons into the church

Wallonie fanfare girl Wallonie Wedding Photography Brabant Wallon church steps balloons

On their special day, newlyweds were captured posing beneath a white umbrella with a glow emanating around them outside 2nd Bank of the US in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The newlyweds glowed beneath a white umbrella outside the big buildings on their wedding day

Philadelphia wedding photography Pennsylvania columns glow Philadelphia white umbrella steps

A back-lit couple stands nose-to-nose in an intimate pose, capturing a lifestyle engagement portrait in front of Legislature Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a couple poses for a lifestyle engagement portrait in front of Legislature Building

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The couple in a lifestyle portrait session in Budaörs, looking into each other's eyes at the top of a long stretch of steps leading down to the village below

In Budaörs, the couple gazed into each other's eyes atop a long stairway during an outdoor engagement photoshoot

Budaörs steps Budapest village Pest Hungary Budapest Lifestyle Engagement Portrait

The bride and groom shared a passionate kiss at the base of the steps in Île-de-France, Paris, surrounded by their guests

The bride and groom tenderly embraced and shared a loving kiss at the bottom of the stairs, as their friends and family surrounding

Paris Ile de France Paris photographer surrounded by guests kiss steps

As the couple exited the Cathedrale de Langres, they were showered on the sunlit steps by rice flying overhead

As they stepped out into the sun, the couple were celebrated with a flurry of rice raining down on them from above

Langres Cathedral showered with rice Roman Catholic church Langres ceremony exit Langres Photographer France

A couple sit on steps at Lincoln Park in Chicago, IL during a lifestyle portrait session

A high camera angle looking down captures a couple sitting on steps in a park for a lifestyle portrait

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The couple smiled and sat together on the stairs outside the Reception Hall in Vertou, Nantes

The couple posed for a portrait as they sat together on the steps outside the Reception Hall

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Vizcaya Miami Engagement Session at this historic property with stone walls and steps under a canopy of trees

Vizcaya Miami stone calls Florida steps Miami Rosina DiBello trees

After the marriage proposal Metz engagement photography with the couple Just laughing and loving

steps laughing Metz sunlight Metz photographer France

Best wedding photography from The Equinox Resort in Vermont created as the The grooms father spreads salt on the steps to prevent guests from slipping on the ice

spreading salt Equinox Resort Vermont photographer ice on steps Grooms father Vermont steps

From a London wedding, this ceremony venue confetti shot on the steps outside is artistic

The artistic confetti shot of the wedding ceremony venue on the steps outside is a lovely capture

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A Lisbon couple poses during a Sintra City Center lifestyle portrait photography session as they are on the steps and smiling to each other

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Metz lifestyle portrait session in France as the couple walks up the steps holding hands and wearing sunglasses

France couple walking steps holding hands sunglasses France Metz lifestyle portrait Jonathan Fortuna

Atlanta lifestyle couples portrait session at Piedmont Park, Georgia in BW by the stairs with an umbrella

umbrella stairs Atlanta Georgia park Atlanta lifestyle couple

A Vendee Wedding, Elopement, and Engagement Photographer created this artistic portrait of this Santorini couple sitting on a very clean, white area on stairs

sitting white posing clean Santorini Santorini couple Jeremie Sangare

Abu Dhabi wedding documentary photographer created this image at Qasr Al Sarab just as The groom surprised the bride by performing with his groomsmen and then did a couple of steps with the bride as well

Qasr Al Sarab weddings Abu Dhabi UAE groom steps Abu Dhabi wedding photographer surprised

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

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

Venice Pre wedding passing romantic slow shutter speed pedestrians Italy couple

Wedding image from the Grand Hotel dei Castelli in Liguria showing a high angle of the Bride before ceremony at the hotel coming down steps

Julian Kanz high angle steps Liguria bride Grand Hotel dei Castelli venue Liguria Wedding image Liguria

Lei Yue Mun, Hong Kong picture session for a carefree engaged couple that is hiking for a dusk silhouette as they climb the steps at a former quarry

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A first class Frankfurt Roemer wedding portrait of this Germany bride and groom as they descend small steps in an alley

alley Frankfurt Römer Germany descend steps Frankfurt Romer wedding portrait

Bangkok pre-wed portraits for a fun couple playing with the building spaces by the steps

Bangkok urban building Wasan Chirdchom streets Bangkok couple Bangkok photographer

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