Wedding Photos of Sunlight

The following “Sunlight” 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 “Sunlight” 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.

Calascio Fortress Engagement Photography Session - Image contains: castle, hills, embrace, warm, sunlight

Calascio Fortress Engagement Photography Session by the castle, in the hills

Jeziorsko Lake, PL Engagement Session with a couple - Portrait contains: lying, boardwalk, beach, sunlight, afternoon

Jeziorsko Lake, PL Engagement Session with a couple lying on the boardwalk

Jeziorsko Lake lying boardwalk Poland afternoon Jeziorsko Lake pre wedding portrait

Chicksands Wood, UK Engagement Portrait Session - Image contains: face, facing, each, other, trees, sunlight, ferns

Chicksands Wood, UK Engagement Portrait Session in the ferns in the forest

trees Bedfordshire face UK Chicksands Wood pre wedding portrait sunlight

Engagement Couple Photography - Portrait contains: University Alagoas - Dating started at college and had pre wedding at college

Engagement Couple Photography at the University Alagoas - Dating started at college and had pre wedding at college

shadows sunlight University Alagoas engagement session University Alagoas Monica Guimaraes pre wedding location University Alagoas dating

Almería, Spain Engagement Photo Session - Portrait contains: In the shadow

Almería, Spain Engagement Photo Session In the shadows

shadows sunlight Spain Almeria engagement photos pre wedding locations Almeria Almeria

London - UK Bride and groom - Photographer shooting straight into the sun

London - UK Bride and groom with a Photographer shooting straight into the sun

London sunlight street UK pre wedding location London lens flare

Bayonne, France pre wedding photo session | Playing with the lights

Patrick Lombaert sunlight pre wedding location Bayonne couple portrait France Bayonne engagement session Basque Country

at the end of the day, just before the sunset, playing with reflections

sunlight beach Nouvelle Aquitaine Nouvelle Aquitaine outdoor ceremony Nouvelle-Aquitaine sunset

Couple having a nice warm hug in the sunlight

Nova Friburgo engagement images hug RJ Nova Friburgo sunlight Nova Friburgo e session

San Francisco Engagement Photo Session with Sunlight and Warm Couple Walking

Photo by: Vinci Wang - FuZhou

sunlight walking couple San Francisco pre wedding portrait San Francisco engagement photography San Francisco e session Engagement photo session

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK engagement photography | A couple, facing into the sunlight, embrace at the university where they first met.

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK engagement photo for A couple, facing into the sunlight, embrace at the university where they first met

pre wedding portraits Edgbaston tender embrace University of Birmingham Edgbaston Rob Dodsworth sunlight Edgbaston engagement picture

Sunlight illuminates the couple during the blessing

illuminates blessing Orvieto weddings couple Abbazia San Giusto sunlight

Engagement Photography for Saigon, Vietnam - Image contains: patterns, shadows, couple, sunlight

Engagement Photography for Saigon, Vietnam with patterns and shadows

shadows Vietnam engagement picture sunlight couple Patterns pre wedding portraits Vietnam Saigon

Engagement Photos from Davis, CA - Image contains: warm, sunlight, trees, couple, engaged

CA couple trees engaged couple Davis sunlight

Engagement Photos from Zamora - Portrait contains: harsh light, shadows, sunlight, posing, hands, love, couple

Zamora sunlight posing Zamora couple love harsh light shadows

Engagement Portrait from Vail, CO | The Gore Range at Sunset with the couple looking into the light.

Vail Vail wedding couple CO sunset Vail pre wed engagement session in the shadows

An Italian couple living the simple life of Rio de Janeiro. Pre Wedding Portraits

contrast water silhouette engagement silhouettes sunlight tree

Strasbourg pre wedding shoot with couple and backlight in the middle of the street

Strasbourg city portraits public places afternoon urban environment city scene sunlight

Treviso PreWedding Portrait of a couple near the corn fields

Treviso sunshine nature corn fields Treviso engagement photo grass fields Outdoor

Holambra engagement portrait of a couple in the flower fields

flowers sunshine countryside Holambra pre wedding portrait sunlight sunflowers

Lucca tuscany engagement portrait just before sunset with laughing, fun couple.

rural Tuscany engagement photo scenic hills sunlight countryside grass fields

Prewedding portraits with a couple and two dogs in Dalat, Vietnam

Dalat pup dog sunshine pets smiles

palo alto sunset walk during CA engagement photo shoot session.

Palo Alto walking holding hands grass fields country countryside

Saignon Luberon France Engagement portrait session in the afternoon sunlight

Colas Declercq sunlight lens flare grass fields picturesque scenic Saignon Luberon pre wedding portrait

Great Addington, Northamptonshire engagement portrait of couple sitting among the tall grasses in a field.

rural Great Addington scenic Northamptonshire country sunlight

An intimate portrait of a couple during their engagement photo session in Capitolio, Minas Gerais

kissing details Shoot Tight sunlight Minas Gerais Capitolio pre wedding portrait Capitolio

Pirenópolis Pré-wedding Portrait Photography at the beach during sunset

water river sunlight Pirenopolis engagement session rocks Pirenopolis pre wed

Ouro Preto, MG Engagement Session - Couple holding each other in the afternoon sunlight

MG wedding couple sunshine mg engagement session light Ouro Preto MG

A couple hugs each other during an engagement shoot in Wilder Park in Elmhurst, IL

Elmhurst engagement photo closer subjects sunlight IL Filling the frame tightly cropped

Man kisses a woman's forehead during a Roscoe Village engagement shoot in Chicago

sunlight Shoot Tight tightly cropped afternoon Chicago Chicago pre wedding portrait kiss

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