Wedding Photos of Sunset

The following “Sunset” 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 “Sunset” 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 pre wedding Photoshoot at Lost Gulch Overlook in Boulder, CO of a couple embracing during sunset, in front of a distant mountain view

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at Boulder's Lost Gulch Overlook capturing a couple striking a dramatic pose in the Rocky Mountains at sunset

boulder Lost Gulch Overlook Boulder couples dramatic pose Boulder Portrait Session

True Love Engagement Portrait Session at Lost Gulch Overlook in Colorado showing A wide angle shot of the couple enjoying the sunset above a mountain vista

Colorado CO engagements sunset mountain vista Lost Gulch Overlook wide angle shot

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at the Plaza de Toros de Córdoba capturing a Spain couple at the stadium at sunset

Spain couple Córdoba photo Session Córdoba stadium sunset Plaza de Toros

NV True Love Engagement Picture Session in Lake Tahoe, Nevada showing a couple embraces overlooking the water and views at sunset

Nevada couple Nevada couple Session Lake Tahoe NV Engagement Picture sunset views overlooking

Nevada True Love pre wedding Photoshoot in Lake Tahoe, NV of a couple at sunset on the rocks by the water

Nevada pre wedding Photoshoot lake rocks Lake Tahoe water sunset NV couple

A Nevada True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Lake Tahoe showing a couple below a large pine tree by the water at embraces overlooking Lake Tahoe at sunset

Lake Tahoe water NV couple pine Nevada couple Session sunset Nevada Pre Wedding Portrait

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Jesuítas displaying a couple dancing in the sun under the huge tree at sunset

Heloisa Todescatt Jesuítas Engagement Portrait Jesuítas couple dancing silhouette Jesuítas couple Session

PR True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Cascavel showing a couple can have love anywhere

urban Heloisa Todescatt parking lot PR PreWedding Portrait Session PR photographer Cascavel couple city

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at the River Seine in Paris illustrating a couple walking away from the sunset throwing large shadows

sunset Paris couple Tatyana Chohadjieva Paris prewedding portrait River Seine walking

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Zurich City illustrating a couple and their amazing Sunset Silhouette

sunset Zurich City couple silhouette Zurich dusk Zurich photographer Zurich City Pre Wedding Portrait

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot in Singapore's Golden Mile Tower of a couple overlooking the city at sunset

Golden Mile Tower SG pre wedding Photoshoot overlooking Timothy Sim Singapores Golden Mile Tower sunset couple

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Siracusa displaying a couple walking over the bridge during sunset at Spring in Sicily

Siracusa bridge arches sunset walking spring

Maceió, Alagoas environmental engagement e-session showing the Man and woman are together and holding each other on the beach at sunset

ocean water sunset Monica Guimaraes beach man and woman Alagoas

Maceió, Alagoas environmental engagement e-session with a Man and woman smiling and dancing on the beach

dance Maceió smiling man and woman beach hair sunset

Perth on-location portrait e-shoot with A beautiful embrace during sunset

Perth couple portrait Jacob Gordon sunset AUS wedding photographer Perth photography embrace

Montreal, Quebec portrait e-session for Engaged couple embracing under willow tree branches at sunset

Montreal engaged sunset willow tree Couple embracing branches

Maceió, Brazil portrait e-session while The bride had her foot hurt, showing that Gentlemen still exist

hurt foot Renner Boldrino carry Brazil portrait sunset Maceió Maceió e session

Maceió on-location portrait e-shoot with the Couple at sunset

Maceió on location portrait fence railing silhouette Renner Boldrino sunset Brazil Couple

Fort Zach State Park portrait e-session under the Key West sunset at the beach

Key West beach Florida Photographer FL portrait e session Fort Zach State Park FL

Hotel Bougainvillea Santo Domingo de Heredia on-location romantic portrait e-shoot at sunset

hotel Heredia Mauricio Urena Costa Rica Costa Rica portrait e shoot sunset Costa Rica on location portraits

Rocky Mountain National Park portrait e-session - a couple shares an intimate moment near a river during sunset

Rocky Mountain National Park portrait e session as a couple shares an intimate moment near a river during sunset

Rocky Mountain National Park Mark Creery intimate couple couple portrait couple e session RMNP

Montpellier, France portrait e-session of couple kissing in nature at sunset

France portrait e session nature sunset kissing Montpellier France

Terwilliger Park portrait e-session of a couple silhouetted against the sunset of a hill

hill Hand in hand Edmonton portrait clouds sunset walking

Halsweh Quarry Park, Christchurch on-location portrait e-shoot - a couple looking at each other at sunset

Christchurch portrait e shoot sunset Christchurch Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch Couple Liz Robson

Halsweh Quarry Park, Christchurch, NZ environmental engagement e-session at sunset

sunset NZ e session trees NZ engagement Christchurch wedding photographer Liz Robson Christchurch

Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch on-location portrait e-shoot of a couple kissing at sunset by a bridge

Liz Robson park Halsweh Halsweh Quarry Park quarry sunset bridge

Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch environmental engagement e-session - a couple embracing at sunset

Christchurch engagement Christchurch Liz Robson couple embracing New Zealand New Zealand photographer

Halsweh Quarry Park Christchurch, NZ portrait e-session of a couple kissing at a sunset

park Halsweh Quarry Park sunset Christchurch photographer kissing New Zealand Halsweh

Marzamemi on-location portrait e-shoot at the beach at sunset

Marzamemi beach Marzamemi portrait Noto sunset Italy

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