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Wedding Photos of Urban

The following “Urban” 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 “Urban” 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.

Detroit picture session for a carefree engaged couple that is centered in an urban street scene

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

urban Bangkok wedding photography Bangkok photographer Bangkok couple city Bangkok pre wed portrait Wasan Chirdchom

Sevilla fun-loving couple modeling for a pre-wedding session in an urban street scene against a painted brick wall

brick wall Sevilla couple painted Jose Miguel Perez Nunez street scene pre wedding session Sevilla wedding photographer

Montreal, Quebec couple engagement portraits with a couple enjoying a stroll through the old city

Esther Gibbons walking Quebec couple Old City streets Montreal couple Montreal engagement portrait

Old Montreal, Canada playful engagement image of a Newly engaged couple excited about ring, in front of blue wall

excited Esther Gibbons blue wall ring Old Montreal streets Montreal engagement image

Chinatown, Singapore urban engagement image of a couple kissing

Charles Sng urban buildings Chinatown Singaporeengagement image city couple kissing

Singapore prewed portraits for a fun couple in Chinatown marching towards the lift lobby

Chinatown urban posing walking sign Charles Sng Singapore

Trieste pre-wedding portrait-session in Italy for an urban Sunset street portrait of the engaged couple

street portrait Lisa De Domenico Pacor sunset italy weddings Trieste trieste photographer Italy

Pre-wedding photo-session in San Francisco showing us that He always makes her laugh

California photographer Pre Wedding Photo laugh San Francisco CA urban streets

Pre-wedding engagement image-session in Argenton sur Creuse at Mignonnerie

steps urban Mignonnerie seated smiles prewedding image Piranga Studio

Sancerre pre-wedding photo-session with an urban shadow on the street walls in the afternoon

afternoon shadow Piranga Studio Sancerre Sancerre prewedding photo urban Bertrand Roguet

On location Florence couple engagement portrait shoot on the busy city streets

portrait shoot Florence urban couple engagement buildings City streets busy

View this stylish Downtown Chicago wedding image during some urban bride and groom portraits, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Illinois from the WPJA

portraits urban Chicago wedding photography Illinois Downtown Chicago bride and groom Chicago wedding image

View this imaginative Sichuan wedding image showing a newspaper display column near the ceremony site and on the column are recent social and realistic news

Sichuan wedding image showing a newspaper display column near the ceremony site and on the column are recent social and realistic news

Sichuan photographer Sichuan wedding image news newspaper streets social column

View this grand Chicago wedding image of bridesmaids posing in an urban street crosswalk, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Illinois from the WPJA

Chicago wedding image of bridesmaids posing in an urban street crosswalk, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography in Illinois

crosswalk posing wedding photography IL Illinois urban street

View this dramatic Baden Baden wedding image of a bride and groom with sun and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography from the WPJA

dramatic Baden Baden wedding image of a bride and groom with sun and shadows, which was a featured picture among the best wedding photography

bride and groom dusk shadows Baden Baden Lights germany wedding photography Baden Baden wedding image

Paris environmental couple pre wedding image session under a metropolitan sign

Paris photographer Paris couple urban city embrace pre wedding session sign

Chicago nuptial day award-winning image of the couple crossing the street while the groom holds the bouquet and fixes the bride's hair

city Chicago streets ouple street urban brides hair

Buckingham Fountain couple e-shoot in Chicago on a bench with the urban city skyline behind them

city skyline bench IL couple IL weddings Victoria Sprung urban Buckingham Fountain

Chicago couple e-shoot in IL at night in the USA urban city scene

USA city scene Night urban slow shutter Chicago couple Eric Corbacho

Detroit couple e-session in the urban MI streets of the USA

Detroit couple skyline Detroit Michigan MI streets urban Eric Corbacho

Deidesheim wedding couple artistic image session for a dramatic, urban night time portrait

Deidesheim wedding couple Deidesheim Dramatic urban Night Time Portrait Andreas Pollok artistic image session

Norfolk couple e-session in the streets of Norwich

Norfolk engagement portrait bw Norwich streets urban Norfolk couple Rob Dodsworth

La Defense, Paris couple e-shoot of them kissing through glass

Paris reflection Isabelle Bazin La Defense La Defense couple glass kissing

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session at the Boston Public Garden illustrating a MA couple enjoying a blanket lunch together

Boston blanket lunch Ben Schaefer pre wedding portrait session MA couple urban Boston Public Garden

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Detroit illustrating a couple with the urban city skyline behind them

Eric Corbacho Detroit Portrait Session city urban Detroit couple skyline Detroit Pre Wedding image

True Love Engagement Portrait Session in Cordoba, Spain displaying a couple running in the urban sunshine near a vertical painted striped wall

Rocio Sanchez sunshine urban Spain Engagement Portrait wall Spain striped

True Love pre wedding Photoshoot at the Calle Recreo in San Miguel de Allende of a couple with The intention to capture the church in the background with a fun dancing pose

Mexico pre wedding Photoshoot urban San Miguel de Allende couple Calle Recreo pose Mexico church

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

city Cascavel Heloisa Todescatt PR PreWedding Portrait Session parking lot PR photographer streets

True Love Pre-Wedding Portrait Session in Paris showing a couple in the streets of France

Paris France street France city urban Paris couple

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