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Prepare to be awestruck by the most stunning destination weddings you’ll see all year

The waterfalls! The sunsets! The love!

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It's safe to say Junebug's 2017 Best Destination Wedding contest winners will give you travel inspo for days. Because the only thing more jealousy-inducing than a great set of travel photos is travel photos where two soulmates are staring lovingly into each other's eyes.

Here are 44 of the best contest winning photos, in no particular order, that will surely leave you and your Pinterest board shooketh forevermore.

1

Pemberton, British Columbia, Canada

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Yosemite National Park, United States

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Which Lord of the Rings book is this shire from?

Cody Harris of Cody & Allison Photography

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3

Chamonix, France

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I have so many questions for their wedding photographer!

Franck Boutonnet of Franck Boutonnet Photography

4

Alter do Chão, Pará, Brasil

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5

Estonia

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Eerie but also kinda stunning.

MaitJüriado of M&J Studios

6

Desa Pinggan, Kintamani, Bali, Indonesia

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That sunset looks FAKE, that's how good it looks.

Kadek Artayasa of diktatphotography

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7

Imperial Sand Dunes, California, United States

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Proof that not all wedding dresses have to be white!

Triniti Jensen of trinjensen photography

8

Fjærland, Norway

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9

Lang Co Bay, Vietnam

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Another super-cinematic wedding.

Tin Martin of TIN Wedding Photography

10

Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada

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If your wedding didn't feature an adorable pup can you even Instagram it, though?

Terry Photo Co.

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11

Queenstown, New Zealand

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Gran Canaria, Spain

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13

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Iceland

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15

Rock Island, Tennessee, United States

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Who knew there were so many waterfalls in America?

Nicola Harger of Nicola Harger Photography

16

Dolomites Mountain Range, Italy

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Also spooky but really beautiful.

Nico & Vinx Ferrara of The Ferros


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17

Aurland, Norway

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Here's to a lifetime of shoulder sleeping!

Melanie Ng of Assemblage Photography

18

Manning Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

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What am I even looking at? I don't know, but I'm wowed.

Mathias Fast of Mathias Fast Photography

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19

Cartagena, Colombia

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The movement of the dresses is everything.

Masson Liang of Masson Liang Photography

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Seljalandfoss Waterfall, Iceland

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Carina Hsieh, MPH
Deputy Features Editor

Carina Hsieh, MPH, is the deputy features editor of Women’s Health. She has more than a decade’s worth of experience working in media and has covered everything from beauty, fashion, travel, lifestyle, pets, to health.

She began her career as an intern in the fashion closet at Cosmopolitan where she worked her way up to Senior Sex & Relationships Editor. While covering women’s health there, she discovered her passion for health service journalism and took a break to get her Masters in Public Health. Post-grad school, she worked as a freelance writer and as The Daily Beast’s first Beauty, Health, and Wellness Reporter.

Carina is an alum of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Yale School of Public Health. She and her French Bulldog, Bao Bao, split their time between Brooklyn and Connecticut. She enjoys reformer Pilates, (slow) running, and smelling the fancy toiletries in boutique fitness class locker rooms.

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