The bride and groom, standing, hugging and leaning against the balustrade of the Quinta da Taipa garden in Alenquer, during the session with the wedding photographer.

A Wedding at Quinta da Taipa, Alenquer

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THE BEST LIGHT by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN LISBON

The bride and groom, standing, hugging and leaning against the balustrade of the Quinta da Taipa garden in Alenquer, during the session with the wedding photographer.

It was a wedding photographer’s morning. How are the wedding photographers’ mornings? Well, at least for me, the sky must not be completely clean, is a way to give a nice soft light, because a harsh light is no good to photograph a wedding and a wedding is…people. And people’s faces do not like hard light. Faces in a wedding are smiling faces, faces in celebration and party. With a nice soft light, everybody wins. The photographer can get better photos and the photographs will be better than the photos.

On that great wedding photographer morning, I was with the groom in the day he will change to husband from here to a few hours. Euphoric. I do not need to spend words because the photos will show that I am a photographer, not a writer. So that’s it with Pedro.

Some km after here I was the Filipa, the bride. It was at Quinta da Taipa, near Alenquer, under that light, that this wedding photographer loved. Like a princess, surrounded by her waiting maids, each one with a special thing to do and start to be prepared for the celebration that everybody wants in the memory and in the heart. If something getaway, the wedding photographer catches it and keeps it.

And everything started. The beginning command is spoken. The groom, flashy, waits for the bride who appears in the next moment, with a nervous serenity on her face, to a yes that all the presents want, because they love them, wishing them happiness forever. That is how it should be. And that is all in photos. How I like it.

The groom's cufflinks over the tie knot.
The groom looking at his shirt cuff as two hands clasp the cufflinks.
Detail with the groom's arms and hands putting on his shoes.
The groom's sister, with her back turned, fastens his cufflinks.
In a mirror and seen through her arms, the groom smiles as he adjusts his tie around his neck.
Black and white portrait of the groom looking at the wedding photographer at the time of photography.
About to leave for the wedding ceremony, the groom, in the mirror, adjusts the details of his coat sleeve.
In a mirror, the bride is sitting and smiling as she is having her hair done.
The bouquet of the bride among some cards with messages alluding to the wedding day.
The seated bride looks ahead as the hairdresser shows her the hairstyle, with a mirror in her hand, and a girl beside her.
Two messages for the wedding ceremony, on two cards.
View of Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, where the wedding ceremony will take place.
A detail of the entrance to Quinta da Taipa.
Part of a female face seen between a window and a wedding guest.
In the mirror, the bride being made up while friends, out of focus, watch.
With her back turned and sitting on a chair, the bride's hair seen from behind.
While the bride is made up, in the foreground and out of focus, a girl watches very attentively.
The bride's dress hung on the wall in a large empty frame.
The bride's yellow shoes.
The bride between two friends who help her put on the dress.
The bride with her back in the foreground, out of focus, sees herself in a tall mirror as her lips are painted.
Seen through her arms, in the mirror, the bride putting the veil over her hair and face.
Ready to go to the wedding ceremony, the bride's parents kiss her on the cheek at the same time, one on each side.
Portrait of the bride in front of a large empty frame, by the wedding photographer.
With her shoulder against the wall with the frame, the bride, in a black and white portrait, looks at the wedding photographer.
The groom, arm in arm with his mother, walk among the guests towards the ceremonial table of the wedding at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer.
The groom laughing with great joy as the bride appears towards him for the wedding ceremony.
A wedding guest holds a card with a message to the groom before the bride arrives for the ceremony.
The groom, among wedding guests, looks down smiling as he waits for the bride.
With the groom in the foreground, the bride makes her way, among guests, towards the ceremonial table.
The bride smiles with her father towards the wedding ceremony table.
View of the wedding ceremony site with the bride and groom and the officiating conservator and the guests, from the back.
Next to each other, the couple watches the wedding ceremony, with the groom laughing a lot.
Guests seated watching the wedding ceremony.
Between the officiating conservator and the trees in the background, out of focus, the couple watches the wedding ceremony unfold.
The bride seen among the flowers that decorate the table of the wedding ceremony at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer.
In front of the ceremonial table of the wedding, the bride and groom with all their guests behind them at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer.
Framed by the trees of Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, the bride and groom at the wedding ceremony table with some of the guests.
Guests watching the wedding ceremony at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer.
Laughing a lot, the groom hands the ring to the bride in front of him.
The bride gives the ring to the groom.
A tiny girl on her father's lap, among guests attending the wedding ceremony at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer.
After the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom, hand in hand, walk through the exit among the guests who acclaim them.
The bride smiling at a guest who congratulates her on the wedding.
The bride among the wedding guests, happy, after the ceremony.
With great joy, the groom hugs a guest of the wedding.
The newlyweds, hand in hand, are getting ready to enter the dining room at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, where the guests are waiting for them.
The Quinta da Taipa dining room in Alenquer with the wedding guests seated.
The bride at the wedding meal table, between two unfocused wedding guests.
Two boys play sitting on the floor at the wedding party at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer.
The groom, with the lace basket in her hand, delivers one when, with the bride, she walks through the guests.
The groom, with a friend who gives him a gift, laughing very happy.
In the garden of Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, the bride and groom in front of the wedding cake, surrounded by guests.
The groom and the bride cut the wedding cake with two boys next to them, with painted faces, who watch.
Among the plants in the garden of Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, the newly married couple facing each other, in the photo session with the wedding photographer.
The groom sitting on a cart at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, with the bride standing next to him, and both looking at the wedding rings.
Through the opening of a cabin in the garden of Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, the bride and groom pretend to dance.
Face to face, the bride and groom look through a window of a cabin in the garden.
The bride sitting on a swing.
Among the leaves of the plants in the garden of Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, the bride and groom smile with their faces next to each other.
At the opening of the wedding party ball, the bride and groom dance Sevillanas.
The bride and groom facing each other, their faces together, in the first dance of the wedding party.
Among guests to dance, unfocused, the newly married couple in a double-step pass.
With the Quinta da Taipa vineyard in Alenquer, in the background, on the hill on the other side, the bride and groom converse, facing each other.
From the back, the newly married couple looks at the Quinta da Taipa vineyard in Alenquer, on the other side of the hill.
Back and in profile, the bride and groom look at each other, in a black and white photograph by the wedding photographer.
The bride in the midst of her guests at the wedding, dancing.
The bride's bouquet in the air, on her way to the singles at the wedding, behind the bride who just threw it.

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