The group of bride and groom and family meet a dog on the way to the wedding ceremony, viewed by the wedding photographer in Lisbon.

A wedding in Lisbon, Portugal

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ANTICIPATION by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN LISBON

The group of bride and groom and family meet a dog on the way to the wedding ceremony, viewed by the wedding photographer in Lisbon.

The photos are from a destination wedding with a ceremony and party at Ponto Final, right next to the Tagus, on a rainy day


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Wedding on a day when it rained all day

It was a very strange day to photograph a wedding. Everything could go wrong for me. First, the wedding photographer was completely excited about the coming day. Everything in the program was a real delicacy for someone who loves those things differently from the usual ones. The bride and groom with prepare in the same place, bride will go by subway to Cais do Sodré. Real João? But that is wonderful. I did nothing like that.

The mind of the wedding photographer just burns with anticipation when he arrives at João´s house, after he is ready, took him, in secrecy, where Helena is at the hairdresser and make-up and, after, comes back with her to finish her preparation.

The strangeness of the day was not on the things I described above. And only strange to a photographer used to the always good Portuguese weather. It was raining all day. It was not the rain that wet you suddenly but that one that does not make you run from it,  just when it does when it rains too wet. On another side, this rain that is not wet, suddenly, brings with her that soft light without background because she hides what is there.

Photos of a bride walking through Lisbon

But I see now that was all a big gift given to me. The bride travels to Lisbon by subway, From Chelas do Cais do Sodré, joining the groom and all family and friends, and, again, travels by boat to the other side of the river. By Cacilheiro to Cacilhas, and in Cacilhas join everybody for a walk boarded by hardware stores and river, our beloved Tagus, which time to time send us some water splash as loving hands may be thinking that we all need some of that love and we had full because it is a wedding day, and for water, we always had the rain.

And with that rain that never stopped we arrived at Ponto Final, the place of the ceremony the rain, jealous of the river, did not let, as it was programmed, the ceremony celebration at the deck into Tagus river as a ship prepared for a big and beautiful journey.

A grateful wedding photographer

At the end of the day, with a light that lets us see inside that rain which has not stopped raining, we went by boat to Alcantara, because I went to give notice of the day until its ends, even if boats in rivers with big waves and rain that does not stop raining are not the most comfortable places for me even to chase my beloved photographies.

Because Helena, who came from Germany where those things of the rain that wet very slowly does not matter, and João, the travels they did, the not stopped rain, the boat riding the waves and all that people do not care about the rain I had all the best to do my photographies at this destination wedding, which I live for. Thank you very much to all.

The groom, at home, looking for something on a table.
Seen through a doorway, the groom prepares for the wedding.
Seen through a window, the groom tightening his tie.
Once ready, the groom, standing with one hand on a chair, next to a cat on the table.
The groom, once ready, looking for the wedding photographer for a black and white photo.
The groom, sitting on a sofa, with his daughter playing with a dog.
At the hairdresser's, the bride getting her hair done, seen through a mirror.
The bride smiling while the hairdresser takes care of her hairstyle, among blurred objects.
The bride smiles as she sees the back of the hairstyle in a round mirror.
Already at home the bride being photographed by her daughter.
The bride's daughter, tripled in the mirror of a piece of furniture, talks to a friend.
A girl friend of the bride helps her tighten the collar of her dress.
Already dressed for the wedding, the bride, in the room, folding a fabric.
Next to a plant, the bride, in a portrait, looks at the wedding photographer at the moment of the photographic take.
Standing, the bride poses for the wedding photographer, moments before leaving for the wedding ceremony.
The bride takes her daughter's hand and, looking at each other, they laugh together.
In the interval of a door opening, the bride with a serene look.
Leaving the house for the wedding ceremony, the bride looks at her cell phone and her daughter sends her a kiss.
The bride, her daughter, the groom's mother and other family members in the street with umbrellas on their way to the Metro station in Lisbon.
The bride with her daughter going down the stairs of the Lisbon Metro.
The bride, next to the other family members, buys the Lisbon Metro ticket.
The bride walks through the Lisbon Metro ticket validators, with a gentleman looking at her.
In a carriage on the Lisbon Metro, the bride, near the door, strokes her daughter's hair.
The bride smiling with the bouquet in her hand, among the other passengers on the Lisbon Metro.
The bride sitting on a bench in the Metro, with the bouquet in her hands.
In a Metro carriage, the bride among the other passengers, seated.
At the pier of the Cais do Sodré Metro station, the bride, daughter and the rest of the family walk towards the exit.
Friends of the bride sitting on the boat that crosses the Tagus River and takes them to Cacilhas, where the wedding ceremony takes place.
The bride talks to the groom while crossing the Tagus River by boat.
The bride and groom with their relatives, sitting on the boat that takes them to the wedding ceremony in Cacilhas.
On the boat to Cacilhas, the bride laughs with her friends from Germany.
The groom talking to his mother as they cross the Tagus River for the wedding ceremony.
The groom takes the bride's hand to help her get off the boat, which has just docked in Cacilhas.
At the exit of the Cacilhas river station, the bride and groom and their guests and family get together to proceed to the wedding ceremony.
The bride, groom and their daughter under an umbrella.
Walking to the wedding ceremony site, the groom talks to a lady from his family, under umbrellas.
The groom as he heads to the Ponto Final restaurant for the wedding ceremony.
The bride, bouquet in hand, walks to Ponto Final, for the wedding ceremony.
The groom in front of some wedding guests at Rua do Ginjal in Cacilhas.
The bride next to her daughter, hold the umbrella.
The Ponto Final restaurant at Cais do Ginjal in Cacilhas, where the wedding ceremony and party will take place.
The bride and her father are heading, at the Ponto Final restaurant, to the wedding ceremony table.
The groom gives a kiss to the bride's father as they approach him for the wedding ceremony.
The bride, serene, during the wedding ceremony.
The groom listening attentively at the wedding ceremony.
The bride and groom, seated at the wedding ceremony table, look at each other and smile.
Smiling, the bride and groom listen to the officiant of the wedding ceremony.
The bride puts the wedding ring on the groom's finger.
The groom, amid blurs, at the wedding ceremony at the Ponto Final restaurant in Cacilhas.
The wedding ceremony table with the bride and groom, the groomsmen and the officiant.
The mother of the groom as she congratulates the bride after the wedding ceremony.
The bride's guest congratulates them when the wedding ceremony is over.
The bride and groom and guests at the wedding meal table, at the Ponto Final restaurant at Cais do Ginjal in Cacilhas.
The terrace of the Ponto Final restaurant in Cacilhas.
View of the Ginjal pier with the Tagus river on a rainy and wedding day.
Inside the Ponto Final restaurant, the bride chats with guests.
With two wedding guests, the bride smells the bouquet.
A Cacilheiro boat, on the Tagus River, approaches Cais do Ginjal in Cacilhas.
The bride and groom, seated at the table, receive a gift from the wedding guests.
The bride, with her daughter next to her, looks at photographs.
The bride, along with the groom, shows the ring to her mother.
At the door of the Ponto Final restaurant, the bride talks, laughing, with guests and the groom sitting behind a glass door.
The groom serves a glass of wine to two guests with whom he converses.
The couple, standing, hugging on a jetty at the Ginjal pier in Cacilhas, with the Tagus River in the background under a light rain.
At the end of the pier inside the Tagus River, the bride and groom, together, look towards Lisbon, on the other side.
The groom pretends to lose his balance into the Tagus River, with the bride holding him, in the session with the wedding photographer.
The groom, seated in a chair with Rua do Ginjal in the background, with the bride on his lap.
The bride and groom talk looking at each other, sitting on a chair by the River Tagus, on a drizzly rainy afternoon.
The bride and groom embraced, in an affectionate way in the soft light of a drizzly afternoon.
The bride, in a portrait at the session with the wedding photographer, with the soft light of an afternoon at Cais do Ginjal.
The groom, in portrait, looking straight ahead at the wedding photographer, with the fog covering the Tagus River on the afternoon of his wedding.
A wedding guest paints his part, on a canvas to be painted by all the guests.
The groom and the bride, at the door of the Ponto Final Restaurant, make a toast with two glasses of champagne.
At the wedding meal table, at Ponto Final, the bride's mother explains a custom from her land.
A stunned wedding female guest as the bride announces that she is pregnant.
The bride's daughter when she receives a gift from her grandmother.
A friend of the groom reacting to the news of the bride's pregnancy.
The groom's friends with him at the wedding party.
Two friends listen to the bride outside the Ponto Final restaurant, during the wedding party.
The bride and groom, on the pier in front of the Ponto Final restaurant, cut the wedding cake.
The bride and groom, out of focus, in front of the wedding guests when tasting the wedding cake.
A group of guests on the pier inside the Tagus River, with the 25 de Abril bridge in the background, blurred by the late afternoon fog.
The groom and the bride eating their wedding cake, with the Tagus River and Lisbon behind a veil of drizzle.
From a boat on the Tagus River, the bride says goodbye to the groom who goes overland with his family.
The bride helps her free the ropes of the boat that will take her from Cacilhas to Lisbon.
The wedding guests, with the bride, seated on the boat that will cross the Tagus and take them to Lisbon.
Wedding guests standing and holding on to the roof of the boat that takes them to Lisbon.
On the deck of the boat, which takes them across the Tagus to Lisbon at the end of the wedding ceremony, the bride is seated with some of her friends.
The bride laughs as she crosses the Tagus River when the wedding feast is over.
The bride, seated with guests at the wedding, almost arriving in Lisbon, on the boat that brought them from Cacilhas.
Arriving in Lisbon by boat, the bride and guests walk home at the end of the wedding party.

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