Among the cane fields, the bride puts her face to the groom's, laughing a lot, by the Évora wedding photographer.

Once more a wedding in Alentejo

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AT HOME, AGAIN by ALENTEJO WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

Among the cane fields, the bride puts her face to the groom's, laughing a lot, by the Évora wedding photographer.

The photos are from a wedding in Alentejo

Photographing a wedding in the heart of Alentejo

Because I was born in Alentejo, I always feel like a fish in the water when I am going to photograph a wedding there. Even if I live far from there for a lifetime I always feel something special when I surpass Setúbal and start to feel myself, really, in Alentejo.

Today, Avis was my destiny. After a troubled journey, because the GPS sent me to strange roads, almost far away from the world I expected, I arrived at Avis to rest and rise early to a very hot day in the heart of Alentejo. One of the things I like most in my job, as a wedding photographer, is to delight myself with new landscapes, that were unknown to me, and complete more of my knowledge of the country.

Trust in the wedding photographer

It was like that at Inês and Raul’s wedding. Each one at their parent’s home villages, for the get ready, and the wedding party, some kilometers above. I may say that I knew a bit more about my, our, land with scrap, holm oaks, cork oaks, and most of the time very plane and with the people from Alentejo that opposed to the used jokes about them, they are very joyful and party people as I registered that day. I loved them a lot and I can not thank them enough for their trust in their wedding photographer.

The groom's shoes on a windowsill.
In profile, receiving the light from a window, the groom tightens his shirt collar.
Looking at the hand, the groom tightens the cufflinks of his shirt.
Seen through a mirror on a piece of furniture, the groom adjusts the length of his tie.
The groom buttoning his coat.
On the street from her parents' house, the groom, hands in his pockets, in a portrait for the wedding photographer.
Black and white portrait of the groom, when ready for the wedding.
Sitting on a chair, the bride next to the makeup artist who paints her lips.
With the wedding dress in the background, the bride being made up.
The bride's dress hung in a window with her shoes underneath.
The bride's bouquet inside a cardboard box.
The bride, before getting dressed for the wedding, in the midst of friends and family separating the bouquets of flowers, on a table.
An old photograph of the bride's grandmother when she was young, framed, on a marble top and along with other photographs and decorative objects.
The bride, by a window, looking down as two friends help her with her wedding dress.
The bride, hands on her hips, as two friends button her dress.
In a mirror, the bride being helped with her dress.
The bride's mother talking to her and smiling.
The mother of the bride and two friends behind her adjusting the dress.
The bride, standing, in front of friends who help her put on the dress.
The bride, laughing, as they put earrings in her ears.
The bride's mother's hands next to her face as she finishes putting the earring in her ear.
In front of girl friends who hold the tail of her dress, the bride, with the bouquet in her hand, hugs a boy.
The bride chats with a boy, among other wedding guests, before leaving for the wedding ceremony.
In the middle of the trees in the backyard of the parents' house, the bride smiles in a portrait by the wedding photographer.
In the garden of her parents' house, the bride, branch in hand, talking to wedding guests.
The bride's bouquet in her hand.
Celebrating and by her father's hand, the bride prepares to get into the car to go to the wedding ceremony.
The bride inside the car with the reflection of her parents in the window glass.
In the church square, the bride's father and two friends adjust the train of her dress, along with the boys with the rings and their parents.
The bride and her father, along with two children, walk through the church to the altar for the wedding ceremony.
The bride and father arrive with the groom, in front of the other guests, to begin the wedding ceremony.
A boy talking to the priest who will preside over the wedding ceremony.
Interior of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Orada, parish of Avis, with the bride and groom in the background, next to the altar, and the guests.
Sitting by the altar of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Orada, parish of Avis, the bride and groom smile while talking.
With two candles in front of them, the bride and groom look at each other during their wedding ceremony.
The bride and groom, seated in front of their guests, listen to the priest, next to him, in his homily on the wedding ceremony.
Sitting, the bride and groom talk, smiling at each other with the guests in the background.
A boy, sitting on his grandfather's lap, bites his nails.
Amid blurs of decorative church elements, the bride looks at her branch during the wedding ceremony.
The groom listens attentively to the priest, surrounded by objects from the church, out of focus.
The bride and groom, in front of the priest, read the oaths of the wedding ceremony.
The boys, with the bride, to give her the wedding rings.
A girl, in profile, with a bunch of flowers in her hand, in the church during the wedding ceremony.
The bride's hand receives the ring from the groom's hand.
After being married, in front of the priest, the bride and groom smile at each other.
A boy looking bored during the wedding ceremony while, on the left, a girl offers a bunch of flowers to a boy.
The bride and groom and groomsmen around the table, with the priest, for the wedding signatures.
Together with the priest, the groom signs the official marriage book.
Amid balloons in the air, the bride and groom leave the church Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Orada, parish of Avis, when the wedding ceremony is over.
The Church of Nossa Senhora da Orada, Avis, with all the participants of the wedding in front.
On leaving the church, after the wedding ceremony, the groom embraces a guest, who congratulates him.
Among wedding guests, the bride smiles, receiving greetings.
The bride gets into the car, along with the groom, to leave for the wedding party.
Entering the car door, the bride smiles, already seated.
The bride and groom enter the wedding dining room.
Three girls hold the train of the bride's dress as she waits in a room.
The bride chats with two guests when she gives her gifts during the wedding reception.
With a hand on the shoulder of a friend, a wedding guest, the groom talks to him as she hands him a gift.
The bride and groom laugh a lot when they open the dance of the wedding party.
The bride and groom dance at the opening of the wedding party ball.
Among wedding guests, the bride and groom open the ball.
On a path in the middle of the field, the bride and groom walk hand in hand.
By the bushes that flank the path, the bride and groom, together, look into the distance.
The newly married couple, embraced, in the middle of the grass of the field, next to a forest in the session with the wedding photographer.
Halfway across the field, the bride leaning against the groom, with one hand in her pocket and the other given to the bride.
The groom laughing, in a black and white portrait, during the session with the wedding photographer.
In soft pastel tones the bride is portrayed by the wedding photographer.
On a dirt path, in front of the plants of the field at the end of summer, the bride, standing, smiles.
On the way to the countryside, the bride and groom embrace, together with children who, on bicycles, pass them by.
Hand in hand, the newlywed couple walks down the country road, in the session with the wedding photographer.
As in an old movie, the bride and groom smile by a fence in the countryside.
Wedding guests dancing.
The groom, at a table, talks to a wedding guest during the party.
The bride dances with the groom and other wedding guests from behind.
Three little girls are staring at something happening in front of them at the wedding reception.
The bride, blindfolded, cuts the ribbons that will lead her to the maiden to whom she will deliver the bouquet.
In front of the wedding cake, the bride and groom taste a slice.
Wedding guests encourage the bride and groom at the time of cutting the cake.

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