THE SURROUNDED BRIDE by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN LISBON
When a bride gets ready for the wedding ceremony and party at the Penha Longa Resort in Sintra
Covering a wedding day
One of the things the wedding photographer like very much to cover, on the wedding day, is the ritual of the bride’s preparation. I say ritual because it seems exactly that. It has a certain way of being done and it is surrounded, and used, by objects that only belong to this woman’s moments. With the groom, it is completely different and easy. The men do not care about certain details that, with women, are taken to the state of the art.
The hair is treated with all care and detail transforming the woman into a bride in the space of an hour and a half, if someone told me that we were just in the moment to go to a plateau scene for a movie or from seconds to walk in the Passarella of a fashion show I would believe that. The make-up offers some transformation that, is usually, finished with a careful drawing with lipstick on lips very close to a yes to someone that will never forget.
The life of a wedding photographer
Photograph those moments, in some way ritualized, it is my work. I do it with tireless joy. Even if I only need some photos to cover that process, I always find another point of view, some peeking through pencils and sprays, one more photo of the face under fast hands with dryers or fast because the bride flowers just arrived and…it is beautiful. Well, it is like that the hard life of the wedding photographer…hummm!…
