THEY CONFIRM by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN PORTUGAL

A loving photo of the bride with her godmother and another of the groom with all his family

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The bride and groom, alone or with a full house

When I am the wedding photographer, still in the part of the get-ready of the wedding couple, I connect with a world of bonds that surpass my connection with that couple that chose me, for the day, to register for future memories of their wedding day. It is very true that I never know what I will find.

I may find one of them completely alone and distressed to do the job, and, next, after a run against time and traffic, a house full of people where everybody has an opinion and wants to help, even if it is complicated.

Or vice-versa, or, yet, full house and full house, or, also, both in the same place, it is just us, everyone will be at the ceremony.  But it is not about the number of people, that each one has at the moment of the embellishment themselves, so that everyone knows who they are, what I wanted to write about today.

Giving and receiving that look good in photos

    Maybe, one of the things that make me feel well when I am in those familiar places where the photographs are everywhere asking me to take them with me, is the feeling that, suddenly, I enter inside a bubble of accelerated serenity.

It seems that all the problems the world has, the world of people, of course, would be resolved if the moods of every hour of every day of every year of all of us were compared to the ones I find there, those mornings before the famous yes, I accept.

Although photographs do not let the wedding photographer rest, because this serenity inside a twirl does not cease to offer him, such is the goodness that walks there, I am realizing, out of the corner of my eyes, the marvelous truth that is going on inside my photographic cameras.

No staging, for sure, in the wedding photos

There is a whole state of giving and receiving, not things but affection, help, opinions, and a full universe of satisfaction just for the fact of witnessing and celebrating what will be going on with the wedding couple, some moments ahead.

     How do I know it? How do I know that they are not faking, as if they were in a choreography where each one does his role to convince the spectator, me, the wedding photographer, the bride, or the groom, on that morning of a mixture between expectation and affliction?

Well, I do not think they could have staged it so well so that each one, here and there, has forgotten the cue and left the others hanging without knowing what kind of affection to offer or the right word full of tenderness to use next.

It was always the truth, guarantees the wedding photographer

No, they do not have mistakes, everyone has the notion of the right time for their entry, and not even the wedding photographer, bewildered by so many photos that come out of them all the time, managed, once, to realize that it was all fake.

On the other hand, whether because they were all together on purpose or because she, the photo, was right there asking me to take her away with me, the wedding photographer could not have better proof that that truth was sincere than, now, his photographs are already offering themselves for the eyes of everyone that wish to take them with.

That is why I was there.

Dot by dot:

• When I go to the bride and groom’s house on their wedding day to cover their preparations, I never know what I’m going to find. They could be alone or the house could be completely full.

• Once there, I seem to fall into a kind of serenity in fast-forward mode. The only world that counts is the one in front of me, so that I can take the photos of the gestures of affection, the help with dressing, a give and take where love abounds.

• It’s all true and without staging. I notice it while I’m there, with the groom and the bride, and I check it later in the wedding photographs I’ve brought with me.

• Everyone knows what they’re doing there in the time before a wedding ceremony takes place. But I’m sure there were no rehearsals or staging. It’s always the truth, what those wedding photographs bring with them.

You need to know:

• There were two moments of truth that these two photographs brought with them. The first with the bride and the second with the groom. Very different in form but completely the same in content.

• Those are the photos that I want to bring back from your wedding. Different, but the same, in terms of what they contain. What to do to bring them? Contact me.