AGAIN THEM by THE PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
I really like rituals. Even those I do not believe in the contents. I believe that rituals are a human need to build bonds with actions, things, moments, and people.
The wedding is one big ritual with sub-rituals that create good moments for the wedding photographer that is, for him, like nectar to a bee, on a bright spring day. The cut of the cake is one of them. It must end the day, when all the other rituals are gone, which I already wrote about them in the past and, of course, will come again in the future.
It is the couple’s great thanks to all those who lived with them all this intensity, this strengthening of ties, between the newlyweds and all who were with them, knowing that they will go home with a heart full of love symbolized, that is another thing of the rituals, in a slice of cake that has nothing do to with flour, sugar, eggs, and other mixtures, but with affection, bonds and, of course, lots of love.
I learned this over time since the already wedding photographer brought one, another, and then another. I must say, not as an excuse, but this cake that was born to be offered in slices, and as each one is like a kiss I love you or a hug count on me sometimes is placed in places that do not allow the wedding photographer to shine.
As much as I try to be pedagogical wherever I go, I only get the conclusion that the person who counts least there is the wedding photographer, as must be. So, do what you can and the best possible way. Well, it is said, If someone of the wedding Quintas read this knows that wedding cake tables in the darkness and wedding photographers do not always marry well with each other.
However, this doesn’t matter at all. The wedding photographer must do what is important, pick up slices of the action of the cut and be aware of the affections that happen when it is good, and when it’s not.
Really, what is essential is that every slice of the cake, in this ritual, will look like all the others where what is tasted has a stronger value than the simple act of putting into the mouth a mixture of flavors, mixed somewhere else.
The wedding photographer knows that the flavor does not matter, whether chocolate or vanilla, if more or less cream, with coverage or not, if straight or stages, with eating flowers or not. He knows, because he can see it in the photographs he takes, that what everybody is tasting, are the affections that bond them all together, are the confirmation of such ties, and, above all, full of thank you for the generosity of having been here with us.
That is what the wedding photographer will tell about the ingredients of the wedding cake.
That he knows, because the cake recipe belongs to another wedding professional and he does not tell.
