JUST AT THE END by the PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Anyone who has been to a wedding knows that it is composed of several parts, each one, with its own ritual. Almost at the end of the day and the party fades, when the guests start packing their bags and go to the cars to get home, the bride, usually, picks up his bouquet which will decide who will be the next bride among the single ladies present.
It is a play with tradition, it belongs to the wedding day, which, still with the mood of the party, the single ladies will be strongly focused on knowing who will be the next, as if that depends on a flying floral arrangement. I do not know if, ever, one of the winners became, in fact, the next bride. But there is competition, yes, there is. Who wins, always, give the wedding photographer a good reason to have waited until that moment, yes it does.
I know that the winner’s future bride is a runner in her direction of her more than anything…not always in place, future grooms have other occupations and celebrate with great joy in their eyes. Even if she is already in a photo, the wedding photographer does not leave anything behind, she likes to ensure that and does not let any doubts.
The photographer knows his obligations and it is not necessary to ask. However, it is not possible to photograph before it happens and they just have to fight for the flying flowers and avoid them hitting the ground.
Usually, after that, I pack up and go home, satisfied.