BE HAPPY by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN PORTUGAL
Photos of the bride choosing the bachelorette for the bouquet, cake cutting, and more at the wedding party
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The wonder of joy during a wedding day
Ever since I’ve been photographing weddings, I’ve felt a great fascination for the ability people have to, as a group, be able to be happy.
And believe me, I see that it doesn’t take much to do that. When I arrive at the house of one of the couples of the day and feel the bustle as everyone gets ready, especially the bride and groom and everything that surrounds them, I have never seen, nor felt, anyone in a bad mood, with some unresolved anger.
You can’t imagine what a pleasure it is for me, and for my lenses, of course, to see family members, friends, and school friends arrive and feel the joy that everyone has in seeing, and knowing, each other and taking part if has a center and towards which everyone tends: the couple. Sometimes, I forget I am the wedding photographer, and I stop in with that amazement at so much joy and sharing.
Of course, I immediately remember and take the opportunity to take all that as photos and make sure that all that love within all the gestures, words, and help stays in time because nothing compares to a camera for that.
The stopping of time by the wedding photographer
He, time, doesn’t like permanence, and this one-hundred-and-something-year-old invention was the best trick we played on him, to confuse him with his mania of always wanting to change everything.
For this, the wedding photographer is essential staff and I guarantee that, as far as it depends on me, I will stop him every time I judge it necessary. Maybe, I think now, I do it not because I was hired to tell the story of the wedding day, but because I feel the duty to show everyone, in the photographs I take of them, what they are seeing.
They are seeing how they manage to share with each other joy, and happiness, to solve the problems that always need to be solved together, and, after the great ceremony that binds, to celebrate as it should be done whenever the important things, and the others, manage to solve.
Being happy when you’re among others
Do I see all this on a wedding day? I see it, I see it, and I prove it. The wedding photographer, on duty, is constantly being challenged by the photos of affection, sharing, helping, giving, arriving and saying goodbye, and seeing that, all of them are full of love, of a love that should always be present in our lives, whether at weddings or not.
Perhaps these photographs that the wedding photographer takes, and is motivated not to let many slip away because time can make them fade and transform them into new ones, giving him no rest, are an important testimony that it is possible to be happy, or better, to be happy when we are among others and to take this possibility to all the acts and relationships of life.
That is what they, the wedding photos, tell me.
Dot by dot:
- One of the things that gives me great pleasure to see on a wedding day is the joy that is within everyone, bride and groom, family and guests.
- To ensure that this joy doesn’t fade, there’s nothing better than the photographs taken at the wedding. They stop time, keeping the good things that happened there forever.
- With them, the photos, the wedding photographer can prove that it was so, that that day was one of affection, sharing, surrender and a lot of love, from the moment it began until the last goodbye.
You need to know:
- That’s what I want to bring back from your wedding day. It will also be full of those good things that people know how to do as a group. Contact me to arrange everything.
