FLOWERS, FLOWERS AND…by THE PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
The bride and flowers are a combination that can’t be missed on the wedding day, as are the photographs that result from them
Flowers attract the senses
The scent of the flowers present for various purposes on a wedding day couldn’t be a better guide to the state of mind of everyone present, as a stimulus for the wedding photographer’s inspiration so that he can savor all the details and events that will occur there. They are the ones who, in a kind of olfactory inebriation, make us welcome and start our work with the joy we should have.
From the bride’s bouquet to the tiny arrangements for the groom’s lapel to the vases full of flowers decorated by mothers’ hands radiating wishes of happiness and good winds, flowers are not seemingly inanimate beings for the lenses of the wedding photographer.
Scents that guide
They’re the ones who make sure that everything that needs to be done, hair, make-up, shaving, dressing and running, running because it’s late, always happens in the certainty of the importance of the day, which is for the precise time when it was meant to happen. They, the flowers, are always silent but never disempowering presences. Their scents guide you, indicate the place, and keep you company, always active, never inert.
Flowers are also wedding photos
Many wedding photographs are of or with flowers. The bride is never separated from her bouquet, which, when the time is right, is passed on to another bride by desire and in a queue towards the end of the party. I’m sure it’s because of them that the brides, in my photographs of them, are always happy. I highly doubt it’s because of the bride and groom. They’re the ones who inebriate and induce that happiness that makes the bride and groom happy because they think it’s because of each other.
Well, maybe it is, and the wedding photographer has only let himself be carried away by the prose and the memory of those perfumes that accompany him throughout his working day. Maybe…