Flowers that inebriate the bride, groom, and wedding photographer

FLOWERS, FLOWERS AND…by THE PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

The bride's bouquet waits for her to be ready to go to the ceremony, on a satin box in a composition by the wedding photographer in Seia in the Serra da Estrela, Portugal.

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…

The bride's shoes on the satin of the veil, just before they are put on and the bride leaves for the wedding ceremony.

Partial view of the bride's dress just before she starts to put it on, by the wedding photographer in Seia, Portugal.

A girl helps the bride hold a box containing the wedding rings, seen through a door by the wedding photographer in Seia, Serra da Estrela.

The bride's mother attaching a large bow to the waist of her wedding dress and a girl behind her adjusting her veil, seen by the wedding photographer in Seia, Portugal.

The bride, in the mirror, puts on one of her earrings, seen by the wedding photographer in Seia.

The bride, in the mirror, puts on one of her earrings, seen by the wedding photographer in Seia.

The bride, smiling and wearing her dress, ready to go to the wedding ceremony, seen by the wedding photographer in Seia, between two walls at the top of the stairs.

The bride, bouquet in hand, comes down the wooden stairs, smiling, to leave for the wedding ceremony in Seia, Portugal.

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