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    Wedding photography – the best of Menino Conhece Menina in 2019

    Today is birthday around here. It was on a distant May 1st that we were born to the wedding photography world, when “Menino Conhece Menina” echoed for the first time in the public world, with the launch of our first and archaic website.

    Since last year that on May 1st, as a celebration, we established a tradition of our own: this is our New Year’s Day. This is the time when, in our life, the rhythm changes: it is the time when we have finally concluded the work of the previous year and we prepare to launch ourselves to the weddings about to start. It is the time when we can self-evaluate and when there is space to determine the targets and set the goals. That is why, for us this is the day for the 12 raisins!

    Being a moment of transition, it is time for balance, time to look inside and to look back so that we can better reach the future. We revisited our work on wedding photography in 2019 and we bring you a selection of some of our favorite photographs.

    It was a remarkable year! We were speakers at Luzo Workshop and at Steam and Steel Workshop, that we organized together with the wonderful Pixel and that was overwhelming; we photographed a wedding in Egypt; we were nominated for the 30 Rising Stars list by Rangefinder Magazine. But mostly, we had wonderful people welcoming us into their families, we have shared some of the most significant moments of their lives and we witnessed their love. Mostly, we were able to feel the enthusiasm of all these couples when receiving our photographs and the thrill of, through them, being able to relive the joy and the revelry of that day. For us, the best is really the idea that our work will accompany these people and their families throughout their lives and will form part of their most personal and valuable heritage, together with the grandmother's recipe book, the old father's car…

    2019 was prodigious and, for 2020, we had the most blissful expectations! Unexpectedly, Covid19 made the world stumble and we are all still trying to, hesitant, get back on track. It is like if we were projected into a parallel universe with no gravity, where we were suspended. And we all try to find, in the memory of the previous routines, in the plans we had and in the confidence that we will fulfill them, again ground under our feet.

    Tomorrow, May 2nd, would be our first wedding in 2020. Had it not been for the isolation imposed by Covid19, we would now be in a busy bustle preparing all the equipment, revising all the routines and taking a deep breath to launch passionately into the new year. But tomorrow there will be no wedding and so we will have to hold our breath, and wait.

    We wait gladly because life is at stake and life is greater than any other good. But even so, we already miss the excitement of the bride entering the church and we long for dancing among the guests. We miss it all, really much!

    But we trust that, when it comes, 2020 will come glorious, contagious in joy! (not in virus!) All the embraces that are now contained, compressed, stifled, when they can be released… “the arms won’t be enough”! (from Sérgio Godinho song “Canção dos abraços”)

    While we cannot jump into tomorrow, we look at our past, we go through some of our favorite photographs in wedding photography in 2019, now one by one, to appreciate slowly:

    wedding photography hug bride and father old hands

    wedding photography egipt bride ironing dress

    wedding photography Pousada de Amares bride putting shoes on

    wedding photography egipt bride on make-up baby changing diaper

    wedding photography sewing the veil to the head

    wedding photography Mosteiro Landim Couple together

    wedding photography groom shower

    wedding photography groom and his shirt

    wedding photography groom getting ready

    wedding photography bride make up mirror symmetry

    wedding photography groom and his best man reflection

    wedding photography couple together reflection

    wedding photography groom getting ready on reflections

    wedding photography bride in the mirror

    wedding photography rings and dress reflection

    wedding photography bride getting ready making of

    wedding photography bride makeup Pousada Guimaraes

    wedding photography bride getting ready foot

    wedding photography bride and her dog

    wedding photography bride and father in the stairs

    wedding photography egipt groom in Gize Pyramids

    wedding photography egipt driving to the ceremony

    wedding photography Porto bride and father arriving to the church

    wedding photography priest opening church

    wedding photography Sameiro Braga bride arriving fog

    wedding photography bride heading to the ceremony

    wedding photography bride entrance on the church

    wedding photography bride entrance from above

    wedding photography bride entrance stairs

    wedding photography guests praying

    wedding photography Porto embrace

    wedding photography bom jesus braga

    wedding photography Pacheca kid sleeping on the ceremony

    wedding photography girl sleeping on the church

    wedding photography igreja do carmo back view

    wedding photography Mosteiro Santa Maria do Bouro rings exchange

    wedding photography Mosteiro Amares first kiss

    wedding photography signatures games

    wedding photography Sameiro flare

    wedding photography Santuario Imaculada Braga

    wedding photography rice rain

    wedding photography Sameiro raining rain and rice

    wedding photography Bom Jesus kid playing

    wedding photography chaves group pictur shadows

    wedding photography Mosteiro Amares father of the bride

    wedding photography guests racing

    wedding photography chaves bride car and pigeons

    wedding photography bride in the car on reflection

    wedding photography Parque da Penha couple and trees on reflection

    wedding photography Sameiro bride car and fog

    wedding photography in the couple car

    wedding photography Egipto social contradictions

    wedding photography bride and groom shadows

    wedding photography bride in her volkswagen beetle

    wedding photography clube universitario porto kiss in the green house

    wedding photography Amares party preparation

    wedding photography Quinta da Pacheca kid sleeping in the empty ceremony

    wedding photography crossed kiss

    wedding photography Palacio do freixo giant chess game

    wedding photography Pousada de amares bride and groom dancing reflection

    wedding photography huging the bride

    wedding photography mother speech and crying groom

    wedding photography cocktail kid

    wedding photography Mosteiro Landim cocktail kids

    wedding photography sporting football victory

    wedding photography guests and wine Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro

    wedding photography guests toast

    wedding photography Mosteiro Landim dramatic guests

    wedding photography shadow cigarette and glass Colunata Braga

    wedding photography sleeping child

    wedding photography Quinta da Pacheca couple in the lights

    wedding photography cake cutting from above

    wedding photography pinata instead of wedding cake

    wedding photography Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro dancing in the smoke

    wedding photography Pousada Amares tattoo hug

    wedding photography Paredes de Coura Festival

    wedding photography Mosteiro Landim six arms hug

    wedding photography Amares bride and grand parents

    wedding photography Amares hugs in dance floor

    wedding photography bride and groom reflected in sugar bowl

    wedding photography egipt flute player

    wedding photography guest drinking wine from the bottle

    wedding photography dance floor from above

    wedding photography boy in father coat

    wedding photography groom and best men striptease

    wedding photography dance floor panning

    wedding photography Mosteiro Landim cutting wedding dress

    wedding photography Mosteiro de Landim guests dancing

    wedding photography crazy dance floor

    wedding photography Amares throwing bride in the air

    wedding photography girl watching dance floor

    wedding photography Pousada amares dancing limbo

    wedding photography guests carrying groom

    wedding photography dancing limbo with benfica scarf

    wedding photography guests pretending rocck concert


    wedding photography quinta da pacheca napkin mask

    wedding photography bride and friends on the dance floor

    wedding photography dance floor guest being carryed

    wedding photography Mosteiro Amares guests wearing masks with groom face

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