30 de April de 2024

Best of 2023 – wedding photography in Portugal and around

It has become a tradition that the launch of the best of Menino conhece Menina is our birthday celebration – it was already in 2022, in 2021 and in 2019. It's a way to make public this celebration - our website ornate in party mood and our networks rocketing a little more than usual. This way we share our joy and the best we do in wedding photography in Portugal and abroad. Here is our 2023, in 3.25 minutes.
26 de March de 2024

Menino conhece Menina, wedding photographers in Venice in time of Covid19

Menino conhece Menina, wedding photographers in Venice for a day and photographers of the impossible for a week.
4 de June de 2019

cabo espichel wedding

We all have favorite places and Cabo Espichel is clearly one of mine (this is Raquel at keyboard commands) since the time of Architecture studies and the enthusiastic passion for the Survey on Popular Architecture in Portugal. So, when the opportunity to photograph this wedding in Cabo Espichel came up, my heart was thrilled that one more dream was about to be fulfilled!
1 de May de 2019
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our best wedding photos in 2018

And so, in this 1st of May, we look at our closest yesterday, very happy for all the days before and, above all, eager to look to tomorrow. This is the best of us in 2018. It is the celebration of the extraordinary year we have lived but it is, more than anything, a motivational boost for 2019 that has just begun!
11 de February de 2019

best wedding photographers 2018 in WPJA and This is Reportage

2019 arrived and brought the news: we are among the 25 best photographers in WPJA in 2018. And the best is that this news comes together with another one already from December: we are among the 30 best photographers in This is Reportage.
11 de February de 2019
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destination wedding in Aldeia de Pedralva

Angela is from Braga, Laurentiu is romanian. They met somewhere in Europe and they came with their closest ones to make their Destination Wedding in Aldeia de Pedralva, in Algarve. It was the end of summer, with its long and golden sunsets and it was one of the more joyful weddings of 2017. And this story was yet to be told ...
28 de September de 2018
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This is How – wedding reportage taking place

There is finally a place that takes the wedding photography and discusses it deeply: not on presets or gadgets; hard and pure photography. ‘This is How’ is that place and, on its last edition there is a picture of ours.
16 de July de 2018

Wedding photojournalism – WPJA awarded photos

In this year editions of the WPJA wedding photojournalism contests, we have seen four of our images awarded in the general competition so far (contests 2018 v07 and 2018 v06) and also an extra photo awarded on the Engagement Portrait competition. ...
16 de May de 2018
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Almost Four

These photographs are the present that we want forever. It is our family seen by itself, three crossed views, over each other. Three! Our mini-Boy already has his time machine that he maneuvers devotedly and with passion. It is his world, seen from the top of his three anniversaries, printed with light and innocence. ...
7 de March de 2018
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wedding in Quinta de Sant’Ana

The day when Ana and Bennie said "Yes!" had the yellow from the walls of Quinta de Sant'Ana, had the green of the vineyards and of the olive leaves, had the straw color of pastures and paths. It had the white from the clouds and from the loose and lacy dress and it had the black from our look on all this, the look that had found, on the outline of the shapes over the light, the frame and path to the expression of the atmosphere and emotion of the day. ...
12 de October de 2017
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The Color of the Wind

“The biggest pain of the wind is having no color!” (Mário Quintana) On the wedding day of Rubina and Filipe, the wind was happier than ever. It was orange, blue, yellow. It was massive and thick smoke of baroque contours, it was marbling beams of light, sieved by the treetops, it was dense and thick haze, pierced by the pungent headlights of the van. ...
6 de September de 2017
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Rising up in Porto

Henrique and Joana are getting married! The “I Do” day approaches and the butterflies are starting with the stomach chills. They are counting the remaining hours. It is time to practice the dance and prepare the speech. Soon they will count the minutes and the steps to the church. ...