For so long we wanted to show this images of such a special day that, even today, each memory brings to the skin the shiver of every experienced emotion.

We don't know exactly when it all began, but we know it made even more sense when we were all together, gathered to celebrate this story: Filipa and Jorge, and an unique marriage.
We know that the way to this day wasn't a straight forward path with an anticipated end, life and its endless and incomprehensible twists often surprising us in the worst possible way.
But at a difficult stage and with a loss that was not part of the story that we dreamed to tell with an happy beginning, middle and end, Filipa and Jorge responded in the most courageous way we could expect: with love!

A wedding proposal!

How many are left untold, without record, with nothing to transport you in time to that day, the moment when all the nerves culminated in a question and in an answer.
And since then everything has remained equal, but nothing, has never been the same again.

Celebrate 20 years of marriage is not for everyone.
We know that in these days everything happens too quickly, too tasteless but there are still stories like this.
It's 20 years aspiring to an eternity and, the best of all, six children! And to see them all together, in the Christmas postcard we just received, is to believe with even more faith that love is still the way! What an incredible family!

After returning from a vacation with friends, nothing better than remembering a shoot with friends!

The truth is that life doesn't always place us close to those we love and although the friendship of this group is already long, life has dispersed them by incredible places that are now the place they call home.
Singapore, New York, and many other cities about which we spend our lives sighing, make a permanent physical contact impossible, so why not to choose an incredibly gorgeous city and get all together to celebrate the best they have: friendship?

On the other side of the world.

It surprises us this landscape of an incredible nature giving its best. This temperature difference that leaves the body in doubt at such a drastic change.
The sky is dark and it rains, decorated with lightning bolts drawn with light, or becomes clear in blue and sun, leaving us despairing for a cloud that saves us from the heat.
Moisture turns the air heavier, making smells more intense. It smells of green and earth.

A wedding proposal.
One of those emotional moments, that highlight forever the course of a story of two.
The expectation of a positive answer, the surprise of a question made with a startled heart and all the nerves that invade us with the responsibility of documenting such a special moment.

It's not enough to come and expect it to happen.
It's necessary to work on the preparation and planning, to choose the place and the exact positions and if all this is done with an ocean in the middle, the difficulties grow in proportion to the enthusiasm, in an exchange of words in time zones that go around the world.
A beautiful photograph is not enough. We want you to have spectacular pictures, at the level of the event and this is built up on work.

Our bride and groom continue to amaze us.
In addition to the incredible weddings that we have photographed and the wonderful stories we tell each day, there is also the creative and restless side of new ideas and projects that emerge from such a special and emotional moment.

Ana Luísa was one of our brides of this year and if we thought that her wedding day had been the highlight of the organization and good taste we were well mistaken.
Combining good taste, the will to do and, much more than the education, the talent, hand in hand with a friend who gives even more points to each one of these aspects, the INVITE - Momentos Felizes has born.

To the generosity of this autumn we say thank you with all the stories we told until the last ray of sun.
An autumn that haven't said goodbye to the summer and didn't take its the place, and the two stayed in this love affair of sunny days, mild temperatures and a light that doesn't let us stay at home.

So we began to tell this story whose preface was written long ago.
Catarina was already part of our story before this session, at a time when the ruler and the square stole our time from the photograph machine.
And life takes its turns and in its turns the reencounters surprise us, mixed with the magic hand of a best friend who provided us these moments and this session.

The proof that time passes by too quickly are the spent and exclaimed expressions when we meet (already so) our families.
When the bellies of old times run now free, play and discover he world by themselves.

We met Madalena with only ten days of life. So small she already raptured the most serious looks. If tenderness grew along with her it was certain and well-known that we would reach today with the impossibility of resisting her.
Time has passed by quickly, too quickly for what we wanted to enjoy it and if it continues so I give you the certainty of not winning my sympathy.

It is increasingly special to accept Lisbon as the stage of so many and so good stories.
It is even more special walk through the world, through places that we have never heard about, without leaving where we are.
To receive, wide open arms, the opportunity to meet people, faces, smiles and places that, even being the same, are never the same.
There is always a corner that we haven't noticed yet, a line of light that falls into a place and creates a moment that extends beyond than what we can remember.

It was June and although the hot days were around here, we headed up to Paris.
We needed to rest, to disperse our eyes for different places and unfamiliar faces. Walking aimlessly, without map or objectives only to inspire, breathe and absorb.
But life had other plans for us and, between one work and another, we had just over 24 hours to know the city.

It's that time of year apparently calmer in this social bustle, but that is one of the busiest and decisive ones at the backstage.

We conclude we photographed much, too much, and now we must catch up on the stories, the smiles.

It is an additional effort wanting to do everything well, not resting in the shade of a better job and always wanting more and more.
What remains is very little time for life, but this is the way we feel alive.

The places we don't know are added up in the faces we photographed.
There is always a pair of open arms here, waiting to welcome each and every one of the stories. No matter the place from where they come from or the landscapes in which they have lost their eyes. Whether the trip was long or the return doesn't take too long. It matters these moments, today only a handful of images, tomorrow the best of all the best memories.

This family is just a page of the story. A shoot booked to document the meeting in one only place of a family that made home all over the world... Dubai, Lebanon, Mexico... all together in Lisbon. Coming from places where we have not yet delighted ourselves! So many places.

Dawns.
A less shy sunbeam appears on the horizon as we won the kilometers that separate us from the place of our shoot.
The streets are calm and silent, confusion remains asleep, left to the heat of the dreams and the sheets.
Cascais never disappoints and, if we want it just for us, it is imperative that we dawn before dawn, that we forget sleep and laziness and roll up our sleeves for an exceptional shoot, for the best of all ways to celebrate a wedding anniversary: together in Cascais and keeping memories that will last forever.

There are whole oceans that separate, that fit around islands and overflow in paradisiacal beaches, impossible to swim to reach the other shore.
But the oceans also join, like an incredible bridge reflecting the the sky that takes us out from here to the world... or just to Brazil.
And when an entire ocean conspires to join what could not be otherwise, let us not rise many waves!

A bridge that are we in our ties, affections, in the hugs, the smiles, in the afternoons with friends on an esplanade on the sand that the ocean comes to touch.

The day started with sun and blue sky even though that, for someone, the night may have been stirred trying to calm nerves and excitement.
In the mountain, however, an incredible hat of clouds was already installed to stay. At the top, with a privileged view for so many and such good moments.
With it the fog that leaves fantasy gain wings, the mystery feeling invade us, the chill in the stomach, the butterflies, the excitement.
Sintra, the perfect stage for all the stories but where only the special ones form light from the mist.

And when there are already little or nothing that surprises us, here is a wedding proposal turning things around.
Not by the location, by the incredible light, by the people who treated us so well, but by the unexpected situation, a kind of inverted proposal that makes it much more magical and intense.

Who planned this wedding proposal was Roshni! And for us there is no better assurance of someone who knows exactly what she wants and how she wants it, to make the world run and move forward.
And it was quite a surprise!
We believe that if she was nervous, we were literally in the clouds. The only person completely oblivious to everything that was about to happen was Kevin, relaxed on an holiday tour of two and discredited when Roshni surprised him with a ring that she herself had brought!
What a woman!

I write-erase-write again-erase one more time-rewrite... there are no words to describe this day and if I find one it seems too small, not enough.

From this day on nothing changes, but nothing will, ever, be the same!
Henceforth the journey is even more together, on an emotional and convinced "yes, I do" where neither voice had the courage to fail.

There are books from which we don't know the cover, that we never heard about but that we take home, and that we barely opened the first pages and are absorbed by the story, we lose ourselves in the words, page after page, and we can not stop until we reach the end.

There are stories that take us far away, to a physical space a few hundred kilometers from home, others, like the one we tell today, that more than put us on the road, elevate us to a whole new dimension.
This was the day we met Maria João and Pedro, if the voice was already familiar, it also flew over never ending kilometers, in a virtual conversation that put us on the same road, all the rest was unknown and an entire book to read.

The story that today we leaf through, leaving uncovered another page, brings usalready familiar faces and smiles.
It all started a few years ago at Hotel da Estrela, where we photographed the day when family and friends were invited to share the joy of Helena's christening.
Then we revisited the story a little further ahead, with a sunset that never ends, in a beautiful garden in Paris. Long before Helena even dream that she would play one of the most important roles ever: the big sister one!