Mateo & Jonas

A wedding above Sintra, Portugal: a long lunch with everyone they love, then a dance floor that didn’t stop.

Place: Sintra, Portugal
Type: Wedding · Photo + film
Photographed by: Serg & Alex
Film by: Lara

PTSintra Demo story

Mateo and Jonas smiling at each other outdoors on their wedding day

They wanted a day that felt like a long lunch with everyone they love, and then a dance floor that didn’t stop. Eighty guests, a garden above the town, and a ceremony their friends still call “twenty minutes of happy crying”.

We arrived for the slow morning: coffee, ironing, a borrowed tie and a lot of laughing at the borrowed tie. Serg stayed close to the two of them, Alex followed the guests and the details, and Lara recorded the vows and every speech.

We gave a few prompts at golden hour, ten minutes away from the party. Everything else simply happened, and we kept it.

The two grooms in suits standing against an old stone wall — 10:40Getting ready in the same room, because why wouldn’t they.

Close-up of two hands holding the wedding rings — 11:15The rings, in a box borrowed from a grandmother.

Two grooms holding hands just before the ceremony — 13:02Hands found each other before the music started.

The grooms kissing at the ceremony while their guests cheer — 13:26The kiss that went on a bit too long. Their guests started counting.

The grooms raising a glass of champagne — 15:10Champagne before the speeches.

Two hands with wedding rings linking little fingers — 16:45A pinkie promise, a joke from their first date.

The two grooms laughing together in the evening light — 19:52Golden hour: ten minutes, two prompts, the rest was them.

Still from Mateo and Jonas's wedding film

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The film

Their vows, in their own voices

Lara filmed the day with discreet mics on the vows and every speech, so the film sounds like it felt.

Highlights 04:12Full movie 32 minFilmed by Lara

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In their words

We don’t remember posing once, and somehow there are portraits of us we’ll frame forever. It all looks exactly like the day felt.

Mateo & Jonas · Sintra

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Photo credits (Pexels): Kampus Production, Wallace Araujo, Bárbara Marques, Polina Tankilevitch, Leeloo The First, and Pexels contributors. This is a demo story.