Wedding reportage portfolio by Miguel Ponte
Being a photographer that usually works solo, this was surely one of the biggest challenges of my career as a wedding photographer…a wedding with over 300 guests and over 50 staff members in what was one of the biggest wedding in Madeira Island since i can remember. Another challenge was […]
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Are you looking for a wedding photographer to register your wedding in The Algarve? Besides Madeira, there are another 2 places in Portugal that I love to photograph weddings and where I also feel at home. One of them is definitely The Algarve. When Cristy & Thomas, a dutch couple […]
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What an amazing wedding I had the opportunity to photograph last saturday in Amares, in the Braga district, in the north of Portugal. Ever dreamt of getting married in a castle or a monastery? This is the place! Nowdays it’s an hotel, called Pousada Mosteiro de Amares. Look it up. […]
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Evelina & Hugo are an international couple…he is Portuguese, she is Slovenian, they live in Norway and got married against all odds in 2020, in Madeira Island, despite Covid! Besides elopements, it was one of the few weddings I photographed in 2020, at a time when Covid restrictions had been […]
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One of my bucket list locations was Eze Village, 30 m away from Nice, in France. Eze is a charming small village on top of a rock in the French Riviera, with amazing views, narrow medieval streets, a little château and a beatiful tropical garden. When Caroline and Tjakko, an […]
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Sandra and Vítor’s wedding, a well-known football player in regional football, with feet of wool, was one of the local weddings I had the most pleasure to photograph in 2021, for many reasons, but also because it was one of those rare weddings in which the groom was also brave […]
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Madeira Island always had a big connection with British families almost since the time the Portuguese started settling on the island. One of those connections was established through Madeira Wine, which was turned into a premium wine by British families that took residence on the island. One of those families […]
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This was the most recent wedding that i photographed in mailand Portugal, in Sintra, on a hot August day. Unfortunetly the weather didn’t help and what everyone expected to be a magical summer day, turned out to look more like an autumn rainy day and there was no shortage of […]
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It’s been a while since i have published a black and white edit, much less a wedding with so much fun! A marriage with several setbacks and anxiety, but with a lot of excitement to the mix … just like I like it! And what about the venue location!!! It […]
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In 2018 I had the honor and pleasure to photograph the wedding of Marlene and Lino, a couple that is already part of my extended heart family. A marriage with everything, everyone and in every way, full, overflowing with feelings and emotion, held in an amazing setting in Madeira Island, […]
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In Portugal there is saying that goes “from Spain, neither good winds nor good marriages”. That is surely not true for this wedding, because Marta, my first Spanish bride, and Tiago, a Madeiran fit perfectly together. In a talk with these 2 fabulous people, I discovered that it was fate […]
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