Our wedding in PortugalBéatus & Mark

The WeekendBoth nights

Photos

The weekend, frame by frame.

Photographs by Helena Tomas and Andre Areias.

SaturdaySunday

Saturday

The welcome dinner at La Distillerie, Alfama. July 26, 2025.

Before the doors

5:48pm

Béatus and Mark with their arms around each other in a dim room with potted palms, one in bronze satin, one in a sheer black sequin shirt.Béatus and Mark beside a long console table between two potted palms, a mounted stag head above them.Béatus and Mark shoulder to shoulder against a dark wall, both looking off to one side, palm fronds around them.
Béatus and Mark leaning on the console table, one smiling across at the other.Béatus and Mark leaning on the console table, smiling at the camera.Béatus and Mark at full length, leaning together on the console table.
One groom throws his head back laughing as the other reaches for him, a mounted stag head on the wall above.Béatus and Mark sitting up on the bar under a red neon BAR sign, legs dangling, shelves of bottles behind.Béatus and Mark on the bar under the neon sign, drinks in hand, laughing.Black and white: Béatus and Mark at the bar with glasses in hand, looking off to one side.

Dinner

7:26pm

Béatus and Mark smiling at the dinner table behind tall candles and pink and orange flowers, a weathered plaster wall behind them.Béatus and Mark walking side by side past a floor to ceiling wall of bottles.Béatus and Mark laughing at the candlelit table, flowers and glasses in front of them.Close on Béatus and Mark laughing at the table, an arm around a shoulder, candles and flowers in the foreground.

Everyone

8:03pm

Béatus and Mark with a group of guests against a weathered plaster wall, one guest in a red waistcoat and checked trousers.Béatus and Mark in a line with guests in gowns and suits, under a wall hung with woven baskets.Béatus and Mark with guests in summer dresses and linen, beneath a staircase and a wall of bottles.

After dark

8:50pm

Béatus and Mark with two guests in suits, all of them lit magenta and pink at the party.On the dance floor, one groom laughing with a folding fan as the other turns toward him in a sheer black shirt, guests around them.Béatus and Mark dancing in front of the band, green and red stage lights behind them, a guest in a sequin gown beside them.

Sunday

The wedding at Forte da Cruz, Estoril. July 27, 2025.

Before the vows

3:58pm

A groom in a peach suit lounging on a leather sofa, one leg crossed, tall dark curtains behind him.Béatus and Mark sprawled together on the leather sofa in peach and lilac suits.

The vows

6:14pm

From above: Béatus and Mark before the officiant on the stone terrace, banks of white flowers on either side.Béatus and Mark laughing together in front of the officiant, urns of white flowers and red doors behind them.The kiss, close, between urns of white flowers, the sea behind.
The kiss seen from among the guests, framed by urns of white flowers under a carved stone balcony.Béatus and Mark walking out along the garden path, one laughing with a hand on his chest, the fortress wall and round tower behind.A kiss on the garden path beneath the fortress wall and its round tower.

Golden hour

7:46pm

Béatus and Mark side by side in peach and lilac in a wood panelled room, a painting above them.Aerial view of the fortress, its tower and arches, with everyone gathered on the terrace below.Béatus and Mark standing on the ramparts in sunglasses, the Atlantic behind them.A kiss on the ramparts between two stone merlons, pale sky above and the sea behind.
Béatus and Mark small against a vast pale sky, turning to each other on the round rampart.Béatus and Mark hand in hand along the rampart walkway in sunglasses.Béatus and Mark standing close on the ramparts between carved columns, the bay behind them.Béatus and Mark posing on stone steps in low sun and sunglasses, the fortress wall rising beside them.
Béatus and Mark on the stone steps in sunglasses, one leaning back against the other.Béatus and Mark curled together on the stone steps, one kissing the top of the other's head.Béatus and Mark walking hand in hand down a path through palms.Béatus and Mark among palms and agave, one smiling across at the other.
Béatus and Mark walking a garden path under tall palms in the evening sun.An embrace on the garden path, the fortress rising above the palms behind them.Béatus and Mark standing close on the path, the fortress towers and palm trees behind them.
A kiss in the gardens below the fortress towers, palm fronds overhead.An embrace far down a path, framed by soft out of focus palms.Béatus and Mark smiling at the camera under palm fronds, the fortress behind them.
Béatus and Mark with their arms around each other in the gardens, the fortress behind them.A kiss among fan palms, low sun on an embroidered lilac jacket.A head on a shoulder, both smiling, fan palms behind them.
Close on the embroidered lilac and peach jackets, a hand at a waist, smiles at the edge of the frame.Béatus and Mark hand in hand and laughing at each other, palms all around them.Black and white: a kiss among the palms, arms wrapped tight.
An embrace seen through the garden foliage.Béatus and Mark from behind, walking up the path toward the fortress.Béatus and Mark smiling at each other in peach and lilac, dark pines behind them.
Béatus and Mark walking hand in hand through a gap in the trees, low sun through the leaves.Béatus and Mark walking and laughing through the greenery.Béatus and Mark dancing on the gravel drive beside the fortress wall, a jacket flying.
Béatus and Mark dancing apart on the gravel drive, palms on one side and the fortress wall on the other.Mid dance on the drive: one laughing, the other throwing an arm up with his jacket flying.Black and white: Béatus and Mark doubled over laughing on the drive.
A kiss at the foot of a carved stone staircase, the fortress walls rising behind them.A kiss in front of a stone staircase and a red door, the whole fortress courtyard around them.One groom stepping into a kiss at the foot of the carved stone staircase.Béatus and Mark dancing and laughing beside the stone wall, one pointing at the camera.Béatus and Mark mid dance beside the stone wall, arms out.

Dinner

8:25pm

A speech at the table: one groom holding a microphone and a phone, the other smiling beside him.Béatus and Mark turning to the camera with glasses raised at a long white table, guests behind them under garlands of greenery.

After dark

10:38pm

Béatus and Mark changed into black sequins, standing at a carved pink marble fireplace.Béatus and Mark in black sequins with an arm around each other, smiling at the carved fireplace.Béatus and Mark at full length in black at the fireplace, turned toward each other.Guests in white raising sparklers on both sides as Béatus and Mark dance in a tall glass doorway.
Béatus and Mark dancing between two lines of guests in white, sparklers raised.Béatus and Mark hand in hand and dancing between the lines of guests and sparklers.Béatus and Mark behind a three tier white cake, plate in hand, dark leaves behind them.
Béatus and Mark laughing with plates of cake, dark leaves behind them.Béatus and Mark with guests in cream and white in front of the fireplace and its painted walls.
Night one La DistillerieNight two Forte da Cruz

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Too late, darlingThe dance floor already happened.