Honeymoon session in Portugal
Thirty minutes of the two of you, a week or two after the wedding, with nothing to organise — 15–20 photographs from €200, in your gallery within 48 hours.
Popular in Sintra, Algarve, Madeira, Azores and beyond
- Reply within about 2 hours on working days
- Price confirmed before you pay
- Free weather rescheduling
What’s included
- 15–20 retouched photographs
- 30 minutes, one location
- Private gallery within 48 hours
Who it is for
Who books this, and why
Couples who married somewhere else
The wedding was at home, with a schedule, a guest list and a photographer working to a shot list. Portugal is the first time since then that nobody needs anything from you.
Couples who eloped or signed at a registry
No photographer on the day, or ten minutes on the steps outside. This is the unhurried version, at a clifftop or a crater lake rather than a council building.
Anniversary trips
The session works the same for a tenth anniversary as for the first week married. Nobody asks to see the certificate.
Portfolio
Honeymoon session portfolio
A selection of honeymoon session shots to inspire your shoot.
How it works
From the first message to your gallery
Tell us where and when
The Algarve, Madeira, the Azores or a city, and the dates you are there. Tides in the Algarve and cloud on the islands are checked for those dates before anything is suggested.
We propose one location and a time
One place, chosen for the light at that hour, so the whole 30 minutes is spent photographing rather than moving. Confirmation, with a named photographer and a meeting point, usually arrives the same working day.
Where the light is
Ponta da Piedade at sunrise, Pico do Arieiro above the cloud. The photographer directs throughout, mostly towards walking and talking. A second, easier location needs a longer session, quoted on request.
15–20 photographs within 48 hours
Fifteen to twenty retouched photographs in a private gallery within 48 hours, so the first set of pictures as a married couple that is not from the wedding arrives while you are still away.
Four details — place, date, session and how to reach you — are enough for a written quote. Nothing to pay to ask.
Before the session
How to prepare
Short, practical, and the part most people skip. None of it costs anything, and all of it shows in the photographs.
- Book the session before the long beach days, or treat sun cream as an obligation — strap lines and sunburn show in every photograph.
- One outfit is plenty for thirty minutes; choose the one that needs the least care on a cliff path at dawn.
- Flat soles with grip for cliff paths and calçada; carry anything with a heel.
- For a sunrise at Pico do Arieiro, bring a warm layer: you are at 1,800 metres before dawn, and the drive up starts in the dark.
- Talk to each other, not to the camera. The frames that work are mostly of a conversation.
Book Honeymoon session in your city
Available in 11 Portuguese cities and destinations. Choose yours.
Frequently asked questions about Honeymoon session
We are not comfortable being affectionate in front of strangers.
Most of the set is not kissing on command. It is the two of you walking, sitting, and talking about something other than the camera, with the photographer choosing the moment. The early start helps too: at sunrise the audience is usually a handful of other early risers, if that.
Which day of the honeymoon is best?
Somewhere in the first half, but not the morning after arrival. The first days carry the flight and whatever the wedding week took out of you; the last day leaves no margin if the cloud comes in. Three or four days in is when most people look like they are on holiday.
Can we wear the wedding dress and suit again?
You can. Say so when booking, because it changes the locations: a long hem on the Ponta da Piedade stairway or a cliff path at dawn is a practical problem, and it usually means choosing an easier location for the session.
Do we need a car?
In Lisbon or Porto, no. In the Algarve, Madeira and the Azores, the locations worth the session are outside town — the drive up Pico do Arieiro is forty minutes of hairpins in the dark — so plan on being driven or driving. Tell us what you will have and the location is chosen to fit it.
Honeymoon session, from €200
Tell us the place and the date and we’ll match you with a local photographer. We reply within about 2 hours during the working day.
About this session
Different from the wedding photographs on purpose
- Starting from
- €200
- Duration
- 30 min
- Edited photos
- 15–20
- Cities
- 11
Wedding photographs are of an event, and however good they are, everyone in them is performing a role for a day. A honeymoon session is the same two people a fortnight later with nothing to organise and nobody watching, and it produces a completely different set of images — which is the argument for booking one rather than deciding you already have enough photographs of yourselves.
Thirty minutes and one location, chosen for the hour rather than for the postcard. In the Algarve that usually means a clifftop at sunrise; in Madeira it means being above the cloud at Pico do Arieiro before the light arrives; in the Azores it means keeping two calderas in play and deciding the evening before which one. A second location, such as a cove after the clifftop, needs a longer session, quoted in writing on request. Fifteen to twenty retouched photographs, delivered to a private gallery within 48 hours.