The Lopes Photography is a husband-and-wife Portugal wedding photographer team documenting editorial destination weddings across Portugal, Italy, France and select European destinations.
Rooted in quiet luxury, intentional design and atmospheric storytelling, our approach blends guided direction with honest emotion — creating imagery on digital, film and Super 8 that feels considered, immersive and distinct.
We work with international couples planning celebrations in Lisbon, Sintra, the Algarve, Comporta, the Douro Valley and beyond, taking on only 10 weddings each year for full creative focus.
While Europe remains our primary focus, we occasionally accept select celebrations in California and beyond when the vision aligns.
— Rui & Savannah
We photograph a maximum of ten weddings each year. It is a structural choice, not a marketing line, and it shapes how we work with every couple on our calendar.
Before each wedding, we study the venue’s light at your time of year, where the sun sits at the hour of your ceremony, and how long it takes to move between locations. On the day, we stay deliberate from the first hour to the last, because no wedding blurs into the one before it. Afterward, Savannah edits every gallery personally, which is why our work looks the way it does.
A calendar of ten is what makes that level of attention possible.
Every wedding is guided with clarity and composure. We step in when direction is needed, step back when atmosphere takes over, and shape the photography around the setting, the people, and the feeling of the celebration.
An editorial approach to photography, creating timeless imagery on film, digital and Super 8 with style and intention.
Many of the couples we work with are planning their wedding in Portugal from the United States. Savannah is American and Rui is Portuguese, so we understand both sides of the day: what you and your guests expect from home, and how things work here.
Every conversation happens in English, from the first call to the final gallery. We build the timeline with you remotely, work alongside your planner, and arrive knowing the venue and its light. Wedding photography collections start from €10,000, with travel and taxes included.
Trusted by International Couples Planning Design-Led Destination Weddings
“If you're looking for a Portugal wedding photographer team & that are going to make your wedding/elopement/etc look like your dream Pinterest board Savannah and Rui are your people!…Throughout the year, they communicated with us constantly and made sure we got the exact curated vibes we wanted, and made the whole event a lot more stress free! On the day of, they made everything easy, breezy and overall were just really fun to work with.”
“Rui and Savannah were the photographers for our Sept wedding in the South of France. We were immediately taken by their website. There is nothing cookie cutter about their vision and you could tell the distinct style of each couple. We were so lucky they were available for our wedding. They spent the time getting to know us from the moment the process started. They made sure to know exactly what we wanted, what we didn’t want, and even gave us what we didn’t know we wanted in the end. They made our wedding day come alive by capturing not just the wedding itself, but the mood."
"Five stars feels like far too few to give Savannah and Rui of The Lopes Photography! The duo truly made our day as stress free as possible with their timelines, tools, amazing recommendations, and general understanding of everything we wanted. They helped us so much with things beyond the scope of photographers. We engaged them as our very first step in the planning process and we wouldn’t have had it any other way - they helped us develop a vision for our big day and then helped make it happen!"
“The Lopes Photography surpassed all of our expectations for our destination wedding in Taormina, Sicily. From the very first meeting, you could immediately feel the high level of professionalism Savannah and Rui demonstrated in their work. Throughout the entire process, from meetings to questionnaires, they were very collaborative and informative, going far beyond the realm of photography.”
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A VOGUE ARABIA PORTUGAL WEDDING AT PALÁCIO DE QUELUZ
Hessah and Ali's celebration at Palácio de Queluz is one of the most architecturally considered weddings we have had the privilege of documenting as Portugal wedding photographers. Set within the grounds of the 18th-century Palácio Nacional de Queluz, a Rococo royal residence just outside Lisbon, the day was later published in Vogue Arabia.
A VOGUE AUSTRALIA WEDDING IN PORTUGAL AT GRÉMIO LITERÁRIO
Grémio Literário sits in the heart of Lisbon, all marble staircases and azulejo detail, and gave Catherine and Theodore's wedding an editorial backdrop few venues in the city can match. The day was later published in Vogue Australia Weddings, a reflection of the quality our Portugal wedding photographers bring to every celebration we document.