When Maria and Vincente first got in touch and shared their vision for their wedding photos, I knew this wouldn’t be a conventional wedding day. Their story had already unfolded over years, across countries, plans, pauses, and unexpected turns. This photoshoot became less about a single day, and more about everything that had led them here.

To understand this shoot properly, you need to know one important detail: Maria owns seven wedding dresses. She bought them five years ago and still hadn’t married. As she put it herself, “I couldn’t decide which one to buy, so I bought all of them.” At the same time, Maria and Vincente had spent those same five years trying to make their wedding happen. Every time they planned it, something bigger intervened.

Their original dream was deeply personal. Maria wanted to get married in Denmark, in a forest by the sea where her grandparents once lived. It was a place filled with childhood memories, but in the end, it simply wasn’t possible to marry there. So they made a plan B.

That plan B brought them to Alicante, where they live with their children. They explored venues and dates, but availability never aligned. Just as they were navigating that disappointment, the perfect family home came onto the market. They chose to buy the house and shift their focus.

Then, in April 2020, Spain entered one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns as Covid-19 took hold. At the same time, Maria was about to give birth. In the middle of military restrictions and global uncertainty, she welcomed their baby girl into the world. As Maria and Vincente described it to me, their journey to getting married had become “a never-ending story.”

The seven wedding dresses were carefully packed away in boxes in the basement of their new home. And that’s where this shoot truly began.

They may not have been able to get legally married yet, but they decided not to wait any longer to mark their story. Instead of following a traditional wedding timeline, Maria and Vincente chose to create the photographs anyway. They embraced what they could control and honoured the journey they were already living.

We chose Mirador del Faro de Santa Pola as the backdrop. At golden hour, just before sunset, the light there feels expansive and cinematic. The wind picked up as the sun dropped, adding movement and drama to Maria’s dress and giving the images a wild, unpolished energy that suited the story perfectly.

This shoot wasn’t about a ceremony or a schedule. It was about resilience, patience, and choosing to celebrate love even when life refuses to follow the plan. I can’t wait to photograph at this location again with more couples in Alicante, and I’ll always remember this shoot for the story behind it as much as the images themselves.

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