What makes a bridal photoshoot memorable is the company, and a bride can adapt the shoot around the friends she wants to include. This is what 24-year-old Rebeca from Brazil did, and it turned out just perfect.
“I came up with the idea one week before the wedding. I was looking into some “making of” pictures of brides with their gang of girls, all in robes, laughing, drinking champagne and all, and I got a bit sad because I wouldn’t be able to do anything like that” Rebeca said. “The photoshoot was super fun. Everyone was taking shots of cheap booze and sometimes we were laughing so much that we had to take some time to recover and go on with the photos.” She added. Rebeca made some great guy friends in her computer engineering class where she’s one of the four women among 56 guys.
After the shoot, Rebeca was ecstatic to share the images on social media, and people loved the interestingly cute pictures. “I am very happy with the photos. Sometimes I look at them and find myself laughing like crazy. But I never imagined this would become so viral”.
More info: Photographer’s Facebook | Rebeca’s Instagram
Keep the ritual; change the cast to fit your friendships
The photographs borrow a recognizable preparation-shoot format and populate it with the bride's own friends. The result feels personal because the participants come from her life, rather than being selected to satisfy a conventional image of what the group should look like.
The account describes the engineering classmates who took part; it should not be expanded into an assumption that a woman has no female friendships at all. For anyone planning a similar keepsake, the useful idea is to begin with the people who matter and adapt the format around them. A familiar pose can become fresh when the group is comfortable enough to make it their own.
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About the bride
The bride, Rebeca Sinohara, was 24 and lived in Itajubá, Brazil. She told BuzzFeed News that she studied computer engineering and that “in my engineering classroom there were 56 guys and only four girls”, which is why the friends who joined her preparation shoot were men from her course.
Sources: BuzzFeed News: This woman got her bros to be her bridesmaids and people are loving it
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