Rui Charnock

Someone is drawing your wedding while it happens

Live ink-and-watercolour illustration at weddings across Portugal. Two illustrations an hour. Framed before you leave.

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What you actually get

  • About two finished illustrations for every hour booked — roughly twelve across a six-hour wedding, plus fifty to seventy guest portraits if portraits are included.Getting ready, the ceremony, the speeches, the first dance.
  • Guest portraits handed over on the night, as favours.Two or three minutes a face. People queue for them.
  • Finished in studio, delivered within two weeks.Scanned at archival resolution. Prints and the original both come to you.
  • From €X. Travel included within X km of Lisbon.Full breakdown on the pricing page. Nothing behind a form.
Ink and watercolour portrait of a bride and groom cheek to cheek, their hair in yellow and blue wash, drawn live at the reception
Drawn at the reception. Eleven minutes.

A wedding, drawn as it happens

No cameras. One person at the edge of the room with a board on his knee, working through the day in ink and watercolour.

Planning a wedding in Portugal? Prices are on the site, not behind a form.

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Tell me the date and the venue. I will tell you if I am free and what it costs.

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Where I work

Based in Lisbon, working anywhere in Portugal. Seven regions have enough of a wedding scene that the drawing itself is a different job in each — those have their own page. Everything else is a drive, and the drives are on the coverage page as a table.

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Tell me when and where. If I am free, I will come back with what it costs and roughly how the day would run — usually the same evening.

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