Elena and Ruben at Borgo Sant’Ambrogio, Tuscany
Tuscany · 2 September 2025

A courtyard,
and fireworks
after the cake

Borgo Sant’Ambrogio · Tuscany

Black tie in a Tuscan borgo, with the hills doing the decorating. The ceremony was outdoors under an arch of flowers, dinner was in the courtyard between the old buildings, and the cake was followed, without warning, by fireworks.

Getting ready, in black and white
Before the dress
At the window
Her side
Him, tying it
His side
Coming down the steps
The arch of flowers
The ceremony, in black and white
Listening

Hills, and
nothing
else

Tuscany, in September

Tuscany, in September
In the field
In the old arch
Walking back
Under the olive
The dress, and the view

A courtyard
is a room
with no roof

Borgo Sant’Ambrogio is a village more than a house, which means dinner happens between walls that were built for other reasons entirely — and the tables end up in the shape the buildings allow, not the shape a plan wanted.

It photographs the way a piazza photographs: everybody in one enclosure, everybody visible to everybody else, and no corner of the evening happening out of sight.

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The courtyard, laid
Dinner
The tables between the buildings
Their table
Flowers, against the stone
Sant’Ambrogio, after the cake

Fireworks,and thenthe floor

How I work
A toast
What people wrote
The flowers, close
The cake
The floor
And the two of them, in the middle of it
The team Tuscany
Venue
Borgo Sant’Ambrogio, Tuscany
Photography
Stefano Casati

Photographs by Stefano Casati.

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