May and Kenny at Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, Ravello, Amalfi Coast
Amalfi Coast · 11 April 2023

Nine people,
and the whole
Amalfi Coast

Caruso, A Belmond Hotel · Ravello, Amalfi Coast

An elopement at the Caruso, in Ravello, for nine people. A ceremony on the belvedere with the whole coast behind it, dinner inside, and a second evening spent walking down through Amalfi and back up again — once in a white dinner jacket, once in a red áo dài.

The bouquet and the rest of the morning
The rings
Getting ready
With the bouquet
The veil, across the room
Under the veil
The white dinner jacket
The bow tie, in black and white
The stairs down to the garden
On the steps

A garden that
stops at
the edge

Ravello · April

Ravello · April
The ceremony, with the coast behind it
Waiting
The vows
Back down the aisle
Just after

What nine
people buy
you

A wedding of nine is not a small version of a wedding of a hundred. Nobody is being managed. There is no line to receive, no seating plan to solve, and the afternoon can change its mind twice without anybody having to be told.

What it buys you is distance. We walked to Villa Cimbrone and back, went down to Amalfi at six and came up in the dark, and the pictures that came out of it are the ones a timetable would have made impossible.

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Petals, and the lawn
The dress, in black and white
The pool, and the sea past it
The two of them
Up the pergola steps
Ravello, after dinner

The lastof the light,from above

How I work
Ravello, at the wall
The cake
A red Fiat, borrowed
The coast from the town
The arch
Arches, in black and white
The terrace, and what it looks over
Amalfi, at dusk
The Duomo
Atrani, from the road
The áo dài, on the cathedral steps
Both of them, in red
The embroidery
The team Ravello, Amalfi Coast
Venue
Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, Ravello
Photography
Stefano Casati
Flowers
Amalfi Coast Flowers
Hair & make-up
Alessandro Mancino Studios
Music
Natalino Cioffi

Photographs by Stefano Casati.

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