Gina and David at Hotel de Russie, Rome, Lazio
Lazio · 1 July 2016

A ceremony in Rome,
and a garden
behind a wall

Hotel de Russie · Rome, Lazio

A July wedding that crossed Rome twice: a short white dress and a bougainvillea bouquet through the streets, a ceremony under a canopy in the Tempio Maggiore, and dinner in the terraced garden behind the Hotel de Russie — a piece of quiet that most of the city walks past without knowing it is there.

That morning
The earring
The veil
Ready
Laughing
Out into the street
Rome, in the heat
On the steps
Inside
Under the canopy

A garden the
city walks
past

Piazza del Popolo · Rome

Piazza del Popolo · Rome
At the doors
The doorway
Down the steps
With the bouquet
In black and white

Two Romes,
in one
afternoon

The day used the city as a corridor: out of one door, along a street in the heat, in through another. Which is why half of these frames are pavement and traffic and the other half are a walled garden with nobody in it but the wedding.

Rome rewards that. It is a city of interiors reached through exteriors, and a wedding that walks between them is photographed differently from one that stays put.

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In the garden
Through it
Bougainvillea on the balustrade
The tables, under the umbrellas
Dinner
Rome, in July

Bougainvillea,and a shortwhite dress

How I work
The bouquet
The veil, in black and white
The terrace
Later
The team Rome, Lazio
Reception
Hotel de Russie, Rome
Photography
Stefano Casati

Photographs by Stefano Casati.

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