Ronalyn and Robin at A garden venue, Southern California
Southern California · 8 December 2025

A cello, and a
floor that never
emptied

A garden venue · Southern California

Burgundy and blush in December: a morning spread across two hotel rooms, a ceremony under a white arch against a hedge, a cellist playing them in — and then a reception where the dance floor filled at the first song and did not clear again.

Palms, that morning
The gown at the window
The rings, on the invitation
The box
The shoe
Burgundy, all morning
Her, before the dress
Him, before the tie
The cufflinks
His vows, and hers

An arch, a
hedge, and
one cello

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Southern California
The bouquet
Dressed
The veil, its whole length
In the mirror
Waiting

A morning
in two
rooms

Two suites, two halves of a family, and about four hours in which nothing happens in one place. Photographing a morning like this is a question of moving without being seen to move, and of knowing which of the two rooms is about to matter.

The answer is usually the quieter one. Most of the frames here that are worth keeping were made in the ten minutes before somebody was ready, not in the hour after.

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The boutonnière
The first look
Close
Laughing about something
The train, on the gravel
Just after the ceremony

Two frames,underthe veil

How I work
The cellist
The tables
The kiss
The cake
The floor, at the first song
And later, with the lights out
On the way out
The team Southern California
Photography
Stefano Casati for Loving Lens

Photo Stefano Casati for Loving Lens.

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