Malou and Adrien at Villa Le Fontanelle, Florence, Tuscany
Tuscany · 25 July 2020

A red villa,
and a gate
full of city

Villa Le Fontanelle · Florence, Tuscany

July 2020, which was not a year that made weddings easy. This one happened anyway: a terracotta villa in the hills, a wrought-iron arch with Florence inside it, a ceremony under white drapes and a garden lit with a thousand bulbs until well after midnight.

The villa
The drive up
The buttons
Indoors, before
Him
The vaulted hall
The loggia
The orangery windows
The ceremony, under the drapes
The ring

A gate with
a city
inside it

The hills above Florence

The hills above Florence
In black and white
With the bouquet
The dress, going down
Her
Everybody, on the steps

The summer
everything
was almost
cancelled

Nobody needs reminding what July 2020 was. Guests came from fewer countries than had been planned, and the ones who came had all travelled through something to be there.

It shows in the photographs, and not in a way you would expect: there is more touching, more standing about together, less checking of phones. A wedding that has been moved twice is attended differently from one that has not.

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On the stone stair
At the red door
On the lawn
Among the cypresses
The flowers
Le Fontanelle, after midnight

A thousandbulbs, anda fountain

How I work
The lights over the tables
Dinner
From above, in black and white
The villa and its water
The garden, filling up
And the house, once it was dark
The team Florence, Tuscany
Venue
Villa Le Fontanelle, Florence
Photography
Stefano Casati

Photographs by Stefano Casati.

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