Not every wedding follows the same script, and Federico & Carla’s definitely didn’t. They called it their own wedding festival, and that’s really what it was colourful flowers everywhere, a looser, more playful energy than a typical ceremony, and a guest list that showed up ready to celebrate rather than just watch. It rained for...
This one goes back a few years October 8th, 2016, to be exact but it’s stayed one of the films I’m proudest of. Tamila, from Brazil, and Alessandro, born and raised in Ferrara, said their vows at the Church of Ognissanti in the heart of Florence, before moving out to Castello di Vincigliata for the...
Ben and Anne came to Lake Maggiore from abroad for their wedding Anne is English, Ben is Australian and the lake gave them exactly what they were looking for: that particular kind of elegance that only comes from centuries-old villas, still water, and light that changes every twenty minutes. The ceremony was held at the...
Hiking in the Italian mountains is one of those experiences that doesn’t need much help to feel cinematic but shooting it in RAW makes you notice things you’d otherwise walk straight past. I spent a day near Valmalenco, close to one of the small mountain churches in the area, walking through two abandoned towns where...
Villa Rusconi Clerici doesn’t need much dressing up. Right on the water in Pallanza, on Lake Maggiore, it’s one of those venues where the hardest part of the job is deciding which angle to shoot first. Daria and Alessio got married in the church right beside the villa, then moved everything else aperitivo, dinner, the...
Some weddings I film as a professional. This one, I filmed as family. Giuseppe is my cousin we’ve known each other since he was born, and I’m only a couple of years older than him. Life has taken us in different directions since: he splits his time between Rome and Berlin now, and the way...
Some couples bring two very different worlds together, and you can feel it in every part of the day. Emmanuele is half Italian, half from Hong Kong. Yan is 100% Hong Kong. Together they chose Nordelaia, in the hills of Cremolino, in the Piemonte countryside, to bring both sides of their story into one place....
Some venues do half the work for you. Château de Chantilly is one of them. Francis and Grace, both from New York, brought their family and friends to France to get married inside a château that most people only see in postcards, a 16th-century estate just outside Paris, home to the second-largest collection of antique...
No big guest list. No seating chart. No stress about the weather forecast three months in advance. Just Valentin, Katja, their two witnesses, and Lake Maggiore doing what it does best. They chose Ispra for their elopement on August 5th — a quieter corner of the lake, away from the more touristy spots, with just...