Your love, my creative vision. I’m Isabelle, a Stockholm, Sweden wedding photographer that strives to capture meaning in every photo. Your wedding starts here!
Kate and Edgard’s invited us to their home country to document their very intimate alfresco style wedding in Latvia. We traveled to Berenati, a small town on the coast. Even though this was an intimate gathering, the bride and groom made sure their day would reflect their relationship. Such as what they love to do as a couple. Inspired by nature, they planned the wedding weekend around the beach villa and their mutual love for the outdoors.
How This Alfresco Style Wedding Came To Life
Kate, an aspiring musician and graphic designer made the vision of their day come to life together with her husband to be Edgards. With about 20 of their closest family members, Kate and Edgard tied the knot in the garden in front of the villa. Later they enjoyed an al fresco family-style dinner. As a photographer, it’s an extreme honor to be invited to document a wedding in such an intimate setting. So thankful to have gotten this opportunity to visit beautiful Latvia. Thank you, Kate & Edgards, I will forever treasure this. Expert advice from the bride herself below on how to plan an Al Fresco style wedding. She is describing their preparation process and favorite moments of the days. Reader, thank you for stopping by! I can not thank you enough for spending a few minutes on my blog, which means a heck of a lot to me.
/ Isabelle
Ps, don’t miss Kate & Edgards’s wedding film created by Laia Lluch, scroll down to watch!
From the bride:
We both love nature, and we wanted the ceremony and dinner to be outdoors. And to be an intimate one. Surrounded by silence and the sounds of nature and the wind in the trees. So we rented this lovely seaside house with a yard. Where our closest family members and we could have an intimate ceremony and an alfresco style dinner on the terrace. We also love the seaside and wanted to be near it.
It was a family celebration
It was a family celebration, and we did not want to get too many people involved. We wanted to do as much as possible by ourselves. Since we love the outdoors, Villa Sipoli Design was the perfect place for us. It’s a beautiful little place with wooden elements. It has a yard and a terrace that we could center our day around. Making it feel like it was a family home, and we were all just sitting outside and having a fancy alfresco style dining.
One of our friends helped us as a caterer. We are preparing food right behind the house, so there was an amicable atmosphere. Usually, they only rent the apartment as a quiet weekend getaway for couples, but we were able to convince the owners to let us have our wedding there. And we’re so happy and grateful that they agreed!
I made the invitations
As I made the invitations, I knew I wanted them to reflect the wooden theme. The lightness and softness I felt the day would carry. So I chose a photo with reindeer lichen, that I had made a few years ago. It’s one of my favorite images. So the light color of the reindeer lichen is the colors of our day. Plus, the light mix of shades of the flowers in my bouquet and on the dinner table.
We both arrived at the house the day before and started decorating it and setting up the music, putting up string lights, and other things. We had no idea how it would turn out. But when the florists arrived and started putting up the dinner table with all the excellent flower arrangements and the place was magically transformed. It turned into be perfect, and all the details came together so beautifully. We were so proud of what we had organized.
My favorite moment of the day
My favorite moment of the day was the ceremony. We are seeing the whole of our family looking at my husband and me. He’s smiling as my brother led me down the aisle. It was very emotional and beautiful. And we are then holding his hand as we spoke our beautiful but straightforward vows. We had come up with the promises previous night in a brainstorming session while making the last-minute preparations for the upcoming day. Everything was complete!
2 Brides Photography is a wedding photography studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. Specializing in unique & personal destination weddings in Sweden, Italy, France & beyond. Follow me on the day via Instagram.
Oh dear. I am smitten with your work! The image of the bride with her hands clasped over her heart. . .swoon. And the one of the groom swinging her around near the ocean! SO beautiful and simply inspiring!
[…] Kate och Edgards bjöd in oss till sitt hemland Lettland för att dokumentera deras mycket intima bröllop i al fresco stil. Vi reste till Berenati, en liten stad vid kustenför att fotografera deras mycket speciella dag. Vårt brudsparvar mycket noggranna md att allt skulle återspegla deras förhållande och vad de älskar att göra som ett par. Inspirerade av naturen, planerade de hela bröllopshelgen runt strandvillan de hyrt och deras ömsesidiga kärlek till havet, skogen och ljudet av tystnad. Varmt välkoma att se hela bröllopet på vår blogg! […]
Could they have styled their wedding any more perfectly?!? The cake – the flowers – ahh!! BTW I think my favorite shot is the one-sock-one-shoe, haha 🙂
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Absolutely gorgeous wedding! You captured it so beautiful, that light is absolutely to die for!
Thanks SO much Marcela!!!! Makes me so happy that you enjoyed this wedding. xx
Beautiful work! Great job on the details and capturing their love!
Thanks so much Anthony, really appreciate your kind words!!
Oh dear. I am smitten with your work! The image of the bride with her hands clasped over her heart. . .swoon. And the one of the groom swinging her around near the ocean! SO beautiful and simply inspiring!
Thank you so much Jessica, smiling from ear to ear now!! 🙂
Your entire site is gorgeous, and I love these photos – absolutely stunning!!
Awww thank you Robin, you made my day!!!!
[…] Kate och Edgards bjöd in oss till sitt hemland Lettland för att dokumentera deras mycket intima bröllop i al fresco stil. Vi reste till Berenati, en liten stad vid kustenför att fotografera deras mycket speciella dag. Vårt brudsparvar mycket noggranna md att allt skulle återspegla deras förhållande och vad de älskar att göra som ett par. Inspirerade av naturen, planerade de hela bröllopshelgen runt strandvillan de hyrt och deras ömsesidiga kärlek till havet, skogen och ljudet av tystnad. Varmt välkoma att se hela bröllopet på vår blogg! […]
So beautiful! I love every bit of this wedding. <3
Thanks a million Briana, thats so sweet of you!!
Could they have styled their wedding any more perfectly?!? The cake – the flowers – ahh!! BTW I think my favorite shot is the one-sock-one-shoe, haha 🙂
Thank you soooooo much Stephanie, it’s one of my fave shots as well 😉
Woah… AMAZING work!!
Thank you so much!
Galet vackert! Fantastiskt!
Nice Work!
Pure magic thank you for sharing.
Thank you!!
Oh my……. how utterly gorgeous and those sunset shots just took my breath away xx
Stunningly beautiful photos, you must have had a wonderful wedding.
Beautiful work!!
Thank you Andreas, hope all is well with you. Missed you at WUN 2.0 in Sthlm!!