An Intimate Wedding at Lume & Co, Génova, Mallorca

Getting ready at Ponent de Mar, Palmanova

They both got ready at the Ponent de Mar, in Palmanova, with the sea straight out from the balconies. The groomsmen ended up on the terrace in black tie with the bay behind them; upstairs the dress was laid out on the bed beside a pair of heels.

A restaurant in Génova, above Palma

The whole wedding took place at Lume & Co in Génova, just above Palma, a restaurant rather than an estate, which suited them entirely. Nothing about the day was scaled up to impress anyone.

A candle-lit ceremony led by their parents

The ceremony was led by their parents. At its centre was a moment where the two of them lit candles together, a small symbolic gesture that landed harder than anyone expected. There were a lot of tears. Not the polite kind, but the kind that come when a room is genuinely full of love and everyone notices at the same time.

Cocktails in the garden

Lume & Co has a garden under the trees, and that is where the sixty of them stood for the next hour while boards of food came out from the kitchen. It is the point where a wedding this size stops feeling like an event and starts feeling like dinner with everyone you like.

Portraits before dinner

We took a few minutes on the path outside while the light went. Nothing elaborate: the two of them walking, and one against the wall of flowers by the entrance.

Sixty guests, one long evening

What followed was warm, unhurried, and close. Sixty people who all knew each other, in one space, staying late.

Some weddings are about scale. This one was about proximity.

Shot on digital and 35mm film

Film is included in every wedding I shoot: these 35mm frames reached the same gallery as the digital, at no extra cost.