Italy
Elopements

Why elope in Italy

“The benchmark for a reason. Italy makes extraordinary wedding photographs look inevitable.”

Italy is the country against which all other destination wedding locations are measured, and the reason is simple: the visual density of what it offers is unmatched anywhere in the world. The Amalfi Coast's vertiginous drama, Tuscany's rolling vine landscapes, Sicily's ancient Greek temples, Puglia's whitewashed trulli, each region is a completely distinct visual world, all of them extraordinary. I have been shooting weddings in Italy for several years and the country continues to reward that familiarity with new details, new light conditions, and new combinations of architecture and landscape that I had not noticed before. Italy gives you more photographs per square metre than anywhere else on earth.

The light

Italian autumn light, specifically October in Tuscany, Puglia, and Sicily, is some of the most beautiful ambient light I have worked in. The sun is low enough to be perpetually golden for most of the afternoon, and the warm stone of every Italian building acts as an enormous warm reflector. The visual conditions are almost cinematically perfect.