Nº 02 Field notes
Notes from anisland wedding
An island wedding is a beautiful logistics problem. Everyone, everything and every lens arrives by boat, and the lake decides the schedule as much as the planner does.
These are our notes from two days on a Lake Garda island in September: what worked, what we would do again, and what we would pack differently.
Nº 01The boats are the timeline
We built the whole day around three crossings: guests at three, the couple at half past, and the band with the cake at five. Each crossing was also a photograph. Guests in linen on a wooden launch are a picture before anyone says a word.
Nº 02Wind, and other surprises
By four the afternoon breeze arrived, as it does on Garda. Veils fly, glasses tip, and the violinists clip their sheet music down. We moved the family photographs into the shelter of the loggia and kept the open terrace for the couple alone, where a moving veil is a gift rather than a problem.
On an island you cannot pop back for a forgotten battery. Everything comes with you, twice.
Nº 03What we packed
- Two bodies each, with a spare in a dry bag
- Three primes and one short zoom per person
- Medium-format film for the portraits on the water
- Twice the batteries and cards we expected to need
- A small reflector for the loggia, which faces north
Nº 04Would we do it again?
Every time. The constraints of an island make a day calmer, not busier: nobody leaves early, nobody arrives late, and for a few hours the whole world is a garden in the middle of a lake.
