Cypress Canopy and Candlelight at Mas Le Gaudre, Provence

Officiant Pau Cardona led the vows beneath the cypress canopy while Guiem Soldevila played live acoustic guitar. Katie walked the gravel path in a long-sleeved crepe gown with a cathedral-length veil that caught the late September breeze. James waited in charcoal wool with an ivory pocket square. With only five guests present, every sound carried clearly across the still Provencal air.

In the last of the afternoon light, Marie Thibault walked Katie and James through the farmhouse grounds and into the cypress alley, cleared of ceremony arrangements and held in a quiet the earlier hour had not offered. The crepe of the gown caught the gold light like it had been designed for this exact hour. James tucked his hand into the small of Katie's back, and the camera simply waited.

Around the table in the stone-floored pool house, dinner became an actual dinner. Conversation wound from toast to toast, Sonorisation 83 providing a warm sound backdrop that never overpowered the room. Katie laughed so hard during the speeches she had to set down her wine glass. The cake from Toquadom, three tiers of smooth ivory buttercream with fresh flowers, anchored the far end of the table.

Florist Celine Braun anchored each cypress base with cascading arrangements of white pampas grass, ivory snapdragons, and pale blush hellebores. Inside the pool house, the reception table layered an antique white linen runner with pillar candles at varying heights, trailing ivory garden roses, blush ranunculus, and anemones with near-black centres. Matte white tableware from Maison Options caught the candlelight unevenly.