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A wedding photographer for Tuscany
Tuscany rewards slow weddings. Stone farmhouses hold the day's heat into the night, cypress lanes turn every arrival into a procession, and the long table under bare bulbs remains the most photogenic dinner arrangement humanity has produced. We slow down here, on purpose.
The golden hours, plural
The famous Tuscan golden hour is real, but the secret is that Tuscany has two. The first is dawn, mist in the valley folds, cypresses standing out of it like brushstrokes, and nobody awake but us. Couples who walk out for twenty minutes of it, coffee in hand, get frames no evening can produce.
The evening hour needs no introduction. We stage nothing for it. Dinner simply happens to be lit by it, and we are in position when the light crosses the table.
Estates we return to
- Villa Cetinale, the baroque garden and the long lawn evening light was invented for.
- Borgo Santo Pietro, gardens so complete the flowers need no imports.
- Il Borro, a whole village to yourselves, best photographed from the vineyard road.
- Castiglion del Bosco, Val d'Orcia at its emptiest and most cinematic.
- La Foce, the zigzag cypress road every drone asks permission to meet.
- Castello di Vincigliata, stone courtyards above Florence, candlelight after dark.
How a Tuscan wedding runs
Distances deceive here. The villa is never as close to the church as the map suggests, and the gravel roads ask for time. We build a generous schedule with your planner, then protect it, because Tuscany punishes hurry more than any place we work.
Harvest deserves a word. Marrying in late September or October puts your wedding inside the vendemmia, tractors in the lanes, the smell of pressed grapes over dinner, and a landscape turning gold by the day. It is our favourite assignment of the year.
Coverage and pricing live with the editions. For everything else there is the questions page, and the commission sheet is one page away.
The hills hold
the evening.
Planning notes
Working in Tuscany
When to marry here
May and June for green hills and roses, September and October for harvest gold. July and August work at altitude or with a pool and a siesta built into the day.
Two golden hours
Dawn in the Val d'Orcia is the least photographed great light in Europe. Give us twenty minutes of it the morning after, and the archive gains a chapter.
Gravel arithmetic
Church, villa and viewpoint are never as close as the map claims. We drive every route the day before, timed, so the schedule tells the truth.
Asked about Tuscany
Three honest answers
Do you photograph weddings in the Val d'Orcia and Chianti?
Yes, both, and they photograph differently. The Val d'Orcia is open, empty and cinematic, best at dawn and dusk. Chianti is intimate, wooded and golden, best from terraces and vineyard rows. We plan the portraits around which Tuscany you chose.
What does a Tuscany wedding photographer cost?
Editions begin at 1 900 euros, with most villa weddings commissioning The Edition from 3 400 euros. Multi day estate weekends, welcome dinner to farewell lunch, sit best with The Archive, quoted by consultation with travel inside one number.
Can you photograph a civil ceremony in Siena or Florence?
Certainly. The Sala Rossa in Florence and Siena's civil halls are short, formal and beautiful, and we treat them as the opening scene, then walk the streets with you while the city is still surprised by a wedding dress.
A long table in the hills? Save us two seats.
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