Rustic chic styled shoot at Villa Garibalda
With beautiful soft lights and colours and an early Italian summer, our styled shoot would like to show you a hidden gem, an undisclosed spot in Northern Italy.
With beautiful soft lights and colours and an early Italian summer, our styled shoot would like to show you a hidden gem, an undisclosed spot in Northern Italy.
As destination wedding photographers, we at L&V Photography are quite used to travel in and around Italy and Europe to the most particular and renown locations and venues: but we know the talents and the beauty we also have next to our doorsteps. Lombardy is not just busy and bustling cities like Milan, with its industrial and frenetic life: the countryside can leave you speechless.
This could represents a new perspective of what our hills could offer for your wedding day or elopement.
Our countryside is just as beautiful as other sweet Italian hills that you are used to admire in so many wedding blogs. Still having those “Tuscan Vibes” that in general Italian countryside can really offer.
So here we are, we gathered an amazing group of creative vendors in this beautiful villa up in the hills between Lombardy and Piedmont, near Tortona, just roughly 70 kilometers form Milano and its airports.
Ourselves and the rest of this amazing team of creative vendors wanted to tell a story, reflecting the romantic vibes that Villa Garibalda gifted us with.
The project was inspired by the soft tones, the beautiful garden, the gorgeous details for an “al fresco wedding”. But also, thanks to that beautiful conservatory and the flourishing rose garden patio: those pretty details allowed us to have a traditional english touch to the shooting. Not only, the beautiful hills and countryside we were surrounded by inspired all of us: this rustic-chic styled shoot was held at the beginning of June, when early summer is at its best in Italy.
The light and the stunning landscape put accent on the charm of the bride and her dress by “Le Spose di Andrea”: Andrea choose his very romantic dress Biancospino, that we complemented with the always so oh-stunning sparkly shoes by Anniel. If you’re looking for something particular but extremely versatile for any style of dress, have a look at their beautiful shoes!
Her hair and make up were elegantly done by Lina Pagano: we choose a natural style, to highlight her beauty in such an enchanting and delicate way.
The rings, so quirky and stylish but still very romantic with a vintage touch, were by Golden Age Lab one of our favourite craftsman in Italy: Luca creates stunning pieces, not only as wedding bands but also gorgeous engagement rings. Definitely worth a visit to his website too!
As for the flowers, the lovely design was made by La Fioreria: they opted for a composition of "Blow of cream” Peonies, Tulips, Muscari, Lisianthus, Rose “Mundial", Poppy bulbs Eucalyptus leaves and we all absolutely adored it.
Hello Sunshine Party Wedding Planner set up the beautiful sweet table and as you can see the design and display is just gorgeous! And talking about sweets...we got a sweet tooth thanks to Didi’s Cake who provided us with the cake, macarons, donuts and all the other bonbons. The sweet design was, as you can see, an important part of the shooting, as we could have many details in light blue. So lovely and...delicious!
Photography: Leti | L&V Photography
Venue: Villa Garibalda
Wedding planner: Hello sunshine party
Floral design: La fioreria
Bridal dress: Le spose di Andrea
Make up and hairstyle: Lina Pagano
Rings: My Golden Age
Cake design: Didi’s cake
Shoes: Anniel
Model: Lavinia Restano
Storytellers - Federico
Storytellers - chapter 2.
Questa serie è un tributo a tutte le persone meravigliose che incontriamo sulla nostra strada. Persone che lasciano un segno, con la loro creatività, il loro stile di vita, la loro anima. Una manciata di foto e un assaggio della loro storia. Questo è ciò che vi daremo, perché possiate esserne ispirati anche voi.
“Realizzare un sogno, poter sudare sul lavoro solitario, avere l’opportunità di creare, è il pane e companatico della vita”
Il nostro lavoro ci porta a sperimentare, coinvolgerci, provare a catturare l’essenza delle vite altrui e farle nostre, per un attimo. E in qualche modo si trovano dei punti di contatto con il lavoro di attore, un uomo che con le sue mani, la sua voce, i suoi occhi si trasforma in altro da sè, interpreta un personaggio, uno specchio della realtà, un’anima nuova.
Federico è un attore e un grande amico. Appassionato, ironico, sognatore. Proviamo a regalarvi qualcosa di lui, qualche frammento di una giornata passata insieme tra recitazione e fotografia, ispirate da colori e luci di un'opera d'arte cinematografica, che vi sveleremo alla pubblicazione del post completo dedicato ai suoi ritratti. Ma che, se siete bravi, potreste già indovinare.
“È andata così. Salivamo il sentiero tra il bosco delle ombre. Erano già lontani Cocito, lo Stige, la barca, i lamenti. S’intravvedeva sulle foglie il barlume del cielo. Mi sentivo alle spalle il fruscìo del suo passo. Ma io
ero ancora laggiù e avevo addosso quel freddo. Pensavo che un giorno avrei dovuto tornarci, che ciò ch’è stato
sarà ancora. Pensavo alla vita con lei, com’era prima; che un’altra volta sarebbe finita. Ciò ch’è stato sarà.
Pensavo a quel gelo, a quel vuoto che avevo traversato e che lei si portava nelle ossa, nel midollo, nel sangue.
Valeva la pena di rivivere ancora? Ci pensai, e intravvidi il barlume del giorno. Allora dissi “Sia finita” e mi
voltai. Euridice scomparve come si spegne una candela. Sentii soltanto un cigolìo, come d’un topo che si salva.”
