Sydney & JulienCasale del Gallo, Rome, Italy

Sydney and Julien were married at Casale del Gallo on 16 September 2025, in the hills half an hour south of Rome. The estate is not a hall but a private property: three traditional houses set around gardens and two pools, forty five covered seats if the weather turns, and open lawns that take a far larger crowd. You arrive through the countryside and the city stops existing.

This wedding began the way many do, with a gentle, almost traditional picture in mind: soft pastels, English roses, the kind of romance you can already see in a sketch. Then Sydney found her dress, a Tara Latour piece alive with deep reds, fuchsia and yellow, florals climbing the fabric like a garden in motion. It was a surprise at first, for everyone, but that is where the real story began.

From that single, extraordinary choice, the whole concept took shape. Colour was no longer decoration; it became the language. We built the whole design around the dress, so the arrangements, the mood and every detail at Casale del Gallo felt like a natural extension of what Sydney had chosen to wear. What could have stayed a classic pastel wedding became something far more personal: a distinctive, unforgettable arrangement that belongs only to them.

The design was deliberately concentrated rather than spread thin. Two garden compositions marked the ceremony, with the aisle carried in the same palette, and dinner was served at one U shaped imperial table for thirty. Nine arrangements ran its length, held low on kenzan so nobody lost a face across the table, with fruit chosen inside the palette, thirty tapered candles in their holders and forty tealights taking over as the light went. Motif Floral built the flowers, Ruslana Regi did hair and makeup, Lexi Truesdale Photos shot the day and the film, and Destination Wedding Rome Music carried the night. Sydney wore Gucci shoes and carried a Cult Gaia bag; Julien was in linen by Proper Cloth.

Julien in light linen beside her, old stone and ivy, and the Roman light doing what it always does, holding two people who let the day change when the dress asked it to. That is the kind of planning we believe in: listening when the vision shifts, and having the courage to follow it all the way. The wedding was later featured by The Anti-Bride.