Dom & Dan
La Paris
Diamond Collection
12/04/2023
Dom & Dan
La Paris
Diamond Collection
12/04/2023
Travel shaped this relationship long before the wedding did, and it showed in our very first conversation with Kristen and Harold. They wanted their guests to fall in love with South Africa exactly as the two of them had, with La Paris in Franschhoek as the backdrop for it. We watched the forecast nervously in the days before, bracing for rain. Clear skies turned up instead, just a cold one, so heaters went in around the reception tables and nobody felt a thing under the Franschhoek stars.
Every flower at this wedding came straight from Kristen's own vision, blush and pink in every direction, exactly as she had pictured it months before. Guests signed a Bible instead of a guest book, each one highlighting a favourite verse with a note for the couple to keep. A violinist played Kristen down the aisle, and somewhere between the ceremony and the photos, Harold revealed himself to be considerably goofier than any of us expected. Watching the two of them lose it laughing during their couple's shoot remains one of our favourite memories from the entire day.
The Wedding
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The mood
The Wedding
Dom arrived at the idea of two weddings in one, an all white ceremony that gave nothing away, followed by a reception that revealed everything. The aisle was lined with white roses that appeared to grow straight out of the grass, a detail pulled from an inspiration image that needed exactly the right florist to execute. Dom carried the only hint of what was coming, a bouquet of bright pink and orange held against all that white. Nobody sitting in that ceremony suspected what they were walking into next.
The reception answered every question the ceremony had quietly asked. Tables dressed in bright pink and orange, thick pink candles Dom had brought over from the UK, and a champagne tower that was never really optional. Dom had been nervous about walking down the aisle, which is completely understandable, and by the time the first dance arrived every bit of that had dissolved. Their couple photos still stop us every time we look at them.
D & D
The mood
Dom and Dan, thank you for trusting us with something that felt like two celebrations folded into one. The roses growing out of the grass, the candles that crossed continents to get there, the moment guests walked into the reception and understood what the bouquet had been hinting at all along. To Oriane and every supplier who helped pull this off exactly as imagined, thank you for making it worth the reveal.
Photographer: He is Visual
Videographer: Orpen Film
DJ: DJ Joe
Hair & Makeup: Ame Makeup and hair
Catering: Table 7
Entertainment: String Quartet
Officiant: Troy Goldie
Cake: La Paris
Flowers & Decor: Oriative Floral