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.

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​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.