A White Floral Lake Como Wedding With Tables Named After Their Love Story

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Mathilde and Dylan married at Villa Pizzo on Lake Como under crystal chandeliers in a glass pavilion, after a morning of heavy rain that cleared just before the vows. The weekend was planned by Wow Wedding, the boutique agency with offices on Lake Como and in Rome, Italy, and Mathilde describes the process as a true collaboration, with the team shaping her references into a weekend that read entirely hers. When the weather forced the ceremony timing to move, her verdict was simple: everything was handled.

Location: Lake Como, Italy
Style: Intimate, Chic, Romantic
Time of planning: 1.5 years
Number of guests: 170
Setting: Historic Villa
Season: Fall

Mathilde and Dylan first crossed paths nine years ago at a party with mutual friends in the South of France, while Mathilde was still in a relationship. The moment Dylan heard she was single, he got in touch, and what started as a summer story turned into something neither of them could walk away from.

Dylan is the son of a renowned French football coach, and Mathilde comes from an entrepreneurial family, with parents who founded a nutritional supplements laboratory, which she credits for the ambition and work ethic in her DNA. When Dylan moved to London, United Kingdom, Mathilde followed, leaving her family and friends behind in a move she calls obvious if they wanted to be together, never easy, and one she would make again.

Welcome Day

Their marriage came in three chapters. The first was a French civil ceremony on 30 August 2025 at their private villa in Nice, France, with their closest family and friends. The following September brought a welcome party at Villa Gastel and the wedding itself at Villa Pizzo on Lake Como, on a date that came down to availability and a family love of the number 26: the couple’s anniversary, and Mathilde’s sister and niece were both born on a 26th.

Bride's Morning & Fashion

The morning portraits come with a scene stealer, a Pomeranian. The stationery set the tone long before anyone arrived. Cartalia, the London stationery studio known for laser cutting, built the invitation suite around panels cut like wrought iron gates opening onto a watercolor of the villa.

For the ceremony, Mathilde wore Zuhair Murad, the Lebanese couture house, and she chose a gown in very delicate lace that she calls everything she had dreamed of. The silhouette runs off the shoulder with sleeves to the wrist, and the cathedral veil carries a lace border that pushes it toward a mantilla, the Spanish veil built to frame the face rather than hide it. Hair and makeup came from Laury and Floriane, with a sun warmed base and a nude lip that let the lace carry the whole look.

Underneath, she went back to the white Gianvito Rossi heels from her civil ceremony. At 177 centimeters tall, she skipped high heels on purpose, choosing comfort. Her jewelry was a single diamond riviere from OraJolia, the unbroken line of stones whose name is simply French for river. Her bouquet trailed and cascaded, longer and more bridal than the one she carried in Nice, and her fragrance for the whole weekend was La Vie est Belle by Lancôme, the iris and praline gourmand.

The welcome party look ran looser. Mathilde wore Milla Nova, a fluid white column on spaghetti straps. For the evening, she switched to René Caovilla heels covered in pearls and sequins, the more glamorous move from the Venetian shoemaker. Her jewelry that night came entirely from Maison Paillard, the bespoke jeweler in the Marais in Paris: a diamond rivière, a ring shaped like a rose and a bracelet that wraps up onto the finger, pieces Mathilde says she fell in love with.

Groom’s Fashion

Dylan wore a Tom Ford tuxedo with a Brioni shirt, a pairing that quietly bridges two eras of James Bond. The cummerbund is the deep cut here, a piece most tuxedo wearers skip, and tailoring lore says the pleats face up because they once held opera tickets.

His watch was an Audemars Piguet he got for the wedding, and his fragrance was Terre d’Hermès, the vetiver and orange classic Mathilde says will always take her back to that day.

Ceremony

The morning of the wedding brought real, heavy, relentless rain to Lake Como, and Mathilde refuses to sugarcoat it: it was one of the most stressful mornings of her life. She and her sister fought back in the most Gen Z way possible, manifesting hard, filming a reel about it and burying sausages, a superstition said to bring good weather.

Getting ready was far from calm, the ceremony timing had to be adjusted because of the downpour, and she admits she felt overwhelmed, yet everything was handled. Socially Michelle & Co, the content creation studio on the team, was there for the parts of the day nobody stages.

Before anyone else saw her, Mathilde had a first look with her father, just the two of them. She had a handkerchief made for him, engraved with the words “À l’homme qui m’a aimée en premier,” to the man who loved me first, a way of naming what he means to her on a day that, in some ways, passes something between them. She thinks he loved the dress, and she knows he loved the moment.

Then, just before the ceremony was due to start, the clouds parted and a clear blue sky opened over the lake, a third act twist no screenwriter would dare pitch. Lorien Wedding had massed white flowers low along the aisle and the stone balustrades, with Baroque putti standing guard over rows of white wrought iron garden chairs, the kind of furniture that belongs in a Parisian park. The floral arch at the far end framed the water and the mountains directly, so the lake itself did the work of the backdrop.

Mathilde lost her grandfather the year before the wedding, and his absence ran through the planning. To honor him and everyone else they have lost, she placed a framed tribute with their names and a flower bouquet on an empty chair, so they were part of the day and remembered.

Mathilde names the vows, together with the speeches, as the most memorable part of the entire wedding, the moments that felt truly theirs. At the very end, their parents set off a surprise they had organized in secret, a color bomb that sent the recessional up in color, joy and laughter, and the couple had absolutely no idea it was coming.

Moments Together

With the sky cleared, the couple got the boat moment Mathilde had been dreaming about. Cadenazzi, the Tremezzina boatyard that has been building wooden boats on Lake Como, Italy, since 1904, took them out on a classic mahogany runabout for what she calls her Riva boat moment, and she describes the ride as surreal, one of those moments that refuses to register as real while it is happening.

Roman Ivanov, the Lake Como photographer who describes his own style as editorial wedding fashion, shot the weekend, and the boat frames show why that label sticks: the lace border of the veil spilling over a varnished hull, a chrome windscreen catching the light, a pink lakeside facade stacked behind them like a set.

Reception

For the reception itself, Mathilde started with a specific feeling. She spent hours on Pinterest and studied everything previously staged at both venues, sorting what she loved from what was wrong for them, and built her vision gradually by elimination while working closely with Wow Wedding. The brief that came out of it was precise: white flowers, classic and clean, tables full of life without heaviness, and chandeliers as the one element she refused to compromise on.

Rentalamp hung crystal chandeliers through the glass house at Villa Pizzo, and they transformed the pavilion with very few flowers doing the heavy lifting. Clear ghost chairs keep the floor visually empty, so the crystal and the white florals by Lorien Wedding carry the room, with Blunotte Eventi on technical production and Memorable Productions on rentals. A white grand piano stood in the pavilion too, and the black and white frame of the couple laughing beside it is one of the loosest of the night.

AFM Banqueting served dinner at tables dressed with gold rimmed glass chargers, cut crystal and white arrangements that kept sightlines open across the table. Every table carried the name of a place that matters to the couple: Monaco, London in the United Kingdom, Lake Como in Italy, Porto Cervo in Italy for Dylan’s bachelor party, and St Tropez in France and Ibiza in Spain, where Mathilde celebrated her two hen parties, one with her French friends and one with her international crew. Féeline Création, a studio from Nice, handled the signs and gifts, including a seating wall crowned with the couple’s monogram, which turns a seating chart into a map of their relationship.

Julia Kurmel recreated the intricate lace of the Zuhair Murad gown directly onto the cake, tier after tier of white with blossom branches arching off the sides, essentially a couture fitting translated into sugar.

The couple made their entrance into dinner to Aria by Argy and Omnya, a melodic techno track Mathilde calls dynamic and euphoric, and it set the tone for everything after. There was no first dance, a decision made early so the two of them could be free with their guests instead of performing for them.

The speeches came from their parents and Mathilde’s sister, and by her account she cried, Dylan cried and so did the rest of the room. Version Originale played the night, a band that shares its name with the label French cinemas put on undubbed films, and true to it, they played original versions throughout, after understanding exactly the vibe the couple wanted from the very first conversation.

Later, Mathilde traded the lace for a short white dress, and the couple cut a berry tart outdoors between sparkler fountains. Lake Como venues often run on earlier evening timing limits, so the night moved at a tight pace, and Wow Wedding kept the flow so well calibrated that the energy never dropped.

Advice from the couple:

• Get involved from day one, and trust your instincts. Don’t try to replicate someone else’s wedding, look at what’s been done at your venue before and use it to find what feels right for you. Build your vision slowly. It will
come.

• And on the day itself: let go. The weather will do what it wants. Things will not go exactly to plan. But the people who love you will be there, and that is all that actually matters. The moments that go slightly sideways always become the ones you laugh about most.

• It goes faster than you could ever imagine. Be present for every second of it.