Nathalie and Christopher had a very specific vision for their wedding at La Foce in Tuscany: something so considered, so deliberately unplaceable in time, that in thirty years you still wouldn’t be able to guess the year. SposiamoVi brought that vision to life across two days in August 2025, starting with a welcome dinner in Pienza the night before and a wedding day set inside one of the most architecturally significant gardens in Italy. Sixty of their closest friends were there for all of it, and almost none of them went home before 3 a.m.!
Location: Tuscany, Italy
Style: Classic, Minimal, Timeless
Time of planning: 10 months
Number of guests: 60
Setting: Villa
Season: Summer
Nathalie and Christopher met through mutual friends just before COVID hit in 2020. He proposed on her 30th birthday at Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como, already in Italy, already setting the tone. When it came time to plan the wedding, returning to Italy wasn’t a question.
Bride's Morning & Fashion
Nathalie wore Vera Wang haute couture, a ballgown built from handcrafted Italian lace and tulle with long sheer sleeves. The construction is precise in a way that reads on camera as effortless, which is exactly what couture is supposed to do. Her veil, also Vera Wang, had floral petal embroidery designed to mirror the petals floating in La Foce‘s garden pond. Her shoes were Amina Muaddi, her jewelry came from a local jeweler in Los Angeles, and her perfume was Blossom Love by Amouage.
She wore her hair down in natural curls, just the way she always wears it. Her makeup was the same. Nathalie’s approach to the whole look was to show up as herself, on one of the most photographed days of her life, and look exactly like she does on any other day she feels good. Her bouquet was white roses, keeping everything locked into the same monochrome restraint that ran through the entire day.
Groom’s Fashion
Christopher wore a custom double-breasted tuxedo made by William and Company, a bespoke suit maker in Los Angeles. His shoes were Christian Louboutin. The detail that ties everything together: his cufflinks were handmade to feature the couple’s wedding crest, the same crest from their invitations, gifted by his best man.
Ceremony
La Foce‘s garden was designed in the 1920s by English landscape architect Cecil Pinsent, and it looks like something that took a hundred years to become this good. The hedgerows are clipped into walls. The cypress trees line the axes like sentinels. Nathalie and Christopher didn’t decorate this garden so much as they worked with it, keeping the florals all-white so the greenery could do what it does best.
The ceremony aisle ran along the garden’s central axis, flanked by the tall manicured hedges on both sides. At the foot of the altar stood a long narrow reflecting pool, and white rose petals had been scattered across its surface, floating on the water, filling the stone basin.
The floral arch at the altar was built entirely from white blooms by Flowers Living, roses and ranunculus layered so densely the structure behind them ceased to exist. White petals covered the grass. The whole scene was monochrome against green, which is the kind of restraint that only works when you trust the setting completely.
Christopher walked out to the theme from Gladiator. It sounds like a bold choice until you know the film was shot twenty minutes away, at the same site in Pienza where Nathalie and Christopher hosted their welcome dinner the night before.
The ceremony was Armenian Apostolic, officiated by a priest arranged specifically for the occasion, a requirement for the marriage to be recognized within their faith. Traditional Armenian ceremonies carry no vows. The priest speaks continuously throughout, blessing the couple and their guests. The wedding crowns were placed and every guest cried.
Moments Together
Shot by La Moment Photography, the couple’s portraits were taken inside the same garden that held their ceremony, the hedgerow corridors, the cypress lines, the stone statuary. The black-and-white conversions throughout the gallery weren’t an afterthought. Specific frames were chosen for it, the walking shots, the quieter ceremony moments, giving those images a different register than the color work.
Reception
The reception stayed on the villa grounds. Galateo Ricevimenti served dinner in two pasta courses followed by a choice of beef or branzino, with Luca Quadrelli on saxophone playing through the meal. The bar was open, wine moved freely, and tequila shots were passed to everyone. Christopher gave a speech.
The millefoglie came next, the traditional Italian cream cake assembled in front of the guests, served alongside a prosecco tower. Then the surprise. A Zaffet band appeared, the Lebanese wedding procession, all drums and ululation and dancing, as a tribute to Natalie’s heritage and specifically to her parents. The band pulled everyone from the garden into the limonaia, where the after party started and did not stop until 3 a.m.
More than half the guests were staying at the villa overnight. The morning after the wedding, everyone woke up together, Nathalie and Christopher included. They describe it as feeling like a giant sleepover with their best friends, which is exactly what it was. That was the whole point of keeping it to sixty people and one villa: not a wedding that ends when the lights go up, but one that keeps going until everyone runs out of things to say.
Advice from the couple:
• Never leave each others side during the wedding! You want to experience every moment of that day together as a couple.
PLANNING & PRODUCTION SposiamoVi | PHOTOGRAPHER La Moment Photography | VIDEOGRAPHER2Become1Video | VENUE La Foce | CONTENT CREATOR Reel Events Weddings | DRESS Vera Wang | SHOESAmina Muaddi | GROOM’S SUIT William and Company | GROOM’S SHOES Christian Louboutin | FLORALSFlowers Living | WELCOME DINNER FLORALS Millefiori di Chiara e Laura | WELCOME DINNER VENUE La Terrazza del Chiostro | F&B Galateo Ricevimenti | LIGHTS & AUDIO JD Events | DJ DJ Smoke | SAXOPHONISTLuca Quadrelli | STRING QUARTET Etruria Musica | ZAFFA BAND Zaffet Mabrouk | WELCOME DINNER MUSIC Lorenzo Borneo
