This wedding was a world of its own. Set deep in the canyon lands of southern Utah, L&A gathered their closest people for a long weekend at Amangiri’s Camp Sarika, one of the most remote and arresting properties in the American Southwest. The vision, built by the team at Wild Heart Events, was never just a wedding. It was a series of deliberate experiences, each with its own palette, its own mood, its own way of making guests feel like the whole desert had been arranged for them. Photographer Sophie Bérard was there to catch all of it — the quiet moments and the spectacular ones — on film.
Location: Canyon Point, Utah, United States
Style: Intimate, Design-forward, Architectural
Time of planning: 1 year
Number of guests: 28
Setting: Hotel
Season: Fall
Inspiration & Concept
The through-line across the entire weekend was intentionality. Wild Heart Events approached each event as its own designed world: the first night, an “Astronomer’s Dinner” dressed in starry sparkles, with Jonathan Adler plates and a celestial mood. The second night, a radical shift — the “Red Raven Dinner” at Raven’s Nest, where vivid crimson cut hard against the bleached sandstone.
For the wedding itself, the references leaned brutalist-chic: old-world ceremony, new-world architecture, a couple so striking in their custom Gaurav Gupta that the design of everything else existed to frame them.
Helicopter Ride & Pool Party
Between nights, there was adventure. Guests took helicopter rides over the vast, copper-toned landscape of the Colorado Plateau — Lake Powell glittering below, the canyon walls dropping away in every direction.
Back at the resort, afternoons meant the pool at Camp Sarika. Floats, sun loungers, white umbrellas, and those canyon walls watching over all of it.
Raven’s Nest
Night two belonged entirely to red. At Raven’s Nest, a dramatic natural amphitheater carved into Amangiri’s Estrada sandstone, the planners staged a dinner that looked like something between a surrealist artwork and a fever dream. The contrast was irresistible — all that warm, bleached stone, and then this explosion of crimson cutting right through it.
Guests wore all-neutral tones, a deliberate dress code that made the red glow feel even more electric. A long communal table ran the length of the space, covered end-to-end in red anthurium by Layered Vintage. A guitarist played acoustic sets from the canyon floor as guests settled in. The couple looked absolutely stunning against it all.
Bridal Fashion & Morning
The bride wore three looks across the weekend, but it was her wedding-day gown that stole the show. Designed by Gaurav Gupta, the custom strapless dress moved in dense, undulating pleats — ivory, sculptural, fluid — as though the fabric had been shaped by the same wind that carved the slot canyons around her.
The dress is impossible to look away from.
For the second evening, she wore Toni Maticevski — a fringed, champagne-toned piece with a pleated skirt that carried its own kind of movement. Her accessories throughout the weekend included double-strand pearls, a wide gold cuff, and a cushion-cut engagement ring that caught the Utah light beautifully.
The groom’s look was Gaurav Gupta as well — a sharp black tuxedo with a bow tie, built for the drama of the desert ceremony. Getting-ready moments happened against the backdrop of Amangiri’s floor-to-ceiling glass, the canyon framed behind him.
First Look
Before the ceremony, L&A took a few quiet minutes alone in the canyon with Sophie Bérard — just the two of them and all that open sky. They did portraits with their closest people after, and by the time everyone gathered for the ceremony, the mood was already warm and loose, more like a reunion than a countdown.
Ceremony
The ceremony took place on a custom platform Wild Heart Events called “the staircase to nowhere.” A seemingly floating structure in the open desert, designed to put L&A against the vast, uninterrupted sky. Guests arrived at assigned seats marked with vintage champagne coupes. A harpist played from the desert floor.
The bride walked in on her father’s arm, bouquet in hand. Layered Vintage had put together something wild and sculptural — copper chrysanthemums, oncidium orchids, pincushion protea — an explosion of fall color that looked like the desert itself had bloomed for the occasion.
And then, surrounded by everyone who mattered, they said yes.
Cocktail Hour
After the ceremony, guests moved into the canyon amphitheater for cocktail hour. Musicians with horns were positioned atop the rocks — a surround-sound welcome into the next part of the evening that nobody forgot.
Decor & Reception
Dinner was held in Amangiri‘s desert lounge, where the space felt at once ancient and completely current. Tables were arranged in a rectangle so every guest could see every other guest, an intentional setup for a group this small and this close. Metal menus arrived tucked into personalized hand-stitched envelopes.
At the center of the table sat a sprawling floral installation in moody terracotta and ochre. Anthuriums, grasses, dried botanicals spilling across the tablecloth and onto the floor.
As night fell, the desert lounge transformed. Candlelight took over. A warm-glow projection, a single burning circle, lit the concrete wall beside the table like a second moon. The canyon mesas went dark behind it all.
Later, everyone moved to Camp Sarika for dancing. The bride changed into her fringed champagne reception look and the cake, a textured white tower with botanical detail, was cut with the kind of kiss that made the whole room cheer.
PLANNING & DESIGN Wild Heart Events | PHOTOGRAPHER Sophie Bérard | VIDEOGRAPHER Max Cutrone | VENUE & CATERING Amangiri | CONTENT Kurated by Kassie | DRESS Gaurav Gupta | FLORALS Layered Vintage | PAPER GOODS Red Revelry | LIGHTING Brilliant Event Lighting | RENTALS Westera Rentals | TABLETOP RENTALS Casa de Perrin | MUAH Beauty by Nat | HAIR Anthology Bridal, Amanda Leigh | LIVE MUSIC Flight of Voices | DJ Off the Record
