You know it, I like weddings where “something happens”, I like to feel the energy of the day and the couples’ love. This wedding was simple, but it seemed that every moment was super special. I love that there was a pig on the grill, that there were games and then that all of a sudden, everybody’s dancing in single line. Anyway, both the couple and the photographer will tell you about this day better than I will, so I let you now enjoy the photos and their stories. Photography by Yann Audic for Lifestories Wedding Photography.

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The wedding took place in Saugues, France. From the bride:

We met in Italy, where I was spending the year being part of the Erasmus program. Our first kiss: on the stairs of the Duomo in Ferrara. How did he propose? One night, in one of our favourite restaurant in Bordeaux, without thinking about it even 5minutes: “What if we got married?” I nearly died eating my pesto & parmesan carpaccio! :)

Name one thing you regret… 

That there are only 24 hours in a day!! It went too fast! But hopefully, there are the photos to remember everything that happened. Speaking of which, we noticed a few days after the wedding that we had no family photo with my parents and brothers, which is one big regret. We were too busy enjoying the moment! One last thing, I wish my father didn’t care so much about everything being perfect for me and had enjoyed the wedding more serenely.

… And one thing you’re really happy about/ proud of.

We’re happy we were able to have a wedding that corresponded to us, that was both friendly and warm. All thanks to our families, our friends and people from the village. Every detail I could have thought of during the months previous to the wedding finally took its meaning, everything went as we could have imagined it! It was so good to have all those people we care about, together in this magical place that we love so much!

The word of the photographer.

As soon I arrived in Auvergne, my eyes were all itchy due to the lack of sleep and the long road stretching from Paris to la Haute-Loire, a dream ! I’m a “seaside” guy, from the beach and the ocean, I only know inland France from watching it through the window of the train! But to be sincere I was speechless when I arrived in Saugues; and now I’m just talking about the landscape.

Putting aside the setting, there was such a great atmosphere at this wedding: simplicity, friends, elbow grease, DIY (quite a lot actually!). Everything that gives a unique taste to a wedding. We didn’t physically meet before with Anaïs and Jacopo, but it felt so natural straight from the beginning. When the preparation began, Jacopo’s entire Italian family was there to guide him: the mama, the grandmother, the auntie, all his friends, like this, no wait, like that, laughter and great photos to take. I could actually write an entire chapter about Italians at weddings, we should always have Italian guests: they’re super handsome and really relax.

Then, as Anaïs told it, the wedding was organised in the family village (from the father’s side) and the effort put into renovating the barns and decorating them was huge and contributed for a large part to adding this “homely” dimension to the event.

Anyway, this goes without saying but I need to say it anyway: I really spent a wonderful day. From the photographic point of view, everything was perfect: one great light this day and I think that the quality of the air really helped getting such good conditions; pristine and rugged landscapes to give some depth to the images and of course, one super in love couple (-: There are many ways to have a beautiful wedding, I really liked theirs!

Thanks a lot for welcoming me, grazie mille !