The Journal
Notes on light, space and calm weddings
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Venues
7 min read
How to choose an architectural wedding venue
Concrete, glass and open sky can make a wedding feel timeless — or cold. Here is how we read a building before we ever bring a couple inside.

Planning
6 min read
Planning around the sun: timing your ceremony to the light
Hard midday shadows or soft evening gold? The minute you say your vows changes every photograph. A production lead’s guide to timing.

Real Weddings
5 min read
Real wedding: Mara & Theo at Casa Lumen
Sixty guests, one long table and a concrete house in the hills above Lisbon. How Mara and Theo planned a wedding that felt like a long lunch with everyone they love.

Design
6 min read
A restrained palette: designing with stone, linen and one flower
Fewer elements, chosen well, read as calm in every photograph. Our design lead on building a wedding palette with almost nothing.

Planning
8 min read
The 12-month wedding planning timeline, without the panic
A month-by-month rhythm we use with every couple — what to decide, when to decide it and what can safely wait.

Venues
6 min read
Five Lisbon venues that rarely host weddings
A cloister turned gallery, a modernist rooftop and a tile factory with perfect north light. Five places we have opened for couples — and what they demand.

Real Weddings
5 min read
Real wedding: Aiko & Samuel at Glasshouse 14
A glass pavilion in Copenhagen, a dinner timed to the long Nordic dusk and a ceremony with no aisle at all.

Design
4 min read
Wedding stationery that guests actually keep
One typeface, cotton paper and generous margins. Why the simplest invitations end up on the fridge for a year.
