The Journal

Notes on light, space and calm weddings

Venue guides, planning rhythms and real weddings from the Keluvi studio in Lisbon. Written by the people who direct the day.

Venue guides, planning rhythms and real weddings from the Keluvi studio in Lisbon. Written by the people who direct the day.

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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.

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