Décor & Styling

A candle has a working life of roughly four hours before it begins to gutter, and most receptions run longer than that. This single fact — known to every set designer and ignored by most couples — is where the romance of a candlelit wedding either holds together or quietly collapses. The image in yo…

The single hardest part of an old money wedding is not finding the right villa. It is keeping the day from looking like it is trying to be an old money wedding. The aesthetic collapses the moment it feels staged — the moment a tablescape reads as a moodboard rather than a family heirloom, or a guest…