At the castle I found a chatty atmosphere, friends and family getting together, groom was nervous but his friends and witnesses were keeping him good company. The castle chapel is a little gem, only problem it was about to rain cats and dogs and a medieval chapel has really little windows: light promised to be a problem.

Photographers are afraid to raise their ISO settings because over a certain value, photos can have much grain on them and become “washed” and loose a lot of sharpness.

I pushed my camera to its limits for this ceremony, it would be so complicated to fire a flash in that place, also the gloomy atmosphere is EVERYTHING in the post-produced images from this wedding and a flash would have impacted that greatly.

The ceremony hadn’t started long when we all heard the first and biggest thunder ever exploding outside. Candles trembled and we moved on with the ceremony.

Things were both indimate and stronlgy felt, emotions all over the place. At the second floor musicians brightened up the room while playing throughout the religious function. When the service ended, the newlyweds hugged firs their little girl and then all the guests and family. They lingered in those moments, another reason for lingering in those moments came from outside. A thunderstorm was literally happening and the catering personnel worked hard to adjust. Eventually the whole party went outside, waiting for the couple to throw rice at them (traditional greeting after the ceremony in Italy).

We found shelter inside the main building of the castle, where an aperitif was served as guests were getting pretty wet outside.

Bride also had to briefly comfort her daughter 🙂