Epic Fashion Filled Wedding Weekend In Corsica

The Dress & Attire

For me, wedding dress shopping was a wonderful experience with my mom and sisters. I had no set idea of what type of dress I wanted, so I tried on all sorts of different types of dresses. I fell in love with the Caplan and Pennington separates by Rime Arodaky, my face literally lit up when I came out of the changing rooms! The whole team there was very nice and understanding of the stress linked to not being able to do the fittings as regularly since we don’t live in Paris. Thanks to their advice the dress fitted perfectly and everyone complimented me on it.

Concerning the outfits, Matthieu never wears a suit so this was a little bit tricky. When we started looking at the mainstream brands we soon realized that they were almost the same price as a custom-made suit, and since we had the time to get it custom made that’s what we decided to do. Matthieu really enjoyed choosing the different options on his suit and having the really good advice from all the people at Faubourg Saint Sulpice in Paris.

The Details

The color palette and rustic decoration kind of imposed itself on us with the choice of the venue. The view and venue were already so beautiful that there wasn’t much to do. We chose a pastel peach and green palette but didn’t make a big deal of following it too closely.

For the flowers, for example, we only wanted seasonal flowers and as local as possible, to minimize our environmental impact. As for the papel picado on the ceiling and at the civil wedding and brunch – they were a must-have for me! I lived in Mexico for a few months and attended a wedding while I was there and absolutely loved the papel picado!

We had two years to plan our wedding, we wanted to take our time and also planning from abroad can be a little be tricky sometimes. I am so happy we took those two years because it allowed us to really think through the type of wedding that we wanted and to think of all the small details that made our celebration so unique and perfect to our eyes.

We also did a lot of things ourselves, like the paper goods for example. They were done thanks to the drawings of our talented mothers and the help of Lucille, my witness that is a graphic designer. Our moms also helped make all the wooden signs. This allowed us to spend quality time with our family and have unique decoration and details for our wedding!