Held in the light-filled loft space of Vienna’s largest sociocultural center, WUK, which is housed in a former 19th-century locomotive factory, this yearningly beautiful bridal shoot is a study in romantic simplicity and organic minimalism. Event stylist Viktoria Antal used earthily delicate elements—oyster shell cellars filled with pink salt, wispy jasmine vines, rosy stemware, and strokes of copper—to soften the timeworn yet modern urban setting with its stark, whitewashed walls and unvarnished wood floors. The cozy glow of candlelight lent an additional dimension of warmth. 

Flower artist Fiona Seidl, whose designs reflect her formal training in Dutch floristry, created an exquisite array of loose, leafy arrangements featuring anemones, tulips, ranunculi, and eucalyptus. For the ceremony backdrop, she fashioned a simple garland of greenery, pure and quiet in its beauty. 

The standout detail was Andrea Kargl’s sparely elegant watercolor cake. To adorn it, several lines from a sensual sonnet by the great Chilean love poet Pablo Neruda were penned onto the middle tier in calligrapher Natalia Reid’s light and airy hand. A suffusion of pale pink and barely-there blue hues echoed the salt-rose and topaz mentioned in Pablo’s poem.

Shot on film, photographer Pia Clodi’s images create a poetry all their own.

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