A vintage Triumph on the Bir-Hakeim bridge. The Eiffel Tower dissolving into morning mist. A bride in layered lace standing at the top of steps lined with white hydrangeas. Some weddings feel like films and Alvaro and Chloe’s day in Paris was one of them.
There is something about Paris in early spring the light still soft, the gardens waking, the streets carrying that particular stillness before the city fully stirs that makes it feel like the right backdrop for a love story. Alvaro and Chloe understood this, and built a day that moved between two worlds: the grandeur of Château du Prieuré and the open streets of the city itself, with a white 1950s Triumph convertible as the thread connecting it all.
The morning began inside the château, where Chloe prepared in rooms that felt lifted from another century oil paintings, candlesticks, a chaise longue in warm amber light. The intimacy of those early hours is captured in photographs that feel almost too private to look at: a bride beneath a veil, eyes cast downward; gold rings on folded hands; the stillness of someone about to step into the most significant moment of her life.
The Morning
Before the World Knew
The invitation “Alvaro & Chloe” printed in clean type against a photograph of the château, sealed with wax and designed by Bloem Atelier sat beside a ring in Cartier red. Beside it, a bouquet of white calla lilies and hydrangeas tied with a silk ribbon. These are the objects that hold the day before it begins: deliberate, beautiful, already loaded with meaning.
Chloe wore two distinct looks across the day. For the ceremony, a full-skirted strapless gown by Jean Daniel Brami sculptural, romantic, with the kind of presence that stops a room. For the evening, a second dress by Brovarna, sleeker and more intimate. Her look was styled by London-based Marika Stylist, with hair and makeup by the celebrated Makeup Paris Beauty. A hat by Fedora Plug worn with the easy confidence of someone who knows exactly who she is completed the picture.
The City
Paris, Then the Château
The couple chose to split their day between the streets of Paris and Château du Prieuré a pairing that gave the story two completely different moods. First, the city: candid, cinematic, spontaneous. Chloe standing through the open roof of the vintage Triumph on a street directly in front of the Eiffel Tower, her gown pooling around her. Alvaro at the wheel, looking up. The iconic iron structure rising into a clear sky behind them.
On the Bir-Hakeim bridge, the couple posed against the Triumph in black and white a deliberate choice that stripped the image back to its essential elements: two people, a car from another era, and a city that has been the backdrop for love stories for centuries. Chloe draped across the bonnet, one hand on a small bouquet. Alvaro watching, half a smile. The stillness is extraordinary.
“Some weddings feel like films — and Alvaro and Chloe’s day in Paris was one of them.”
The Château
Flowers, Light & the Grand Arrival
Château du Prieuré provided everything the city could not: stillness, grandeur, and the particular beauty of a building that has witnessed centuries of important moments. Its stone façade, surrounded by formal gardens, was the setting for the ceremony and the arrival photograph alone justifies the choice.
Chloe descended the château steps in a full lace gown with dramatic bishop sleeves and a fitted cap a look that felt simultaneously bridal and entirely original. On either side of the steps, towering arrangements of white hydrangeas and calla lilies stood six feet high, styled by Caroll Clinard. The effect was stately without being stiff floral installations that felt grown, not placed.
The reception tables, styled by E.V. Wedding, were laid in the château’s courtyard. The cake, from Wedding Cake Paris, arrived as a showpiece: a long rectangular creation studded with fresh calla lilies, cut by the couple as the château’s windows glowed amber behind them.
Golden Hour
The Gardens at Last Light
As the sun fell behind the château’s ancient trees, the couple slipped away for portraits in the garden. It is in these images golden light filtering through the branches, Chloe glancing back over her shoulder while Alvaro reaches for her hand that the day distills itself into something essential. Joy, unmistakable and unguarded.
Alvaro wore a double-breasted suit in warm stone with a silk scarf tied at his neck an elegant, distinctly European look. His portrait alone, leaning against a gilded doorframe inside the château, could have been a campaign.
The Vendors
Photographer: Slav Kyrychenko
Venue: Château du Prieuré
Floral Design: Caroll Clinard
Table Styling: E.V. Wedding
Hair & Makeup: Makeup Paris Beauty
Invitation: Bloem Atelier
Wedding Cake: Wedding Cake Paris
Wedding Dresses: Jean Daniel & Brami & Brovarna
Stylist: Marika Stylist London
Hat: Fedora Plug