Before the ceremony, before the guests arrived, before anything had officially begun, Michael sat at a round table in one of Château Barthélemy's ornate reception rooms with his rabbi and the witnesses gathered around him, signing the ketubah — the marriage contract that has been central to Jewish weddings for over two thousand years. The room was hung with oil portraits and red drapes, a crystal chandelier overhead, the fireplace behind them. We shaped the light carefully in

Dan cried three times before the day was even half over. Once that morning, reading the letter Chloe had written him with his groomsmen gathered round; once at the ceremony, the moment he first saw her; and again through the speeches — though by then he was in good company, because her father and the best man were going the same way. Some weddings you photograph for the details. This one you photographed for the faces. Chloe and Dan married at Vaulty Manor, near Maldon — a c

A Villa Crawford Wedding in Sorrento — Gillian & James Villa Crawford sits on the cliff edge at Sant'Agnello, a few minutes along the coast from Sorrento, with the Bay of Naples laid out below it and Vesuvius holding the horizon. It is one of those rare venues where the setting does half the storytelling before a single guest arrives — which is exactly why the photography has to earn the other half. Gillian and James travelled from Ireland to marry here on the last Saturday