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wedding
Place
SIFNOS
Couple
MARIA - PIERRE LOUIS
CEREMONY
CHRISOPIGI
ABOUT

Destination wedding in Sifnos for Maria and Pierre-Louis, who travelled from the UK and Canada. Ceremony at Chrisopigi the monastery on a rock between three coves at the south end of Sifnos. Photography by arChive.

The wedding

Maria and Pierre-Louis chose Sifnos for their destination wedding, both crossing continents to get there. Maria arrived from the UK, Pierre-Louis from Canada, a place neither called home. Their ceremony unfolded at Chrisopigi, with the celebration drifting into Fasolou as the sun set. The day after, we returned to the cliffside chapel of Panagia Poulati for a quieter session. Introduced by their wedding planner, our one meeting before the wedding set the tone for everything that followed: genuine warmth, clear intentions, and a gentle, unhurried pace.

Our approach

When both sides of a couple journey from distant countries, the photographer must weave three meetings into a single encounter. We met Maria and Pierre-Louis just once before the wedding, building trust through messages and calls. By the wedding day, everything felt natural. Chrisopigi offered the ceremony we know by heart, while Fasolou transformed after dusk, settling into the gentle rhythm of a beachside celebration. The day after, we walked down the staircase to Panagia Poulati for a session that asked for nothing of the wedding's pace, only the cliff, the sea, and the time to look at each other again. We followed the flow they had imagined, stepping back when the day took on a life of its own.

Related work

For our work in Sifnos visit our dedicated page Wedding photography in Sifnos

In their own words

“Words cannot describe how grateful my husband and I are to have found Angela and Giorgos. Recommended by our amazing wedding planner, we embarked upon a unique journey with the arChive team, starting with the warmth of our first meeting all the way to the smiles and cries of happiness when we saw the final result during a fun-filled presentation at their awesome studio in Athens.

The quality of their photos – if you can call them that, to us they are more like snapshots of heaven – is simply incomparable to anything we have ever seen. Choose arChive photography if you want the most amazing, innovative, unique, fun, honest and absolutely beautiful photos. Choose arChive if you want photographers who are really going to get under your skin and create a completely tailor-made experience that you’re surely going to remember for ever (we’re sure we will!). Thank you thank you thank you again Angela and Giorgos for everything!!!”

Maria & PL

CREDITS

Church: Chrisopigi Monastery
Wedding Venue: Fassolou

Bride’s Preparation:  Platis Gialos Hotel,
Groom’s preparation: Platis Gialos Hotel.
Makeup: Athina Podene

Day After Wedding photos: Panagia Poulati

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