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wedding
Place
DODECANESE
Couple
Helen & jean
LOCATION
SYMI
ABOUT
Helen and Jean’s summer wedding took place in Symi, with both the preparations and ceremony at Iapetos Village Hotel. The hotel overlooks the harbour and the neoclassical waterfront below.
Helen comes from Belfast and Jean is from France. They chose Symi, which tells you something about both of them.

The wedding

Helen is an artist with a personality that fills a room without trying. Jean has a gentleness about him that you notice immediately — a quiet attentiveness, a smile that takes its time. When we asked Helen to describe him, she said, "The best thing that ever happened to me."
Preparations happened at Iapetos, a terraced stone hotel that rises up the hillside above the port. From there, the view over Symi harbour is one of the island’s highlights. You can see collonaded mansions in ochre and terracotta on the opposite slope, and the water below catches the light in a new way every hour of a summer day.
The ceremony was civil and relaxed. The kind that feels like it belongs to the two people in it.

Our approach

The celebration began with a cruise around the island on the Poseidon. For most of the Irish guests, it was their first time seeing Symi from the water. The island looks different from the sea, with the size of the harbour, the clifftop monasteries, and the coves that you can only reach by boat.
Planning a multi-day wedding on Symi starts well before any photos are taken. The island is small but challenging, since most places are only accessible by boat, so the schedule needs to reflect that. We arrived early, checked out Iapetos, walked through the alleys above the harbour again, and planned the portrait session for the light we expected that day.

Related work

For our work in Symi and the Dodecanese visit our dedicated page Wedding photography in Symi.

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PHOTOS

A civil summer wedding on Symi for Helen and Jean, photographed across the island. Prewedding cruise, ceremony at Iapetos Village Hotel, portraits in the alleys of Symi town, and a day-after on the cliff and at Agia Marina. arChive Visual Storytellers photographs weddings across the Dodecanese and the Greek islands.
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