Winter Wedding Tatoi | Elena & Vassilis by arChive

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wedding

Place

ATHENS

Couple

elena & Vassilis

Location

tatoi & Parnassos

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A winter wedding in Tatoi for Elena and Vassilis, with a day-after session in the snowy valleys of Parnassos. Photography by arChive Visual Storytellers.

The wedding

Elena and Vassilis married in Tatoi on a clear winter day, after rain had moved through the area the day before. The morning opened with sun rather than the storm anyone might have expected, and the ceremony and reception carried that shift in weather through the rest of the day.

The reception ran into a Tag of War between men and women, following the tradition that a bride shouldn't step on the groom's foot during the first dance. It became one of the day's most competitive moments, with guests taking sides late into a party that continued into early morning.

The day after, we travelled with Elena and Vassilis to Parnassos, where snow covered the valleys and mountains in a landscape that gave this wedding a second, quieter chapter after the party's energy.

Our approach

A wedding with this much built-in energy needed us to work fast and stay close to it rather than direct it. The Tag of War wasn't staged for the camera, it was already happening, so the job was to be in the right position as two sides of a wedding party turned a tradition into real competition.

The shift in weather across the day, from the previous day's storm to a clear winter morning, gave the ceremony and reception two distinct kinds of light, and we worked with both rather than waiting for one ideal condition.

Parnassos the next day asked for the opposite approach. After a party that ran into early morning, the snow gave us space to slow down. The guys had as much fun as we did, snowballing and walking out toward the horizon line, far enough from us to create atmospheric winter shots against the open landscape.

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For our work across Athens visit our dedicated page Wedding Photographer Athens, and see the couple's featurette film at Tatoi Parnassos Wedding Film.

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Winter Wedding Tatoi | This wedding took place in Tatoi on a clear winter day, with a reception that included a Tag of War between men and women and a party that ran into early morning. As wedding photographers in Athens, we followed Elena and Vassilis the next day to Parnassos, where snow covered the valleys for a quieter second chapter to the story. This story covers the ceremony, the reception's Tag of War, and the day-after session in the snow. arChive Visual Storytellers photographs and films destination weddings across Greece and worldwide.

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