Irina & Irakli

A wedding at a royal estate: Chateau Mukhrani, early May, around forty guests. The palace was chosen for architecture that carries itself — the pink facade, the formal park, the orangery.

The style was agreed to stay classic and quiet: white florals, live greenery, candles. Forty people in a palace is an intimate wedding on a grand stage, and the balance between the two became the main task of the day.

Weather stood as its own line in the planning: May in Georgia is unpredictable, and the evening could not be left to the forecast.

The morning in the palace was left in peace, and that was a decision rather than luck: the schedule held a protected hour when nothing was delivered, moved or rehearsed. Preparations went on in the palace rooms, quietly and without strangers.

The ceremony faced the pink facade. Banks of white flowers with pillar candles framed the entrance, white chairs stood in two blocks on the lawn, and a champagne table waited at the side. The palette was deliberately held to white and green: against rose-coloured stone that is enough, and no one intended to argue with the building.

The middle of the day was built as two pauses: the couple had an hour of their own in the palace, the guests had the garden and the old tree while the evening rooms were finished. A palace of this scale lets a day breathe, and the timeline was written for it: the couple and the guests never waited in the same place.

May at Mukhrani always carries a risk of rain, so dinner was planned in the orangery from the first day, not as a backup but as the main hall. One chandelier, glass all the way to the sky, tables indifferent to any forecast. The rain never came; the evening would have held in any weather.

The first dance went into falling confetti and low fog on a darkened floor. The cake was cut on the lawn between fountains of cold sparks, under string lights stretched across the garden. The palace was lit from below and stayed the main scenery of the evening to the very end.