Thea & Nichlas

The kind of day you take home with you

I came home from Thea and Nichlas’s wedding at La Baronia feeling so inspired. It was a beautiful September day, and the setting was everything you could hope for: the old house, the greenery, and all those lovely spaces to photograph. But when I think about this wedding now, it is the people I remember first.

Nichlas and his friends were wonderful. They brought so much life to the celebration, and I loved photographing them together. The group photographs felt like a part of the day in their own right. Looking back through the series, I can still feel that energy.

And then there were the tears. So many people were moved that day. I found myself paying attention to the faces around Thea and Nichlas just as much as to the couple themselves. Those reactions belong in the story too: they show what it meant to everyone who was there.

The songs in Dutch were one of the moments that stayed with me most. A dad singing, his family listening, people in tears. I wanted to photograph the people around him as well as the performance, because the feeling of that moment was there in their faces. It was incredibly moving to be part of it.

La Baronia gave us such a beautiful setting for all of this. The architecture and greenery were lovely to work with, and I enjoyed finding frames that brought the place into the photographs while keeping Thea and Nichlas at the heart of them. They were the reason we were all there, after all.

When I look at this series, I love the way the quieter photographs sit alongside the celebrations. The tenderness, the friendships, the singing and the laughter all have a place. Together, they bring me back to a wedding that felt full of life and full of love.

Thea and Nichlas, thank you for letting me be part of your day. I loved photographing you and the people around you. I hope that, when you come back to these photographs, you remember the songs as clearly as the setting, and how it felt to have everyone there with you.