A film, the photographs, or both

It is the heart of what Marco does: the whole day told horizontally, for the television, to be watched again over the years. From the preparations to the last dance, with the voices, the words you say to each other and the music of that evening. It is not a montage of pretty shots. It is a story, with a rhythm that rises and falls.

We do not think in minutes, so we will not tell you how long it is. The right question is not how long it lasts, but whether whoever watches it reaches the end. If the vows or the speeches are in another language, the subtitles can be switched on from the player, and whoever did not understand that day can follow everything, and live it again.

This is Róisín and Ken, who came from Ireland to get married in Sicily: three days at Casa La Carrubbazza, on the slopes of Etna. It is in English.

Carlo does not ask for poses and does not build scenes: he prefers things to happen, and his job is to put you in the best conditions for them to happen. The right light, the right place, the right timing. The best photographs happen on their own, when in that instant light and place are the right ones; he takes care of that, you take care of enjoying the moment.

A few portraits of the two of you, yes, chosen and brief, so that the rest of the day stays yours. Everything else is reportage: the preparations, the faces during the vows, the dinner, the dancing, the details in the place where they were. The photographs are chosen and developed by Carlo one by one, and arrive in an online gallery, together with a carousel he edits for you.

A wedding happens all at once: while you exchange your vows, in the front row someone is wiping away tears. With two of us, one of the two scenes is lost. With four, it is not. Two photographers and two filmmakers means both preparations properly followed, the ceremony from more than one point, your words in full and the faces of those listening. It is the team we tell best with, and we call it Wedding Dream.

Wedding Soul is the two of us alone, Carlo on photography and Marco on film: it works well when the day is in one place, with a smaller circle around you. In both cases the film and the gallery come from the same day and the same eye. Two films that look like they were shot by two different people are the point, not two studios that happen to meet at the same wedding.

Some couples prefer to carry their wedding with them, in their pocket. For them the story of the day is told in vertical: shorter and leaner than the film, made to be watched and shown wherever you are. With it come a reel, to share in a moment, and a carousel with the same story divided into chapters, one for every moment of the day.

Inside the same proposal there is a second road, the Short Film: horizontal, for the television, in place of the three vertical pieces. You choose before the wedding, because horizontal is shot in a different way. The day itself is the same: the equipment, the attention and the way we stay with you do not change. What changes is the story that comes out of it.

Three examples: Danielle and Christian in Cefalù, a two-day wedding told in vertical; the reel of Brittany and Mitch at Baglio Strafalcello; the reel of Daniela and Fabrizio in Siracusa.

The same day in a shorter horizontal form, for the television. These are Sohaila and Karil, who speak French: the English subtitles can be turned on from the player.

Then there is film stock, Carlo's territory: real Super 8, a cine camera, developing and scanning. Real grain and halation, a 4:3 frame, nothing added afterwards because none of it started digital. It is not part of the full proposal, because that day Carlo has the camera in his hands: if the idea wins you over, let's talk, and we will find a way together.

A few hours, a place that matters to you, no guests or very few. Photographs, film, or both: the same eye on a day with a different breath. This is Isabela and Luiz, who came from Brazil to say yes in Savoca, the village Coppola chose for The Godfather: a celebrant, a violin, vows that end in Italian, an Ape Calessino.

Many couples who come to Sicily do not come for a day: there is a welcome dinner the evening before, a pool party or a brunch the day after. We tell those too, with the same team or a smaller one, and the story grows to hold them. Róisín and Ken, above, were three days: the night before by the sea, the wedding, the pool and a concert on the lawn.

Aerial footage adds the place to the story: the estate in the landscape, the table seen from above, the sea. We fly where the area allows it; where the Italian aviation authority has set a restriction, flying is not possible, and we say so before the wedding, not after. Two clips, in vertical.

The film, the gallery, the reel. Vows and speeches, when they are long, we keep in full and deliver separately, with the subtitles. And everything arrives in a page of its own, with the film inside and the gallery to download without limits: a link to open and share with whoever was there and whoever could not be. The couples who chose us received their wedding exactly like this.

Delivery within six months of the wedding, three for an elopement. We take that time because we do not hand the editing to anyone else.