In 2019, Charles Lorenceau and Tatiana de Pahlen met at her sister’s home social gathering in London. In line with Tatiana, they “instantly fell in love.”

“We frequently say it’s like we met after which by no means left one another,” she tells Vogue.

Two years later, Charles proposed to Tatiana throughout his Fortieth-birthday weekend on the Amalfi islands of Li Galli, the place mythological sirens are stated to reside. Proper earlier than sundown, they determined to take a swim throughout the golden hour. Whereas climbing the rocks to the shore, Charles obtained down on one knee. “We had been each so completely happy,” says Tatiana. “He requested me to leap within the sea, however I used to be scared to lose the ring!” After some reassurance—and a cautious placement of her valuable rock on a volcanic one—they dove into the Mediterranean water collectively.

It took them greater than two years to have a marriage, because the couple welcomed their first baby collectively, Giovanni, in December 2021. But Tatiana doesn’t remorse ready. “I really feel when the time is true, and we wished to have the appropriate thoughts body and area to plan our marriage ceremony,” she says.

In March 2024, the couple threw a winter marriage ceremony in Gstaad deliberate by Lanza & Baucina. The Swiss Alps city is a significant location for them each: Tatiana, the daughter of artist Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen, has been going to de Pahlen household dwelling of Château de Rougemont in Gstaad since she was slightly woman. Then, every week after they met, when Charles made a shock go to to Tatiana there, the place they started to fall in love. It’s additionally the place the place they spent lockdown with their kids. “We thought-about many different locations for our marriage ceremony celebration, however nowhere made extra sense for us. We wished a spot we at all times return to and that’s central to our love story,” Tatiana says.

Tatiana wore a lace robe with a hooded veil by Giambattista Valli, impressed by the legendary idea of a snow queen. “He’s an expensive household good friend, and the entire course of had an actual sense of familiarity,” she says. “I used to be deeply impressed by the transformation in every becoming, and the way the costume advanced beneath the meticulous eye of its designer. A part of Giambattista’s genius is how totally different all of his marriage ceremony clothes are—he at all times manages to completely seize the essence, persona, and type of the bride in a really distinctive and particular person method.” Though she felt anxious whereas preparing at Château de Rougemont, as soon as she noticed Charles ready for her within the backyard in a custom-made velvet jacket by Sartoria Lemmi, all her nerves subsided. “I felt very calm and at peace having Charles beside me,” she says. Collectively, they walked to the church of Saint-Nicolas de Myre, the place they held a joint Catholic and Greek Orthodox ceremony in entrance of 300 visitors. It was a household affair: Charles’s kids from his first marriage, Oscar and Georgia, served as a groomsman and bridesmaid. In the meantime, his youthful sons Errol and August served as flower boys, together with little Giovanni.

The reception was held again at Chateau de Rougemont. After out of doors welcome drinks (with loads of heaters) within the courtyard, visitors wandered right into a second “enchanted village” cocktail hour, full with folkloric Russian music and roaring bonfires.

For dinner, Tatiana says she wished it to really feel like everybody was strolling right into a fantasy backyard in C.S. Lewis’s Narnia. “The frost of winter but in addition the arrival of spring—all particulars from the flowers, to the flooring, the desk and my costume had been impressed by this,” she says. “It was like being in a fairy story in an enchanted fort.” After dinner and slices of conventional marriage ceremony cake, Tatiana turned into a second costume by Valli. An evening of dancing started again within the courtyard, which had been reworked right into a seventies-style nightclub. It didn’t finish till the early hours of the morning.

Now that her marriage ceremony is over, Tatiana says it was properly well worth the wait. “We felt blessed to have the ability to have our youngsters there with us.”