No resort. A bamboo gazebo, the trees, and the boulders.
Forty frames from a wedding on the public beach at Baie Lazare, on the south-west of Mahé. The ceremony was under a bamboo gazebo dressed with white drapes and flowers beneath the takamaka trees, and the portraits used the granite boulders at the end of the beach.
Baie Lazare is one of the beaches we use most for couples who are not marrying at a resort. It has shade from the takamaka trees, granite boulders at one end, and a reef that breaks far enough out to keep the water calm. A bamboo gazebo is set up for the morning and taken down afterwards.
Island
Mahé
Beach
Baie Lazare, public beach
Frames in this album
40
Setup
Bamboo gazebo, white drapes, flowers
The ceremony under the trees
The boutonniere was pinned to his waistcoat, they walked to the gazebo hand in hand, and the registrar prepared the papers at the table. The ring exchange had both of them laughing. The signing frames are here, apart from the close-up of the register, which we leave out of every album because it carries names.
Cake, champagne and the boulders
A two tier cake with a Mr and Mrs topper and a string of pearls, a bottle of champagne carried down the sand, and feeding each other cake in the gazebo. Then the boulders. Standing on top of one against the sky, under the overhang with her train spread on the sand, and a kiss at the water's edge with the reef breaking behind.
