Kennedy & Duncan: a summer house on the Tuscan coast
Kennedy and Duncan came from Canada and chose Villa Talamo, on the Tuscan coast, for a wedding of fifty-five guests. The preparation lasted a year and a half, worked out step by step alongside the couple, and it began from a single idea: that the villa should not feel like a venue, but like a house they had always summered in.
The register was romantic Mediterranean. The palette came from the villa itself, pale yellow, soft pink, light lilac. The flowers followed the logic of the garden. The rhythm was set by the sea, close enough to shape the pace of the days.
Giuditta, of our wedding planning team, followed the project from the first consultation to the last evening. Here, in her words.
What was the inspiration behind the wedding?
The place itself. They had chosen Villa Talamo early, and once a venue like that is settled it tends to answer most of the questions that follow. The garden, the proximity of the sea, the light of an Italian summer and above all the colours of the villa. The palette was already there. Our work was to follow it rather than impose something over it, and that is usually how our projects begin: from architecture and landscape rather than from a moodboard
How would you describe the style of the day?
Soft pastels: light blue, pale pink, lilac. The tones of spring rather than high summer. Gentle, romantic, intimate. Fifty-five guests in a house that behaved like a home. The ease was designed, not improvised. It was less a ceremony with a reception attached than a weekend spent somewhere that belonged, for a few days, entirely to them.
How did you approach the stationery?
Kennedy has a background in graphic design and a clear idea of what every printed element of the weekend needed to be. That is a conversation we can hold, because design and communication happen inside our studio: a bride who arrives with her own visual language finds a team able to meet her on that ground. The stationery ended up properly branded. Cut-out forms of the sea, patterns setting a playful contemporary sensibility against the textures of vintage Mediterranean Italy, hand-drawn graphics taken from the villa itself: a monogrammed sun, the palm that is Villa Talamo's signature.
And the floral design?
The flowers were by Stiatti Fiori, in the soft colours of spring. The point was not to compete with the setting but to extend it. The arrangements answered the villa's own native planting, so the wedding and the garden read as one thing. Terracotta bases, white candles along the table. That kind of match is rarely accidental. It comes from working with trusted suppliers, people who read a place rather than impose on it.
What made this wedding unique?
Intention, applied consistently. The stationery was designed rather than selected, and the attention to detail was shared between the bride and our team. Coherence of that kind is rarely visible as a single gesture. It registers instead as the sense that everything belongs where it is.
Were there other events over the weekend?
The rehearsal dinner, at Il Frantoio in Capalbio, organised by the groom's mother. It unfolded like a village feast: long tables, music, laughter, the kind of conviviality no amount of planning can manufacture. Our role in evenings like that is to make sure they can happen at all, and then to stay out of the way.
And the one thing the couple loved most?
The tablescape. Linens from Tablecloth Rental, cushions made to match the napkins, lampshades suspended above. A composition assembled so precisely that its effect, on arrival, was immediate. Later the band lifted the room and carried the guests into the night.
How a wedding like this comes together
Little of what made this weekend work was visible on the day, which is the point. Design and communication happen inside our studio, so a bride arriving with a clear visual idea finds a team able to meet her on that ground. The floral project answered the villa's own planting rather than covering it, which is the kind of result that comes from working with trusted suppliers: relationships we consolidate over time, while remaining open to new collaborations when a project calls for them.
This is the method, and it is also why Blanc Weddings takes on a limited number of projects each year. A house on the Tuscan coast, its colours, its garden, and eighteen months alongside a couple to arrive at what they actually wanted. Weddings of this kind are not produced at volume.