An Opera Garnier wedding reception, Paris.
To be able to enjoy an incredible private event at the Opera Garnier is a moment not may are able to experience. A Paris wedding is always special, but one of this level of art, theatre, luxury and grandeur is nothing short of incredible.
To start we were fortunate to be able to do a pre-wedding shoot at the opulent Chateau De Villette which is part of the Heritage Collection of luxury villas throughout Europe.
Alejandra Poupel of Alejandra Poupel Events took on this wildly ambitious project to convert this already world's most lavish spaces into a unique masterpiece with the help of Eric Chauvin, one of Paris' most decorated floral designers.
To top this luxury event off, Bastien Blanc-Tailleur the world's most extravagant cake designer, built a true masterpiece inspired by the incredible architecture of the Opera Garnier.
Draped in timeless Christian Dior couture, our bride looked angelic and was certainly the princess of Paris.
The Palais Garnier has been called "probably the most famous opera house in the world, a symbol of Paris like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, or the Sacré Coeur Basilica. This is at least partly due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and, especially, the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and the popular 1986 musical. Another contributing factor is that among the buildings constructed in Paris during the Second Empire, besides being the most expensive, it has been described as the only one that is "unquestionably a masterpiece of the first rank." This opinion is far from unanimous however: the 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier once described it as "a lying art" and contended that the "Garnier movement is a décor of the grave"