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Ricky & Sofi

A full room, a signing table, streamers and sunglasses. Ricky and Sofi's civil wedding looks just like them: close, joyful, with the whole family inside.

Type
Civil Civil wedding · Photography
Gallery
21 photographs
Special selection
Delivered the next day
Generations
Three, in the same room
Sofi in the doorway of the civil ceremony hall, an editorial portrait
/00 Sofi, at the threshold

A civil ceremony can be paperwork. Not this one.

Ricky and Sofi signed surrounded by the people who have watched them love each other from the start. There was no grand stage, no protocol: there was a full room, a bouquet that spent more time in the air than in anyone's hands, streamers and sunglasses. Closeness isn't directed — you let it happen, and you watch it carefully.

And in the middle of the celebration, what remains: the grandmother who made it to the signing with her walker, older hands passing on what they protected for years, both mothers leaving a kiss at the same time, one on each cheek. A civil wedding holds every generation — and none of them is background.

The next morning, a special selection of photographs was already waiting for them. That's how we deliver at Álter: what matters most doesn't wait for weeks. That selection — exactly as they received it — is the one that opens this story.

The selection

What they received the next day

The special selection we deliver the morning after the wedding — it's part of every Álter story.

Ricky and Sofi walking and laughing, in black and white
001 Walking, in black and white
Guests celebrating around the civil ceremony signing table
002 The celebration at the signing table
Close-up of the rings resting on a notebook
003 Rings and a notebook
Ricky and Sofi, hands intertwined, close-up in black and white
004 Hands intertwined
A watch and earrings, detail from the getting-ready hours
005 A watch and earrings
Ricky and Sofi kissing beneath the curtains at the altar
006 A kiss beneath the curtains
Ricky and Sofi kissing, framed close
007 A kiss, up close
Ricky lifting Sofi as the two of them play and laugh
008 Carried, mid-play
Ricky carrying Sofi, her bouquet held high
009 The bouquet, held high
Chairs and flowers set for the civil ceremony
010 Chairs and flowers
The civil ceremony signing table, ready
011 The signing table
The hall where the civil wedding was held
012 The civil hall
Ricky and Sofi kissing with their sunglasses on
013 A kiss in sunglasses
The couple kissing amid streamers, in black and white
014 Streamers

The generations

Honoring what remains

The most Álter photographs in this story aren't the ones of the couple. They're of the people who have been with them all along.

Sofi walking with her grandmother, who came to the civil ceremony with her walker
015 Sofi and her grandmother
Both mothers kissing at the same moment, one on each cheek
016 A kiss on each cheek
Close-up of the grandmother's hands passing something to the couple
017 The hands that give

The celebration

And after the signing, the party

Sofi's veil in the air against a yellow wall the veil wanted to dance too
018 The veil, against the yellow wall
Ricky and Sofi kissing in sunglasses with the bouquet held high, shot with direct flash sunglasses and all
019 A kiss, a bouquet, a flash
Ricky, Sofi and their guests celebrating with arms raised in front of the parish church
020 Arms raised, before the parish
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