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Olena — Viktor

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Viktor and Olena’s Wedding

Number of guests:

16

Preparation time:

1 month

Photographer:

Dmytro Taranenko

Venue:

AlFresco restaurant

This wedding took place in the second year of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At a time when every celebration gains a special meaning.

Viktor is an Austrian who runs a business in Ukraine and sincerely loves this country. Olena is stylish, modern, and creative.

We proposed to the couple the idea of three pillars on which the world stands — Faith. Hope. Love. Each pillar was “dressed” in a white handmade embroidered shirt and wrapped with a symbol of fertility and strength — wheat ears. This was not decoration. It was an image. A quiet, profound metaphor.

Highlight

01

Each guest was invited to embroider their own amulet with red threads. Because red means love. And embroidery is a sacred art of the Ukrainian people.

Format feature

02

The wedding took place without a host. Is it difficult? — Yes. Is it interesting? — Absolutely. It was a space of trust, pauses, and genuine emotions, where the script did not control people but gently accompanied them.