Sarah & Paul

The place

Carinthia & Lake Wörthersee

Turquoise lakes among wooded hills, a church on its peninsula and lakeside villas with their own jetties — summer weddings on some of the warmest lakes in the Alps.

June is one of the easiest months to marry here.

The light

How the light falls there

The Wörthersee runs from west to east, so the evening light travels the length of the lake and turns the water and the hills gold; at midsummer the sun sets around nine. Photographers plan portraits around the hour before sunset and the first hour of the morning, when the lake is still and the mist lifts.