Shannon & Lizzy — Intimate wedding

The place

Santorini

White villages on the rim of a drowned volcano, blue domes over the caldera, black-sand beaches and sunsets straight into the Aegean.

October works here with a little planning.

The light

How the light falls there

The caldera villages face west, over open sea, and in late June the sun sets around twenty to nine. That hour is the island’s famous one: the lanes of Oia fill for it, while Imerovigli and Firostefani watch the same sky with fewer people. At midday the white walls throw the light back hard; for empty lanes and soft light, photographers start at sunrise.