Annie & Liam — Full wedding day

The place

Paphos

The west coast of Cyprus, where the sun sets into the sea: a harbour with a stone fort, Roman mosaics by the shore, Aphrodite’s Rock at Petra tou Romiou and the wild coves of the Akamas.

May is one of the easiest months to marry here.

The light

How the light falls there

Paphos faces west, so the sun sets over the sea all year. At midsummer it goes down at about seven minutes past eight and rises just after half past five; at midwinter the day runs from just before seven to about a quarter to five. From late morning the summer light is white and hard on the pale stone; the hour before sunset, and the blue minutes after it, are the ones for portraits — and the coolest.