Emma and Nathan's Basque Wedding Styled Shoot at Chateau de Larraldia

Emma and Nathan's Basque wedding styled shoot at Chateau de Larraldia, Nouvelle-Aquitaine: paper parasols, dark anemones, and an Anderea gown.

By Sophie Laurent | Published 14 June 2026

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A styled editorial built around a high-end Basque wedding, shot at Château de Larraldia in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The planner and designer Joanna Zabalza of Joza set the brief: emotion and authenticity first, which is why she cast a real couple to play the pair, here called Emma and Nathan. Barbara Briquet of The Perfect Timing photographed it. The point was the balance between the aesthetic and the real feeling of a wedding day.

Photography

The Perfect Timing

Venue

Château de Larraldia

Region

Couple

Emma & Nathan

Ceremony

White plinths topped with hydrangeas and dark berry sprays against wood lattice fence

Bride and groom kiss at the outdoor ceremony arch, framed by floral pedestals, black and white

The ceremony was a laïque one, set outdoors with a garden feel: white wrought-iron chairs and a matching pulpit, chosen to carry that note. The styling deliberately broke the symmetry you often see at secular ceremonies, playing instead with mismatched supports, varied textures, and quantities of flowers and fruit, some vases left to overflow.

Couple Portraits

Couple touch noses at the reception table in black and white, chateau arched windows behind

Couple laughing at the reception table with chateau arched windows behind them, black and white

Bride and groom laugh nose to nose at the ceremony arch in black and white, bouquet between them

Couple in turquoise toile wallpapered bedroom, bride seated in tulle skirt with groom standing beside

Design and Details

Architectural side view of a piped tiered cake with miniature columns and raking sunlight

Green cymbidium orchids stretching up from a moss-clad centerpiece on a toile cloth

Daylight detail of ceremony backdrop with white urn, fringed cord, grapes and rambutans on plinth

Vintage piping detail on a tiered cake with sugared fruit and trailing amaranthus

Every detail was deliberate, from the art direction to the palette of green, white and bordeaux carried through the stationery, the florals and the styling. Flowers and fruit ran together, with vegetal moss laid along the dinner tables to keep the garden feeling. The bride wore a gown from Anderea, a local designer the shoot wanted to spotlight. The dinner's centrepiece was the wedding cake, given a full set-piece of its own: a table dressed in light, hand-draped fabric, deliberately creased so it caught the natural light and threw the cake's florals into relief.