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THE COUPLE
Daniella Moyles, psychotherapist, author, and founder of The STLL, and Andrew Kenny, business owner and entrepreneur.
THEY LIVE
in Co Wicklow.
THE VENUE
Kassiopi, Corfu in Greece.
PHOTOGRAPHER
White on Black Studio took care of our professional photography and videography.
We also had an amazing wedding content creator called Aine Leech from The Wedding Content Company who captured all of the fun, candid BTS of our wedding day and Day Two on iPhone and delivered it fully edited within 24 hours. It was invaluable and meant I could completely forget about my phone for a few days.
THEY MET
Through mutual friends and mostly for the routine coffee and a walk that was the highlight of everyone’s day during the height of the COVID lockdowns.
THE RECEPTION
Our reception was in a laidback beachside restaurant with exceptional food called Eucalyptus Taverna. We found the restaurant on a family holiday the previous summer and adored everything about it; it was eating here that made us start thinking about getting married in Corfu in the first place. After the ceremony, our guests all got a boat from Kerasia Beach to our reception venue on San Stefanos Beach, which we felt was a really memorable and special experience. It’s just a short, smooth cruise on a crystal clear sea from one bay to the other but the scenery is breathtaking – on one side you have Corfu’s striking cliffs, topped with lush greenery like olive trees and Cyprus trees and on the other you have the impressive Albanian Alps soaring into the clouds. We had drinks onboard and guests were greeted by our saxophonist on the jetty to set the tone for cocktail hour.
Dinner was a traditional Greek feast with shared family-style starters including melitzanosalata, tirokafteri, tzatziki dip, artichoke saghanaki and chicken and herb rolls with spetseriko tomato chutney. Lamb on a spit, fresh seafood or mushroom, courgette and herb risotto was the choice for mains, and dessert was a self-serve buffet of Greek sweet treats including baklava, portokalopita and fresh local fruits. We decided to skip a wedding cake altogether and opted instead for a Champagne tower to get the party started after dinner.
THE ENTERTAINMENT
We had a string duo for our ceremony who played while the guests enjoyed some drinks before the bridal party arrived; they also adapted my favourite song in the world, Moondog’s Pastoral for the processional and The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun for the recessional. We chose Odin’s House Party for our cocktail hour and party, and they were truly incredible, our dance floor was packed all night! The band consists of a DJ accompanied by live instruments – a saxophonist, violinist and percussion. We danced under the moon and the stars, but if there’d been a roof, they’d have blown it off.
THE DECOR
Rizo’s Garden looked after all of our wedding flowers. For the ceremony, because the olive grove was so full of trees of various heights, I wanted our florals to make an impact on the ground so I asked for a grounded flower arch on our stone altar as well as aisle markers made with local seasonal flowers. For our reception, we re-used the aisle arrangements at either end of our five long tables and kept the table tops simple – a eucalyptus leaf on each plate and a centre line of candles and glass bud vases.
I LOVE bespoke wedding stationery so we worked with a wonderful Italian designer called Steven Fadda to create a unique vibe for our wedding stationary including our welcome sign, our menus, table names, place names, table plan, cocktail menu and more. Our table names and place names, for example, were die-cut sage green seashells with a little half-pearl detail; and these touches really brought me so much joy to design, create and then see all finished on the day.
Eucalyptus Taverna has a small private beach beside it, again slightly shaded by a giant old olive tree and we turned this space into our bar and dance floor, topped by the band’s stage and light setup. We added a chequered dance floor, festoon string lights and as many various-sized disco balls as those strings could hold. Botanist Cocktail and Bar Catering set up an amazing wooden bar area beside the dance floor with large boho umbrellas for shade and table tables for drinks.