A two-day celebration photographed with a fashion-led, editorial point of view — from the first chapter at Baccarat in Paris to the second day at Shangri-La Paris.
01 — The wedding story
This large-scale Paris wedding unfolded over two days and two very different addresses. Day one brought together around 60 guests at Maison Baccarat; day two expanded to approximately 120 guests at Shangri-La Paris. The visual approach moved between fashion-led portraiture, documentary coverage, direct flash, architecture, design and the energy of live performance.
Discretion was essential throughout the weekend. For privacy reasons, I am not permitted to publish identifiable photographs of the guests, and only a limited number of images of the couple can be shown publicly. The edit on this page therefore focuses intentionally on atmosphere, bridal fashion, floral design, interiors, movement and entertainment.
The scale of the celebration also required a complete photography team. I photographed the wedding with a dedicated photo assistant, a second shooter and a third shooter, allowing us to document simultaneous moments without turning the wedding into a production set.
For the broader service, approach and planning information, explore my Paris wedding photographer page.
Day one took place at Maison Baccarat, 11 Place des États-Unis, Paris 16e. Day two continued at Shangri-La Paris, 10 Avenue d’Iéna, moving from the upper event level to the hotel’s historic reception salons.
For more on the second venue, explore my Shangri-La Paris wedding photographer page or my guide to getting married at Shangri-La Paris.
02 — The visual story
A curated edit from the same two-day Paris wedding — bridal fashion, reception design, live entertainment, architecture and atmosphere, published with the couple’s and guests’ privacy in mind.
Getting ready · Paris
Morning detail · Paris
Modern bride · Editorial portrait
Bridal portrait · Paris
Monochrome · Bridal portrait
Fashion detail
Accessories · Editorial
Bridal gown · Flowers
Bridal detail · Paris
Luxury details
Wedding details
Red florals · Reception
Table design · Paris
Dinner · Red floral story
Welcome party · Cocktails
Celebration detail
Fashion story · Bride
Editorial bride · Paris
Bridal portrait · Monochrome
La Réserve · Paris
Vintage car · Paris
Vintage car · Bridal portrait
Eiffel Tower · Vintage car
Ring detail · Editorial
Wedding dress · Movement
Paris venue · Interior detail
Wedding dress · Floral installation
Reception · Champagne service
Reception · Cocktail details
Entertainment · Red fashion
Fashion performance · Black hat
Performance · Black and white
Wedding cake · Theatrical reception
Party · Direct-flash performance
Reception energy · Monochrome
Fashion entertainment · Pink feathers
Fashion detail · Gold boots
Entertainment · Gold costume
Editorial performance · Gold
Paris palace · Reception room
Reception design · Red table
Table detail · Black and white
Palace interior · Paris
Bridal portrait · Veil
Bride · Editorial portrait
White detail · Texture
Floral installation · White
Paris wedding · Lifestyle detail
Getting ready · Wedding dog
Bridal fashion · Paris still life
Paris interior · Editorial setting
Bridal fashion · Gown detail
Reception table · White florals
Fashion performance · Red floral
Structured when it needs to be. Unscripted when it matters.
03 — Day one · Maison Baccarat
Around 60 guests, one long table, live violinists and a Paris address built for spectacle without feeling obvious.
The first day took place at Maison Baccarat, the historic hôtel particulier at 11 Place des États-Unis in Paris. With around sixty guests, the scale remained intimate enough for a highly designed dinner, but large enough to require full editorial and documentary coverage across the room.
The visual identity was immediate: crystal, deep interiors, a long reception table, sculptural red flowers and candlelight. Live violinists added another layer to the evening, while the photography moved between composed still lifes and faster direct-flash frames as the celebration accelerated.
Maison Baccarat is not a conventional hotel ballroom. The townhouse at 11 Place des États-Unis was one of the addresses associated with the Parisian cultural avant-garde of the 1920s. Baccarat took over the private residence in 2003, and the Maison continues to mix crystal, art, design and gastronomy in a way that feels closer to a private cultural house than a classic wedding venue.
Maison Baccarat — official history ↗The Maison’s Salle de Bal is its dedicated private-event room, framed by Baccarat chandeliers and the original woodwork of the hôtel particulier. Officially designed for up to 76 seated guests, it suited this sixty-person first day especially well: one strong room, one clear table composition and enough space for music and movement.
I photographed the weekend with a photo assistant, a second shooter and a third shooter. On a multi-day wedding, that structure is less about producing more images than about being in several places at the right moment: room details before guests enter, parallel reactions, entertainment, transitions and portraits without interrupting the flow.
For reasons of discretion, the public gallery deliberately excludes identifiable guest photographs and shows only a limited selection of the couple. What you see here is the visual world around the wedding — not the full private story.
04 — Day two · Shangri-La Paris
The second day doubled the scale and shifted from an intimate mansion to one of Paris’s most historic palace settings.
Approximately 120 guests joined the second day at Shangri-La Paris. The guest experience began upstairs in the Salon Roland Bonaparte, the hotel’s large level-two event space, with a dramatic floral installation and arch setting the visual tone.
The evening then moved downstairs into the Salons Historiques on level one. Shangri-La groups these communicating rooms as Le Grand Salon, Le Salon de Famille and La Salle à Manger. Rather than overstate which exact salon held each part of the dinner, this page follows the sequence as it was experienced: upstairs for the opening reception, then downstairs for dinner and the late-night celebration.
Shangri-La Paris lists the Salon Roland Bonaparte on level two, with around 250 m² of event space. The room occupies what were once the stables of Prince Roland Bonaparte’s residence. For this wedding it worked as the opening stage of the day, pairing palace scale with a cleaner, more contemporary backdrop for the floral arch and arriving guests.
Shangri-La event spaces ↗Dinner continued one level below in Shangri-La Paris’s historic reception rooms. Le Grand Salon, Le Salon de Famille and La Salle à Manger communicate with one another and open toward the first-floor gallery and terrace. The Grand Salon was once Prince Roland Bonaparte’s own reception room; in 1907, the engagement of his daughter Marie to Prince George of Greece and Denmark was celebrated there.
The second evening was designed as a full performance-driven celebration. Several groups of dancers appeared through the night, alongside a live music group and DJ. Visually, that changed the photography completely: less formal symmetry, more movement, direct flash, costume, color and fast reactions — the part of the gallery that feels closest to a fashion after-party.
The palace at 10 Avenue d’Iéna was the residence of Prince Roland Bonaparte in 1896 and a meeting place for Parisian society. After restoration by architect Richard Martinet, it opened as Shangri-La Paris 114 years later. The building has been listed as a French Monument Historique since 2009 and today holds the Palace distinction.
Shangri-La Paris — official history ↗For a younger international couple, Shangri-La works because the architecture already carries drama. You do not need to force “Paris” into every frame. Historic mouldings, monumental proportions and the Eiffel Tower outside the windows create context; fashion, flash and movement can then make the photographs feel current rather than heritage-led.
Maison Baccarat gave day one a darker, more intimate visual language. Shangri-La expanded day two into palace architecture, bigger guest numbers and performance. That contrast is exactly what makes a two-day wedding interesting to photograph: the story evolves without losing its identity.
05 — The point of view
“Paris, without the cliché.
Wedding photography with a fashion perspective.”
06 — The creative team
This two-day Paris wedding was produced by a complete creative team, with photography coverage scaled to match the complexity of the event while preserving discretion around the couple and their guests.
07 — Editorial wedding photography
Editorial wedding photography is not about turning a wedding into a fashion shoot. It is about recognizing when a scene benefits from stronger direction, cleaner framing, direct flash or a more graphic composition — and when the photographer should disappear into the background and let the celebration unfold.
In Paris, that balance is especially important. Architecture, hotel interiors, city streets and evening light can all become part of the visual language without reducing the wedding to a series of landmarks.
The result is a gallery designed to feel contemporary, energetic and intentional: photographs that document what happened, alongside images built with the precision of an editorial.
08 — Explore Shangri-La Paris
Editorial weddings in Paris