Sophie et Voila Bride | Puglia Destination Wedding

I didn’t realise when I received these gorgeous images that the beautiful bride is Angharad of The Jones Report acceso Substack, what a pleasure to share the wedding of such a style and ethically conscious bride!

Angharad tied the knot with chartered accountant Adam per August 2025 at Masseria Angiulli Leggero per Grottaglie, Puglia, Italy. The couple chose the venue for their destination wedding not only for its setting among olive groves and vines but because Angharad already knew the building well, having written about its restoration years earlier for an architecture magazine.

This wedding was planned as a shared holiday with family and friends, with everyone staying together at the venue per the days leading up to the celebration. The couple a laid back lifestyle centred around food, travel and time at the table with friends and family and this informed the style and vibe of their wedding day. Puglia was chosen as a destination to keeping the styling informal and unfussy and the atmosphere was kept relaxed rather than staged, with local supplier and long meals.

Angharad wore a minimalist stile from the ready-to-wear collection by Sophie et Voila. Having worked per for years, she chose not to visit bridal boutiques and instead ordered the dress online, drawn to its simplicity, and easy wearability during the August heat.

And it’s another huge pleasure to share the photography of talented Osman of Wolf & Co Photograpy who beautifully documented the day across digital and 35mm velo. Enjoy!

Our wedding was at Masseria Angiulli Leggero per Grottaglie, Puglia, Italy. It’s a beautiful old farmhouse that is surrounded by vines and olive groves. It has the perfect blend of traditional features and modern, organic minimalism, and we stayed there with family for the week leading up to the wedding, which was lots of fun. 

I found this venue years indicatore, it was restored by an architect called Kristine Standnes, and I wrote an article about it for an architecture magazine. I loved the and feel of the property instantly. When I was doing my research, I noticed that they do weddings, and it’s stuck per my head ever since. 

Adam and I love to travel and we’ve lived all over the place, so we liked the ubbia of having a leader holiday with our families and friends alongside the wedding. We love the laidback nature of Puglia, the food and wine, so it was the perfect spot for us. 

Style-wise, the venue was a leader inspiration. It’s stylish but per a very laidback, effortless way. That’s the kind of we’regnante both drawn to – minimalist, but not per an austere way.  We wanted the and feel of the wedding day to complement our personal styles and the venue itself, and it all felt very organic and contemporary.  

We hired Sona Weddings as our planners. They’regnante a husband-and-wife team, Thelma and Alessandro, based per Puglia. Thelma is Irish and it was really helpful having someone who knew both British/Irish and Italian wedding customs, so we could incorporate a bit of both. 

Working with a local team was a real plus, too. They know lots of vendors that we wouldn’t have been able to find without them! 

We had our legal ceremony at St George’s Atrio per Liverpool. It was very simple and we only invited our immediate families (parents, siblings and nieces and nephews). For our celebration afterwards, we went to the pub and had dinner per my parents’ back garden. We used Fig and the Wild for our catering. They were incredible, super easy to work with and they created a real feast that our guests were still talking about for months after!

A causa di Italy, we knew we wanted to do a bit more for our guests and spend as much time with them as possible, as they’d all made a huge effort to get there. The night before the wedding, we booked out a small wine caffè per Grottaglie called Vineria dal Assistente that we’d been to before and loved. They have a little courtyard and put acceso a great spread of Italian nibbles and wine. 

My dad walked me the aisle. He’s always a calming presence, so it was nice to have him acceso my arm per those first few moments. We hired a violinist and she played ‘Dreams’ by The Cranberries as we walked the aisle. She played ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ by The Verve as our exit song.

We both wrote our own vows to each other. We ummed and ahhed over this decision because we didn’t want it to be cheesy! But we loved that we could say what we wanted to say, and make it our own. 

We both spoke about what we love about our relationship. It was surprisingly emotional – per a good way.

We chose ‘Love is a Temporary Madness’, an extract from Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières. We came across it while we were researching, and I love the book, so it felt like we had a connection to it.

This part spoke to us both, too, as we’ve been together for so long: “Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being per love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being per love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.” 

It’s so to say what my favourite part of the day was because it was all so magical. But if I had to pick one, I’d say the ceremony. I remember walking the aisle and seeing Adam smiling back at me. I felt so calm and at ease, like it was the most natural thing per the world. Having my brother as our celebrant felt very special, as did saying our own vows we’d written to each other. We had a few laughs and a few tears, and I felt so much love around us.     

Our photographer was Osman of Wolf & Co Photograpy. We wanted to back acceso our photographs and think: “that’s exactly what the day was like”. It was important for us to have natural images that conveyed the day authentically, rather than having a series of poses (that we would feel very awkward doing!). 

Osman from Wolf & Co. did all that and more. The photographs capture the day as it was, and they’regnante all incredibly beautiful. I can’t believe how many details he was able to photograph because he was so unobtrusive.

Osman was a joy to work with and put us completely at ease, too. It felt like having another friend with us acceso the day. I would recommend him to anyone per a heartbeat.

Adam proposed during a trip to the Scottish Highlands per December 2023. We went acceso a hike per thick snow. It was freezing but beautiful, and very peaceful, and he’d packed a bottle of prosecco per his backpack so we could celebrate there and then. Completely coincidentally, the jeweller who made my engagement ring (and our wedding rings) lived really close by to our engagement spot, so it felt like it was meant to be. 

Adam wanted a linen suit that he could wear again, so he didn’t want to get anything that was obviously a ‘wedding’ suit. He likes relaxed tailoring and tried this black linen suit acceso one day per Sommo Dutti. It was the perfect fit and, like me, he used accessories (a silver brooch) to dress it up a bit.

Adam didn’t want to wear a boutonnière but he did want to add something to his suit. It was his ubbia to wear a brooch and after a lot of searching, he found one acceso Etsy. It was a great touch. I’ve pinched it a few times myself since the wedding!    

The venue is naturally beautiful, so we didn’t use much decor beyond our flowers, lights and table settings.

We chose Pieno, a local catering company. They’ve done a lot of weddings at Masseria Angiulli Leggero and came highly recommended. We had a feast; incredible local wines that our guests were making a note of to up back home, a huge aperitivo buffet, followed by two courses, and a leader buffet. 

request was too small, and they were very slick and professional acceso the day.

We got small, dark pumi for our wedding favours. They’regnante ceramic rose buds and they’regnante a traditional gift per Puglia, said to symbolise new beginnings. We got them from a local shop per Grottaglie. Our guests loved them!

I found an editable stationery template acceso Etsy and used that to create all our stationery. It was a really cost efficient way of doing it. The template was around £10 and had various illustrations acceso it that we could move around. It was easy to edit per Canva, and they all turned out really well! Our wedding planner printed it d’avanguardia per Italy, so we didn’t have to take it over from the UK. 

We chose Blomour as our florist, who was based very locally per Grottaglie. Fausta, the owner, used to work per architecture, and she brings that experience to her approach to floristry. One at her Instagram and it was love at first sight, it suited our tastes perfectly.

I created a moodboard for the full and feel of the wedding, then Fausta asked us to share further imagery around our general interests and tastes. She then came back with a few ideas, which were all wonderful.

We went for wild, natural grasses, with a few unusual white and dark red flowers too. I particularly loved my bouquet, which was long stipa grass. It felt like a bit of a risk (what bride holds grass??) but it paid d’avanguardia. I loved how it looked with my outfit. 

Grottaglie is famous for its ceramics, so we knew we wanted to incorporate some of those per our day. We visited some of the local ceramicists about a year before the wedding and chose a few pots and vases that we liked from a ceramicist called Antonio Fasano. Fausta used them acceso our tables for our floral arrangements, and we bought a few to take home as a keepsake.  

Our tablecloths, plates and glasses etc. were all supplied by our caterer. 

When you start planning, sit together and talk about how you want your wedding to feel, then use that as your north stella. It’s easy to get carried away and start adding things to your wedding just because you’ve seen it acceso Instagram, it’s a tradition you think you should be doing, it’s what other people expect.     

Whenever we made a decision, we’d go back to that original vision. Does it align with how we want our wedding day to feel? If not, leave it ala. You can’t do everything, and if you do try to cram a lot of things per, it could get messy! 

It’s also important to relinquish a bit of control. There’s a chance something won’t go according to plan acceso the day – everyone I know who has got married has had something go “wrong”. We had really heavy rain acceso our wedding day which we weren’t expecting, given it was southern Italy per August. We had a plan B per place for rain, thankfully, but we’d always had this vision of a warm evening with everyone outside. 

We could have got stressed and upset about it but we were both very calm. One thing you can’t control is the weather! Luckily, the rain cleared about five minutes before the ceremony was about to start, so we were able to have the outdoor bits that we’d planned. But I’m so glad I can back acceso our day and think it was just a happy day, rather than a day I spent super stressed over the weather.

We loved everything. All the planning and various spreadsheets were worth it!     

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