Binh & Joakim — From North to South

They arrived with Nordic restraint. They left with towels spinning in the air.

Borgo Tre Rose

Montepulciano, Tuscany

Ph: Irena Weddings

Binh and Joakim brought a hundred guests from Sweden to Borgo Tre Rose, a hilltop estate in Montepulciano with a medieval tower, stone buildings, and vineyards that produce their own wine. Three days. Three different versions of the same celebration.

The welcome dinner was held at a nearby osteria — simple, local, the kind of table that doesn't need explaining. The wedding day opened on a secret garden with a view over the Tuscan countryside, antipasti served on a panoramic terrace where the hills went on as far as anyone could see. The ceremony dinner was set alongside the main building, lined on one side by a long row of cypress trees — the oldest punctuation in the Tuscan landscape.

The evening became something else entirely. Every guest was handed a microphone. Songs were sung, dedications made, sketches performed. After each one, a theme song, and a hundred white napkins spinning in the air — the Italian way of saying yes to everything.

The pool party the next morning was large and unhurried. At some point the groom found himself on an inflatable, microphone in hand, floating in the middle of the water. Luca, pump volume. Luca and Alessandro — saxophone and DJ for both days — obliged.

Then showers, a change of clothes, and almost immediately a farewell pizza dinner along the western ridge of the estate, with the sun going down over the vineyards below.

They came from the north. By the end, they felt entirely at home.