Wild at Heart: An Editorial Shoot at Casa Nova Estate, Sitges
Some images don't demand your attention. They seize it: a veil is lifted by the wind, or laughter cracks the stillness of a garden at golden hour. This editorial is of that kind.
Casa Nova Estate in Sitges has that effect on people. The lawn is too wide, the trees too old and the light too golden and generous for anyone to remain composed for long. When Loving the Flowers arrived with sunflowers the size of faces and grasses that moved with the breeze, the shoot found its character before the first frame was taken. What Rubén Larruy captured that afternoon wasn't a stylised version of romance. It was the real thing: slightly out of breath, completely alive and impossible to look away from.
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The Estate
This Catalan coastal town embodies romance, with its sun, stone and Mediterranean light. Sitges was the only place this shoot could have taken place. Available through Sitges Luxury Rentals, Casa Nova needs no embellishment to photograph beautifully, with its wide lawns edged by old trees, pool reflecting the sky, and terraces opening towards the mountains. The architecture feels rooted. The property already had a wildness and vitality that made it the perfect setting for everything that followed.
The Wedding House brought the concept to life, recognising that the estate was not merely a backdrop, but a living element. This distinction was the foundation of every decision.
The Vision
The heart of this editorial was set free. The idea was to stop taming the garden and allow it to tell its own story.
The result was a blend of wild garden and cinematic elopement. There was movement everywhere: in the dress, the flowers and the two people running across the lawn as the light turned golden. Clean white lines from the Abanik Rent Events furniture anchored the tablescape. This was a deliberate counterpoint to the lush surroundings. Carl Mery's Cake provided a sculpted, ruffled cake that spoke the same visual language: organic, textural, and quietly extraordinary. Stationery by Papier Con Amore completed the scene with equal lightness — present but not competing; considered, yet not precious.
This was not a wedding editorial that whispered. It moved.
The Dress
The Yolan Cris gown was not designed to stay still. The way it moves when someone runs in it was the reason for its choice. Its layers separate and catch the air, while the lace maintains its structure, even when everything around it is in motion. On Nuria, the gown took on an almost architectural quality: voluminous yet weightless. It could fill an entire frame and then disappear into softness in the next.
Shoes by The Forest Shoes completed the look without interrupting it. Make-up by Makeup Cordon kept the beauty look true to form — noticeable enough to be intentional yet subtle enough to let the dress and the light take centre stage. The overall effect was of someone dressed for a celebration with no set agenda — just a garden, a loved one, and the rest of the afternoon.
The Florals
Loving the Flowers created something that felt less like an arranged bouquet and more like natural garden growth. The sunflowers, dry grasses, wild ferns and white calla lilies were all sculptural, abundant and completely untamed. The installations both framed and claimed the space. They rose from the lawn and tablescape with the confidence of things that belonged there.
Visually, the florals worked because of their scale and refusal to be delicate. In another setting, against a more polished backdrop, they might have seemed excessive. Here, against the backdrop of the old trees and open sky at Casa Nova, however, they were perfect. Their wildness matched the energy of the couple and their attire, as well as the light.
The Frames
Ruben Larruy shot the editorial the way the concept demanded, whether that was close when closeness mattered, wide when the landscape needed to breathe, or always with an instinct for the unguarded moment over the posed one. The decision to switch between colour and black and white was not decorative — it was tonal. The colour frames convey warmth, the golden hour and life. The black-and-white frames strip everything back to gesture and light: the line of a jaw, the curve of a veil and two people laughing unaware they were being photographed.
Ethan Burst Films and Amare Studio captured the same energy in motion. They preserved the editorial's vitality in a different register — one that moves, breathes and conveys the sense of the wind that blew in Sitges that afternoon. What all three found at Casa Nova was not a perfectly controlled editorial. It was wilder and more honest than that — and considerably harder to forget.
This is what happens when a shoot stops trying to be perfect and starts being alive. Find more editorial shoots and real wedding inspiration in the Wezoree Inspiration section.
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Photography — @rubenlarruy
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Wedding Planner & Design — @_theweddinghouse_
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Venue — Sitges Luxury Rentals
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Videographer — @ethanburstfilms
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Florist — @lovingtheflowers
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Dress — @yolancris
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MUAH — @makeup.cordon
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Furniture — @abanik_rent_events
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Models — @nuriaatarrida & @cedric_milles
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Shoes — @theforestshoes
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Cake — @carlmeryscake
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Stationery — @papierconamore
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Content Creator — @amarestudio____
