FILE Nº 035 — ROLL I OF XII Kodak Portra · 400

An Analog
Wedding Story

A slower, more intentional layer of your wedding day — photographed on real 35mm film, developed by hand, and returned to you as a small archive of frames that feel like memory itself.

Real film · Real grain · Real moments
EXP. 12·06·2026 — VILLA DE AMORE — DEV. THE LAB CO.
Groom leaning on retro convertible at dusk
The Film 35mm — Portra 400, Portra 800, Tri-X for black & white. Loaded and shot through an Olympus Mju-II.
The Approach Twelve rolls. Twelve chapters. Not more photographs — different photographs, made with intention rather than abundance.
The Return Hand-developed at a professional lab and returned as high-resolution scans, with an online gallery for keeping and sharing.
A note
from the
darkroom

Shot on real 35mm film and developed by a professional lab, these images carry the grain, warmth, softness, and unpredictability that digital can imitate — but never truly recreate.

Roll II
Frames 04—14
2026
Chapter II · Getting Ready
Bride smiling on bed in sheer robe — golden light
Groom by window — moody warm portrait

The hours before
quietly held,
photographed on film.

The light in a hotel room at nine in the morning. The way a curtain bends the sun. A laugh that lands without warning. These are the frames film was made for — soft, warm, impossible to fake, gone before the next exposure.
035 · 06A Portra 400 · 1/125
Groom reading vows by window in dark room
CHAPTER III — THE VOWS

For the frames
that deserve to
feel like memory.

Film exposes the way memory does — favouring warmth over accuracy, softness over sharpness, atmosphere over precision. The quiet moments thicken. The light becomes something you can almost hold. Years from now, these are the frames you will return to most.

Format35mm, Portra 800
LightWindow, single source
StockHand-developed
EditionRoll III of XII
— ROLL IV · FRAMES 02—11

The small, sacred objects of a wedding day.

Wedding flatlay — rings, vows, shoes
Bride and groom under sunlit veil
035 · 11C — Detail study, prep suite 035 · 12A — Veil, golden hour
The Particulars

What's on
the film.

Film photography is offered primarily as an artistic add-on woven through your digital wedding coverage — though full standalone collections are available for couples who want analog to be the whole language of the day.

01

Real 35mm Film

Shot on Kodak Portra 400, Portra 800 and Tri-X 400. No digital simulation, no presets, no imitation grain.

02

Wedding-day coverage

Carried alongside digital coverage throughout the day — from prep through to the late hours of the reception.

03

Professional developing

Each roll is hand-developed at a professional film lab and never run through automated mass processing.

04

High-resolution scans

Returned as archival-grade scans, suitable for printing as large as you would ever want to print them.

05

Online gallery delivery

Your frames arrive in a private, password-protected online gallery — easy to share, easy to keep, easy to download.

06

Colour & black & white

Curated across both colour and black & white emulsions, selected to match the temperature of each moment.

Negatives are not included by default. They remain archived at the studio and may be requested separately.

— V —

Quiet
Frames.

Couple walking into desert, viewed from behind
Out past the rocks,
out past the road —
a quieter kind of vow,
a slower kind of light.
Couple sitting among desert rocks, soft editorial light
Roll V · 03A — Joshua Tree, 17:42 Roll V · 09B — Hidden Valley, 18:08
— VI —

Between
Moments.

The hours between the headline frames — the bar after the ceremony, a bridal suite at ten in the morning, a mother's hands at the back of a dress. The in-between is where film lives.

Couple sharing champagne in a low-lit bar
Roll VII · 12AReception bar · 21:14
Groom carrying bride mid-kiss outdoors
Roll VIII · 03BAfter the ceremony
Bride on ornate sofa, wedding dress hanging beside her
Roll IX · 05ABridal suite, morning
Mother helping bride into her wedding dress, soft window light
— A note on the medium

Film photography isn't about more photos.
It's about different photos. It remembers a wedding the way the wedding actually felt.

Roll IX · 11CButtoning the dress · 10:42
— THE ROLLS —

Film, by the roll.

Add film to your existing digital wedding coverage. Each roll is hand-loaded, hand-shot, and hand-developed.

Groom lifting bride — editorial film frame
Standalone · No digital required — THE FULL ANALOG WEDDING —

The Analog Wedding
Collection.

$3,000

For couples who want their wedding day photographed entirely on film — a single, cohesive analog archive instead of a digital gallery.

  • 01 Eight hours of coverage
  • 02 Twelve rolls of 35mm film
  • 03 Professional hand developing
  • 04 High-resolution archival scans
  • 05 Online gallery delivery

Additional rolls — $175 per roll.

Enquire about the collection
— THE LAST FRAME —

Imperfect, in the best way.

Blurred couple walking on beach — visible Kodak Portra film border
Roll XII · Frame 13A · Kodak Portra 160 End of roll — sunset, the Pacific

“Film is not the better photograph. It is the truer one — because it forgets the way we forget, and remembers the way we want to remember.”

Zatonsky Moments · Analog Department