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Piergiorgio Di Falco — Reportage di Matrimonio Inquire about your date

A woman in blue adjusts the groom’s waistcoat against the light of the curtain; he looks at her and smiles.

Nicola’s morning

Not a whole day: a morning of getting ready, photographed from beginning to end.

It is the part where people help each other get dressed, one button at a time, and the hands are nearly always someone else’s.

It starts with things: a suit laid out, shoes on the bedside table, a card left on the linen.

A figure in silhouette lays the suit out on the bed, against the curtains.

The polished black shoes and the belt on the wooden bedside table.

The embroidered note resting on linen, crossed by a blade of window light.

Then other people’s hands: someone straightening a waistcoat, someone holding a jacket open, someone doing up the button you can’t reach yourself.

A man in a pale suit and rust tie is helped into his jacket.

A hand tugs the groom’s dark waistcoat into place.

A man in glasses adjusts the groom’s waistcoat by the window.

The pale suit buttoned, hands at the jacket button.

The groom, now in his jacket, fastens the last button by the wooden door.

Your day, from the first button

Tell me the date and the place. I reply personally, within three hours during the Italian day, and I’ll tell you whether I’m free.