/ September 2026
Inês and Tomás
A ceremony under the cork oaks at four, dinner on the terrace, and a bus back to Lisbon at 00:40.
Place
Sintra
Month
September 2026
Guests
140
Inês and Tomás came to us fourteen months out with a date, a guest list of 140 and one request: nobody drives home. Everything else followed from that.
The place
A quinta in the hills above Sintra with a garden of cork oaks, a terrace for dinner and a stone courtyard we kept as the rain plan. We walked it with them three times, once at the hour of the ceremony and once after dark.
The day
The ceremony started at four under the oaks. Drinks ran on the lawn while the family photographs were taken, and dinner was one long table on the terrace for all 140. The last bus left for Lisbon at 00:40, and the venue was clear by one.
Clara and Ben
Pull up a chair.
There’s room at the table.
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