Teresa and Joe

Teresa and Joe were married in May in the Alentejo, which can mean twenty degrees or thirty-four. We planned for thirty-four in January and were right.

The place

A farmhouse near Évora with a three-hundred-year-old olive tree in the yard, a stone barn and a pool the guests were not supposed to use.

The day

The ceremony moved to six for the heat. Two hundred paper fans waited on the chairs, the bar opened early and served water first, and dinner ran late under the tree with every light we could find.