Some weddings become legend not because of the number of guests, but because of the place and the moment. The wedding of Alice Campello and footballer Alvaro Morata in Venice is exactly that - a story still retold years later like a little fairy tale with 400 guests.

The couple married on June 17, 2017, in the Church of the Redeemer on the island of Giudecca in Venice - a 16th-century temple that holds important Venetian paintings. Among the guests were Morata's football colleagues, such as Isco, Pablo Sarabia and Nacho Fernandez. Venice as a backdrop isn't a choice for the modest - it's a statement in itself.

Alice wore a mermaid-cut dress, with floral lace adorned with pearls and crystals, and a simple tulle veil, holding a bouquet of white peonies. For the celebration she changed into a second dress with a pronounced V-neckline. Alvaro wore a dark suit for the ceremony, then swapped it for a blue suit and white sneakers - a detail that today looks almost prophetic for modern wedding fashion.

Guests traveled by boat through the Venetian canals to a lavish resort, where the cocktail was held on a panoramic terrace and the dinner in a glass tent decorated with white flowers, candles and a cake that hung from the ceiling. The band Taburete performed their song and gifted the couple an exclusive composition written especially for them.

For a Macedonian reader, used to a wedding being a serious family affair with its own rules, a story like this is at once distant and familiar. The opulence is different, but the essence is the same - one day when two people want the whole world to stop for them. It's just that for some that world really does stop in Venice, and for most - in a hall with home-grown music and an equally sincere joy.