Lara works at Zara, in the company's Spanish headquarters. She knows more about fashion than any other guest at her wedding. And yet, when the time came to pick a wedding dress, she didn't know what she wanted. "I just knew it had to be clean, elegant, with a romantic or boho detail," she says in an interview after the wedding. She married on 10 May 2025 in Madrid. The dress is the work of designer Flor Fuertes.

The design is asymmetric. The base is silk satin, layered over silk gauze for movement. The neckline is in "Bardot" style with a double strap on one side. The body has diagonal draping that finishes in pleated silk pieces below the waist. The result: not a minimalist dress, not over-decorated. It builds its own coherence.

But the real twist isn't the dress. 24 hours before the wedding, Lara changed the veil. She had originally planned a neutral, rustic model. It didn't work. Jumping from idea to idea, she remembered that a few months earlier she'd tried a 19th-century Belgian lace piece at "Mantones del Sur". She called, asked where the piece was. Crazy coincidence: it was in Flor Fuertes' workshop in Madrid. It arrived the next morning. It was worn as a "Juliet cap" with the hair down and naturally wavy.

The rest of the details are more sentimental than fashionable. Her grandmother's necklace. An engagement ring with a rare sapphire and diamond. Her parents' old earrings. Valentino patent leather shoes for the ceremony, swapped for Castañer espadrilles for the celebration - a classic Spanish-bride move. The bouquet: white callas, her late grandmother's favourite flower, combined with greenery and amaranth.

The wedding was at "Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro" in Madrid, the celebration at "Villa del Mentidero". You could feel Galicia: personalised "Estrella Galicia" beer (because they live in A Coruña), DJ Diego Aguas. The whole story sounds deceptively simple, but it's one of those approaches that money can't buy. Lara had the resources to put together a wedding dress with the whole Vogue Spain team - she chose her great-aunt's lace and her grandmother's necklace. The Spanish know how to throw a wedding when nobody is looking. A Balkan reader will recognise this: the real wedding is never the one that looks good on Instagram.