“I like to think Lorenzo and I were somehow predestined to end up together,” says Louise Andrier, who married Lorenzo de Blegiers, the son of her parents’ longtime friends, in Provence this past July. “Lorenzo and I first met when I was still in my mother’s belly back in 1998,” she continues, before reminiscing on the many gatherings that followed, including family trips to Corsica, where the children would be photographed at the same church every year, and memories of being in the same middle school play. “And, my parents often say that my dad fell for my mum back in 1997 when she wore an amazing dress from Lorenzo’s parents’ ’90s brand, Capucine Puerari.
” (A strong sense of fashion runs in both the bride and the groom’s family.) Corsica is also where the couple, now in their late 20s, got together officially. They had returned for the wedding of Lorenzo’s cousin, Alma, although Louise had almost missed the wedding entirely, citing health problems and a break-up with her then boyfriend.
After “a little birdie” rearranged place cards so that Lorenzo sat next to Louise at Alma’s reception dinner, the two, who had always had crushes on one another, started their relationship. “Little did I know I would be married to him two years after that. My mum, however, sitting next to Lorenzo’s father a few tables from there, says she had a vision.
” It was during another family holiday, cruising from Calabria to Puglia, that they got engaged. Though L.