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Ever dreamed of a Riviera wedding that feels like yours, not a Pinterest board come to life? This issue swaps Eiffel Tower props and staged lavender fields for quiet coves, hilltop villages, long tables, and small details that sound like your story instead of someone else’s.

Take a moment to see how designing around the guest experience, pacing, and place can turn the Riviera into a relaxed, modern backdrop rather than a cliché.

📰 Upcoming in this issue

• 💍 How to Plan a Riviera Wedding Without Clichés

• 💎 Richard Mille’s RM 037 Blends Power and Poise

• 🏨 The Palace Madrid, A Century of Light and Stories

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💍 How to Plan a Riviera Wedding Without Clichés

Forget Eiffel Tower props and overused lavender shots. This guide shows how to design a French Riviera wedding that feels personal, modern, and genuinely you.

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Key Takeaways:

• 🌊 Beyond the Usual Hotspots: The article encourages couples to look past Cannes and Nice, weaving in quieter coves, hilltop towns, and unexpected local settings.

• 🍷 Focus on Guest Experience: It emphasizes pacing events thoughtfully, building in scenic travel, good food, and downtime so guests enjoy a relaxed Riviera escape.

• 🎨 Personal Over Pinterest: Couples are urged to swap copy-paste themes for details that reflect their story, from color palette to music and local artisans.

• 🕊️ Keep It Effortless, Not Flashy: The guide favors polished yet simple design, smaller moments, and thoughtful logistics over giant productions that feel staged or overly extravagant.

💎 Richard Mille’s RM 037 Blends Power and Poise

Richard Mille’s RM 037 proves a ladies’ watch can be both technically serious and unapologetically glamorous, pairing an in-house skeleton movement with jewelry-level finishing. The piece explores how materials, ergonomics, and gem-setting come together in a watch designed to feel as good as it looks.

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Key Takeaways:

• ⚙️ Technical Heart, Feminine Proportions: The RM 037 houses a sophisticated automatic movement in a slim, tonneau case that sits comfortably on smaller wrists.

• 💎 High Jewelry Detailing: Diamond pavé, sculpted indices, and polished bevels turn the case and dial into a piece of jewelry as much as a timekeeper.

• 🧩 Signature Richard Mille Design: Exposed screws, skeleton architecture, and layered materials keep the watch instantly recognizable as a modern Richard Mille creation.

• 🎨 Multiple Materials and Moods: Variants in rose gold, white gold, and high-tech composites offer collectors options ranging from discreetly luxurious to boldly statement-making.

🏨 The Palace Madrid, A Century of Light and Stories

Madrid’s reborn Palace Hotel glows under a 1,875-pane iron-and-glass dome where Picasso once sketched, and Dalí wandered. After a two-year restoration, it feels less like a hotel and more like a living gallery of art, memory, and quiet spectacle.

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Key Takeaways:

• 🌞 A Dome That Holds Centuries: The restored iron-and-glass dome, glass palm chandelier, and terracotta walls turn the lobby into a luminous stage for Madrid’s history.

• 🎨 Artists in the Air: References to Picasso, Dalí, and even Einstein underscore how the hotel once hosted great minds, and still carries their creative echo.

• 🛋️ Design as Time Travel: Ruiz Larrea Arquitectura and Lázaro Rosa-Violán blend marble, optical illusions, mid-century chandeliers, and botanical mosaics to make old and new feel seamless.

• 🍽️ Dining Inside the Story: La Cúpula and the 27 Club bar serve reimagined classics and cocktails among artifacts, so every meal feels like part of the narrative.

One last thing

Weddings feel most special when they reflect who you are, not what the algorithm thinks you should like. By choosing less-obvious towns, accounting for travel time, ensuring good food, and allowing real downtime, you give guests an easy holiday as well as a celebration.

In the end, it is the unfussy moments and thoughtful logistics that people remember long after the last glass of rosé is poured.

Until our next edition,

Catherine Beaumont
Editor-in-Chief
Boston, Massachusetts
Flying Private

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