Field notes from the islands.

A Norwegian-Croatian wedding took the whole of Brown Beach House in Trogir for three days, one hundred guests, three languages, and one white tuxedo. The Adriatic did the rest.

Nine years, two American cities and one lockdown dog brought this couple to the edge of the Adriatic at Brown Beach House in Trogir. The whole day held inside fifty paces of stone, and by midnight the pool had won.

Three days of a traditional Jewish wedding held within a single seafront address on the Croatian coast — a white chuppah among oleanders at the water's edge, and a Hora that turned the Brown Beach House terrace into something the stone walls could barely contain.

A couple who had come back to Vis enough times to have opinions, and those opinions arrived as whole lemons on an iron arch. Then, halfway through his own vows, the groom started to sing.

An island wedding on Vis: a ferry crossing chosen on purpose, vows at Fort George under the pines, and a crew that turned commitment into a shared itinerary.

The surfboards were wet twice before anyone unpacked the wedding clothes. On Vis, the marriage fit around the trip, not the other way around — a Fort George wedding for people who came for the water first.

Sun, wine, lemons and olive oil — the old names for Vis. The island keeps a slower beat, and a British couple built their wedding around it, the ceremony in the stone church of St Jerome, the celebration up at Fort George.

A small Jewish wedding at San Canzian Village & Hotel in Istria, given three unhurried days, a ceremony the rain pushed indoors, and a truffle hunt in the Motovun forest. The weather settled the weekend rather than spoiling it.

A Danish couple who assembled their life across some forty countries chose one stone village in Istria to say it out loud. The autumn light did the framing; the garden held the vow.

Guests fly in from every corner of the world for the couple and leave in love with Brač itself — an island of light, olives, wine and old stone above a sea that barely looks real. A wedding at Nono Ban and Hotel Lemongarden.