Reperti

My beautiful mother.

A long time I mentioned a photo of my mother in a wedding dress, I promised I was going to post it because it was an inspiration for me for ages. I still haven't done so. The photo is still at my parents house and I haven't managed to scan it.

A few days ago my dad emailed me a bunch of photos. The email was titled reperti (findings). Some pictures showed my brother and I as kids, our usual pose of me leaning on his shoulder, the rubicond little girl next to the lanky young boy (there is a 7 year difference between the two of us). Other pictures, the more interesting ones, depicted the daily life of my mom and her brothers and sisters, as children. A carnival party, the day of first communion, a day at the amusement park.

I particularly like one photo, the one of my mother sitting on a horse of a carousel, looking at the photographer, with her sweet and modest smile, the dress identical to the one of her younger sister (for some reason cut out of the picture) probably made by my grandma. Her eyes are smiling of the same joy I see in her eyes today.

I love this photo, and I think this is my new inspiration for the wedding. Grazie mamma.