VOGUE: This bride wore a custom gown and hooded mantilla veil by a Filipino designer for her tropical garden wedding

The couple chose Villa Milagros for the location, a beautifully restored ancestral house and gardens just outside of the Philippine capital. “The old mansion felt like the perfect setting — elegant but not overdone,” the bride says. “It had that lived-in beauty we were drawn to, like it already had its own story, and we were just adding ours to it.”

In the end, the grand architecture of the mansion itself became a key part of the styling, with one detail in particular setting the stage for the whole day. Draping a storeys-long swathe of creamy ruched fabric from the tip of the white building’s lighthouse, all the way down to the vibrant floral-filled altar on the ground, it made the perfect backdrop for the tropical garden ceremony. The finishing touch was the large red, cursive writing imprinted across the fabric, which read, “My Ride or Die.” “It created this dramatic effect, like a soft, sweeping gesture that tied everything together,” Trasienne says of the drapery. “It gave the whole ceremony a sense of softness and fluidity, exactly the kind of effortless beauty we were hoping for.”