AARON & TZEN

A sod roof, a table facing the mountains, and music made through joined hands. Aaron and Tzen’s wedding in Norway brought around twenty of their closest friends and family together through rituals they had adapted and invented.

The ceremony took place beneath a traditional sod roof, or torvtak, still flowering at the end of summer. Layers of birch bark and turf sheltered the gathering. Its construction through shared labour suggested dugnad, the Norwegian practice of coming together to do something for the community.

Beneath it, Aaron and Tzen shared magical waters and made music through a closed circuit of held hands.

For dinner, guests gathered at a table with the mountains before them. Drawing on botanical pressings, we held foraged lupins and towering Angelica gigas between seven-metre lengths of sawn spruce. The plants kept their unruly shapes against the straight lines of timber.

 

A menu of local game and produce ended with a cake covered in strawberries left to sweeten on the vine.

Tzen carried amaranth, crab apples, wild strawberries and buckwheat. A little of the harvest in her hands.