"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you"
Walt Whitman
Jacques & ChandrÉ
Jacques & Chandre's sunflower filled day at StoneshED, Durbanville
Jacques and Chandré’s wedding at Stoneshed felt a little bit like standing in sunlight after a long winter. Quietly warm. Honest. Full of joy that didn’t need to perform for anyone.
Surrounded only by the people closest to them, they chose intimacy over extravagance and somehow that made every moment feel even bigger. The kind of wedding where conversations linger around the tables, where laughter carries across the farm air, and where love feels less like a production and more like home.
Their gallery name, Turn Your Face Towards the Sun, could not have suited them more.
Some people simply carry light with them wherever they go, and Chandré is one of those people. The kind of person who walks into a room and softens it instantly. Warm, joyful, radiant without even trying. Much like the sunflowers woven throughout the day, she naturally turns toward goodness, toward people, toward joy. And in return, it seems the whole world leans back toward her too.
The sunflowers became more than flowers by the end of the day. They felt symbolic. Bright and unashamedly alive against the soft farm backdrop of Durbanville. A reminder that there is something beautiful about choosing light, again and again, even in ordinary moments.
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman.
That quote sat with me throughout the wedding day because it felt less like decoration and more like a reflection of who Jacques and Chandré are together. There was a gentleness to the way Jacques looked at her. A steadiness. The kind of love that says, I’ll stand beside you through every season. And Chandré met that steadiness with so much warmth and happiness that being around them felt effortless.
Nothing about the day needed to be overly complicated. The beauty was already there in the farm setting, the familiar embraces, the quiet glances across the table, the golden afternoon light stretching over the fields. It reminded me that weddings do not need hundreds of guests or extravagant details to feel meaningful. Sometimes the most sacred celebrations are the simplest ones. The ones where you can hear every laugh, hug every guest, and truly be present inside your own story.
Stoneshed gave the perfect backdrop for that kind of celebration. Rustic, warm, grounded.
A space that allowed the day to breathe naturally instead of rushing from one thing to the next.
27/03/2026
And somewhere between the sunflowers, the golden light, and the people who love them most, Jacques and Chandré created a wedding day that felt deeply like them: joyful, sincere, and completely full of sunshine.
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