This Copenhagen bride planned her city wedding celebration in just two weeks

Some brides spend years planning their wedding, but Copenhagen-based Sarah Wisam Fabricius Persson did it in just two weeks. What was initially intended as a very intimate city hall ceremony with immediate family expanded rapidly into a fuller inner-city celebration. “We had already booked a city town hall ceremony on 13 November because we wanted to get married this year,” Sarah explains. “That date was originally meant for just family and a few close friends.” But two weeks before the wedding, everything shifted. “We found our dream apartment and had to buy it immediately,” she says. “That meant postponing the big Italian wedding, but also expanding our city hall celebration since we didn’t know when the bigger wedding would actually happen.” A sudden pivot ensued. “We went into full planning – and panic – mode,” Sarah laughs.

Sarah married Lasse Fabricius Persson, co-founder of Stellar Group, in mid-November at Copenhagen City Hall, followed by a lunch at Bar Amore, an Italian restaurant the couple had frequented for years. “We’ve had so many date nights there,” Sarah says, and coincidentally my girlfriends had thrown my bachelorette party there the week before. It already felt like part of our life.” The couple met years earlier at a corner café on a first date Sarah nearly cancelled. She was exhausted from finishing her last exam and had little energy for small talk. “My roommates convinced me to go,” she says. “And then we talked for hours. About everything. I knew straight away that he was different.”

That certainty carried through to Lasse’s proposal in Montenegro in April 2025. After a long day hiking through waterfalls, the couple checked into a near-empty castle just before wedding season began. Sarah stepped onto the balcony in her bathrobe to take a photo at sunset. “He asked me to turn around and was suddenly on one knee,” she says. “I burst into tears.” Only later did she learn that the only other person who had seen the ring was her father, whom Lasse had asked for his blessing in advance.

For the wedding, Lasse’s look was decided quickly: a grey-olive suit from Mfpen, a brand already in his wardrobe. “He’s very decisive,” Sarah says. “Once he knows, he knows.” Her own outfit took more work – and more urgency. With a clear idea of something tailored and ’60s-leaning, she spent the days after work visiting vintage shops across Copenhagen. “I was popping in everywhere,” she says. “On the way to the supermarket, after a run, on walks. The salespeople were stressed on my behalf.”

Ten days before the wedding, at Comeback Couture, she tried on a wool skirt that didn’t fit. On her way out, she noticed a freshly-hung silk set by the door – a ’60s two-piece she tried without checking the size. “I just knew,” she says. It required minor tailoring, completed two days before the ceremony. “I FaceTimed my sister and she said, ‘That’s you.’ That was it.” She paired it with black Manolo Blahnik Maysales she had bought months earlier, trusting the rest would come together.

The ceremony itself was kept deliberately simple and after signing the papers, the couple were asked to wait upstairs while guests gathered below. When they descended, friends and family had formed an impromptu aisle, blowing bubbles. “I panicked,” Sarah admits. “All I could think was whether it would stain my outfit.” Laughing, she says she practically dragged her husband through, with guests mistaking her haste for nerves.

Lunch at Bar Amore began at 12:30, with guests arriving by bike and taxi. "We wanted to celebrate our love in an untraditional way by having a daytime wedding and enjoying what little daylight there is at that time of year – and for it to be convenient for people picking up their kids afterwards," Sarah says. The menu was served sharing-style: focaccia, zucchini flan with parmigiano sauce, octopus carpaccio, followed by tagliatelle with butter and parmigiano. "Celebrating in the big open space at Bar Amore – where people bike by and can look in – felt joyful," the bride reflects. "Everyone who passed by seemed happy to see a wedding happening in the middle of the day." Dessert was a fig pavlova assembled live at the bar by Klara Marie of Klaras Table. (“I like that it wasn’t perfect,” Sarah notes. “I don’t like things that look too controlled.”) The couple cut the first slice together, then served each guest themselves – a small moment that ended up being one of Sarah’s favourites.

Despite the compressed timeline, the couple felt the day to be beautifully timed and meaningfully spent with families and friends. No toastmaster, no wedding party. “We didn’t want pressure on anyone. We just wanted everyone to just enjoy themselves and the food.”

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