Bridges in Venice: with or without love padlocks?

A bride and groom stand close together, smiling at each other in a portrait. The bride is in a white strapless dress, and the groom is in a dark suit and tie. They hold small keys as their photographer captures the moment against a backdrop of a building beneath a blue sky.
Russian couple throwing padlock keys in the channel during a wedding photo service in Venice
A young Russian couple lately hired me as their wedding photographer. Once the Orthodox ceremony was over, I shot some photographs of the couple walking in Venice and locking a padlock on a bridge.

A recent trend all over Europe has couples affixing padlocks on bridges as a symbol for their ever-lasting love. In Italy this habit was influenced by Federico Moccia’s novel “I want you” which has two young lovers fixing a padlock on the Milvio Bridge in Rome and throwing the key in the Tiber.

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