This DJ Bride Wore Her Mother’s ’90s Wedding Dress To Dance Until 3AM In Ibiza
DJs Lulah Francs and Demi Riquisimo (real names Tallulah Pittam and Richard Main) met when they were sharing the billing at a club night in Tottenham back in 2021. They soon became inseparable, with one of their first dates taking place in Peckham, where they went record shopping. “I started to help Rich with cataloguing at his record label,” Tallulah remembers. “Rich joked that it was ‘work experience’ but really it was just a way for us to spend more time together. It sounds incredibly cringe, but we really did fall in love hard and quickly.”
The couple had been together for three years when Rich proposed during a trip to Ibiza, in October 2024. “I’d joked that I would dump him if he didn’t propose by the end of the year, so it wasn’t a total surprise,” says Tallulah, with a laugh. “He took me to Es Cavallet, one of the beaches we’d been during our first trip together to Ibiza, and he proposed with a beautiful vintage Art Deco ring that I’d found on a trip to Amsterdam. Turns out he’d gone back to buy it secretly when he was there on a work trip months after we saw it together.”

There was never any question of where they would get married, with Ibiza being a no-brainer. The couple started looking for their dream venue but nothing felt quite right until Tallulah’s mum, Ali Pittam, an interior designer based on the island, made a suggestion. Can Sakhara, her most recent project along with collaborator Roberta Jurado, is a stunning holiday home and wedding venue and it fitted the bill perfectly. “The house ticked every box because it offers spaces to create lots of different moments throughout the day - first a drinks reception with music by the pool, then lunch on a terrace with incredible views over the sea, and later a secret, pop-up nightclub which only we knew about,” explains Tallulah. “The owner was unbelievably generous and we were so happy and grateful to be able to bring our family and friends together in such a special venue.”
Now her dream venue was secured, Tallulah set about finding her dress. The only problem was, she ended up finding three that she liked – each completely different from each other. “I love lots of different styles and I’m a bit of a chameleon with fashion,” Tallulah explains. “My style changes depending on where I am, the situation and how I’m feeling, so committing to one dress felt quite daunting.” She ended up choosing the most minimalist of the three, the Cheryl by Halfpenny, which features a high halterneck that can be tied either at the waist or draped loosely at the back.
While curating the rest of her wedding look, Tallulah had one specific reference in mind. “My biggest inspiration was Dolce & Gabbana’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection, with the big red roses, ornate gold jewellery and tiaras, combined with a fresh, clean, silky dress,” she explains. “I loved the Spanish mantilla too. I’m fascinated with Catholicism, and knew I’d be getting married in a church, but didn’t want to look like I was doing fancy dress, so had to tread carefully.”

In the end, she chose a veil from Halfpenny to complete her look, and designed her own tiara to wear too, which she made with her friend’s brand, Tyger by the Tail. Her hair and beauty was also Dolce & Gabbana coded: a classic red lip and “very” winged black eyeliner by Charlotte Tilbury. The influence of the Italian duo could be seen elsewhere too: the floral scheme leaned heavily on big, dark red roses, plus lots of candles, while Tallulah’s bridal party all wore animal print.
After a legal ceremony in London a few months earlier, the couple were married in the church of Sant Agusti des Vedra in Ibiza. The couple’s friends, Lucy Lennox and Tim Beaumont, sang “Love Song” by The Cure, while another friend Adam Wyatt played guitar, as Tallulah walked down the aisle, with Tim also later performing “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley. Another friend, the co-creator of , Mickey Down, read an original piece he’d written for them. “It was quite abstract, but the central idea was a man finding a girl, for whom he lights a cigarette in the wind,” she explains.
The couple drove themselves from church to the reception in a classic Ford Mustang. There, they enjoyed cocktails by the pool accompanied by Spanish classical guitarist Paco Fernandez whose music Tallulah had loved since she was a little girl. “We then had a huge mixture of sharing plates by La Grand Bouffe Ibiza – burrata, beautiful salads and lots of different fish and meat,” says Tallulah. “We decided to skip pudding and just have our wedding cake, which was designed to look like it was covered in chillies. It was so realistic you wouldn’t have known they weren’t real.”
One of the most special parts of the day was when Tallulah’s mum gave her parent-of-the-bride speech. “She has a lifelong aversion to public speaking, so she recorded it instead,” she remembers. “My brother and a friend of ours who is a videographer filmed it with her, and it was shown on this enormous retractable C-Seed TV screen in the gardens at Can Sakhara. I had no idea what was happening and I completely lost it when it came on. There are photographs of me with my make-up literally running down my face. It was definitely one of the highlights of the day.”

Tallulah changed into her mum’s 1997 wedding dress for the party, which had been altered by a friend in Ibiza who had previously worked for John Galliano. “We modernised it by making the corset really tight, cutting the pencil skirt into a mini and using some of the leftover fabric to create a ruched detail at the front,” she explains. “We kept the train but added lots of tulle to give it more structure. I love remaking and redesigning things that have a history, so it felt really special.” She also wore her mum’s Jimmy Choo shoes.
The party went on until 3am at a hidden pop-up nightclub at the property. “DC11”, was dreamed up by the couple in honour of their favourite Ibiza club and brought to fruition by Can Sakhara’s wedding and events manager, Peachy Keane. With a roll-call of international DJs playing sets, including Chloe Caillet, Scarlett O’Malley and Make A Dance. “We played for about half an hour ourselves at the beginning, but then decided to let everyone else take over,” says Tallulah. “Our work obviously keeps us up very late, so we called it a night at 3am, which is very restrained for us!”




















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