Alright, I just finished reading Sophie Hunter’s Vogue profile and let me just say… chica is exhausting. It’s just a simple article about her wedding dress and wedding, and I came out of it feeling like Sophie is an exhausting person. Some Tumblr sites have the scans of her Vogue interview, but here are some highlights:

She actually IS working, people: “Sophie is currently developing a production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw with the Aldeburgh Festival and his Phaedra for the annual Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northen Ireland…”

Sophie, on being told that she’s “grounded”: “When two people meet and it’s the right combination, it does ground you suddenly.”

What? Vogue says that Benedict and Sophie have known each other for “seventeen years.”

Planning the gown: Her wedding gown is Valentino Couture and normally it takes six months for the house to make a wedding gown, but “Sophie’s ensemble was raced through in three months.” She went to Rome for her first meeting with the designers.

Sophie on the process of planning her wedding: “From a directorial point of view, I see opera in it, I see art, I see theater. There’s a narrative of the individual and the occasion and the setting that is utterly unique.”

Sophie on her gown (which is lacy and silver-grey): “It seemed to encapsulate everything I’d been speaking about. It feels very much of nature, and it’s so detailed and extraordinary that I’m still trying to get my head around how beautiful it is.”

The veil: Sophie was going to wear a “200-year-old family wedding veil” but changed her mind because the old veil is “very ornate.”

The ring: Sophie’s something blue was “the fragile sapphire Tiffany engagement ring that Benedict, to her delight, picked out himself.” Sophie on the ring: “It has that delicacy, it’s certainly not ‘in your face.’” Sophie’s brother made their wedding bands.

[From Vogue, print edition]

The rest of the article is interesting, if you’re obsessed and/or a hater. She had five bridesmaids and three pages! What I came away with is… Sophie has some pretty good connections, mostly family connections, I would assume. She was able to pull together a really fancy, really expensive, really artsy-fartsy shotgun wedding very quickly. And it does sound like she was planning everything and Benedict didn’t get much of a say. It also sounds like her family made the wedding happen. As for her sapphire ring… damn, Benedict WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BRING MY BIRTHSTONE INTO IT?

Photos courtesy of WENN.