Barefoot Princess

Model and designer LINDY RAMA-ELLIS may have royal Balinese roots, but she chose to marry her new beau in fabulously undone style, and with minimum pomp, in the Tuscan countryside. She tells all to GEORGINA SAFE

- Georgina Safe

YOU MIGHT ASSUME being a red-carpet regular would intensify the pressure to have a ‘perfect’ wedding. But if there’s one thing that shone through in the nuptials of Lindy RamaEllis (nee Klim), it was an attitude of, You might as well relax and enjoy it.

“Because I go to so many events and have to get dressed up and all that stuff, my wedding was the complete opposite,” Lindy reflects. “I did my own hair and makeup, I had no flowers, and I even had no shoes.”

What the model, influencer, Rama Voyage creative director and mother of four did have when she married British property developer Adam Ellis was an idyllic venue in Tuscany, the luxurious wine resort Conti di San Bonifacio, nestled among tumbling hills. Surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, Lindy said “I do” in front of close friends and family — including Lindy’s three children from her previous marriage (to champion swimmer Michael Klim), Stella, 12, Rocco, 10, and Frankie, seven — as well as her nine-month-old daughter, Goldie, whom she had with Adam in December. “We had 37 adults and 17 kids, and just seeing the kids all running around together having a great time was really beautiful,” she says. “Anyone who was there would have thought it was Stella’s day because she was so excited!”