The wedding is one day. The week around it is everything else.
Welcome dinners, boat days, guest rooms, transfers and the paperwork that makes an Italian marriage legal at home. All of it handled directly, with no one else in between.
Beyond the wedding
I do not believe in a wedding day that exists in isolation.
Your guests are flying in from different time zones. They want to eat well, sleep near each other, see the coast, and feel looked after. The best weddings I have planned are the ones where the whole week was considered — not just the three hours at the altar.
Dinners before and after
Three meals that turn a wedding into a gathering.
Welcome dinners
The first night sets the tone.
Most couples arrive a day or two early and want their people to meet before the wedding. I set up long tables on terraces, in lemon gardens, or inside small family trattorie where the kitchen is still run by the grandmother. Family-style platters, local wine, no microphones, no speeches unless someone insists.
Rehearsal dinners
A quiet night before the big one.
Smaller, looser, often on the terrace at Villa Mariella. We run through the timing for the next day while everyone eats pasta and watches the last light leave the sea. By the time dessert arrives, the nervous people are usually calm.
Post-wedding brunches
One more meal before everyone scatters.
A late morning buffet under umbrellas: fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, frittata, good bread, strong coffee. It gives the family a chance to say goodbye properly and gives you a chance to hear what actually happened at the dance floor.
Milestones
Proposals, renewals, and anniversaries worth traveling for.
Proposal set-ups
Ask somewhere nobody else can get to.
Around twenty a year, almost all of them on my own boat off Positano at sunset. Flowers, champagne and a photographer you will never spot — the full picture is on the proposals page.
See how I plan proposalsVow renewals
A ceremony with history behind it.
For couples returning to the place where they got married, or finally doing the small ritual they skipped the first time. A symbolic ceremony, a handful of children or grandchildren, and a dinner that is more laughter than speeches.
Anniversary trips
Plan the whole week, not just one night.
Ten years, twenty years, fifty. I arrange the rooms, the boats, the private dinners, the surprise moments, and the one restaurant where the owner still remembers your name from the wedding photos.
Logistics
The boats, the vans, and the rooms your guests will need.
Guest accommodation
Rooms, villas, and the right order of priority.
I know which hotels hold blocks for weddings, which villas sleep twelve without anyone feeling cramped, and which apartments work for the friends who want to cook their own breakfast. I block the rooms, send the links, and chase the RSVPs so you do not have to.
Private boat days
These are my boats. That changes everything.
The boats are mine, not brokered through a third party. That means the price is the real price, the captain answers to me, and the schedule is under our control. If the weather shifts, we shift. If the group wants to stay longer at a cove, we stay. No one is calling an agency to ask permission.
Transfers by land and sea
Cars, vans, and boats that actually show up.
The vans and cars are mine too. I know how long it really takes from Naples airport to Ravello on a Friday in July, where the ferries actually stop, and how to move thirty guests from a church in Positano to a villa in Praiano without losing anyone. One driver, one phone number, one person accountable.
These boats and vans are mine, not brokered through anyone else, which is why the price you are quoted is the real price and the schedule stays under my control, not someone else's.
Legal documentation
The paperwork that scares American and British couples most.
Getting legally married in Italy as a foreigner is not complicated, but it is specific. There are appointments, translations, stamps, and a sequence that has to be right. I handle it end to end, so you do not spend your engagement reading consulate websites in three languages.
- —I read your nationality first, because the paperwork is different for Americans, Brits, Australians, Canadians and every other country.
- —I coordinate the Atto Notorio and the Nulla Osta with the right consulate and the right comune for your ceremony.
- —I book the translation appointments, check the apostilles, and make sure the marriage certificate is valid when you get home.
- —You will know exactly what document is due when, and who has to be where. No surprises at the town hall.
This is one part of a six-step process I run for every wedding — see how I work.
By the time you board the plane home, you will have a marriage certificate that works in your own country. No follow-up panic, no surprise fax to the comune.
Tell me what kind of week you want around the wedding. I will make it feel continuous.
A free thirty-minute call. We can talk about boats, rooms, paperwork, dinners, or all of the above.