Four shapes of wedding on the Amalfi Coast.
Two of you, twenty-five of you, or a hundred. Start with the size, and the rest of the coast falls into place around it.
Where to start
I listen first, then build the right team around you.
Every wedding is a different shape, and the shape is usually decided by how many people are standing there. Find yourself below — the plan is then made around your dates, your guests, and how hands-on you want to be.
Elopements
Two of you, and up to about ten people.
For couples who want the coast, and not the production.
What it means here
- —A symbolic ceremony almost anywhere on this coast
- —The legal side handled separately, wherever you choose to marry
- —A photographer who knows where the light falls at seven
- —Lunch afterwards, without moving cars
- —Often arranged in a few focused calls
Intimate weddings
Up to 25 guests.
One long table, everyone at it, nobody seated by placard.
What it means here
- —The size Villa Mariella was built for
- —The villa is mine, so there is no venue owner to negotiate with
- —One event a day — nobody else on the terrace after you
- —Symbolic ceremony at the villa; church or civil in Ravello
- —A menu written around the market that week, not a banqueting sheet
Full weddings
Thirty guests and up.
Churches, cloisters, historic villas and terraces across Ravello, Amalfi, Positano and Capri.
What it means here
- —At this size the wedding is a logistics problem before it is a design problem
- —Which road closes, and when, in August
- —Which pier the boat leaves from, and how long the crossing really takes
- —Where a hundred people sleep, and how they get back to Naples
- —Knowing the coast personally stops being a nice line and starts being the reason it works
The week around it
The welcome dinner, the boat day, the long lunch.
And the brunch nobody wants to leave.
What it means here
- —A welcome dinner that sets the tone for the whole week
- —A day on the water, on my own boats
- —A long lunch somewhere your guests would never find alone
- —Transfers by land and sea, owned rather than brokered
- —For most couples this is half the trip and half the budget
How the planning actually runs.
Six steps, from the first call to the morning after. I handle all of them.
How I workSome couples come to me with the venue already signed, and some have planned every last thing and simply need somebody to run the day. That works too — tell me where you are on the call, and I will pick it up from there.
Tell me the date and the kind of wedding you want. I will tell you what is actually possible.
A complimentary thirty-minute conversation, scheduled in your time zone. No brochure, no sales pitch — just an honest read on venues, budget and paperwork for your dates.