LIGURIA WEDDINGS
THE ITALIAN RIVIERA
THE ITALIAN RIVIERA,
WHERE THE VIEW IS EARNED.
The Riviera is the part of Italy that already looks like a photograph.
Villas on the cliffs, the sea going on forever, towns the colour of apricot and rose stacked above the water.
You don't have to do much to make it beautiful. It arrives that way.
What it asks for instead is to be handled well.
Your guests reach the hotel and come up to the terrace for a welcome drink as the sun goes down over the water. The next evening, the ceremony: a garden, an arch of flowers, and the open sea behind you as you say it. Nothing on that terrace or in that garden happened by accident. It only feels that way.
Because this coast is also the hardest one I work. The roads are narrow and slow. Some venues need permits arranged well ahead just to drive up to them. Guests can't be sent to find a clifftop on their own, at night, in the shoes they chose for a wedding. Every car is timed, every transfer booked, every detail held in place by someone who has done it here before.
MY PART IN IT
Everything you just pictured rests on things your guests will never notice.
The Riviera is the hardest coast I work. The roads are narrow and slow. Some
venues need permits arranged well ahead just to drive up to them. Guests can't be
sent to find a clifftop on their own, at night, in the shoes they chose for a wedding.
Every car is timed, every transfer booked, every arrival placed exactly where it
should be.
That's my half of the day. The terrace, the sunset, the arch of flowers with the sea behind it: that's yours. I make sure nothing gets between you and it.
Get the logistics right and they disappear. What's left is just the view.
The villages do the rest. Genoa and the smaller towns along the coast, with their caruggi (the narrow lanes of the old centres, lined with shops and painted houses) are where you send your guests to wander the morning before. They come back already taken with the place.
The venues sit all along the coast and above it. La Cervara, the old abbey near Portofino, with gardens stepping down to the water. Castello Canevaro above Zoagli. Villa Durazzo over Santa Margherita. Villa Lagorio at Celle Ligure. The Eremo della Maddalena up in the hills. Each one beautiful, each one a climb, each one worth it.
Piedmont · Monferrato · Liguria · Italian Riviera · Lake Orta · Lake Garda