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A Wedding at La Posta Vecchia
Sixty guests on the coast near Rome — three days of Italy, from a pizza night on the forecourt to vows in the grotto by the sea.
An Intimate Italian Debut
Venue: La Posta Vecchia, Palo Laziale, coast near Rome, Italy
Guests: 60
Duration: Three days
Programme: Pizza welcome evening, ceremony and reception, celebration into the night
Setting: The hotel forecourt, the seaside terrace and the hotel grotto
Scope: Planning, design, coordination and styling — floral by our Italian partner
An Italian welcome
The first evening was pizza, and nothing more elaborate than that — which is exactly why it worked.
On the forecourt of the hotel, three pizzaioli worked the house's own wood-fired oven while guests topped their own pizzas and waited for them to come out of the fire. Live Italian music ran through the evening. The tables were set al fresco, dressed for the ease of the night rather than the formality of the wedding to come.
For guests arriving into Italy, it was the country served plainly and generously — the right way to begin.
A ceremony that waited for the sun
The wedding day tested everyone's nerve. Sun and rain traded places all morning, and the couple watched the sky with the anxiety that only a wedding day brings.
We stayed calm and moved the ceremony back by an hour. It was the right call: the sky cleared, and the vows were spoken under open light rather than cloud.
The most personal moment came before that. In the hotel's grotto by the sea — the one it is known for — the couple exchanged private vows with their parents, away from the wider party, before the ceremony proper began.
Into the night
Dinner never stayed still. Guests rose to dance between courses and returned to the table, the celebration moving back and forth between eating and dancing all evening.
Later the party moved rooms — champagne and dessert in one, and then a loud, full-hearted party at the bar that ran late into the night. Almost every guest stayed in the hotel itself, with a few in the houses directly alongside, so no one had far to go when it ended.
Planning, design, coordination and styling were ours; the flowers came from our Italian partner. A day in Italy is only as good as the people you know there — and after years of working the country, we know them.
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