The lake has a way of dressing a bride whether she plans for it or not. The villas, the water, that low bronze light in the late afternoon, they set a tone, and the dresses that work best on Lake…
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Getting Legally Married on Lake Como
This is the least romantic page in the cluster and quietly the most important, because understanding the Italian paperwork before you fall for a venue will save you more stress than any other single thing. It is not complicated once…
Boat Transport for a Lake Como Wedding
On Lake Como the water is the road, and the boat is not a flourish, it is the transport that makes a lakeside wedding actually work. A bride arriving by wooden launch is one of the great entrances available anywhere,…
The Best Towns for a Lake Como Wedding
The lake is not one place but a string of very different towns, each with its own character, its own hotels, and its own answer to what kind of wedding you are having. Where you base yourself decides how your…
The Best Time of Year for a Lake Como Wedding
The lake keeps a season, and choosing your week within it shapes everything: the light in your photographs, the comfort of your guests, the price of the whole affair. I have spent enough summers and shoulder weeks here to have…
The Best Lake Como Wedding Venues
Choosing where to marry on Lake Como is really the whole decision, because everything else, the boats, the flowers, the dinner, the light, arranges itself around the villa you pick. I have spent years on this water watching parties come…
The Best Lake Como Hotels for Wedding Guests
Your guests will remember where they slept almost as much as where you married, and on a lake where the towns are small and the good beds book out a year ahead, this is not a detail to leave late….
The Best Things to Do in Sorrento
Sorrento is small enough to see in a day and rich enough to reward a week, and the trick is knowing which things genuinely repay your time. It is not a town of blockbuster museums; its pleasures are a square…
Where to Stay in Sorrento
Where you sleep in Sorrento decides the texture of the whole trip, and the first choice is not really price but position: how close to the old town, how high above the sea, how much quiet. Sorrento is compact, so…
A Sorrento Itinerary: 2 to 3 Days
Sorrento rewards a plan that is really an anti-plan: one day for the town, one for the sea, one for the ruins, with long lunches and slow evenings built in. Here is how I would spend two or three days…
Where to Eat and Drink in Sorrento
Sorrento eats well, in the honest, sun-and-sea way of Campania: potato gnocchi baked with tomato and mozzarella, fish pulled from the bay that morning, pasta with clams, and lemons in everything from the pasta to the after-dinner glass. This is…
The Best Time to Visit Sorrento
Sorrento has a season for almost everyone, but the differences between them are real: the same town is a blossom-scented idyll in May, a hot and crowded resort in August, and a shuttered, peaceful village in January. This is my…
