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Domes and bell towers of Venice in silhouette against an orange sunset, with flocks of birds

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Marrow & Knot plans weddings in Italy: five places we know by heart, one team from the first visit to the last dance.

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A villa on a wooded promontory reflected in the still water of Lake Como

Como

A loggia over deep water.

Vows on a stone terrace, a wooden boat to dinner, cypress for walls. Como suits couples who want hush and grandeur in the same hour.

Como · A little history

Villas since Roman times

Pliny the Younger, born in Como, wrote about his villas on the shore. Most of the grand houses you see today were built between the 1500s and the 1800s as summer homes, and many still keep their terraced gardens down to the water.

Como · Good to know

Water is the setting

  • The lake is long and narrow: ferries and private boats link the shores, and the roads are slow.
  • Several villas are licensed for civil ceremonies, so you can marry where you celebrate.
  • We plan boat times as carefully as the menu.

Como · At a glance

Quiet and grand

Hush and grandeur in the same hour: one terrace, one boat at dusk.

Guests
20 to 80
Season
April to October
From Milan
About an hour by car
Plan a wedding on Lake Como
A carved stone palazzo with a stair and arcades above the sea

Puglia

Whitewashed courtyards, a long table.

Dinner starts late and nobody checks the time. Stone cones for roofs, a courtyard that holds eighty people and the dark that comes down soft.

Puglia · A little history

Olives, stone and sea

Puglia has lived off olives, wheat and the sea for thousands of years, and still makes more olive oil than any other Italian region. The trulli of the Itria Valley, round houses of dry stone, are typical here, and those in Alberobello are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Puglia · Good to know

Late and unhurried

  • Summer afternoons are hot: ceremonies are usually after five, and dinner starts late.
  • Food is the main event: fresh burrata, orecchiette and a long table that does not hurry.
  • The nearest airports are Bari and Brindisi, about an hour from most venues.

Puglia · At a glance

Room for everyone

Courtyards for eighty, long tables for more.

Guests
40 to 160
Season
May to October
From Bari
About an hour by car
Plan a wedding in Puglia
Green hills in the mist with a farmhouse among cypress trees at sunrise

Tuscany

A stone farmhouse, a cypress road.

Green shutters, a brick staircase and a field that goes gold by six. We use farmhouses we know, with kitchens that cook for a crowd.

Tuscany · A little history

Farms that became rooms

The Tuscan countryside of cypress roads and stone farmhouses grew out of centuries of farming under the mezzadria, a form of sharecropping. The poderi, the farmhouses of that time, now host weddings, and the Val d'Orcia is a UNESCO World Heritage landscape.

Tuscany · Good to know

Choose your month

  • Late spring and September are the sweet spots; July and August are hot.
  • Many farmhouses have their own kitchens and sleep part of the guest list on site.
  • Florence, Siena and the airports are an hour or two away, so day trips are easy.

Tuscany · At a glance

A table in the field

Kitchens that cook for a crowd, and a field that goes gold by six.

Guests
30 to 120
Season
April to October
From Florence
About an hour and a quarter
Plan a wedding in Tuscany
Pink flowers in the foreground and the Amalfi coast fading into the haze

Amalfi

A pergola, a sea, a very long lunch.

Terraces shaded by lemon and wisteria, stairs that turn every arrival into an entrance. Small weddings, planned down to the last step.

Amalfi · A little history

Lemons and a republic

From the ninth to the twelfth century Amalfi traded across the Mediterranean as a maritime republic. The steep cliffs were terraced by hand, and the lemon groves under wooden pergolas still supply the famous sfusato lemons. The coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Amalfi · Good to know

Mind the stairs

  • One narrow coast road, busy in summer: we move guests by boat and small shuttle.
  • Almost everything involves stairs, so we plan shoes, routes and quiet corners.
  • Venues are small and intimate, which is why the guest lists are short.

Amalfi · At a glance

Small and exact

Planned down to the last step, for a few people you love.

Guests
10 to 50
Season
April to October
From Naples
About ninety minutes
Plan a wedding on the Amalfi Coast
The Grand Canal and the dome of Santa Maria della Salute seen from above in early light

Venice

A palazzo, a canal, no cars.

Arrive by water. Marry in a room painted four centuries ago. Guests move on foot and by boat, and we keep the timetable.

Venice · A little history

Rooms above the tide

Venice grew on the islands of a lagoon and was a Republic until 1797. Its palazzi face the water, with the grand rooms on the first floor, the piano nobile, above the tide. That is why so many ceremonies happen in a hall painted four centuries ago.

Venice · Good to know

Everything by water

  • No cars: luggage and guests move by water taxi, on foot and over bridges with steps.
  • Acqua alta comes mostly between autumn and early spring, and we always have a plan B.
  • Some palazzi are licensed for civil ceremonies; others host the reception and dinner.

Venice · At a glance

Arrive by boat

A timetable we keep, in a city that does not hurry.

Guests
10 to 70
Season
March to November
Getting there
By boat from the airport
Plan a wedding in Venice

Tie it together.

Tell us where, roughly when, and who is getting married. A planner writes back within two working days.

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