Ravello Wedding

MARLO & LOUIS TOCCO

Ravello Wedding in Italy and Honeymoon in Italy

What a wonderful wedding and honeymoon you set up for us. Arriving in Rome and staying at Hotel Sole al Pantheon with the spectacular view of the Pantheon was totally awesome. The inside of churches were breathtaking as were the statues in the piazzas. Rome is so incredible we just wanted to see everything possible in two days. After a couple of days we had the city down but everything was a whirlwind experience, we will be back to soak it up, only slowly the next time.

The Santa Lucia hotel was lovely with all its marble throughout and in our room we had another spectacular view overlooking the sea from our room with a castle and fort. We were given a warm welcome upon arrival by the front desk and they had a very good piano player that filled the hotel with music. We didn't get to see much in the city of Naples staying there only one night and completing the paperwork on the next day. It all went so smoothly with Bruno. It was interesting to us since we work in the law field to see the governmental buildings a little part of Italy that you wouldn't normally chose to see. We ate the best pizza in Italy across the street from our hotel adjacent to the castle.

After completing the paperwork we were on our way in our car driving down the Amalfi Coast which was absolutely gorgeous arriving in Ravello at the Hotel Villa Rufolo. I can't even remember who showed us to our room but when she open the shutters to sliding glass doors I started to cry because the view was spectacular. The person thought I was disappointed, I had to tell her that it was joy. When I looked out our window from our room the view gave me a certain enchantment feeling like this was a fairytale. The flower arrangement you had in the room to welcome us was appreciated every time we came back into the room and could smell the flowers.

Thank you.

The assistant/interpreter is such a sweet person, she took good care of us getting all the paperwork finalized. How I wished I had brought a tape recorder for taping our vows. It was so different hearing it spoke in Italian from the Mayor then hearing interpreting it. It will certainly be something that will never be forgotten. The interpreter spent time explaining the history and stories of Rufolo and gave us the grand tour of this cute little town.

What a fabulous wedding present that you had the assistant/interpreter give to us from Italian Destination Weddings. It is a perfect keepsake having a beautiful book from the town that you were married in and then getting the mayor's signature, not to mention the CD, which we have been playing each morning at breakfast. Thank you so much it was so very thoughtful and we both love your gift.

Our wedding day was so romantic. Never did we ever regret doing this without family and friends. All day we were so into each other. We were wished congratulations over two hundred times in Italian by the town people of Ravello. It was such a great feeling to be the center of attention in a small town and to have complete strangers wishing you luck.

We can't wait to see the pictures, it's a good thing assistant/interpreter stayed with us because there were a few times the photographer wanted us to pose a certain way and I had no idea what he was asking us to do. Since I'm scared of heights it's a good thing assistant/interpreter took us all around the day before so I could practice getting out on that ledge that overlooks the whole coast. We said our good byes to assistant/interpreter and the photographer when they dropped us off at the restaurant. Our meal was absolutely suburb, we had the dinning room to ourselves overlooking the mountain side with all the little towns filtering down to the coast. . They served us a seven coarse meal that was the best food on our trip. They made sure that it wasn't rushed, I think we were there eating for over three hours. What a surprise, the wedding cake was to die for. The afternoon at Villa Maria was most romantic.

On the following day went to Capri. The boat ride scenery of the coast was beautiful. We must of covered the whole island that day.

Onward to Florence, the Villa Cora is an elegant hotel, it is just amazing that it used to be someone's summer villa. The view was fantastic of Florence from our room, but the most awesome view was taking the spiral staircase to the rooftop, a view of all four angles.

The guide took us to visit the Uffizi Gallery. We would have been lost not having a guide, she knew so much about the paintings. Learning the history about certain paintings was interesting, rather than seeing picture after picture. We're actually going to remember some of them because of guide's stories.

When you gave us a sample of the itinerary and said that this special tour was suggested, we are so glad that we took your advice. The day with Julian was great, we learned so much about history, culture, food, agriculture and the land you name it we talked about everything. We had the best lunch at a Tuscan trattoria that was without a doubt one of our best meals in Italy. Even though we couldn't speak any Italian, we totally enjoyed our visit with the owner.

The winery we visited was very impressive, it had state of the art new technology wine making machinery. It certainly was an experience testing wine at 10:30 a.m.

The most impressive place we visited that day was a place called the Abbey that used to house 75 monks back in 970, there were four living there at the present time. Because it was so old everything about this place was unique.

Later in the afternoon we visited a medieval town, it is amazing how well the town was kept to preserve the history. Julian had to take us back to our hotel because I had taken your advise and made dinner reservations at the Al Cinghiale Bianco (The White Boar), very good. Besides my wedding day this day with our guide/chauffeur has to be second on the list of best days on vacation.

This vacation was like a dream come true, it was filled with the most memorable experiences. We would like to thank everyone for all their efforts of making our dreams come true, everything was fabulous.

Very truly yours,

Marlo and Louis Tocco

CLAIRE &CHRIS BRODIE

Ravello Wedding with Civil Ceremony

Ravello was so lovely and the wedding was better than we ever imagined.  We had a fantastic time.  There are so many nice places to eat out and we had drinks in the square every night.

The ceremony was so romantic and the mayor was so friendly and put us both at ease - as did rosie.

The wedding meal was amazing and the staff at the restaurant salvatore were really nice.  We were not able to eat it all though!!

There was two singers at the reception - a male and female - I have there details at home but they had brilliant voices and really made the night what it was.  We were dancing between each course!

The flowers I asked were practically identical to the ones I received on the day.

Thank you so much for all your help and I will definitely be a reference for any other couples.

Claire

ELIZABETH LAN & MICHAEL DAVIS

Civil Wedding in Ravello

We just returned from our honeymoon in Italy and I just wanted to thank you so very much for all of your efforts in coordinating our wedding. We can't thank you enough! In addition to your meticulous planning from the start, with everything that came up at the last minute, between the unfortunate passing of the restaurant owner to the bus, we were amazed at how quickly and efficiently you took care of everything and making things a lot less stressful for us. Since our return, we have received so many complements on the wedding from our guests. Many of them have said that this was the best wedding that they have ever been to in their lives. Our boss even said that the wedding was absolutely perfect, and that's something we've never heard him say before!

I am sorry we didn't get the opportunity to meet with you when we were in Venice. We are already planning our return trip to Italy next year for our first anniversary and would very much like to meet you then. 

Again, thanks so much for all of your help and assistance! We truly appreciated everything you did for us!

Elizabeth and Michael

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