Friday
- 17:00
Welcome aperitivo
Boathouse jetty
Spritz, olives, the people you have not seen since the engagement.
- 19:30
Long-table supper
The orangery
A first sit-down. Lake fish, family style. Speeches strictly forbidden.
two thousand and twenty-six
Saturday, the twelfth of September
Villa Pliniana · Lake Como · Italy
We are gathering 86 of the people we love most for three slow days on the lake. We would not do this anywhere else, and we would not do it without you.
— I & T
A weeknight, a wine bar in De Pijp, a friend's leaving drinks. Ines had been told the friend was leaving Amsterdam; Theo had been told the friend was leaving the company. Neither was correct. Both stayed for the second bottle.
A summer drive south with the boot full of swimming things and one good shirt. We slept in a stone house outside Argegno, ate apricots over the sink, and talked for three days about a life we both kind of meant.
On the same jetty where we will get married, Theo asked, with a worse speech than he had practised. Ines laughed, then said yes, then laughed again. The boat back was very quiet and very slow.
The whole weekend is for you. Come for any part of it; come for all of it. The venue holds everyone within a five-minute walk of one another.
Boathouse jetty
Spritz, olives, the people you have not seen since the engagement.
The orangery
A first sit-down. Lake fish, family style. Speeches strictly forbidden.
Villa's private cove
Towels, espresso, the bravest of you in the water.
The cypress avenue
Civil ceremony, in English with Italian translation. Twenty minutes — promise.
East terrace
Champagne, peach Bellinis, a string trio that knows every Sade song.
The frescoed hall
Five courses by Stefano Cerveni. Dietary cards on every table.
Inner courtyard
"At Last" — Etta James. The plates are cleared. The lights come down.
The boathouse
DJ Marco Vidali (Milan). Last train back to the village leaves nobody. We have boats.
Garden lawn
Recovery food, last hugs, no schedule.
Villa gates
A shuttle to Como train station every 30 minutes.
Torno · Lake Como · since 1573
Built in the late Renaissance and named for Pliny the Younger, who described the spring that still runs through the courtyard. Eighteen guest rooms, a private cove, and the long lake view that has stopped people for four centuries.
The property is ours from Friday lunchtime until Sunday afternoon. You will find a handwritten card on your bed with the keys to your room and the day's quiet schedule.
For those who insist — we are saving toward a small house outside Lecco where we hope to host a future generation of long lunches. There is a fund linked below. There is also no obligation, and we mean that.
View the honeymoon fundOne name per form, please — we have separate cards for partners and plus-ones. If you cannot come, please tell us anyway; we will toast you on Saturday.