A & G

Alyssa & Giovanni

27–29 May 2027
Villa Scorzi · Calci · Pisa · Toscana

Sit pacis. The Scorzi family motto — a place of peace, 900 years running

Alyssa and Giovanni on garden steps

L'invito — The invitation

Three days at the foot
of Monte Pisano.

We're getting married at Villa Scorzi, a 14th-century manor in the Valgraziosa valley outside Pisa — six hectares of park, two courtyards, a rose garden that comes into bloom in May, and a 17th-century grotto encrusted with shells and amber stone. We'd love you there for all of it.

Pisa airport is fifteen minutes away. Florence is an hour. Come early, stay late, and let us feed you.

Alyssa and Giovanni walking hand in hand down Railroad Street
A double-exposure portrait of the two of them
Alyssa and Giovanni toasting at a party

La villa — The place

Villa Scorzi

Built in the 1300s as a rural holding and taken over by the Scorzi, Counts of Pisa, as their country house. It has been added to for seven centuries — you can read the styles stacking up on top of each other as you walk through it. The view runs from the Arno to the Leaning Tower.

Everything across the three days happens inside the estate or a short walk from it. You will not need to drive anywhere in the dark.

Via Lungomonte Pisano 2, Calci (PI)
Directions ↗

Villa Scorzi and its Italian garden below the hills of Monte Pisano

La nostra storia — Our story

How we got
from there to here.

A girl walks into a bar…

Alyssa walked into Velvet Belly on a snowy Thursday in February, where Gio had been bartending for a little under a year since moving back to Rochester. Glances were exchanged across the room, and an unassuming winter night quietly turned into the one that changed everything.

Over the months that followed, Gio slowly won her over, and the two of them began building what would become the foundation of everything since.

This February marked five years of adventures and growing up together — as a family, Athena very much included.

Why Italy?

On the first of July, 2024, on a terrace above Sorrento, Giovanni asked Alyssa to marry him — just days before his birthday, and the best gift he could ever have asked for: a promise to spend the rest of his life beside his best friend.

Between Alyssa's life as a sommelier and the love of all things Italian they've always shared, the country had long since become their happy place. There's nowhere they'd rather keep making memories, and nowhere they can imagine beginning this next chapter but here.

Everyone we love, in one valley, for three days. That's the whole idea.

Some of you are flying a very long way for this. We know what that costs, and we're not taking it lightly. We picked three days on purpose — one dinner was never going to be enough time with the people who got us here.

So come hungry, bring shoes you can walk a gravel courtyard in, and we'll see you in Tuscany.

— Alyssa & Giovanni

Giovanni proposing to Alyssa on a terrace in Sorrento at sunset
Alyssa and Giovanni at home with their dog Athena
Alyssa and Giovanni in a Tuscan village courtyard

Il programma — The three days

Thursday 27 to
Saturday 29 May.

Each day sits in a different part of the villa. Nothing is compulsory except Friday. Times are firm; everything else is a suggestion.

Day IThu 27

Arrivals & welcome party

Corte Monumentale The great court & the Grottesco

  • from 14:00

    Check in at the villa

    Rooms in the villa and the Arancera. If you're staying in Calci or Pisa, drop your bags whenever suits you.

  • 16:00

    Stretch your legs — optional

    For early arrivals: it's a ten-minute walk to the Certosa di Calci, the vast baroque charterhouse up the road. Easy and mostly flat.

  • 18:30

    Welcome party & aperitivo

    Around the well, next to the Grottesco — the rocaille cave in the corner, all shells and amber stone. Spritz, vermouth, olive-oil bread from the valley. Come as you are.

    Dress: whatever you travelled in
  • 20:30

    Rehearsal dinner

    Long tables under the loggia, no seating plan. Stay as late or leave as early as you like.

Day IIFri 28

The wedding

Roseto → Giardino all'Italiana → Limonaia The whole estate

  • 10:00

    Slow morning

    Breakfast in the park, pool open. The afternoon is yours right up until the ceremony.

  • 16:00

    Guests seated in the rose garden

    The roseto is a blooming aisle that opens up from May. Please be seated by ten past.

  • 16:30

    The ceremony

    Short. Outdoors. Bring sunglasses.

    Dress: formal · grass & gravel underfoot
  • 17:15

    Aperitivo in the Italian garden

    The geometric parterre in front of the main façade — clipped hedges, long light, cold drinks.

  • 19:30

    Dinner in the Limonaia

    The old winter garden: huge beams, tall windows onto the inner court. Seating plan at the door.

  • 23:00

    Dancing back in the great court

    Under the stars, next to the grotto, until they make us stop.

Day IIISat 29

A long lunch, then goodbye

Sala degli Ulivi & the park The slow one

  • 11:00

    Recovery breakfast

    Quietly. By the pool. No speeches, we promise.

  • 13:00

    Farewell lunch

    The olive room and the lawn outside it. Come in whatever you slept in.

  • 16:00

    Departures

    Pisa airport is fifteen minutes. Florence is an hour. We'll help sort cars.

Draft schedule — times will firm up closer to the date.

La conferma — RSVP

Let us know
you're coming.

One reply per guest. It helps us plan the tables, the food, and the wine — so the sooner the better.

Kindly reply by 1 March 2027. Questions? Email us any time.

L'Arancera — Staying on the estate

You're staying
with us.

A handful of rooms sit inside the villa itself and in the Arancera, the old orange house across the court. You're in one of them — which means you don't leave at the end of the night, you just walk upstairs.

This page isn't linked anywhere — it's just for the two dozen of you on the estate.

La camera — Your room

Where you'll sleep.

Rooms are spread between the main house and the Arancera. They're old rooms in a 14th-century building, so no two are the same — beamed ceilings, tiled floors, windows onto either the great court or the park.

We've matched people to rooms ourselves. If something about yours doesn't work, tell us early and we'll shuffle.

Villa Scorzi and its Italian garden below the hills of Monte Pisano
Check in

Thursday 27, from 15:00

Someone will be in the great court to meet you and take your bags up.

Check out

Sunday 30, at 11:00

We will arrange check-out so we can all depart as easily as possible.

Included

Breakfast, pool, park

Breakfast in the park each morning, the pool all day, and six hectares of grounds to disappear into.

Il soggiorno — Your longer stay

The shape of your stay.

You check in with everyone else on Thursday. The difference is the end — you keep the last night and a slow Sunday morning after the rest have gone.

Days I–IIIThu 27 – Sat 29

The three days

The whole estate As published

  • Thu–Sat

    Everything on the main schedule

    Welcome party and rehearsal dinner Thursday, the wedding Friday, farewell lunch Saturday. See the schedule ↗

  • Sat 29 · late

    The last night

    Most guests leave after lunch. The estate is ours until morning — the court, the pool, and whatever's left of the wine.

Day IVSun 30

The last morning

The park Slowly, then home

  • 09:00

    Coffee in the park

    Whenever you surface. No plan beyond this one.

  • 11:00

    Check out, then departures

    Pisa airport is fifteen minutes down the valley. We'll help sort cars.

L'arrivo — Getting here

Travel & arrival.

Villa Scorzi sits in the Valgraziosa valley at Calci, at the foot of Monte Pisano. It's closer to Pisa airport than most Pisa hotels are.

Address

Via Lungomonte Pisano 2
56011 Calci (PI), Toscana

From Pisa airport (PSA)

15 minutes by car. Taxis wait outside arrivals; a transfer runs roughly [€ amount].

From Florence (FLR)

About an hour by car, or train to Pisa Centrale and 20 minutes onward by taxi.

Parking

Free on the estate, inside the gates. [Where to leave cars]

The gate

[Buzzer or gate instructions, if any]

If something goes wrong

Call or message [name] on [phone number] — delayed flights, lost drivers, anything.

Il deposito — Securing your room

Holding your room.

Rooms on the estate are limited and held under our name, so they're settled directly rather than through a booking site.

$1,300Per person
$260Deposit to secure the room
December 2026Deposit due by

To secure your room, please email our wedding planner Miranda directly for payment details at eventswithmir@gmail.com. Include your name and how many of you are coming, and she'll send everything you need.

Email Miranda

Please don't send money to anyone else, and don't act on payment details that arrive from any other address — if anything looks off, check with us first.