The most vertical wedding in Italy, a coast of pastel towns stacked on cliffs above a cobalt sea, lemon terraces, and the garden balconies of Ravello hanging in the air. The Amalfi Coast hands you a view that no amount of styling could improve, and asks only that you work around its staircases.
Italy recognises civil unions, not same-sex marriage, so a same-sex wedding on the Amalfi Coast is a symbolic ceremony, and couples make the legal marriage at home or in a marriage-equality country (nearby Spain or Portugal are common). Opposite-sex couples can hold a legally binding civil marriage here. Either way, the celebration is yours; only the paperwork has a postcode.
It is a wedding that lives on terraces. There is very little flat ground here, so the day plays out on cliffside balconies and in cloistered gardens above the sea, with a ceremony against the horizon and a dinner as the lights of the coast come on below you. The drama is unbeatable, but the logistics are real, with narrow roads, a lot of steps, and boat transfers, so it rewards a smaller, mobile guest list and a good local planner.
Three corners of the region pull in slightly different directions. None is more correct than another; they are simply moods. The three below are the ones worth knowing first.
We are mapping the Amalfi Coast sub-area by sub-area, from Positano to Ravello to Amalfi town. Be first as each one opens, with the honest legal notes that come with it.
The quiz reads your taste and points you to the regions, and the kind of ceremony, that fit you.