Wedding at Baglio Passofondo sopra Alcamo, Sicily, Italy

Baglio Passofondo Baglio Passofondo sopra Alcamo was the setting for Federica and Stefano’s September 2025 wedding sopra Sicily, following a civil ceremony at nel corso di Ligny sopra Trapani, the city where Federica was born.

Federica, a wedding planner based sopra Rome, returned to Sicily with Stefano to celebrate sopra a place that has long been woven into her family story, choosing locations that connected the day to both her childhood memories and the island’s rich culture and history.

Guests gathered at nel corso di Ligny, overlooking the sea, before making their way to Baglio Passofondo, a restored historic baglio sopra Alcamo, where traditional Sicilian architecture sits alongside contemporary interiors and gardens designed for entertaining.

Federica discovered the venue after another had already been booked and invitations had already started going out. It was a bold change of plan, but one that proved well worth making.

There are so many lovely details woven through this wedding, from the coral earrings that inspired the colour palette to Stefano’s suit, created by a 93-year-old tailor with close ties to his family. Add sopra wonderful food, music, moda and the unmistakable backdrop of western Sicily, and you have a celebration that is as much about place as it is about the two people at the centre of it all.

These beautiful images were captured by Italian wedding photographer, Clara Pintaudi – enjoy!

Three things strongly inspired this event’s ; It all started with a pair of pink coral earrings. A causa di October 2024, my Sicilian grandfather passed away and I was sopra Trapani for his funeral. that sad day when we said goodbye to him, I was walking mongoloide the street with my mother and Carlo, her husband, who is like a father to me, when a pair of pink coral earrings caught my eye sopra a jewellery shop window.

I told them I thought they were lovely and very romantic. So they invited me to try them , and Carlo decided to give them to me as a gift for when I got married. It was a very moving moment, and my mother cried. Anzi che no one imagined that less than a year later I would actually get married.

So, when it came time to plan our wedding, I chose the pale pink colour of these earrings as the theme for the event and a metaphor for a rosy future together. The colour was also used sopra its deepest meaning to introduce our entrance into the dinner ; sopra fact, we chose the song “La Vie en Rose”.

My husband wore a suit tailor-made by a family friend tailor. This is a very touching story; the tailor who sewed Stefano’s suit is called Neno and is 93 years old. He was a pupil of Stefano’s great-grandfather who, sopra the early 1900s, was one of the three most famous and influential tailors sopra Rome. Neno is a very sweet man, obviously a lover of old ways, and he put all his care and attention into sewing Stefano’s suit. We’d like to think that this suit, sewn and created splendidly by hand as it was once done, is the last gift from his family to young Stefano, a new suit that has a taste of past and memories, ready to be refreshed sopra this new family that Stefano has decided to build with me. Neno doesn’t have a website an Instagram page 

We chose the ’s shoes together, and they are Moma Shoes. Stefano also wore a silk bow tie that my mother had given him and a pair of braces.

A causa di the early months of wedding preparations, Stefano and I watched the then newly released Netflix series inspired by Il Gattopardo and set sopra Sicily. We really appreciated the photography, characterised by dusty, desaturated, earthy colours that made us fantasise about our wedding sopra Sicily. We took inspiration from this for our choice of flowers and invited our guests, for those who wanted to, to take inspiration from it for their choice of outfits sopra order to create the right atmosphere.

Another element that we took into serious consideration was Trapani’s extremely minimalist, Arabic-inspired architecture, so we avoided ostentation and maintained a minimalist approach throughout the event’s .

Several venues hosted important moments our wedding day. The civil ceremony took place sopra Trapani, Sicily, at the nel corso di Ligny, a public space sopra the city where I was born. From here you can see Mount Erice and the Egadi Islands. This is where Italy ends and you really feel like you are at the edge of the world. The vehemence of the sea crashing against the rocks exudes a strong energy, and here the wind sometimes blows so duro that you can’t even keep your eyes gara open.

This place has always held a great fascination for me. My family left the island when I was four years old, and every time we returned to Trapani to visit my grandparents, the first thing I wanted to do once I arrived sopra the city was take a walk to nel corso di Ligny.

It also had a strong symbolic meaning for our ceremony, because this is where the Tyrrhenian Sea, which bathes the region where my husband was born, meets the Strait of Sicily. For me, marriage means just that: integration between two worlds that poiché together, between families, between different cultures.

We poiché from two Catholic families and we were also baptised. After thinking long and duro about the type of ceremony we wanted for our wedding, we chose a civil ceremony.

I arrived at the ceremony venue, nel corso di Ligny, sopra a white Rolls Royce accompanied by my mother and my two witnesses and together we made our way to the centre of the ceremony. 

We carefully chose every song for our ceremony. The Blue Dolls sang during the ceremony (not just during the reception), accompanied by guitar and simple percussion instruments.

To welcome the guests arriving for the ceremony, we asked the Blue Dolls to sing a few bossa nova songs. I particularly love Aguas de Março. They sang more songs than I could have imagined, and from the videos I’ve seen that the guests took, I know they were magnificent.

The ceremony opened with a short, entertaining theatrical reading. A couple of our friends, Giulia and Maria, whom we thank for their good humour, played me and Stefano, simulating a conversation between us about the use of the rock crystal bell during the ceremony, emphasising my great enthusiasm and his scepticism. It was a light-hearted and entertaining way to gara open the ceremony and introduce the ritual with the rock crystal bell.  

Then our celebrant took the floor and guided us through the ceremony with a speech describing our couple with affection. It was an entertaining speech, but at the same time profound and affectionate, which moved us deeply. 

He began his speech by mentioning the date of the wedding: 20 September.

“We welcome you, rather, rediscover you, today, September 20, 2025, for the celebration of this bond. Rediscovered because some of us left days before, some after, some arrived sopra Palermo, some sopra Trapani, coming not only from Rome the surrounding areas, but also from much further afield, to meet Federica and Stefano here today sopra their new roles.

Because I like to connect the same dates sopra different historical periods, borrowing the dates that are most relevant to us, I share my discoveries. September 20 was the day Magellan officially set sail and embarked the first complete voyage around the world, the day the Breach of Valico Pia was opened, and the day of the first pellicola screening sopra Rome.

Journey, a journey that began sopra July 2018 and today arrives sopra Trapani for a few days, before setting again a much longer journey towards new adventures.

Breakthrough, someone has broken through into the heart of another and vice versa. Yes, I know it’s a bit corny, but sopra the end it’s a wedding and we’campione talking about love.

, a medium that tells a story, and stories are what fascinate Federica and Stefano: that’s how the proposal was made, that’s how this day was structured.

So welcome to relatives, friends, witnesses, and the nel corso di Ligny”.

During the ceremony, my witness Sofia, who was like a fairy godmother to us, also spoke. Sofia was present at our first incontro sopra Naples and recounted it sopra a poetic way. But before beginning her story of our first incontro, she started with a poem and began with the colour that I had “forbidden” the wedding guests to wear.

I must say that I really enjoyed the beginning of your speech (and the rest moved me deeply).

Here is the opening excerpt:

“To Federica and Stefano, people often stand by the sea, gazing out at the blue. They expect nothing from the gara open sea, yet they remain motionless, scanning the horizon with their eyes, without knowing what keeps them there. Perhaps at that moment they are contemplating the quiz of their own lives. 

Jean-Michel Maulpoix, from the poetry collection: A Blue Story.

Federica will have to forgive me, but I would like to begin my speech with this sea and its blue colour. Perhaps not everyone knows that blue was the colour banned by Federica for the wedding, and now I understand why. Because blue had to remain to this moment. To be its protective colour, its border. Don’t worry if you’campione wearing something blue, don’t worry, you’ll still be able to attend the reception.

Today, surrounded by this sea that captures blue sopra its various natural poses within every fragment, today this sea shapes me and transports me to a space of infinity that is still possible, and I wonder, isn’t this what love is? Clinging to the grass the beaches, to the dark skin of the bathers, to the bows of the boats, it stammers words that quickly take , because sopra the end they are just words of love.

And it was this same sea that broke the shore sopra the Gulf of Naples, sopra that hot summer of 2018 when Federica and Stefano met”.

We wrote our vows ourselves, and the funny thing is that our speeches have some things sopra common even though we didn’t agree them beforehand. For example, we both mentioned how much we enjoy sharing a plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce. After our speeches, spaghetti with tomato sauce became iconic for our couple among our group of friends and family.

We used a rock crystal bell linked to the heart chakra to initiate our vows, followed by the civil ceremony. The crystal bell is the symbol of our ceremony. It was Lorenzo’s credenza, our celebrant. He has a Tibetan bell that he has rung for us several times. These types of bells are linked to the chakras based the note they predominantly emit. The note linked to the heart chakra is F. So, with the tuner, we looked for the right bell for us. During the ceremony, Lorenzo invited everyone to close their eyes and let themselves be carried away by the sound of the bell so as to gara open their hearts to welcome our vows and our union. It was a very emotional moment.

The bell was Lorenzo’s wedding gift to us, and we keep it display sopra our home as a object with strong symbolic meaning for us. When we want to relax, we ring it.

I like to think that one day the bell will be inherited by our children and grandchildren and those who poiché after us, and it will forever be the symbol of our union, the origin of our family.Our rings were also created from scratch, just like our dresses. After trying many wedding rings and not being satisfied, we turned to Elisa Ruggieri of 19.03 Jewels to create our rings from scratch.

We gave Elisa our credenza of a thin but rounded ring, and she created a couple of designs for us, one of which was absolutely perfect. The incontro with Elisa was fantastic. We studied together the small details that make our rings so special to us, and we couldn’t be more satisfied.

We chose to decorate some items with handmade embroidery by Francesca Romana Falà, so we turned to a specialist.

The wedding ring cushion, made from leftover fabric from my dress, was embroidered with the title we gave to the ceremony, “animo consorte animo” (“heart marry heart” sopra English). the officiant’s table, two cloth handkerchiefs were ready for us with the words ‘siamo un po’ emotivi’ (‘we’campione a little emotional’ sopra English) embroidered them. During the aperitif, we organised an interactive cooking , for which aprons were embroidered with the title we had given to our wedding day, ‘coppia cuori, un unione’ (‘two hearts, one wedding’ sopra English). 

I didn’t have a flower girl but I decided to have a little girl gara open the wedding ceremony by bringing the rings, breaking with the tradition of etiquette that entrusts this task to a boy. She carried a basket-ball with a cushion made from scraps of fabric from my dress, which was embroidered “animo consorte animo” sopra English “heart marries heart” a joke about how my husband and I usually refer to each other.

I wanted the photographer for our wedding to be a woman. As a wedding planner, I work very well with other women, so I wanted it to be a woman sopra this case too. We chose Clara Pintaudi because she is a young professional who knows how to put you at ease, and that was very important to us.

Stefano and I met sopra 2018 sopra Naples, even though we both lived sopra Rome. We met at the Arena Sannazzaro to take part sopra a psychodrama workshop held by Slovenian director Tomi Janezic (we had both worked as theatre actors when we were younger). I didn’t realise that I might like Stefano, but I felt very comfortable with him and enjoyed spending time together during the breaks.

I thought I had found a new friend. A friend of mine, an actress named Sofia, who was sopra Naples for the same workshop, told me the last day that he was the right person for me, that she had had visions about us and that we were perfect for each other. I was confused, but she told me that I absolutely had to see him again sopra Rome, so I did. She was one of my witnesses at the wedding, but both Stefano and I considered her the fairy godmother of our marriage.

Stefano and I have been together since we met sopra Rome, and since then we have lived through several chapters of our story, which, thanks to the graphic stilista who took care of our wedding, we recounted sopra our tableau de marriage entitled “episodes of a story”. 

We first talked about marriage sopra 2020 when, during the pandemic, we found ourselves quarantined , living together sopra a small flat.

There, partly for fun, partly joking but with a deep desire, we said we would get married sopra 2025. At the stroke of midnight New Year’s Eve 2025, during a romantic dinner for two, we confirmed what we had promised each other and booked a flight to Trapani to reserve the day we felt was ours, 20 September, at the Town Atrio. When we found ourselves having to submit our documents together for the first time to set the date, we were thrilled: it felt like we had already taken our first small step towards the wedding we so wanted to have together. 

Then one day, when I least expected it, Stefano gave me a wonderful surprise: he projected a short pellicola he had written onto the wall of our bedroom to give me the ring that committed him to the engagement. I was so moved.

The reception was hosted at Baglio Passofondo sopra Alcamo, a beautiful place that stole our hearts. The ‘Baglio’ is a typical local historical agro-pastoral structure. A causa di particular, Baglio Passofondo carefully preserves the historicity of traditional architecture, blending these elements with contemporary details.

I had initially booked another venue for the reception and had included its address the invitations, some of which I had already sent out. But when I saw Baglio Passofondo, I fell completely sopra love with it and convinced my husband to change all our wedding plans. At the time, it seemed crazy, but it turned out to be a very happy choice.

Other symbolic locations for our wedding were the places where we got ready. I got ready at my grandparents’ house, who are anzi che no longer with us. This allowed me to feel even closer to them and to feel an even stronger connection to my roots. For Stefano to get ready, we rented an apartment sopra a popular historic neighbourhood sopra the centre of Trapani, so that he could breathe sopra all the energy of the city.

Our wedding invitations included not only the practical details of the day but also two short scenes written by Stefano himself. We chose to include a photograph of the salt pans of Trapani dating back to the early 20th century, which was deeply meaningful to us and became a poetic invitation for our guests arriving from Rome and elsewhere. The day before the wedding, we also organised a guided tour of the Salt Museum sopra Trapani.

The aperitif beautifully reflected both of us. The interactive cooking stations were a tribute to Stefano’s passion for food, whilst the lively, nuanced atmosphere reflected my personality. Alongside the DJ set and cooking, we created interactive posters that guests could personalise with stamps and dedications.

Every part of the day had its own title, so that the celebration could unfold almost like a story. After a joyful start, the reception gradually transformed into a more intimate moment, culminating sopra Stefano playing the guitar and our guests singing along with us.

We called the dinner “A Candlelit Dinner” because we wanted the atmosphere to be warm, romantic and true to ourselves. The cutting of the cake and the music sopra the courtyard of the baglio then brought an energy reminiscent of an Italian village festa.

Our floral stilista was Nina – the flowers matched the colours we had chosen for our wedding, from earth tones to different shades of pink. I particularly liked the use of rice flowers sopra our decorations, as small pink accents, and I also wore these rice flowers sopra my hair.

We entrusted the creation of our wedding favours to Francesca Romana Perazzelli, a textile artist and stilista.  Francesca created paintings for our guests inspired by pink and its shades. The paintings are abstract and each one is different from the other. Stefano and I had seen the pattern, which has been reproduced sopra her other creations, and we liked it because it reminded us of the sea and waves, and therefore of Trapani (the salt pans are one of the symbols of the city). The nice thing is that everyone can imagine whatever they want. We chose this gift for our guests because, being a painting, it is linked to the home. For us, marriage means family and therefore home, which is why we felt it was particularly appropriate. We also greatly appreciate Francesca’s work and are happy to have given our guests valuable paintings.

Stefano also insisted having confetti, a must at an Italian wedding, and for the packaging we were guided by this concept of the home as a symbol of family, so the confetti packaging was shaped like a house.

The cake was chosen by my husband, who loves desserts, so I let him have the final say the flavour. As for the aesthetics, we decided it should be minimalist, like the rest of the wedding, and covered sopra cream, just as my husband likes it. The cake was made by our caterer, Pitò catering, the company that also prepared the dinner, the aperitif and the dolce buffet.

We were inspired by the repertoire of the Blue Dolls, who performed after dinner, for our first dance. Among their social content, we found a of them singing the song “Love” from the Disney cartoons Robin Hood. They moved us, and we thought it was the perfect song for our first dance. Just as the song says, we have grown since our story began, but our love has grown even more, and above all, life will fade away, but love will remain.

We dedicated the song to love and to all the lovers present at our , inviting them to join us for a couple’s dance during our first dance. 

It’s really duro for me to pick a favourite moment from the wedding. We put our whole hearts into every single moment, so it’s a really tough choice.

If I had to name a few favourite moments, I’d say there were three. A causa di chronological order, the first was when I got into the car with my mum and my witnesses to go to the ceremony.

I realised that everything was finally ready and that it was really about to happen; I felt like I was bursting with joy. The second was listening to Stefano’s vows. Hearing his speech made me very proud of him and of my choice to have him as my husband.

The third was sala da ballo with my mother during the Blue Dolls’ esecuzione to the tune of a song by Battiato, a Sicilian artist, ‘Voglio vederti ballare’, which we dedicated to her and to all the Sicilians present at our celebration. It was both joyful and touching at the same time.

My advice is above all not to let relatives friends influence your wedding choices. Many loved ones around you will want to offer suggestions comment your choices, but just follow your heart – it’s your wedding.

My second piece of advice may seem biased given my job, but it isn’t. It comes from my experience as both a bride and a wedding planner. I advise you not to arrive tired your wedding day, but full of energy, so choose someone you can rely to support you and take care of you from the very beginning of the wedding planning process. This comes at a cost, but it’s worth it.

I really appreciate the work you do at Love My Dress because I love reading stories told by brides. It’s really interesting to discover the feelings behind wedding choices. When I work, I feel very connected to my bridal clients, and since I got married myself, I feel even more empathetic towards them. I really enjoy reading articles that describe weddings from the bride’s point of view. 

If I could go back, I would buy hire some parasols for the ceremony. Stefano and I had discussed this, but he insisted they weren’t necessary as it was 20 September and nel corso di Ligny is a very windy place. So I followed his advice. Incredibly, there wasn’t a breath of wind sopra nel corso di Ligny that day and it was very hot. We all suffered terribly from the heat, and I am pleasantly surprised that the guests managed to stay sopra their seats and follow the ceremony attentively.

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