A nineteenth-century villa on the western shore of Lake Como, in Laglio, turned into a thirteen-room relais with an infinity pool, a private pier and a restaurant looking at the water. In the 1800s its mulberry garden fed the silkworms that made Como silk. Later it was a Milanese family's summer house. It still behaves like one.
What makes it unusual is not the view, which most Como villas have. It is that nobody has to leave. The ceremony happens on a terrace above the water, the aperitivo among jasmine and wisteria, dinner under a pergola a few steps from the lake, and the dancing in a wine cellar cut into the rock. Then everyone walks upstairs to bed. No taxis, no shuttle, no last train.
Laglio is the village George Clooney made famous, and it is a good deal quieter than that fact suggests. The villa's restaurant, Le Luci del Lago, is where people who live on this shore come to eat, which on a lake this photographed is rarer than it sounds.
Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller, Harper's Bazaar, AD, The Times and Forbes Life have all written about the house. We have planned weddings in it, and the photographs on this page are from them.
capacity
Two ways to marry here, and the line is thirty guests
This is the first decision, and everything else follows from it. Villa Vittoria works in two completely different ways, and the villa itself draws the line at thirty.
Up to thirty guests, without exclusive use. You take the ceremony space and the menu, not the property. Your ceremony and your dinner are entirely yours, while the restaurant and the hotel carry on with their own guests elsewhere on the grounds. One wedding a day, always, so you are never sharing the villa with another celebration. What you give up is music: strings for the ceremony and the aperitivo, and nothing after dinner.
Thirty to sixty-eight guests, with exclusive use. The whole villa, all common areas, gardens, terraces and all thirteen rooms. Ceremony in the gardens or on any of the three terraces, live music, a DJ in the wine cellar, drones, the pier for a boat arrival, flexible timings, the day running from three in the afternoon to midnight. Above thirty guests the villa requires this; it is not our rule.
Without exclusive use
Exclusive use
Guests
Up to 30
30 to 68
Common areas and gardens
No
Yes
Ceremony in the gardens
No, terrace only
Yes
Strings for ceremony and aperitivo
Yes
Yes
Live music and a DJ
No
Yes, DJ in the wine cellar
Ceremony timing
Fixed, 4.30 to 5.30 pm
Flexible
Drones
No
Yes
Pier for the couple
Yes
Yes
Pier for guests arriving by boat
No
Yes
Photographs across the whole property
No
Yes
The thirteen rooms
Booked separately
All yours
The sixty-eight ceiling is firm. That is the covered seating for dinner, and the villa would rather your evening be comfortable than full.
Our honest read. At twenty to thirty guests the non-exclusive format is the better buy by a wide margin, and the evening it gives you is lovely. If you want dancing, take the villa. There is no halfway, and couples who try to find one end up paying for exclusivity and then not using it.
at a glance
At a glance
16guests at the least
30where it is at its best
68and not one more
Budget level: €60,000 to €150,000budget level
Where
Via Vecchia Regina 62, Laglio, western shore of Lake Como
Como
30 minutes by car
Airports
Milan Malpensa 50 minutes, Linate 1 hour, Bergamo Orio al Serio 1 hour 15, Lugano 45 minutes
By train
Milan to Como San Giovanni in 50 to 60 minutes, then a short taxi
Format
One day, or a wedding weekend. No minimum number of nights with exclusive use
Guests
16 minimum, 30 without exclusive use, 68 with it
Weddings per day
One, always
Sleeping on site
26 guests in 13 rooms, extra beds on request. Six more rooms at Casa Cecilia, 50 m away
Ceremony
Symbolic on the terraces. Civil at the villa, subject to the comune's dates. Catholic church 15 minutes on foot
Music
Strings only without exclusive use. With it: live outdoors to 8 pm, indoors to 10 pm, DJ in the cellar to 11.30 pm Saturdays and 11 pm weekdays
Wedding day
3 pm to midnight with exclusive use
Kitchen
The villa's restaurant, Le Luci del Lago. Set menu for the group, up to two choices per course
Suppliers
Yours, with no fee, except music: Bluenotte only
Hotel rating
Four stars
Season
June to September for the pool and the long evenings. October to May opens two more spaces
the villa
The spaces
Space
For
Holds
What to know
Main Terrace
Ceremony
30 without exclusive use, seated
A permanent tent along one side, so light rain does not stop anything. Without exclusive use it is yours 4.30 to 5.30 pm, set-up and clearing included
La Piazzetta Terrace
Ceremony, aperitivo
30
A wooden terrace under jasmine and wisteria. Ceremonies 1 October to 31 May only. Aperitivo here year-round, 5.30 to 7.30 pm. No cover in heavy rain
Poolside Pergola
Dinner
30, or 68 with exclusive use
Always covered, with side curtains for wind. Long imperial table or rounds. 7.30 to 11.30 pm, set-up from 5 pm
La Barrique, the wine cellar
Dinner, tastings, dancing
16 seated, 24 standing
A Lario crotto cut into the rock. Becomes the dance floor with exclusive use
Lake View Veranda
Dinner
16 to 30
The restaurant veranda, with a fireplace. 1 October to 31 May only
Salone
Dinner, and the rain plan
Up to 68
Crystal chandeliers. Exclusive use only
Also on the grounds: the infinity pool and sun terrace, the private gardens, the pier, kayaks and bicycles.
The villa has two seasons and they look different. From June to September the real set is the Main Terrace, the Poolside Pergola and the cellar. From October to May La Piazzetta and the Veranda open, which gives you a flexible ceremony time and a far better wet-weather plan. If your date is movable, this is worth knowing before you choose it.
rooms
Where your guests sleep
With exclusive use, all thirteen rooms are held for your group: twenty-six guests with breakfast, and extra beds where a room takes one.
Room
How many
What it is
Suite Prestige
1
The best room in the house, over the lake
Lake View Suite
1
Warm tones, lake view
Romantic Lake View
2
Classic, lake view
Attic Lake View
3
Bright, under the roof
Cottage Room
1
Same category as the attic rooms
Cozy Room
2
One with a canopy bed and partial view, one without a view
Classic Room
3
Two with partial views, one without. Crystal chandeliers
Every room has air conditioning, Wi-Fi, a minibar, a coffee machine and a safe, with daily housekeeping and turndown. There is a lift.
Casa Cecilia, fifty metres away, adds four lake-view rooms and two suites, and its guests use the restaurant, the pool and the wellness corner. It is booked separately and is not held for you unless it is confirmed at the time of booking. It is reached by fifty-five steps, which is the sort of thing worth knowing before you put your grandparents there.
Guests can also book their own rooms directly. In that case the couple guarantees whatever is left unbooked or cancelled, so we would rather allocate the rooms ourselves and tell your guests what they have.
the days
The weekend
The villa will sell you a single date, and plenty of couples take one. We would still argue for two, because thirteen rooms and a lake are wasted on a single evening.
Day one. Guests arrive, take their rooms, swim. In the evening either a welcome dinner by the lake or a tasting in La Barrique, which is the better choice if your group is under twenty-four and likes wine.
The wedding day. Getting ready with the lake in the window. Ceremony on the terrace, aperitivo under the wisteria, dinner under the pergola, the cake, then down into the cellar for the dancing until half past eleven.
Day two. Breakfast on the lake-view terrace, kayaks, a boat to Bellagio, or nothing at all by the pool. The restaurant serves your group lunch on the extra days, and a farewell brunch can be arranged.
The pool is open June to September. The wellness corner, the bicycles and the boats work year-round, and a boat on Como in October is a different and better thing than a boat on Como in August.
ceremony
The ceremony, and what Italy requires
A civil ceremony at the villa is possible, and we have done one here. The comune of Laglio will send its officer out, which means your legally binding wedding happens on the terrace rather than in a municipal room. Two conditions, and both are real: the comune releases only a limited set of dates, so this is decided early or not at all, and both of you go to the comune in person one or two days before to file the papers. The town hall is ten minutes by car.
A symbolic ceremony can be held on any of the three terraces, or in the gardens with exclusive use. Which terrace depends on your guest count and on what you want behind you in the photographs, and we work that out together.
A catholic ceremony takes place in the parish church fifteen minutes on foot from the villa. We have not married a couple there yet, so we will say that plainly rather than imply otherwise. What we do know is the timeline, and it does not bend: allow six months for the file to pass your own parish, your diocese and the Italian diocese. If your date is closer than that, the honest answer is a symbolic ceremony at the villa with the church later, and we would rather say it on the first call than in month four.
Same-sex couples are welcome here, and the villa has been clear about that with us.
Sveta is in Rome and carries the paperwork: the Nulla Osta, the translations, the apostilles, the comune appointment and the interpreter the law requires. It is the one part of an Italian wedding that genuinely cannot be done from abroad.
season
Season and availability
June to September is the pool, the long light and the lake at its warmest. October to May gives you softer light, a flexible ceremony time, lower venue fees, and two spaces that are closed in summer: La Piazzetta for the ceremony and the Lake View Veranda for dinner. A wedding here in early October is, to our eye, the best version of this villa.
plan b
If it rains
This villa is better prepared than most on the lake, and the answer depends on your format.
The Main Terrace has a permanent tent along one side, so a ceremony there survives light rain without anyone moving. The Poolside Pergola is fully covered with side curtains, so dinner is never in question, in either format, in any weather.
With exclusive use and real rain, the ceremony and aperitivo move into the Salone, under the chandeliers, and dinner still happens under the pergola because it is covered. That is the whole plan, and it needs no tent, no deposit and no decision four days out, which on Lake Como is unusual enough to be a reason to choose this villa.
La Piazzetta is the exception: it has no cover in heavy rain. If your ceremony is set there between October and May, we hold the Main Terrace or the Salone behind it.
table and music
The table, the wine and the night
The kitchen is the villa's own, Le Luci del Lago, cooking Italian and Lario classics. The menu is set for the whole group with up to two choices per course, fish and meat or fish and vegetarian. Vegan dishes and a children's menu are there if you need them. A tasting before the wedding is possible by arrangement, which is not true of most villas on this lake.
Dinner comes with still and sparkling water and wine at the table, Chianti Classico DOCG or Sauvignon DOC, with Moscato d'Asti for the toast. Tables are laid by the villa in silver, tall goblets, white porcelain and white and ivory linen, on black iron chairs with white cushions. Flowers, candles and anything beyond that are your florist's, not the villa's, which is why photographs of this place look so different from one wedding to the next.
The aperitivo runs from simple Prosecco on the terrace to a rustic corner of Prosciutto di Parma DOP, Bresaola IGP, Salame Felino and Parmigiano Reggiano DOP. After dinner there is an open bar, a coffee corner with limoncello from Sorrento, Sicilian cannoli, gelato, and pizza at half past ten for whoever is still dancing.
Two firm rules on drink and cake. You cannot bring your own wine or champagne, and there is no corkage that makes it possible. You cannot bring your own cake either: the restaurant has its own pastry kitchen and is, in our experience, right to insist.
The night. With exclusive use, live music outdoors ends at eight, indoors at ten, and the DJ in the wine cellar plays to half past eleven on Saturdays and eleven on weekdays. Dancing happens in the cellar, not on the terrace. Without exclusive use there is no music beyond strings for the ceremony and the aperitivo.
The villa has no sound system or microphone, so whoever plays brings their own. Music is the single supplier you do not choose: it is Bluenotte. Everything else, your florist, photographer, film, hair and makeup, is yours to bring and there is no fee for bringing them. Sparklers and cold fountains are allowed.
Van access for suppliers is tight, which is a real constraint on how much decor can come in and how long set-up takes. We plan around it.
budget
What your budget looks like
Budget level: €60,000 to €150,000
The two formats are two different budgets, and this is the clearest example on our whole site of what exclusivity actually costs.
Up to thirty guests, without exclusive use
The lower band, €60,000 to €90,000 for everything: the ceremony space, the menu, every supplier, Italian taxes and our work. This is the most accessible real wedding we can build on Lake Como, and it does not feel like the cheaper option while you are living it.
Thirty to sixty-eight guests, with exclusive use
The middle band, €90,000 to €150,000. A single day sits at the bottom of it. A full weekend with all thirteen rooms sits comfortably in the middle.
Villa Vittoria is one of the few places on the lake that works both as an intimate day and as a weekend with every room, and on the first call we will tell you which your wedding needs.
What the number covers
Planning, design and coordination from the first call to the last transfer, with two coordinators on the day
The ceremony space or the whole villa, depending on format
Menu, wine at the table, aperitivo and the open bar
Photographer, film, flowers and decor, hair and makeup, music
Transfers from the Milan airports, room allocation and the weekend programme
Every Italian tax and fee, stated from the start rather than surfacing in month five
What it does not cover
Flights, what you wear, the rings, your guests' rooms if they book them directly, and the genuinely optional, such as a boat tour or the wellness corner.
Venue, catering and supplier fees are paid directly to the suppliers.
Every wedding is costed individually. You get a line-by-line estimate for your date after the first call.
honest limits
What we would not do here
The right villa is the one whose limits you know before you sign.
01
We would not bring a hundred guests, or seventy.
Sixty-eight is the covered seating and the villa holds that line. If your list is growing past it, this is the moment to change villa, not to squeeze.
02
We would not sell you the non-exclusive format if you want to dance.
Strings for the ceremony and the aperitivo, and nothing after. Couples who hear that and think they will manage without music are, in our experience, the ones who mind most on the night.
03
We would not plan a July wedding here for a ceremony on La Piazzetta.
That terrace is closed to ceremonies from June to September, and it is the one most couples fall for in photographs.
04
We would not leave a civil ceremony until late.
The comune of Laglio gives out limited dates, and both of you must appear there in person a day or two before. Decided early it is lovely. Decided late it is a town hall in Rome instead.
05
We would not promise a boat arrival without exclusive use.
The pier is yours as a couple in either format, but guests arriving by boat need the villa taken whole.
06
We would not count on bringing anything in by van.
Supplier access is tight. Designs that need a lorry of furniture belong at a different villa, and we will say so at the design stage rather than the week before.
07
We would not put grandparents in Casa Cecilia.
Fifty-five steps, and it is beautiful, and it is still fifty-five steps.
our part
What we carry
The villa gives you the rooms, the terraces, the kitchen and the staff. Everything that turns a beautiful relais into your wedding sits outside that, and it sits in Italian.
Katerina lives on Lake Como. She has walked this villa in February and in August, which are two different places, and she knows which terrace holds thirty chairs and where the light is at six.
The booking. We check your dates, negotiate the format and handle the contract.
The paperwork. Nulla Osta, translations, apostilles, the comune of Laglio and its limited dates, the interpreter, and the six-month church file if you are going that way.
The design. Ceremony, floral concept, timeline, menu tasting and seating, built around a villa that supplies its own linen and chairs, so your decor budget goes where it shows.
The suppliers. Photographer, florist, hair and makeup, boats, all people we have worked with here. Music is Bluenotte, which is the villa's rule, and we know them.
Your guests. Transfers from Malpensa, Linate, Orio al Serio or Lugano, room allocation across thirteen rooms and Casa Cecilia, and the weekend programme.
The day. Two coordinators, from set-up to the last song in the cellar.
Where the money goes. Eleven years in Italy means we know where twenty thousand euros changes the evening and where the same twenty thousand disappears without a single guest noticing. At this villa, for instance, the decision that moves your budget most is not the flowers. It is thirty guests or thirty-one.
our weddings here
We have planned weddings in this house
Maria and Shamil
A civil ceremony at the villa, with their guests. The comune of Laglio came out to the terrace, which is the reason we can promise a legal wedding here rather than hedge about it.
Kristina and Ivan
An elopement. Two people, one terrace, the lake, and the shortest timeline this villa has ever given us.
We looked at the photographs and we were right back in it. Everything was so warm, so soulful, without a single flaw. Thank you to you and the whole team for making it a fairy tale.
How much does a wedding at Relais Villa Vittoria cost?
Between €60,000 and €90,000 for up to thirty guests without exclusive use, and between €90,000 and €150,000 with the villa taken whole, for thirty to sixty-eight. Both figures include the villa, the menu, every supplier, Italian taxes and our work. You get a line-by-line estimate for your date after the first call.
Where is it?
Via Vecchia Regina 62, Laglio, on the western shore of Lake Como. Thirty minutes from Como.
How do guests get there?
Malpensa is about fifty minutes by car, Linate an hour, Bergamo Orio al Serio an hour and a quarter, Lugano forty-five minutes. By train, Milan to Como San Giovanni takes under an hour, then a short taxi. Parking at the villa is free.
How many guests?
Sixteen at the lowest, thirty without exclusive use, sixty-eight with it.
Do we have to take the whole villa?
Only above thirty guests. Below that you take the ceremony space and the menu.
How many nights do we have to book?
None. With exclusive use there is no minimum stay, and the villa will sell a single date.
Will there be other people at the villa?
Only in the non-exclusive format, and never another wedding. One wedding a day, always. The restaurant on the upper terrace and the hotel carry on with their own guests, away from your ceremony and your dinner.
How many of our guests can sleep there?
Twenty-six in thirteen rooms, with extra beds where a room takes one. Casa Cecilia fifty metres away adds six rooms, booked separately, up fifty-five steps.
Can we have a band and dancing?
With exclusive use, yes: live music outdoors to eight, indoors to ten, and a DJ in the wine cellar to half past eleven on Saturdays. Without exclusive use, strings for the ceremony and the aperitivo only.
Can we marry legally at the villa?
Yes, and we have done it. The comune of Laglio releases a limited set of dates, and both of you file papers at the town hall, ten minutes away, one or two days before.
Is there a catholic church nearby?
Fifteen minutes on foot. Allow six months for the paperwork. We have not held a ceremony in that church yet.
What happens if it rains?
The Main Terrace has a permanent tent along one side and the Poolside Pergola is fully covered, so dinner is never at risk. With exclusive use the ceremony and aperitivo move into the Salone and dinner stays under the pergola. No tent to book, no deposit, no decision four days out.
Can we bring our own florist and photographer?
Yes, with no fee. Music is the exception: Bluenotte only.
Is there a menu tasting?
Yes, by arrangement.
Can we bring our own wine or cake?
No to both. There is no corkage, and the restaurant makes its own pastry.
Can we arrive by boat?
The couple can use the pier in either format. Guests arriving by boat need exclusive use.
Are drones allowed?
With exclusive use.
Are sparklers allowed?
Yes, sparklers and cold fountains.
Where do we get ready without exclusive use?
At your own accommodation, since the villa's rooms stay with their own guests.
What is there to do?
The infinity pool from June to September, kayaks, bicycles, a wellness corner with a steam room and massages, wine tastings, cooking classes and private boats on the lake.
When is the best time to marry here?
June to September for the pool and the long evenings. May and October for softer light, lower venue fees, flexible ceremony timings and two extra spaces. Early October is our own favourite.
Why not book the villa ourselves?
You can. The villa gives you the rooms, the terraces and the kitchen. The paperwork, the design, the suppliers, the guest logistics and the day itself are the rest of the wedding, and they happen in Italian.
first step
Let's see whether it is yours
Marina, who founded WOWITALY, answers every inquiry herself. The first video call is with Katerina, it costs nothing, and it is not a sales call.
Tell us your dates, how many people you want around you, and what you would like your guests to say about the weekend afterwards. That last one tells us more than the budget does.
We will check availability with the villa, and set up a call. On it you get our honest read on which of the two formats is right for your group, real numbers for your date, and, if Villa Vittoria is not the right house, the two or three that are.
A cardinal's villa on the western shore of Lake Como, restored by Jacques Garcia and made famous by House of Gucci. Three ways to marry here, and the real numbers for each.
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Prices updated October 2026 · by Katerina
