Travel

Growing up around the water, you would think I would have more pictures of harbors, but being born in Hawai’i and raised in Miami I guess you tend to just…

  I’ve been staying at the family mountain house by the seaside in Viareggio off and on since July. No neighbors, just lots of tomatoes, cotogna, arugula (too many other…

I love the word for gym in Italian, it’s palestra. Not sure why I like it, but it just seems to fit. Coming from Miami, where there are an overabundance of…

  Since we had a very small wedding of 30, I wanted to send post-wedding cards out to family and friends so they knew we were thinking of them. Our…

Flowers *Photos courtesy of Studio Bonon Photography Flowers are a main visual for any wedding, so I saw it as the perfect opportunity to get creative. I didn’t want a tightly…

Traditional Italian wedding cakes are simple, coated in powdered sugar or fresh fruit and filled with some kind of cream. Typically, you would choose from crostata di frutta (fruit tarte), millefoglie (thousand…

Wedding Food One of Nicco’s closest friends happens to run Cibreo, one of Italy’s top restaurants. His parents opened it years ago, which his Father still runs. His Mother, Benedetta (Bene,…

Buy The Dress My Mom and Step-Mom were my support team that day. I tried on tons of dresses all day and found niente (nothing). By the sixth hour, I was over…

*All photos in this post and in most of the Wedding Planning Series are courtesy of Studio Bonon Photography Our wedding photographer in Italy was actually a team. They were Marco…