Borgo Vescine wedding

Vescine is a hamlet of stone houses on a ridge above Radda in Chianti, in the heart of the Chianti Classico zone.

It has been there since the middle ages and it is still laid out as a village: a piazza at the centre, paths between the buildings, a tower, and the vineyards and woods dropping away on every side. The relais occupies the whole of it, with 28 rooms in the houses, and a wedding takes the lot.

Radda is eight minutes down the hill, which is close enough for guests to walk into a real Tuscan town and far enough that nobody can hear the band.

The hamlet is small and the wedding uses all of it, moving outward through the evening.

The olive grove below the hamlet, with a gazebo among the centuries-old trees. This is the ceremony, and the relais includes the gazebo at no extra cost.

The square at the centre of the village, which becomes the dinner under the stars once the sun has gone off the stone.

Above the pool, looking out across the Chianti. The aperitivo happens here.

Where the night ends, with DJ sets, an open bar and dancing, and nothing telling anyone when to stop.

A Borgo Vescine wedding starts from €250,000, and for optimal results we recommend budgeting €350,000 all-in for 80 to 100 guests.

€30,000 a day on a weekday and €35,000 at a weekend for 2027, with a minimum stay of three nights. August carries some flexibility on that minimum.

So the hire is €90,000 midweek or €105,000 across a weekend, and the season does not change it. Only the day of the week does.

Every room in the hamlet and breakfast for all the guests. Full access to all the indoor and outdoor spaces. And the standard equipment for up to 80 people: the gazebo as it stands, dinnerware, tableware, glassware, tables, linens and chairs.

That equipment line is worth reading carefully, and it is the subject of the next section.

The wedding menu starts at €165 a head, with beverages quoted separately. The kitchen works from the estate’s own garden and the local producers around it.

Menus beyond the starting point, floral arrangements, music, and any equipment for guests beyond the first 80. The relais keeps a list of preferred partners and will consider outside suppliers with management approval, which is a more open position than most Chianti hamlets take.

The hire fee carries the furniture for 80 people.

The hamlet seats 80 to 100.

That gap is where budgets go wrong here. A couple reading the seated capacity as 100 plans for 100, and discovers that twenty of those guests arrive without a chair, a table, a plate or a glass included. Hiring for twenty people is not expensive in itself, but it is a hire order, a delivery, a collection and a set of decisions nobody expected to make.

We always hold the list at 80 where the guest list allows it. It is the number the hamlet is equipped for, it is comfortable in the piazza, and everything above it is bought separately.

The relais says it in one line: there is no curfew for music.

In the Chianti that is genuinely rare. Most of the comuni around here impose an outdoor limit at ten or midnight, and the estates that get past one in the morning do it by moving everybody indoors. Vescine does not have to.

The reason is geography. The hamlet sits alone on its ridge with woods and vineyards between it and anyone else, and the whole of it is let to one wedding, so there is nobody within earshot who did not come for the party.

We still write the finishing hour into the contract, because a thing that is true in practice should also be true on paper. What changes is that here the conversation is about what the couple wants rather than what the comune will allow.

Twenty-eight rooms sleeping 65, all inside the hire.

They are in the old stone houses of the hamlet, which means short staircases, beams, thick walls and no corridors. Breakfast is for everybody, every day, and it is included.

Sixty-five beds against a hundred guests leaves about 35 people in Radda or the surrounding Chianti, eight minutes away. With no curfew and no last shuttle imposed by the venue, that drive is the only thing setting a limit on the night, so we run cars late rather than early.

The hamlet is at Vescine near Radda in Chianti, in the province of Siena, inside the Chianti Classico zone.

Radda is eight minutes, Siena 43 and Florence city centre 58.

Florence Peretola is an hour and nine minutes by road on our routing, against the 40 minutes the relais quotes in its own material. Pisa is an hour and 58 and Rome Fiumicino three hours and 34.

We give guests the longer figure. A transfer booked on a 40-minute assumption and taking an hour and nine is how people miss a ceremony.

Eighty is the number, and almost nothing else here is a constraint.

Hold the guest list at 80.

The hire includes tables, chairs, linen, glass and china for exactly 80 people, and the hamlet seats up to 100. Every guest past 80 brings a hire order with them. We would rather plan a wedding of 80 that is fully equipped than one of 95 that is partly rented, and the piazza looks better with 80 in it anyway.

Marry midweek.

€30,000 against €35,000 a day, across a three-night minimum, is €15,000 saved for moving off the weekend. The season makes no difference to the price at all, so the day of the week is the only lever there is.

Use the absence of a curfew as a design decision.

There is no hour here, which almost nowhere in the Chianti can say. We build the running order to peak late rather than racing a deadline, and we keep the Orangerie for the part of the night that would be cut short somewhere else.

Tell guests the real drive time.

The relais says 40 minutes from Florence airport and we route it at an hour and nine. We put the routed figure on the travel page, because a guest who believes the shorter one leaves too late.

Magic Day plans weddings at Borgo Vescine from the first conversation to the final farewell. That means the three nights and the whole hamlet, the guest list held at the 80 the equipment covers, a midweek date priced against a weekend one, the gazebo in the olive grove used for the ceremony and the legal half arranged at Radda, the running order built to use a night with no curfew, cars running late for the 35 guests sleeping down the hill, and the real drive time printed on the invitation.

We have worked Tuscany for years. Tell us the dates you are considering and how many people are coming, and we will tell you what the three nights come to.