Villa Boscarello wedding

Villa Boscarello dates back to 1600. It was restored in 1802, and again between 1995 and 2000.

The house keeps its large living rooms and dining rooms, their decorated ceilings and the family’s own furniture. Below it the pool looks over the estate’s lavender, and the view carries from Siena to Monte Amiata. In the garden stand two smaller buildings: Bellaria, an old brick house made into an apartment, and Poderino, rebuilt as Suite Ada above and Apartment Salvia below.

The villa belongs to the Pometti estate, which is farmed organically.

It makes its own wine and olive oil, grows the vegetables served at the table, hunts truffles in its own fields and runs on its own solar power. Fattoria La Selva, the estate’s farm, sits 200 metres along the track with its own pool and restaurant.

Villa Boscarello is not a hotel. It is a family house let whole, and the estate’s site map lays the wedding out around it: a ceremony area in the garden, an aperitivo area, dinner in the main courtyard and the bar on the back veranda.

The garden ceremony area, for a civil or a symbolic ceremony. After the vows the chairs are carried across and used again at dinner.

The aperitivo is the estate’s grand buffet: Tuscan cold cuts, Pienza pecorino with Montalcino honey, fried vegetables and bruschetta with the estate’s own oil. The wedding meal can also be laid among the olive trees.

The courtyard between the villa’s wings, where the site map sets the wedding dinner. String lights can be hung across it in season. This is where we put every Villa Boscarello wedding dinner the weather allows.

The covered veranda behind the house holds the open bar, and in rain it takes the aperitivo and the ceremony with the living rooms.

The villa’s dining room is the wet-weather plan for dinner. The veranda beside the pool carries the other meals of the stay, from breakfast to the pizza night and the barbecue.

A Villa Boscarello wedding starts from €150,000, and for optimal results we recommend budgeting €250,000 all-in for 50 to 80 guests.

Villa Boscarello and its annexes, sleeping 30, are let whole at €20,000 to €24,000 for four or five nights, depending on the season. Four nights is the minimum, though the estate accepts shorter stays for dates booked well ahead.

The figure includes the continental buffet breakfast, daily maid service, air-conditioning and heating, linen, wifi and the pool. There is no separate fee for the wedding day.

Eleven apartments for 39 guests, five minutes’ walk away, at €200 to €460 a night each, with an Italian buffet breakfast and a three-night minimum.

The estate cooks the wedding itself, at €130 a head with VAT included: the aperitivo buffet for an hour and a half, two first courses and a main, the estate’s own wine without limit, the toast and coffee, over two hours seated. Tables, chairs, linen, china and service are inside the price.

Extra hours of service are €350 each. Children under five eat free and those from five to eleven are €18, and a midnight snack is €15 a head.

The estate’s other meals run from €22 to €48 a head, from a light lunch to the barbecue, and every meal beyond the light lunch pours the estate’s wine. A cooking class is €110 a head for six or more, and a truffle hunt with lunch €130.

Flowers, music, photography, the open bar and the SIAE licence. Final numbers, menus and allergies go to the estate 45 days before arrival.

Outdoor music stops at midnight.

Indoors the music can carry on until three. That is the whole of the rule at Villa Boscarello, and the night is designed around it: dinner and the first dances in the courtyard, then the party inside the villa at twelve.

When the meal service ends, the staff swap the glassware for plastic so the evening can run long. We plan the move indoors before the date, so the band’s second set opens in a room already lit.

Villa Boscarello sleeps 30 in 14 bedrooms, across three buildings.

The main villa takes 19 or 20 in nine bedrooms: three standard doubles, three superior doubles, two superior triples and a single let as a double. Bellaria has two en-suite doubles, a living room with a kitchen corner and a private garden with a barbecue. Poderino holds Apartment Salvia, with two doubles, a kitchen and a terrace, and Suite Ada above it, with the bath in the room.

Fattoria La Selva’s eleven apartments sleep 39, from doubles to two apartments for six, each with its own kitchen. La Selva has its own pool and a playground.

We put the couple and the families in the villa and everyone else at La Selva. Five baby beds and the kitchens in Bellaria and Salvia make the annexes the rooms for families with small children.

The villa is at Podere Boscarello, in the comune of Trequanda, in the province of Siena, 35 kilometres south of the city.

Siena is 55 minutes by road and Florence an hour and 30.

Florence Peretola is an hour and 41 and Perugia an hour and 24. Pisa is two hours and 42 and Bologna two hours and 28.

Rome Fiumicino is three hours exactly. It is the arrival we put on most invitations for this corner of Tuscany, because the flights from the United States are direct and the drive north is motorway most of the way.

A house, a farm and a midnight move indoors.

Take the fifth night.

Five nights at Villa Boscarello cost barely more than four. We always take it, bring the guests in a day early and keep the morning after the wedding free by the pool.

Hold the villa and La Selva together.

Thirty beds at the villa and 39 at the farm, on different minimum stays. We hold both before the date is confirmed, because the villa alone sleeps the families and not the wedding.

A structure for a full list.

The dining room is the plan B for dinner. For a list of 80 we cost a covered structure into the first budget and release it if the forecast is kind.

No rice, no confetti.

Rice, paper and plastic petals and confetti cannons are not allowed anywhere on the estate, and a cake from outside arrives after three in the afternoon. We brief every supplier on both.

Magic Day plans weddings at Villa Boscarello from the first conversation to the final farewell, for 50 guests or for 80. The estate lets the villa and its annexes whole, cooks the wedding dinner and pours its own wine, and charges nothing for the wedding day itself.

That leaves the rest with the planner: the ceremony and its paperwork, the flowers, the music, the photography, the open bar, the covered structure for a full list, and 69 beds across the villa and Fattoria La Selva allocated before anyone books a flight.

What we know from working the estate is the shape of its night: dinner in the courtyard, the move indoors at midnight, the glassware changed when service ends, and final numbers due 45 days out. We also know the fifth night costs almost nothing.

Tell us the dates you are considering and how many people are coming, and we will tell you what the stay comes to.