The plan B is a room, not a promise.

A wedding here is an outdoor ceremony on the terrace, an aperitivo on the terraces and a dinner that can sit outside or in. The bay is in front of you, and the sky is the sky.

The venue also has indoor rooms: the main hall, where dinner is served with the sea still in view, and the two club rooms for the party. That is the difference between a plan B and a gamble.

What we will not do is pretend the terrace is covered. It is not. The ceremony is celebrated outside, facing the water, and that is the reason couples choose this place.

The worst version of bad weather is a decision taken at the last minute, in front of the guests, by people who have not spoken to each other. So we agree in advance how it works: who looks at the forecast, who calls whom, by what time, and which room is prepared if the answer is to move inside.

It is a conversation for when the date is set, not for the morning of the wedding. You know your guests: if half of them are over eighty, or arrive in silk shoes, the threshold for moving dinner indoors is lower, and it is better to say so early.

We would rather take a decision that looks excessive at eleven in the morning than move the chairs twice while everyone watches.

Whatever the venue, some choices age well: low centrepieces that do not become sails, candles with a glass around them, arch flowers fixed rather than resting, an aisle that can be lifted in a minute, a seating plan that also works reversed. Paper on the floor and tall, light decorations are the first things to go.

During the visit, ask to see the covered parts of the terrace and ask what happens to the set-up — and to the quote — if the day has to move. A venue that answers precisely is a venue that has done it before.

We will not promise you an awning, a marquee or a store of umbrellas we cannot show you. What is here, you can look at.