The light decides more than the calendar.

From late spring the terraces can carry the whole day: ceremony in the afternoon, aperitivo while the light drops, dinner outside. In high summer the same day works, but the light arrives later and the village is full.

September gives the space back: the coast empties after the school holidays and the evenings are still long enough to stay outside after dinner. October is quieter again, and the indoor spaces start to matter.

A civil ceremony at three in the afternoon in July is a different event from the same ceremony at seven. The time is agreed with the Comune and with us: the terrace faces the sunset, so a late ceremony ends with the light low over the water.

Midday is the hour to avoid for the vows: the light is flat, the heat is at its highest and the photographs lose the bay. Guests in summer also need shade, water and somewhere to sit between the ceremony and dinner — the terraces and the garden give that, and we build the sequence around the sun.

Two calendars have to meet: ours, where one wedding per day means the date is either free or taken, and the Comune’s, which sets when a civil ceremony can be celebrated and when the publications can be done.

So the order is: ask us whether the date is free, ask the Comune whether the date is possible, then confirm. For anything unusual — a fixed date, guests or documents from abroad — the Comune di Rosignano Marittimo is the office that answers, not us.