Eleonora & Aaron
are getting married in Rome
June 13th, 2026
are getting married in Rome
June 13th, 2026
The ceremony will take place in the Sala Rossa at Campidoglio at 11:30 AM. It should last around 30 minutes. Most likely, we're not all going to fit inside, but if you wait for us in the piazza (beautiful), you can throw rice at us when we come out.
After a free period, let's meet up for a celebratory evening at Latta Fermenti e Miscele at 6 PM for an aperitivo, dinner, and a night of celebration. Latta is the first bar that we went to after moving in together in Rome. If you like to dance, wear shoes for it!
We (actually Zoe—thank you 🥹) have arranged a block of rooms at citizenM Roma Isola Tiberina for €339 per night from June 11-14 (tourist tax of €7.50 per person per night not included). You can book using this link:
Book your group rate for Eleonora & Aaron
To use this block, you have to book before April 30th, 2026, and there is free cancellation until that date. This hotel is a short walk to the wedding venue, and a short taxi/Uber to the reception. But if this hotel is not right for you, there are plenty of other options available. Trastevere, Testaccio, Monteverde, and Garbatella are all nice neighborhoods near the reception. Monti is a nice neighborhood near the wedding venue. Feel free to reach out for tips!
If you are coming from the US you are most likely flying into FCO. Driving from there to the center of Rome will take around 40 minutes, or longer if there is traffic. You can also take a train from the airport—the Leonardo Express will get you to Termini (Rome's central station) in around 30 minutes.
For the ceremony, please come in cocktail attire. For the reception, think dressed-up comfort. Interpret that in your own way!
Absolutely! We haven't organized child care, but if that would be helpful, reach out to us and we can look into it.
We do not have a registry, but we will gratefully accept contributions to our honeymoon/wedding/first house/impending global economic correction fund.
Below we tell the story of our relationship—Aaron in English, Ele in Italian.
This is the first picture of us together. We took it at Spiaggia Le Saline, in Sardinia. In true Italian style, we brought foil containers of home-made lasagna to eat on the beach. The water was a forest of seaweed that day.
After I told Ele that I gave the relationship “a 30% chance of continuing” after I got back to the US, I nonetheless invited her to join me for the last part of my summer in Lisbon.
The intervening three months is still the longest that we have been apart since we met. At some point between Lisbon and Thanksgiving, Ele decided to fly to the east coast in November for a visit. Here she is tasting an American coffee at a cafe on the Boston Commons.
At some point between Thanksgiving and June, I decided to move to Rome. On June 21st, Ele picked me up at the airport, drove me to lunch with her family (this is their couch), and then all five of us went to an appointment to sign our new apartment lease, where I almost kissed the realtor, Francesco, on the mouth because I was still getting the hang of which cheek comes first.
What came next was about 9 months of flying back-and-forth between the US and Rome while I coaxed the Consolato Generale d'Italia a Los Angeles into giving me a visa valid for longer than 3 months. At one point, Ele met me in Tirana, Albania where I was hiding out from Schengen Zone authorities. This is us on a bus from there to Gjirokastër.
We got engaged on January 4th at the botanical garden in Rome. There was a plaque on the bench where I proposed that said something to the effect of, “Love at the wrong time is inopportune.” After the proposal, we ate the most mediocre pasta carbonara of our lives.
Thanks to the logistical challenges of a US-Italy marriage, we got to celebrate our engagement with four separate parties: with family in Rome, friends in Rome, friends in LA, and family in LA.