We are excited for you to join us for an intimate long weekend in Scala — slow dinners, coastal views, and a symbolic wedding celebration overlooking the Amalfi Coast.
This first note is simply to share the where and when. The detailed plans will come later. For now, imagine an Italian summer dinner, a luxury hotel tucked into the hills, and a few days together along the coast.
A few moments from our path together— the engagement, the house, the trips, and the life we are building together.
We’ll be staying together at Palazzo Pascal, surrounded by terraced hills, coastal air, stone pathways, candlelight, and views that feel almost unreal. The exact ceremony setting will remain a little bit of a surprise. Hidden throughout the site are quiet visual hints — stone pathways, dramatic coastline views, and traces of a place suspended above the sea.
Palazzo Pascal sits high above the Amalfi Coast in Scala — quiet, dramatic, and impossibly cinematic at sunset. Terraces, candlelight, long dinners, and views stretching toward the water will shape the rhythm of the weekend.
Candlelight. Aperitifs. Bells echoing through the hills. A late summer evening above the Amalfi Coast.
The Amalfi Coast stretches along the southern edge of Italy’s Sorrentine Peninsula — dramatic cliffs descending into the Mediterranean, terraced lemon groves, winding roads, and historic villages suspended above the sea. Once one of Italy’s great maritime republics, the region is now known for its quiet hill towns, late summer dinners, and impossibly beautiful coastal views.
While Positano and Amalfi attract most visitors, Scala sits quietly above the coastline — older, slower, and more intimate. Palazzo Pascal overlooks the valleys between Ravello and the sea, surrounded by stone pathways, gardens, and sunsets that feel almost cinematic.
Hidden among the hills above Scala are the ruins of the Basilica of Sant’Eustachio, a 12th-century Romanesque church overlooking the sea. Long before the Amalfi Coast became a destination for travelers, these hills connected ancient maritime routes, monasteries, and hillside villages suspended above the Mediterranean.
Home for the weekend
The journey begins.
Transfer to Scala, followed by evening cocktails and a welcome dinner.
Slow morning, Amalfi views, long lunches, and time to settle into Italy.
Ceremony, aperitifs, dinner, cake, and dancing/fun.
Food, water, wandering, and one more evening together.
Arrivederci.
High above Amalfi, across the valley from Ravello, Scala is often called the oldest village on the Amalfi Coast. Legend traces its beginnings to the 4th century, when Roman travelers sailing toward Constantinople were driven ashore by a storm and settled in the mountains above the sea. In the Middle Ages, Scala became part of the powerful Maritime Republic of Amalfi — a fortified hill town of stone paths, churches, watchpoints, and small hamlets tucked into the landscape.
There is something timeless about Scala: the quiet above the coastline, the bells, the terraces, the sense that history is still present in the walls. For centuries it was a bishopric and an important mountain settlement; today it remains one of the coast’s more intimate places, overlooking Amalfi from above rather than sitting in the center of the crowds.
Lemon groves, olive trees, terraced gardens, ancient stone, local wine, and long evenings overlooking the Mediterranean — the Amalfi Coast moves at a slower rhythm in late summer.
Late August on the Amalfi Coast is typically warm and sunny, with daytime temperatures around the upper 70s to mid 80s °F and cooler evenings after sunset.
Think linen, light tailoring, comfortable shoes for stone pathways, sunglasses, swimwear, and layers for long dinners overlooking the coast.
Expect candlelight, sea air, sunset aperitifs, late dinners, and the relaxed rhythm of a long Mediterranean weekend.
Joe, Katelyn, Jacob, Charlie, Susan and Charla — the most important family and friends who make this not just an event, but a genuine celebration of a new beginning.
More details will follow as we get closer. For now, save the dates: August 26–31, 2026. We cannot wait to share this weekend with you.
