A Three-Day Destination Wedding in Italy: The Love Story of Mitchell & Elliott at SPAO Borgo San Pietro Aquaeortus
The Destination Wedding in Italy that Became a Story of Love, Design and Celebration of Freedom and Joy
SPAO Borgo San Pietro Aquaeortus is a luxury wedding venue in Umbria, Italy, known for hosting immersive three-day destination weddings for international couples. The following story is a real 3‑day gay wedding in Italy with 80 guests, all staying inside a private medieval borgo in Umbria
Some weddings are beautiful. Others become something deeper — a shared unforgettable experience that unfolds slowly over time, allowing every moment to breathe.
These weddings become an inspiration for others, a breath of fresh air, and an example of pure love and sharing. After these weddings you feel a bit sad, since it’s over (unless until their wedding anniversary celebration that you are looking for).
That was the vision of Mitchell Jarvis and Elliott Green, a London-based couple who chose SPAO Borgo San Pietro Aquaeortus, a historic wedding borgo in Umbria, Italy, for their destination wedding: to create a joint experience for their guests, to share their love with others.
Instead of a single ceremony day, they imagined something more immersive and special:
a three-day wedding experience where friends and family could live together in a historic Italian borgo, surrounded by nature, architecture, and extraordinary hospitality.
Their celebration welcomed around 80 guests from abroad, all staying inside the borgo, transforming the wedding into a small private village celebration.
The result was exactly what they hoped for.
As Mitchell later wrote:
“We recently celebrated our 3-day wedding at SPAO Borgo San Pietro Aquaeortus, and it was an absolutely magical experience. We cannot thank the entire team enough for making our dreams come true.”
The emotional impact of the celebration extended beyond the couple themselves.
Among the guests was Vicky Green, the mother of the groom, who later described the experience with extraordinary enthusiasm:
“Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Amazing, amazing, amazing!
Just spent the last 3 days at this stunning venue celebrating our son’s wedding. Everything our son and his partner envisaged came to life, truly spectacular.
The views were stunning, the staff very helpful, pleasant and accommodating, the rooms amazing, and the food delicious and varied. A truly memorable time was had by us all. Thank you SPAO.”
Her words echoed the feeling shared by many of the guests who had travelled from abroad.
Several of them later said something similar: they had seen the borgo online, explored the location on Google Maps, and browsed countless photos before arriving.
And yet, nothing had fully prepared them for the reality.
“We knew where we were going. We had looked up the place, seen the location on Google Maps and many photos. But it didn’t prepare us for a beauty like this.
Waking up in the morning and seeing the green Umbrian landscape, the enchanting square of the borgo, and the feeling of untouched nature around us…
We knew we were going somewhere special, but we didn’t know it was truly this beautiful.”
Moments like these reveal something important about destination weddings at SPAO Borgo San Pietro Aquaeortus: the beauty of the place is not only seen — it is experienced.
For many guests, the first morning in the borgo becomes one of the most memorable moments of the entire wedding weekend.
