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Our story
Looking up
For you, with all our love For , with all our love
Victoria taught dance classes on Thursdays in a ballroom with a beautiful plaster ceiling. Lorenzo, an architect, had come to measure that ceiling for its restoration and spent the whole class looking up.
When it ended, she held out her hand for the last waltz. The next Thursday he came back, this time to dance.
Six years later, we want to get married beneath a ceiling rose like that one. And to celebrate it with you.
Since that Thursday we still look up, but together.
Saturday 22 May
How the day will go
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Welcome
Vinho verde and Portuguese guitar on the terrace.
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Ceremony
In the ballroom, beneath the ceiling rose.
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Drinks
In the lemon-tree garden, looking out over the river.
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Dinner
In the fresco dining room.
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Dancing
Back in the ballroom, until late.
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Goodbye
Taxis and a coach to central Lisbon.
Where
The venue
Palacete Almagre
Lapa · Lisbon · Fictional setting
A town palace imagined for this sample, high up in Lapa: 18th-century plaster ceilings, a ballroom with a painted oculus and a lemon-tree garden looking over the Tagus. On a real website, this is where the exact address, parking and map link would go.
How to get there
- By taxi: about twenty minutes from the airport and ten from Chiado.
- By coach: we’re laying one on from Praça do Comércio (see “Practical information”).
- By tram: line 25 stops a five-minute walk away, uphill.
Fictional sample content
Illustrative map, not to scale · Fictional setting
What to wear
Black tie
Dark suit or dinner jacket; long or cocktail dress.
The ballroom has an old wooden floor, so block heels are best. Please avoid white.
To make it all easy
Practical information
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Getting to Lisbon
The airport is about twenty minutes from the palace by taxi. Approximate times.
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Coach
It will leave Praça do Comércio at 18:00 and return at 1:00 and 3:00. Sample times.
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Where to stay
Hotels in Chiado and Lapa, a ten-minute walk away. On a real website, our selection with booking codes would go here.
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The weather
In May the evenings are mild, and the river breeze cools things down at night. Bring something warm for the garden.
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Children
Little ones are welcome. There will be a children’s menu and a playroom with carers during dinner.
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Gifts
Your company is the best gift. On a real website, the gift list details would be here; there are none in this sample.
To match
Monogram and matching stationery
Illustrative composition. The pieces included depend on the package.
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