{"id":4408,"date":"2015-05-14T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2022-01-23T15:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T14:30:49","slug":"fci-003-getting-engaged-in-italy-with-georgette-jupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/fci-003-getting-engaged-in-italy-with-georgette-jupe\/","title":{"rendered":"FCI 003 – Getting Engaged In Italy With Georgette Jupe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"getting<\/a>Ahhh, Firenze! What could be more romantic than getting engaged in Italy, right? The perfect place to propose to the love of your life. What a great memory!<\/p>\n

Well, yes, but it might take a little planning. After all, you wouldn\u2019t necessarily want a gaggle of Japanese tourists staring at you and taking photos of your special moment. Could be awkward if you suddenly became more picture-worthy than the statue of David in the Piazza della Signoria.<\/p>\n

Never fear, my friend Georgette Jupe (aka \u201cThe Girl in Florence\u201d) has all you Romeos covered. She has positioned herself as the online version of a crash-test dummy, making all the little missteps and battling with the Italian bureaucracy so that you don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

You see, Georgette recently got engaged to her boyfriend and fellow expat Nico. But Nico is from France, not the US, so her world is truly international, making the entire wedding process that much trickier. So yes,\u00a0while Nico\u2019s family is in France and Georgette\u2019s in Texas, they\u2019ve decided to get married later this year in their adoptive hometown of Florence. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s going to be a great wedding, and I couldn\u2019t be happier for them both.<\/p>\n

Georgette and I have been friends and co-conspirators in an Italy blogger group called COS\u00cc for over a year now. We also both had the privilege to attend TBDI (Travel Blogger Destination Italy) in Rimini last October where we met with travel industry influencers, and shared social media tips over shellfish and white wine in the seaside town of Cesenatico.\"georgette<\/a><\/p>\n

But enough about us. More importantly, what can YOU learn in this episode?<\/p>\n

Getting Engaged in Italy<\/h2>\n

In the podcast, Georgette gives lots of great suggestions regarding the perfect romantic location to pop the big \u201cdomanda<\/em>.\u201d In fact, on her blog she\u2019s narrating the entire process in an ongoing series, with the title and hashtag #MyTuscanWedding, so that you can follow along step by step on Twitter. The first of these posts, Where to Propose in Florence<\/a>, coincidentally (or not) aligns perfectly with this podcast.<\/p>\n

A Reader\u2019s Question<\/h2>\n

Coincidentally (and this time I mean it), a reader of my blog sent me a wedding related question about a day or two after my interview with Georgette. Since it\u2019s probably something that others have wondered about, I thought I\u2019d share it here:<\/p>\n

\u201cA distant relative in Italy daughter is getting married in June.\u00a0 What is the common practice for acknowledging it if you cannot be there?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Georgette\u2019s answer:<\/p>\n

We actually covered this in ITALY Magazine here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.italymagazine.com\/news\/how-reply-wedding-invitation<\/a><\/p>\n

The general protocol is\u00a0that when you receive a formal invitation with an RSVP indication, you are required to let the sender of the invitation know, as soon as possible, if you will be attending the ceremony and send a written reply.<\/p>\n

A reader (Margaret) offered this simple and concise alternative:<\/p>\n

Gentilissimi (name of the bride + name of the groom),<\/em><\/p>\n

Siamo davvero dispiaciuti di non poter partecipare al vostro matrimonio.<\/em><\/p>\n

(signature)<\/em><\/p>\n

Georgette Jupe<\/h2>\n

I would like to give a big “GRAZIE” once again to Georgette for generously sharing all her suggestions with me. (*NOTE* This podcast episode and all others are now available on iTunes.<\/a><\/strong> Please subscribe if you have a moment and leave an honest review.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the place near the Duomo where she and Nico went for their \u201cafter proposal\u201d dinner:<\/p>\n

Osteria dell\u2019Olio<\/p>\n

And she suggested this lovely\u00a0place, as well at Villa Bardini:<\/p>\n

La Leggenda dei Frati<\/a><\/p>\n

You can find her on her website\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/girlinflorence.com<\/a>, where you\u2019ll find her suggestions for romantic locations in\u00a0Florence<\/p>\n

Facebook \u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GirlinFlorence<\/a><\/p>\n

And click the link to check out other episodes and see my list of the <\/span>best podcasts about Italy<\/b><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/204597534-rick-zullo-1-fci-003-getting-engaged-in-italy-with-georgette-jupe.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>

Podcast: Play in new window<\/a> | Download<\/a> (Duration: 29:17 — 27.2MB) | Embed<\/a><\/p>

<\/p>

Subscribe: Email<\/a> | RSS<\/a> | More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahhh, Firenze! What could be more romantic than getting engaged in Italy, right? The perfect place to propose to the love of your life. What a great memory! Well, yes, but it might take a little planning. After all, you wouldn\u2019t necessarily want a gaggle of Japanese tourists staring at you and taking photos of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,344],"tags":[219,345,348,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11847,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions\/11847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}