Villa Sola Cabiati Wedding Cost, Capacity and Rental Guide

A Villa Sola Cabiati wedding cost starts with renting the whole villa for at least three nights, listed from about $11,300 per night, plus an event fee of €10,000 plus VAT for up to 50 guests, plus food and drink from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo kitchen. Before flowers, music and the planner, that is already well over €40,000.

What you get is rare on Lake Como: an 18th-century palace of the Serbelloni dukes in Tremezzo, with six suites, its own jetty and gardens on the water, closed to everyone but you and up to 70 guests. We have filmed a couple's portrait walk at Villa Sola Cabiati and we work on this stretch of the Tremezzo shore often. Below is how the rental works, what the price includes, the rules and the light, and how it compares with Villa Carlotta and the Grand Hotel Tremezzo next door.

How much does a Villa Sola Cabiati wedding cost?

The villa rents in exclusivity from about $11,300 per night, and events require a three-night minimum stay. The event fee is €10,000 plus 10% VAT for up to 50 guests, and all catering comes from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. By our rough math, a 50-guest wedding starts around €90,000 to €120,000 all in.

Villa Sola Cabiati does not publish wedding prices on the hotel site. The figures below come from a luxury rental agency that lists the villa with its booking terms, plus planner guides. Treat them as a starting point and ask the hotel for a current quote.

• Villa rental: from $11,300 per night for exclusive use of the villa and grounds, as listed by Haute Retreats for dates from November 2026 to August 2028. Older press quoted about $10,000 a night.
• Minimum stay for events: three nights. Any event has to be part of a stay of at least three nights, so the rental alone is from about $33,900.
• Event fee: €10,000 plus 10% VAT for up to 50 guests, on top of the stay and the food. Ask what the fee becomes between 51 and 70 guests.
• Catering and drinks: from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo only, priced per menu. Outside caterers are not allowed.
• Cancellation: under the listed terms, 30% of the total is the deposit and is lost if you cancel more than two months before arrival; within two months the full amount is due.

A rough budget for 50 guests, before travel:

• Three nights in the villa: from about $33,900.
• Event fee: €11,000 with VAT.
• Dinner, aperitivo and bar from the hotel: ask for menus; a Lake Como planner figure puts Grand Hotel Tremezzo wedding menus at about €400 per guest, so 50 guests means roughly €20,000 before drinks.
• Planner, flowers, music, photo and film, boats: typically €25,000 to €50,000 together at this size.

What is included in the rental, according to the agency listing:

• Exclusive use of the villa, the Italian garden, the park and the heated pool.
• Six suites, daily breakfast, a 24-hour butler, housekeeping and a private chef.
• The private jetty.
• Access to the Grand Hotel Tremezzo spa (treatments extra), gym, tennis court, private beach and pools.

How many guests can Villa Sola Cabiati hold?

Villa Sola Cabiati holds a maximum of 70 people for an event, and that number includes the guests sleeping in the villa. The six suites sleep 12 adults plus two children. This is a venue for intimate weddings, usually 20 to 70 guests.

Some directories list 150 or even 200 guests. The terms we found from the agency and from Exclusive Italy Weddings, a Lake Como planner, both give 70, and canopies and tensile structures are not allowed, so you cannot add a marquee to grow the guest list. If your list is longer than 70, look at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo itself or another villa.

The six suites, as listed by the agency:

• Gianvico and Nora: about 45 square meters each.
• Amalia: about 38 square meters.
• Antonietta, Andrea and Alberica: about 30 square meters each.

Each suite has its own bathroom and a sitting area. With 12 people sleeping in the villa, the couple, parents and the closest friends can wake up in the venue, and the rest of the guests stay at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo or elsewhere in Tremezzina.

Where do the ceremony and dinner take place?

Ceremonies and cocktails are usually held in the Italian garden in front of the villa or in the pool garden behind it. Dinner takes place in the frescoed salons, with a long table in the upper salon facing the lake, or outdoors by the facade with the garden lit by lanterns.

The villa has a central body, two side wings, an Italian garden with arabesque hedges, a staircase down to the lake and marble balconies. Inside:

• The ground floor salons. Used for aperitivo, dinner and as the rain plan.
• The upper stucco hall. The most formal room, with frescoes by the school of Tiepolo, terrazzo floors and Murano chandeliers. A long table here with the balcony doors open is one of the classic Sola Cabiati dinners.
• The Italian garden. In front of the villa, on the lake. Ceremonies, cocktails, and dinners under lanterns.
• The park and the pool garden. Behind the villa, quieter and more shaded. A good spot for a ceremony in the heat.
• The jetty. Arrivals and departures by boat.

Legal note: ceremonies at the villa are symbolic. For the legal part, couples often marry at a church nearby (one real wedding published by Style Me Pretty held the religious ceremony at the Church of the Ascension in Cadenabbia), or have a civil ceremony at the town hall or at another approved location in Tremezzina such as Villa Carlotta, then celebrate at the villa.

What is the history of Villa Sola Cabiati?

Villa Sola Cabiati has roots in the 16th century. The Serbelloni dukes acquired it in the 18th century and Gian Galeazzo Serbelloni gave it its neoclassical form. Their descendants, the Sola Cabiati family, lived here until 1983. Today it is managed by the Grand Hotel Tremezzo.

A few details that guests always ask about:

• Napoleon's bed. The villa keeps the bed in which Napoleon and Josephine slept when they stayed at Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan. Furniture, French tapestries and Meissen and Sèvres porcelain were moved here from Milan during the Second World War, and the palace in Milan was later damaged by bombing.
• Giuseppe Parini. The poet was tutor to Gian Galeazzo Serbelloni and stayed at the villa, which he called La Quiete.
• Opening to guests. After the family left in 1983 the villa opened only for occasional private events. Around 2017 the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, run by the De Santis family, took over its management and began renting it in exclusivity.

The furniture, paintings and majolica you see on the day are the family's own, so the villa feels lived in rather than staged.

How do you get to Villa Sola Cabiati?

Villa Sola Cabiati is in Tremezzo, on the western shore of the central lake, less than a mile from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. Guests reach it in minutes by car or boat from the hotel, and Bellagio is about 10 minutes away by water taxi. From Milan, allow about an hour and a half by road.

• By boat: the villa has its own jetty. Guests staying in Bellagio, Varenna or Cadenabbia come across by water taxi, which is the easiest way to move a small group.
• By road: the Regina road along the western shore is narrow and slow on summer weekends. From Como, allow about 50 minutes to an hour. Minibuses from the hotel are the simplest option.
• Where guests sleep: 12 in the villa itself, the rest at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo or in Tremezzina. Some couples put guests in Bellagio and bring them over by boat.

What are the rules at Villa Sola Cabiati?

Events must be part of a stay of at least three nights, the limit is 70 people including resident guests, all food and drink come from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, only background music is allowed, and tents or canopies are not permitted. The season for weddings runs from April to October.

• Music: background music only, day and night. There is no dance floor with a DJ at the villa. If you want a party, ask the hotel about continuing at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo after dinner.
• Catering: Grand Hotel Tremezzo only. You choose from the hotel's menus and cannot bring a caterer from elsewhere.
• Canopies and marquees: not allowed. The indoor salons are the rain plan.
• Guests: maximum 70 for the event, 12 adults plus two children sleeping in the villa.
• Season: April to October for weddings, according to Exclusive Italy Weddings. The villa itself rents in other months too.

These rules make the villa ideal for a quiet, formal dinner wedding, and a poor fit for a big dance party. Know which one you want before you book.

When is the best light at Villa Sola Cabiati?

Tremezzo faces east across the lake toward Bellagio, so the villa's facade and garden get the soft morning light and fall into shade in the late afternoon. The best time for portraits is the last hour or two before sunset, when the gardens are in open shade and Bellagio across the water catches the warm light.

• Getting ready: with the couple in the villa's own suites, the morning light through the tall windows is very good for portraits and details.
• Ceremony: in summer, about 5 pm to 6 pm. Earlier, the Italian garden is in full sun and the gravel and stone reflect a lot of heat and light.
• Golden hour: about 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm in June and July. Portraits on the balcony staircase and the jetty, with the lake and Bellagio behind.
• Evening: the lanterns in the garden come into their own after sunset. Ask your planner for warm lighting on the facade.

How does Villa Sola Cabiati look on film?

On film, Villa Sola Cabiati looks like a private palace rather than a venue: frescoed ceilings, damask walls, family portraits and a garden that runs straight to the water. With 70 guests or fewer, the film becomes closer and more personal, with time for real moments between the couple and their families.

What we look for when we film here:

• Getting ready in the suites. The rooms are furnished with antiques and paintings, so even the preparation scenes look like a period film.
• The view from the upper hall. Through the balcony doors you see the garden, the lake and Bellagio in one frame.
• The arabesque garden from above. From the first floor windows the hedges draw clear patterns, and we add drone shots where the rules and the villa allow.
• Arrivals at the jetty. A wooden boat pulling up to the villa is one of the classic openings for a Tremezzo film.
• Dinner at one long table. With background music only, speeches are easy to record and the sound of the room stays clean.

Because the wedding is small and the villa is compact, we can stay close without being in the way, and families tend to forget about the camera faster than at a large venue.

Sample timeline for a Villa Sola Cabiati wedding

A three-night stay gives the weekend its shape: arrival and a welcome dinner, the wedding day, then a slow last morning. This is a typical June timeline for 50 guests with a symbolic ceremony in the garden.

• Day 1: arrival, check-in from 3 pm, welcome aperitivo in the garden or a boat trip at sunset.
• Day 2, 11:00 am: getting ready in the villa's suites.
• Day 2, 4:30 pm: guests arrive by boat at the jetty or by minibus from the hotel.
• Day 2, 5:00 pm: ceremony in the Italian garden or the pool garden.
• Day 2, 5:45 pm: aperitivo in the garden; family photos on the staircase.
• Day 2, 7:30 pm: couple portraits on the jetty and around the garden in the last light.
• Day 2, 8:15 pm: dinner in the upper salon or under lanterns by the facade, with speeches.
• Day 2, 10:30 pm: cake on the terrace.
• Day 2, late: guests return to their hotels; if the hotel allows it, the party continues there.
• Day 3: brunch at the villa or by the pool, then checkout the next day.

Villa Sola Cabiati vs Villa Carlotta and the Grand Hotel Tremezzo

All three are within a short walk of each other in Tremezzo. Villa Sola Cabiati is a private palace for up to 70 guests with a three-night stay. Villa Carlotta is a museum and garden used for ceremonies and photos. The Grand Hotel Tremezzo is a full hotel with more space and a real party.

• Villa Sola Cabiati: exclusive villa, up to 70 guests, 12 sleeping on site, hotel catering, background music only, three-night minimum.
• Villa Carlotta: a museum villa with famous botanical gardens, a short walk north. Couples often use it for the legal ceremony or portraits, and then hold the dinner elsewhere.
• Grand Hotel Tremezzo: the same owner and kitchen, with 77 rooms and suites, larger terraces and the floating pool. Planner notes say dancing is allowed there until midnight, with the hotel's Wine Bar for a later party. Better if your list is over 70 or you want to dance.
• Villa Balbiano: in Ossuccio, a few minutes south. Up to about 200 guests and about 30 sleeping on site, so a better fit for a larger exclusive villa weekend.

For a wider view of options and budgets, see our top Lake Como wedding venues and the Lake Como wedding cost guide.

FAQ

What is the price of Villa Sola Cabiati for a wedding?

The villa rents from about $11,300 per night with a three-night minimum for events, plus an event fee of €10,000 plus VAT for up to 50 guests and catering from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. Confirm current rates with the hotel.

What is the capacity of Villa Sola Cabiati?

Up to 70 people for an event, including the guests staying in the villa. The six suites sleep 12 adults and two children. Tents are not allowed, so the 70 limit is firm.

Can we have a legal wedding at Villa Sola Cabiati?

Ceremonies at the villa are symbolic. Couples usually marry legally at a church nearby, at the town hall, or at another approved civil location in Tremezzina, and then celebrate at the villa.

Can we dance at Villa Sola Cabiati?

Only background music is allowed at the villa. For a dance party with a DJ or band, ask the Grand Hotel Tremezzo about continuing the evening at the hotel, or consider a venue without this rule.

Can we bring our own caterer?

No. All food and drink for events come from the Grand Hotel Tremezzo team. Outside catering is not permitted.

How far ahead should we book?

Because the villa is rented by the stay, popular weeks in June and September go early. Start 12 to 18 months ahead for a summer weekend.

Do you film weddings at Villa Sola Cabiati?

Yes. We have filmed a portrait walk at Villa Sola Cabiati, and we film weddings next door at Villa Carlotta and the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, so we know the shore, the jetties and the light. Travel and accommodation are included anywhere in Italy and Switzerland, and a €1,000 deposit per filming day secures your date.

Planning a wedding at Villa Sola Cabiati?

If you are planning a wedding at Villa Sola Cabiati, send us your date and we will check it. The hotel's own Villa Sola Cabiati page has photos of the suites, and the gardens next door are on the Villa Carlotta site.