Inside Dove Cameron And Damiano David’s Timeless Wedding At A Medieval Tuscan Estate
Dove Cameron and Damiano David’s continent-spanning love story began as you might expect for a pair of popular musicians: they briefly crossed paths backstage at an awards show. To be precise, the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, where Dove received the Best New Artist accolade – a prize for which Måneskin, the Italian rock group fronted by Damiano that is currently on hiatus, were also nominated. “The band congratulated me on winning the award, but Damiano barely spoke two words to me!” Dove recalls. “I talked briefly to his bandmates, then went on with my night.”
As fate would have it, they were reunited at the same awards show the following year. “It wasn’t until the following year that we really had a reason to speak – he approached me about a song we had worked on virtually a few months ago,” Dove continues. “At that point, we were both single, and his energy towards me had completely changed. He invited me to see Måneskin’s show at Madison Square Garden, and later that night, the after-party.” Their romance blossomed immediately: “Everything moved pretty quickly from there,” Dove notes.
In October 2025, just over two years after they met, Damiano popped the question at the couple’s home in Los Angeles. “It was very intimate and special,” Dove says. They quickly settled on Damiano’s home country as a destination for the wedding – the couple now splits their time between LA and Rome, where they enjoy a low-key life out of the spotlight surrounded by Damiano’s tight-knit circle of friends and family – and worked with Alessandra Grillo to plan the wedding.
“Honestly, it’s a very overwhelming process!” Dove says of planning. “A lot of it didn’t feel real. We spent a lot of time on the details – all the flowers, the invitations, the flow of the weekend.” The couple eventually decided on Tuscany as the perfect backdrop to their weekend of celebrations, with the home base for festivities being Castiglion del Bosco, the beloved Rosewood resort tucked away in the hills outside Montalcino, with a history that stretches back over 1,000 years. “We wanted it to feel very romantic and intimate, but also ensure it was a huge, fun moment of celebration for everyone, so it’s been amazing to finally see everything come together,” Dove says.
As an artist known for her bold, gothic-inflected style on the red carpet, it didn’t take long for Dove and her stylist Marc Eram to figure out her wedding weekend wardrobe – and, of course, it was to be an all-Italian affair. For the civil ceremony in Montalcino, she wore a bespoke Giorgio Armani bridal suit in crisp ivory with a dramatic floor-length cape, while for the dinner afterwards back at Castiglion del Bosco, she switched into a playful Blumarine dress for dancing. For the welcome party, she wore an Alberta Ferretti suit with a white gold and diamond necklace by Damiani, and for the wedding after-party, she wore a minidress lavished with beadwork and sequins – perfect for sparkling the disco lights – designed by Fausto Puglisi for Roberto Cavalli.
The real showstopper, though, was the dress for the main ceremony held with a wider group at Castiglion del Bosco on the Saturday – and for Dove, her first choice was always Valentino. Thankfully, the house and its creative director, Alessandro Michele, quickly said yes. “I wanted a drapey, ethereal vibe, something that would have some movement while I walked, but wasn’t too much fabric,” says Dove. The four-metre-long veil, which was intricately embroidered with crystals and micro beads forming star constellations, was a nod to Dove’s middle name, Celeste. “I wanted something celestial to complement part of the wedding theme,” says the bride. “We wanted something that shone when the sun hit it, creating surrealism as I walked down the aisle. The full look is just so romantic and special.”
Damiano, meanwhile, was just as focused when it came to putting his looks together, working with his long-time stylist Michele Potenza. For the civil ceremony in Montalcino, he wore a double-breasted ivory suit by the cult favourite Roman tailoring house Giuliva Heritage, while for the welcome ceremony, he also wore a Valentino by Alessandro Michele look consisting of a cream jacket, navy trousers and a dramatic burgundy foulard around the neck. For the main ceremony, though, there was only one choice: Giorgio Armani. “I wanted a very classic groom’s suit,” Damiano says. “Three-piece, single-breasted, with cufflinks and everything, and Armani was the perfect partner for this.” (To complete the look, Damiano accessorised with a high-jewellery Bvlgari brooch on the lapel, Bvlgari cufflinks and an Audemars Piguet watch that had been lent from the brand’s private museum especially for the occasion.)
The wedding weekend began on Thursday, 24 September – exactly three years after their first real date – with the civil ceremony in Montalcino, which was attended only by their closest family and friends. Taking place at the city’s medieval town hall, they drove a vintage white Lancia convertible up the winding, cobblestoned streets, then walked down the aisle of the Palazzo dei Priori to a three-string version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and signed their papers with Dove’s best friend, Veronica St. Clair, serving as witness. After heading back to Castiglion del Bosco, they descended into the resort’s moody, library-like secret cellar, where they dined on risotto and danced late into the night with a live band.
The official welcome dinner for all the guests followed on Friday, with a breathtaking long table running down the centre of the vineyards laden with wine-red satin linens, cherub statues, silver candelabras and overflowing red grapes – a gothic, romantic vision that Damiano describes as “Dove’s dream table,” and upon which fresh knots of buffalo mozzarella and enormous bowls of paccheri al pomodoro were served.
Finally, on Saturday, it was time for the main ceremony – and for the occasion, Alessandra Grillo and her team decorated the ruins of the original 12th-century castle at Castiglion del Bosco with a cascade of sheer white fabric running down the stone terraces and steps, lined with clusters of green foliage mixed with white hydrangeas and calla lilies. After guests (including all of Damiano’s Måneskin bandmates) took their seats, Dove walked up the aisle with her mother, Bonnie, to meet an emotional Damiano at the altar. Kenny Ortega, who directed Dove in the first trilogy of films, officiated the ceremony, and the couple recited their vows to one another, including a phrase that has recurred throughout their romance: “The best part of being alive.” (The line is engraved within both their engagement rings, and was even embroidered inside her Valentino corset.) “It’s a lot of nerves when you’re about to walk after all the build-up, but once you’re up there, there’s nothing else to think about,” Dove says of her moment at the altar. “It’s true presence and joy.” Her only frustration? “It all went by so quickly, and I never wanted it to end!”
Afterwards, guests gathered in the town square of the historic medieval hamlet where long, candlelit tables heaving with candles and clusters of white roses had been set for dinner, with the mother of the bride and sister of the bride making “emotional” speeches and the cutting of a towering cake covered in fresh fruit and flowers devised by the Milanese baker Mami Louise. “I have never felt joy and love like that in my life,” Dove says. “It was a long, beautiful dinner filled with speeches and amazing food and drinks and dancing.” Then, it was time for the bride to change into her Roberto Cavalli after-party dress – with its coordinating lace-up socks and a pair of Jimmy Choo heels – and head to a greenhouse on the property for Martini vermouth cocktails and dancing late into the night to DJ Nicky Macha.
As for how the couple is feeling in the days afterward? To put it simply: “Over the moon.”
