Celebrity LifestyleEverything You Need to Know About Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker’s Wedding VenuePlus, the superyachts where select guests reportedly stayed

By Rachel Davies

May 23, 2022

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Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian in Portofino, Italy, two days before their wedding ceremony.Photo: NINO/GC Images

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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker’s wedding venue was more than fit to host the fashionable crowd that descended upon it to help the couple celebrate this past weekend. After an unlicensed “practice” wedding officiated by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas last month, then a courthouse wedding in Santa Barbara, California, last week, the couple opted for a far more opulent affair in Portofino, Italy, for the main event.

For the ceremony itself, the reality TV star and her Blink 182 drummer beau didn’t opt for just any Italian venue, but rather Villa Olivetta, one of the many Italian properties owned and extravagantly decorated by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The fashion designer pair has owned the property for upwards of 15 years and immediately embarked on a massive redesign after taking ownership with the help of architect David Chipperfield. In 2005, Vogue toured the property’s four structures—Villa Olivetta, Villa La Vigna, Villa Bianca, and Villa Cisterna—that are divided equally between the pair of designers.

Villa Olivetta, where Kardashian and Barker tied the knot this past weekend, as photographed for Vogue in 2005.

Photo: Francois Halard

From the outside, though grand in size, the early 20th-century Villa Olivetta looks rather simple and dignified, perched on a bayside promontory. Inside, it’s proper maximalism. When photographed by Vogue, the living room featured a large-scale bright blue Hawaiian mural commissioned from artist Michael Lin, while a guest room was dripping in gold, with gold mosaic tiles lining the walls, gold chainmail curtains, and gold leaf furniture designed by Laviani. The interiors blended various periods together, as in the drawing room of Villa Bianca, which featured Baroque chairs and a massive chandelier reflected by a 1970s mirrored table and mirrored walls.

A guest room at Villa Olivetta, as photographed for Vogue in 2005.

Photo: Francois Halard

 “I have always loved seventies design, mixed with the twenties and thirties,” Dolce told Vogue in 2005. “I love the crazy and also the very precious.” Though we can’t be certain that the pad is exactly the same as it was at the time of the Vogue feature, it appears that the maximalist ’70s style is in fact alive and well. The evidence? Kylie Jenner posted an image to her Instagram account of herself in an outdoor seating area decorated entirely in leopard print (we’re talking rugs, chairs, sofas, and even tables), while Kris Jenner shared a snapshot in a dark room with a marble floor and psychedelic rug.

For the outdoor ceremony, Kardashian and Barker took to the Giorgio Fornari–designed grounds, which flaunt mature olive, eucalyptus, and cypress groves, enveloping guests in a storybook natural atmosphere. A wall of deep-red roses in an ornate gold leaf frame stood behind the officiant, plus a selection of other gold leaf furniture and candelabra, bringing the dramatic interiors outside.

Guests arriving to the wedding by boat.

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The reception reportedly took place at Castello Brown, a 1557-built castle that stands as one of Portofino’s most prominent attractions. The castle, which now operates as a museum, offers gorgeous views of the village and a similarly dignified backdrop for festivities. These views were well documented by the entire Kardashian crew, who took to Instagram stories to capture both the quotidian and the unique elements of the weekend’s locale.

The newlyweds jumping from the yacht Fatima the day after their wedding.

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Fittingly for a fishing village, the family opted for a pair of superyachts as accommodations for select guests, while others stayed at the villas. According to People, Regina D’Italia and Fatima are the vessels in question—the former is 65 meters long and was owned by D&G until 2019, while the latter 35-meter yacht is still owned by the designers. The yachts can accommodate up to 24 guests between the two of them, though they were also used to shuttle partygoers to nearby destinations. Hundreds of delicate white roses were reportedly brought on an entirely different boat to decorate the two yachts. Beyond the Kardashian’s own added decorations, the yachts feature decorative wall panels (as documented by Khloe Kardashian) and mesmerizing black ceiling panels that reflect the surrounding water.

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