After announcing their engagement in June 2025, British singer Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner are scheduled to tie the knot in September 2026. The couple has reportedly fallen in love with Sicily and, more specifically, with the city of Palermo, where the celebration could take place.
How does a London-based celebrity couple decide to get married in Palermo? As far as Dua Lipa and Callum Turner are concerned, the decision was most probably made during the summer of 2025, when the pair spent some quality time on Sicily. At the time, the two stayed at the Rocco Forte Hotel Villa Igiea while soaking up the Italian sun.
During their time in the city, Dua Lipa not only posed in a pink shirt of Palermo’s Serie B football team, the couple was also spotted across town while eating and drinking their way through the Sicilian cuisine.
“She drank Campari soda, he drank an Old Fashioned, and they ate olives while playing cards. She was very sweet and they seemed like a normal couple. A few people asked her for a picture. We asked her if it bothered her and she said no, she was used to it — not a problem,” Patrick Lanzino, manager of the Colletti bar in Palermo, one of the couple’s culinary stops in the city, told The Times.
While enjoying their time off, the couple apparently fell in love with Sicily and decided to organise their wedding in Palermo.
“This marriage will be a message to Palermo that people love the city’s beauty, despite its problems in the past. Something stayed with this couple after their visit, which is why they are coming back,” Lanzino commented.
A potential wedding location
Rumours about the celebrity wedding took off when the Italian newspaper Giornale di Sicilia wrote about a wedding planner being hard at work to organise a weekend of celebrations from 5 to 7 September 2026. Yet another Italians news outlet, La Repubblica, promptly named it “the wedding of the year” and despite a lack of comment by the couple, they even got a honeymoon invite from Luca Beraldo, the mayor of Celleno, a medieval village in Lazio.
Since those first reports, people have been busy speculating about the potential details of the wedding. Allegedly, the couple has hired wedding planner Alessandra Grillo to organise the event, while the famous Art Nouveau hotel Villa Igiea would act as the duo’s headquarters. The 19th-century palazzo features lavish interiors, sea views, and a range of on-site eating options.
“Discover history, majesty and serenity at Villa Igiea: a turn-of-the-century palazzo at the perimeter of vivid Palermo, the foot of Mount Pellegrino and the Gulf of Palermo. A long-loved seaside-meets-city sanctuary for royalty, dignitaries and Hollywood luminaries, trace their paths through tiered villa gardens that sweep down to the port and out to the Tyrrhenian Sea; on excursions to Palermo’s bustling markets, Baroque palaces and ancient sites, or yacht trips along its picturesque coast; and through Villa Igiea’s Italian restaurants, atmospheric bars and palatial Art Nouveau interior, revitalised as a Rocco Forte hotel,” Rocco Forte writes about the hotel.
As far as the actual ceremony goes, the wedding could well take place at Lo Spasimo. The open-air Gothic ruins in Palermo, once a church and convent, have recently been restored and are generally regarded as one of the most spectacular locations in the city.
If Dua Lipa and Callum Turner will actually be getting married in Palermo and if so, how precisely, only time will tell.
