Frankie Catania married Nicole Perricho on Aug. 1 in Portugal’s Douro Valley, turning a long-running summer tradition into a wedding day with family and place at the center. The ceremony gave their relationship a formal endpoint, but the real story is how deliberately they built it around Perricho’s roots and the couple’s own routine.
Frank Catania Jr. said, "Nicole’s family is from Portugal, and her roots here run deep," adding, "We’ve been coming here every summer since they started dating, so it already felt like home to us. I couldn’t think of a more beautiful place to begin our marriage." Those details make the location more than scenery: Portugal was already part of their relationship calendar before it became the setting for the marriage.
The Vintage House for the ceremony
The couple chose The Vintage House for the venue and exchanged vows at a local church, then moved into a reception built around classic Portuguese dishes and a four-tier vanilla cake. Frank wore a chic tan suit and tie, while Nicole Perricho wore a long-sleeved, white lace gown with a flowing train, white heels, a white lace veil, and her brunette hair up in a bun.
Nicole Perricho later changed into a sleeveless, strapless version of her dress for the reception, which is the kind of practical wardrobe shift that signals the night had moved from formal ceremony to dancing and speeches. The meal ended with the four-tier cake, a straightforward menu marker that kept the focus on the couple rather than a staged spectacle.
Miami Vice and Bruno Mars
For the reception, Frankie and Nicole said they wanted "an energetic D.J. who could keep everyone on the dance floor with a mix of early 2000s music." They also used a projector playing scenes from Miami Vice throughout the room and picked Bruno Mars’ Risk It All for their first dance, which they described as a song whose lyrics matched "the commitment we’re making to each other."
That makes the reception more specific than a standard destination wedding package: it was designed around a shared viewing habit, a defined soundtrack, and one first-dance choice. Their own words — "relaxed, elegant and effortlessly romantic" and "authentic celebration in the heart of wine country" — fit the execution better than generic wedding language.
Dolores Catania in green
Dolores Catania attended with Paul Connell and congratulated her son and new daughter-in-law on Instagram Stories, but her light green halter dress with an oversized flower petal design on the bodice drew attention anyway. That side note matters because it shows how quickly a family wedding tied to Real Housewives of New Jersey becomes part ceremony, part fashion read, even when the marriage itself is the point.
Frank Jr. was 27 and Perricho was 31, which gives the event a clear generational frame: this was a young couple making a first public step into married life with family already woven into the setting. The unanswered piece is the one they left hanging in plain view — why The Vintage House specifically became the place for a marriage that was already rooted in Portugal.
