While studying in Madrid, Spain, in 2020, Bianca and a friend took a trip to Lisbon, Portugal. They stopped at an Irish pub, where Bianca met Pedro and they instantly connected. Before long, their relationship developed from long-distance phone calls to international flights. After Bianca returned stateside to take the New York bar exam, Pedro got an engineering job and soon joined her.
Three years after they first met, Bianca brought Pedro to her college reunion at Washington and Lee University. While on a romantic stroll, Pedro pulled her close for a slow dance and proposed. He surprised her with a beautiful yellow-gold and round-brilliant solitaire engagement ring he designed with Bianca’s father, founder and owner of Manfredi Jewels. The two “giggled in bliss” before sharing the news with friends.
The couple got married in July 2024, in a small village north of Lisbon. They exchanged vows in an historic Catholic church, where the priest said a full mass in Portuguese and English. “It was meaningful to have our guests be fully included in our mass, because of how well Father João blended the languages into the service and his homily,” says Bianca.
Bianca, daughter of Roberto and Roberta Chiappelloni of Greenwich, went to Sacred Heart Greenwich and graduated from Washington and Lee University. After receiving a law degree from Boston University, she earned a Master’s of Laws in European and International Business Law at Universidad Pontifícia Comillas, ICADE. Bianca recently joined the family business as a partner at Manfredi Jewels.
Pedro, son of Carlos Santos and Cidália de Jesus of Lisbon, received Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering degrees from Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico. He works as a structural engineer at the Flushing, New York-based Tully Construction Company.
The newlyweds traveled to Madeira, Portugal, for their honeymoon, and live in New Canaan.
Photography by Teresa & Dado Artemagna
