Eventually, they choppered back to London (from the middle of the polo field) where a Rolls-Royce Phantom picked them up and took them to Gordon Ramsay’s Pétrus for dinner, where Schab presented his then-boyfriend with his first Rolex. (The couple is now married.)
“It was very detailed and hyped-up,” says Rago. “I don’t know how you come down from there.”
A Proposal to Make the Mona Lisa Smile
While the Travel Siblings have privatized many a venue, none was grander than the Louvre, which accepts buyouts of certain spaces after the museum has closed to the public. For this particular power couple, DeBell negotiated the Denon Wing, home to the museum’s most iconic masterwork, the Mona Lisa. The duo, a hedge funder and a real estate attorney from New York, had cited the da Vinci piece as their favorite painting.
Dinner came courtesy of the Ritz Paris—the main course was a lavish chicken from Bresse cooked in a pastry-sealed cocotte—and culminated with the groom on one knee, five-carat Cartier Cathedral pave ring in hand. The bride, of course, agreed.
Adds DeBell: “In that moment, we’d like to think the Mona Lisa finally smiled.”
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