Italian Lakes Wedding blog had its 2 years birthday just a month ago. Two years in which blog grew up and get bigger going toward new directions.
Today Italian Lakes Wedding blog is one of the most read, number 1 on Google.
As Italian Lakes Wedding Team we love our blog and we are really glad of this experience.
For this reason for us it is a real pleasure introduce other wedding blogs like ours: web site studied and built by enthusiastic people like us, miles away, who share our passion: communication via wedding blog.
Today we would like to introduce you Daisy Days, a young wedding blog.
It was created on January 2010 but immediately it become an inspiration for all brides who are looking for original fun and elegant wedding invitations, favors, gifts…without spend a fortune!
In Daisy Days blog you will find suggestions and ideas on how plan your wedding, choosing perfect favors to make your event really unforgettable.
Be sure to keep on reading!
Do you want to plan your wedding with help from the internet? Do you want your friends to have access to your wedding details online? Do you want to make life easy for your guests? Do you want to avoid receiving gifts you just don’t need?
If you’d answered yes to any of these questions, Zankyou.com is the service for you! Zankyou brings freedom to wedding planning and gift registries with its fun and flexible online service. With Zankyou you can set up a free wedding webpage that includes the wedding list of your dreams.
Thanks to our fresh approach to wedding giving, you can set up a wedding list that contains anything you like. A cookery course? Stages of your honeymoon? A charity donation? Or dare we say it, a toaster? Just put them on your Zankyou wedding list! Continue Reading »
Just few days ago Valentina has told you about Chris and Suzanne’s Italian Style wedding.
Many couples coming from United Kingdom and United States arrive on Italian Lakes choosing a typical Italian Style wedding: dresses, venue, music and Italian musicians, food, wines and even flower or favors.
Suzanne and Chris opted for an additional touch: an Italian vintage car!
Italian cars are famous all over the world: Ferrari, Fiat, Maserati and Alfa Romeo among the others.
This famous story begun back at the beginning of 1900. Among several brands, some become real Must of Italian Style. One of this is lovely Fiat Balilla the legendary car of 30s.
Balilla car is a real piece of Italian history. Fiat produced it in 1932 and it was the first Italian “city car”
It was called by Giovan Battista Perasso also known as Balilla that in 1746 begun a riot against Austrian power throwing a stone to one of their officers. A real patriot.
Fiat Balilla sold more than 100.000 cars even outside the country.
It was very innovative for the times, it even had hydraulic brake system.
It was Giovanni Agnelli’s dream. He decided to produce it with automation chain after an interesting visit to Ford factory in United States. Continue Reading »
The time of traditional weddings, those with long sitting hours and hours seems to arrive to its end. This is also because nowadays the wedding is not only about the couple, but becomes more and more an event, where the bride and groom wants to create a real entertaining day for all the guests.
Obviously, this depends on also about the area and locations you would like to have for your wedding, but in general we can say that the italian lakes are just perfect to a more dynamic wedding, as the lakes offer so much different opportunities, even mixed together. Who told you, that you have to chose your venue and that’s it? It is so difficult to choose amongst all those beautiful sceneries, villas with breathtaking terraces, tiny little bays with a fairytale romantic feeling, splendid castles with a rich history….Now you don’t have to choose just one of the locations, why not to mix them together? In this way you can enjoy the full the different availabilities of the lake, and also allow your guests to live different experiences without making the wedding day too heavy.
Your dream is to have your ceremony open-air in the garden? Take one of the many proposals, and rent the venue only for the ceremony . Or you can take the venue for the ceremony, then leave for some programs and come back later on, to enjoy at the same place the dinner….without staying there the whole day.
So why not to take a lovely boat trip all around the lake? In this way you can admire the most beautiful spots of the different corners, while your guests are having fun with some champagne in hand , or creating bubbles like kids. Continue Reading »
The ones that are reading us noticed that we’ve just add a new feature to our blog: Ask The Expert. This is actually not a reallly new feature because the section was already included in our main website. We really wanted to enlarge its presence to our blog which is the most visitited area of www.italianlakeswedding.com.
We want to make this important and totally free service usable for a wide audience that may need information and suggestions for their wedding on the lakes.
Valentina Lombardi is one of the wedding coordinators that work with Italian Lakes Wedding Team, one of the most active. One year after the interview you read last year on these pages I had the pleasure to meet her again and ask for an update balance of her activity.
Hi Valentina it is a pleasure to meet you again. How could you judge this 2008? Do you think it was a good tear professionally speaking?
Hi! Yes I can say I’m satisfied. To tell the truth helping couples to make their dreams come true makes me feel always happy. Couples I followed during 2008 were extremely nice and interesting.
Among all the wedding you planned during 2008 there is one that is particularly special for you?
Oh no! I would surely do a mistake missing someone! Every wedding was special and unforgettable. Maybe details will stay in my heart proudly from each of them: Scottish groom’s kilt, music of Cavalleria Rusticana for a ceremony to Villa d’Este on Lake Como, fireworks in Varenna for an American couple friendship of another American couple, the smile of an Irish bride for a surprising day of sunshine. How could I forget all this?
And the one that made you worry?
There was a wedding for which I was very worried for sure for a detail that nobody could control: weather! Couple came here from Ireland and they choose Orta for its sun, panorama and atmosphere. Unfortunately pouring rain seemed it could ruin the whole event. Bride was very worried and sad. But it wasn’t so! In spite of bad weather forecasts bridegroom enjoyed a nice sunny day that let the even go as they planned. Just a little miracle for their own! Continue Reading »
As a wedding coordinator I travel a lot in Piemonte organizing events: Langhe, Monferrato, Olympic valleys near Sestriere, up to Stresa and Pallanza on Lake Maggiore.
Every single place has a special appeal but nowhere is like enchanting Lake Orta to me. Planning a wedding in Orta San Giulio is always a magic emotion…
This was also in for Luisa and Massimiliano’s wedding.
A Saturday in the beginning of this summer. The day begins with a shady sun that soon turns in a wonderful, sunny and warm day. Just like Luisa wished.
Luisa and I have worked together for months, just one close to the other to plan her wedding in every single detail. Continue Reading »
If you are wishing an Italian Wedding with a religious ceremony, the area between Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore is just perfect. This area is very rich in churches and sanctuaries located in panoramic setting such as Sanctuary of Madonna del Sasso, Sanctuary of Madonna della Bocciola, or in medieval village as Maria Assunta church in Orta San Giulio or St.Rocco church in Corconio. There are even some churches in the wild nature such as Madonna di Luzzara church or Oratorio di St. Sebastiano in Lesa, just near Stresa.
Some others are monastery just on the lake as Eremo of St.Caterina del Sasso on Lombardy shore of Lake Maggiore or monk’s convent of Mesma Sacred Mountain.
Among the most magical spots for a religious wedding we cannot forget about Sacred Mountains built between XVI and XVII centuries. These religious buildings have a deep symbolic and cultural meaning and they are simply beautiful. They are perfectly integrated in a natural landscape made of woods, hills and lakes. These places have a high artistic value for their statues and chapels some are also part of UNESCO heritage.
In Italy there are 9 sacred mountains spread all over between Piemonte and Lombardy. Among those, the ones situated on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore are the most fascinating and strongly recommended from Italian Lakes Wedding for your religious wedding in Italy.
These are Sacro Monte of SS Trinity’of Ghiffa, and Sacred Mountain of Orta San Giulio, two sacred complexes characterized from the perfect fusion between surrounding landscape: wood, architecture, lake view are the elements that make unique this settings just perfect for a wedding on the lakes.
Villa Melzi, Bellagio Lake Como – Photography by Mauro De Luca – Italian Lakes Wedding
We would recommend that you ask a few simple questions before taking the time to visit the venue and let alone book it!
Where is the venue located?
The venue must be situated in a convenient position, not too far away from the church that you have chosen for the ceremony or too far away from the airport where all your guests will be landing. Make sure it’s not up a steep hill, difficult to reach for those who are not so athletic or those who are carrying babies.
If you are keen on a remote location, make sure it can accommodate all your guests for the night of the wedding (or that there is an alternative option nearby) so that they won’t have to travel far after the party.
Are you allowed to play music and dance until late?
Find out whether there are any restrictions with regards to playing music and dancing. Some Villas have rooms full of antiques and the owners won’t let you dance inside and some others are located in residential areas where music cannot be played after a certain time.
Will the venue be at your exclusive disposal?
If you are looking for privacy and fancy a unique event, do make sure that the Villa offers exclusive hire and that nobody else will be allowed access to the premises during your stay and especially during the event. Continue Reading »
It is my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Italian Lakes Wedding team: Giovanna Benati of Poker d’Eventi, a wedding planner agency based in Verona, Italy.
I recently spoke with Giovanna about Poker d’Eventi and how the company can help you plan a destination wedding on lake Garda.
Giovanna, could you tell me something about yourself and how you became involved in wedding planning?
After working for many years in the organisation of events for large companies and often in extremely formal situations, a close friend of mine called me to give her a hand with the organisation of her own wedding. Time was short (as is always the case with large companies and big events and conferences) and I helped in making the wedding a fantastic experience for everybody. I have to say that what made this experience unforgettable for me was to see my friend so relaxed and free to enjoy the day, leaving everything in my hands. She even allowed me to be as creative as I wanted and that is how the passion for this work was born.
What is your favourite part about event planning?
I think the most exciting moment is when I present my ideas and plans to the couple. Their faces light up at being able to imagine their wedding and they can finally begin to get excited about the day.
Where are your top three picks to have a destination wedding in lake Garda?
Lake Garda offers so many options for the creation of a wedding that I really wouldn’t know how to choose. I like to give couples the chance (if possible) to see some of the lake and a few of the locations that I have selected before coming up with final choices. If I were to get married again however I’d love a wedding on water, an event on a boat.
Is it difficult for non-residents to get married in lake Garda? What are the requirements?
No it really isn’t a problem in my experience, the people at the town hall actually seem happy to help in the completion of documents etc. Obviously each case needs to be looked at separately and documents also need to be prepared in the country of origin, but we calculate the time for all paper work in the organisation.
After the wedding, what nearby romantic places might couples want to visit?
After travelling so far, many couples see Venice (and a trip on a gondola) as a stone throw away, Florence is a popular stop over and of course Verona with Juliet’s balcony and the Arena Opera House is a must but I think the most romantic and enchanting place is ‘Castel San Pietro’ where the most breath taking view of Verona from above can be experienced.
Do you have any advice for folks who’d like to get married in lake Garda?
Plan ahead. Garda and the various locations suitable for such an event are becoming more and more popular so we need to book in advance. With enough time we really have no limits as to what can be achieved.
I would surely do a mistake missing someone! Every wedding was special and unforgettable. Maybe details will stay in my heart proudly from each of them: 
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