Two lovely couples got married on our Italian Lakes over 2011 weddings season, among different proposals they both choose a light and chic wedding theme: butterflies!

The result we obtained was really impressive: charming, soft and matches perfectly Lakes atmosphere.

Our Lake Como butterflies theme wedding was really natural and soft. Every single detail was studied in the style.
My bride chose wonderful orchids for corsages and bridesmaid bouquets… this was the first touch the best has to come!

During the meeting with the florist I thought about something different for the ceremony table and after having excluded several options, our final decision is exactly what you can see in these pictures: a giant and colorful butterfly created with many different type of precious flowers. My lovely bride, Christine, just loved the final effect of the decoration for her unforgettable wedding on Lake Como!

The ceremony chairs were decorated with lovely petal cones tight with silk ribbons matching bridesmaid dresses. They had with a dual use: first a decoration for the ceremony setting and later they could have been thrown by the guests to the newlyweds as good wish.
Butterfly theme, has been kept for the dinner with stunning lake view. Butterflies have been used as menu decoration and combined with outstanding ‘flying butterflies’ place cards on every guest glass.
To match Christine’s butterflies wedding theme, flower decorations had a country – chic style with many seasonal flowers combined to bunch of grapes to give a touch of personality to this elegant Lake Como wedding in September!

Looking to Alessandra’s job for Christine wedding I can realize how different could be the same theme! This is a good thing. It means that the same theme can be personalized and unique!
Stephanie, my bride wanted something colorful and really cute for her butterflies themed wedding on Lake Orta.
She is a art designer and had very clear idea about the flowers and decoration she wanted. Main color was pink and its shades.

For her bouquet she chose a loose one with many shades of pink and lilac while corsages, buttonholes and centerpieces were all pink hydrangeas. Lovely butterflies laid on them just like they were there for real.
Hydrangeas matched the lovely paper pom-poms she wanted for extra decorations.
Have a look to the lovely names cards, macaroon favors… and also menus and program of the day made up with a fan for ladies.
The ideal fresh and happy theme for a sunny wedding on Lake Orta.
The cutes part was the table plan. On a base of grass we placed butterflies escort cards, Guests loved to find our their seat in such a pretty context.

We really do think that both brides chose a lovely style. The interpreted it differently but the final result is great what do you think?
We would really thank photographers who provide these lovely shots.
Christine’s wedding: Vincenzo Santarella & Massimiliano Morlotti – Morlotti Studio
Stephanie’s wedding: Amy Turner – Imag1ne

As mentioned above stay tuned for our next four-handed posts we will tell you about some other lovely themes and ideas to inspire!

Italian Lakes Wedding Team is made up of several professional wedding planners and floral designers with a long experience on Italian Lakes locations.
The Team knows the territory in every single detail and will be able to follow you on every important choice you will take.
Our coordinators are based locally in the areas we serve so whether you decide for a wedding in Rome or Bracciano, a wedding in Como or Stresa, or a Wedding on lake Garda or Lake Orta, we will grant the same level of service.
Our Team will be able to provide you every kind of supplier, florist, photographers, musicians, designers celebrants, witnesses and help as far as your documents are concerned, and anything you may think of.
Italian Lakes Wedding Team will literally pamper you!

Britta from Creative Wedding – Italian Lakes Wedding tries to explain what a wedding planner needs to know to give good advice and a first cost overview.

It is always nice to get the emails from a future bride or groom, so I am excited and want to start immediately to write back to them with millions of ideas I have in my head.
But before writing back, it is necessary to review what this new couple did write about their expectations and wishes for their big day.

The more information I get from a couple, the more focused and precise tips and advices I can tell them. Let me explain what is important to know:

BUDGET

An approximate budget together with an approximate number of guests is helpful to understand which region of Italy maybe right and what kind of location is affordable. It is clear to me that you have no exact figures as you are only at a starting point. But still some approximate thoughts you made for yourself and this is helpful for me to think what to propose.
Do not be afraid to ask for a low budget wedding, there are certainly possibilities for each kind of budget!

STYLE AND AMBIENCE

I am sure that you already had first looks into wedding magazines or you were always dreaming of your big day. So if you tell me about those ideas and dreams, about colours, about the ambience, about friends and family and what they expect from you, this helps to understand if your budget can match this or what would be suitable alternatives to get near your dreams.

REGION OF ITALY

If you have certain memories of a special region of Italy, tell them please. So I do understand better, why you choose certain landscapes, cities, cultures and can develop them together with my proposals.

CIVIL OR CHURCH WEDDING

when I ask about citizenship or the background of your religion, this is not meant to be curious.
But different nationalities have different ways of preparation for the burocracy for a civil wedding here in Italy. And for the church weddings, as we mainly have catholic churches in Italy with quite a strong link to Rome and the Pope, it is important to know where you are coming from. Mainly the catholic parishes in Italy ask for bride AND groom to be catholic, only sometimes it is possible to have a catholic wedding with one partner being of another religion.

DATE

Even if you have no idea yet for a scheduled date for your wedding, think about the several months and the surrounding you want to have for your wedding. It is not only summertime that is enjoyable in Italy, winter weddings in the mountains can be big fun, april and may are fantastic and already lots of sun, autumn like September and October can be still very warm but less touristy than mid-summer.

GUESTS

Number of guests obviously is very important to know to focus on the suitable locations and hotels. But as well what kind of guests are coming. Is it more a formal group of family and lots of business partners, in this case you surely want to make good impression with food and location. Is it a more friend-oriented party, so we focus on having fun, possibilities for late party and not to elegant and too-good-behaviour-places. With these informations I may better propose the right locations for you.

The better you describe in short words your expectations, the more precise and correct information may put together for you. Talk to you soon!

Britta Hartmann-De Marchi is german and therefore the specialist for German, Austrian and Swiss couples coming to the lake Region for getting married.

She herself got married 10 years ago and choose an Italian husband. Enjoying to live here in Bella Italia and coming from 14-years-experience in international advertising and marketing, she liked to change her job into becoming organizer of weddings for german-(and english-) speaking people coming to Italy for their marriage.

Coming from Germany and knowing what to expect in Italy, she is the perfect organizer between bride and groom and the Italian service partners. Correctness, flexibility and a easy hand to plan all details around a wedding make her work very appreciated.

The most emotional part is, when I become almost the best friend of the bride during all the planning time you share with each other. So we both do enjoy the wedding day in its best form and this is important for my work.

We are talking about Delicatezze a Casa Vostra, a banqueting and catering company. Staff chose as their headquarter an ancient cascina and farm situated in Gravellona Toce just in the middle between Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore.
Side for being close to some of the most important venues on our lakes this special match between cuisine and nature make a guaranty of genuine products and gastronomic quality.

Delicatezze a Casa Vostra Catering company was born several years ago thanks to the meeting of two important chefs of the area. After several experience in Italy and abroad they decided to found this company to provide innovative idea of Italian cuisine to receptions and parties in the area.

And here we have Delicatezze a Casa Vostra a sort of Cuisine Lab that across the years developed great skills on parties cuisine starting from a chef to your home for private dinners up to big receptions in some of the most important venues on our lakes such as Villa Rusconi, Villa Muggia, Villa Marghetita, Villa Volpi, Villa dal Pozzo, Abbazia di Santo Spirito – on Lake Maggiore and Castello di Miasino, Villa Antica Colonia, Villa Decio, Villa Ortea and Villa Pestalozza – on Lake Orta.

A long experience on the territory mixed to the great gastronomic offer that goes from traditional cuisine to new and innovative one, make Delicatezze a Casa Vostra the ideal choice for a catering service of great level. All this to create a perfect reception on our Lakes.

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Valentina Lombardi is the Italian Lakes Wedding coordinator for Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore area.

She follows Italian and foreign bridegrooms who wish to celebrate their wedding in Piemonte and Italian Lakes area.
Valentina is Italian; she has worked in event organization business for years before becoming a wedding planner.

For any information about wedding on Lake Maggiore or Lake Orta please CONTACT US.

On 18 March 2008 a great project was born. It developed year by year, growing up and getting better.
Since the first posts, very simple and with few images up to the most recent which are very elaborated and rich in pictures!

We know that you readers appreciated Blog’s growing and improving.
Each year we have more and more readers and we can say that Italian Lakes Wedding could be Number 1 Wedding Blog in Italy.

To celebrate these 3 years together we thought about putting together some images of the wedding we loved more, they ones which mark the history of the blog itself such as Niamh and Jon, Bianca and Mills, but also Kerry and Alistair up to fairy tales weddings of Louise and Antonin and Lisa and Darren.

This is just a very little selection of hundreds of weddings we told you about in these last 3 years. They represent our commitment and our deepest thank you to all the bride and groom who chose us trusting our professionalism and honesty.

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Wedding in Villa Rusconi Italy

Wedding in Italy

Wedding in Villa Aminta Italy

Wedding in Bellagio Italy

Wedding in Villa Balbianello Italy

Wedding in Orta Italy

Wedding in Torri del Benaco Italy

Wedding in Varenna Italy

Wedding in Verbania Pallanza Italy

Wedding in Villa Bossi Italy

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Happy birthday Italian Lakes Wedding!!!

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!

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.

It is also a very romantic idea to stop at a hidden corner of the lake in a small green bay, and take some canapès and fingerfood served in the port, overlooking the lake. This allows everybody to move a little bit after the boat trip, and again, discover a different view, an other point of the lake.

And while your guests are enjoying the lakeview and the aperitif, you could take a ride in the historic center of the town to make some very special pictures, different from the “normal” ones.

At the end, after this short break of the day, when the aperitif is finished, you can take the boat back, and continue your dream wedding reception with a delicious dinner …..the only difference is, that instead of being at the same place all day, you and your guests had some extra ”lake feeling tasting” to make the cherry on the cake.

Virag Lochinger is the Italian Lakes Wedding’s coordinator for lake Garda area: having numerous years of experience in marketing and event management, she is a very accurate and trustful person to organize your very special wedding in the beautiful lakeshores of Garda.

For more information about Dynamic Weddings on the Italian Lakes please contact us.

The images are the work of Steven Walthew. Steve is a Scottish photographer. He studied Photography and Design at Ware College, Hertfordshire, England. After concluding the final project at college, he immediately began working with various advertising studios in London. Furthermore, he travelled the whole of Scotland, doing portraiture.
He has lived in Italy for 10 years now and presently undertakes his activity in Milan. Steve specializes, above all, in the creation of images in Beauty and Lifestyle and Special Wedding Moments.
14 years of experience, in Italy and abroad have contributed to the growth and perfection of his technique of absolute natural reportage and passion for the art of photography.
For some pictures of Steven Walthew please visit www.f4art.com.

Our Italian Lakes Wedding experts are all multi-language speaking people, Italian or foreign mother tongue all living in Italy across Lake District.
They work in a nice team to update our website keeping on finding new ideas and proposals for you.
If you have some questions or just need further information you could not find on our pages please feel free to ask the TEAM for information.
This is a free service we are happy to give you!
One of our expert will be happy and pleased to get you back on general issues giving also some good advices.
Their passion and interest in wedding business and absolute knowledge of the Italian lakes area, makes all these people the perfect experts for those intending to use the romantic Italian mountains and lakes as the foreground to the most important day of their lives.
Get in touch with our lovely experts today at Italian Lakes Wedding for help and advice in creating the perfect plan for your wedding.
Have a wedding question?
ASK THE EXPERT!

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!

• Your agency doesn’t manage only weddings on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore but even other areas for destionation Wedding in Piemonte such as Langhe Monferrato and Olympic Mountains…
  Among all those destinations what was the 2008 most wanted?
  Lake Orta for sure!!! Lake Orta has a poetic atmosphere. Almost nobody can resist….me neither!
  Anyway there are also good opportunities in Langhe areas. It is an almost unknown area but it is keeping on getting famous thanks to its wonderful views on vineyards and for its delicious food and wine of Piemonte tradition!
• From what part of the world came couples you planned the wedding for in 2008?
  They were Anglo-Saxons mainly, Irish and British mostly. For this year we are receiving requests also from United States and Australia but even some couples coming from Germany, Switzerland or Austria.
• Let’s go to present. It is quite early to say…how could you judge 2009 trend?
  It is quite good so far. There are some wedding we are working on that will be just wonderful!
• Are you afraid of world recession? Do you think this could lead to negative effects in wedding planning? Do you feel there is something changing?
  It is only a matter of budget so far…..but let me say that is quite difficult stop a dream! Don’t you think so? Maybe you plan to have a big wedding and you turn with a small one but if you love those places….I think….you cannot avoid to come!
• I bet you are already working on some events for 2010. Isn’t it?
  Thats’ true! Do you know what? Here are some requests for 2011!!
  That’s fine…if you start planning early you have more time to decide every single details and make your dreams come true.
• Valentina, thanks and good luck!
  Thanks you!! Congratulations to all new-engaged, lots of happiness to newly-weds and thanks from the bottom of my heart to the rest of the team that it is growing now and to all our collaborators….and most of all our wonderful webmaster!!!

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.

Right after the photographs in stunning main square of Orta, Luisa is getting closer to the great moment.
There is an oar boat waiting for her leaving from for Orta pier to lead her to Villa Bossi.
Over there, there is Massimiliano, the handsome groom, waiting for her with all relatives and friends. As soon as she is arrived she walks through the aisle of the villa with lots of wonderful roses and charming sound of a harp in the background.

Right in front of the the town hall porch the civil ceremony takes place. Skillful photographer Ivana Porta from Torino is taking all the reportage of the service with her good experience, shooting every single detail of the event, from the ring exchange to the flower arrangements made up by Peonies and Baby’s breath.

At the end of the ceremony, right after the traditional rice and petals throwing, Luisa and Massimiliano take a beautiful white motorboat that from Villa Bossi will take them to St Julius Island on of the most outstanding places of Lake Orta take some everlasting pictures thanks to Ivana Porta.

After the romantic shooting they go straightaway to Hotel Giardinetto where all the guests are waiting for them for their aperitif and reception.
Hotel Giardinetto is one of the nice facilities on the Lakeshore of Pettenasco, just few km from Orta San Giulio. The best spot of the Hotel is the wide terrace on lake from which bride and groom will cut their wedding cake with wonderful panorama. High standard cuisine was served with wide choosing of red and white local wines.

A great atmosphere of joy, music and dances with colorful handmade favor by SposiamoVi and bouquet throwing!
This is a party that bridegroom and guest will remember for long time!

View more pictures about Luisa and Massimiliano’s wedding in Lake Orta.