The entire event took place to Villa Rusconi Clerici in Pallanza on Lake Maggiore. Lisa and Darren had their blessing in the garden of the villa by the shores. Ceremony was conducted by Diane Wheeler.
Then they had a lovely aperitif in the garden, followed by a second aperitif on a big boat for everybody with 1 hour tour of the lake and an elegant dinner in the pavilion of the villa.
Dances and a bath on the lake to follow!

Fuchsia pink together with white of hydangeas were the theme colors Lisa chose for her flowers.
We will come back soon speaking about these and other details of this lovely wedding on Lake Maggiore in the following week. Just enjoy these first pictures!

Natasha and Glenn choosed to celebrate their romantic ceremony on the granary garden facing the lake.
…and the aperitif on the secret garden, where they enjoyed the lansdcape till sunset… just stunning.
Everything was designed to be very simple but really chic.

We will come back to you telling all details about this lovely couple but for now just enjoy this first preview on their wedding.

During the ceremony Anne, coming from France and Alan, coming from Ireland were accompanied by 4 wonderful flower girls all light pink dressed.

Color scheme was based on green and white with a touch of light pink.
You could see it in the lovely bridal dress Anne had, the bridal bouquet and centerpieces to San Rocco hotel for the reception.
We will come back soon talking about this special event on Lake Orta with a full post!

Nicola got in her eyes charm and elegance on this pretty romantic lake on Northen Italy and made it hers. She is for sure one of the most elegant bride I had I simply loved her style.
She loved little details as I do too.

First of all have a look to her look.
The hairdo was arranged by Cristina one of the best hairdresser in Orta who spent more than 2 hours with Nicola creating the perfect style on her.

Nicola’s make up was elegant and simple too.
The perfect make up a bride should wear: you can appreciate it but it is not too strong just delicate and fresh.

Nicola’s wedding dress was amazing. Her figure perfectly fit it. A V shaped neckline and a fabric made all of laces. It matched perfectly Mediterranean style. As silk ribbon was on her waist pinned with a sparkling broach to bright up the figure.

Nicola and Bryan decided for a religious ceremony to Sacro Monte church on the top of Orta hill with a stunning view on the lake overlooking St. Julius Island.

Nicola chose an elegant theme for her important day. It was all based on ivory and gold.
You can appreciate it in the lovely bouquet Monika Andenmatten from La Piccola Selva created for her. But we will come back soon talking about such an original choice for a wedding: Gold Theme with new post and pictures.

In the meanwhile here you can enjoy wonderful pictures Enrico Mocci from ArteFotoArona took on the day. It will be for you like being present to this elegant and special event!
Have a look to Enrico Mocci’s Nicola and Bryan PHOTO GALLERY we are sure you will love that!

After the ceremony and some pictures the intimate group had a very first Prosecco toast in the wide park of the church with the lovely music of harp and violin in the background. Isn’t it romantic?

A wonderful sunny day accompanied their romantic event! Nicola and Bryan had a short walk in the roads of Orta village for some other pictures and then reached their guests to San Rocco Hotel.

Aperitif was served in the gardens of Villa Gippini the more intimate are of the venue to keep the event cosy and give the opportunity to guests and newlyweds to mingle a little. A lovely dinner was served in Rotary Room of San Rocco Hotel restaurant afterwards.

Nicola and Bryan, an intimate and simple event that was also elegant and fine.
Congratulations to newly weds!

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 more information about weddings on Lake Orta please CONTACT US.

You already know Fiona and Scott. We introduced them at the end of July in our Just Married section with some photo preview of their wedding.
Bride and gromm wanted Studio Artefoto Omegna by Raffaello Mazzoleni as their photographer helped by skilled photographer Moreno Nicoloso.

Today we are showing you the best images of Fiona and Scott’s wedding.
Do not miss the PHOTO GALLERY with many other shots of this fantastic event on Lake Maggiore.

Now let Fiona introduce herself!

My family are from Scotland although I grew up in London, and Scott’s family are from England. We lived very close by to each other, and even went to the same school, but didn’t meet until 6 years ago!

Fiona and Scott’s wedding took place on Isole di Brissago entirely.
It is a group of Islands located just 5 minutes cruise from Porto Ronco.
There is the little Island of St. Apollinare (closed to public but kept as natural park) and Isola Grande (or St. Pancrazio) that at the beginning of 1900 has been transformed in a wide botanic park by German trader Max Emdem. The view here is grand: a 2.5 hectares park with more than 1500 species of plant coming from all over the world!

We chose Isole di Brissago because we come to Ticino often as my parents have a house in Locarno. We can see the Islands from the house, and knew it would mean we could see the place of our special day each time we visit. We felt very relaxed during our visits to the Island and this was very important to us.

On Isola Grande there is grand Villa Emden. This is a luxury palace built in Neoclassic style. It was built in 1927 with 30 rooms, a winter garden (organgerie), Roman bath (33 metres long) and a pier, all still existing.
Today Villa Emden host an exclusive restaurant and an exhibition, cultural and entertainment area which can host different kind of events.

Fiona and Scott’s big day begun early in the morning.
Bride and groom and all guest were to Hotel La Meridiana in Ascona. They all took a lovely motorboat to reach Brissago Islands.

All event took place to Villa Emdem: from the civil ceremony, the aperitif in the garden and the dinner in the wide golden room with huge windows with lake view.

The Islands are so beautiful and we could have the whole Island to ourselves from 6 O’Clock in the evening. We had a choice of areas in which to have our drinks reception, so chose to have two, one before the ceremony and one afterwards.
All of the staff on the Island, both from the office and the restaurant, were very helpful and friendly, which was important to us.
Charlotte from the restaurant, Mascia and Brigitte from the office on the Islands were amazing, and helped very much with the planning. Brigitte gave our guests a talk about the history of the island during our welcome drinks reception which we had in the Roman Garden. We couldnt’ have managed our day without Charlotte – she was on hand all day to help us, and was very organised and good fun throughout. Our friends and family also played a huge part in helping us to organise getting everything to the Island and back again.

Musical entertainment, from ceremony to dinner was arranged by wonderful voice of English singer Gemma Turner.

Our singer was called Gemma Turner, she’s from England but was happy to travel to Switzerland for the wedding and said she’d love to go back and visit again.
She is a classically trained singer, and gave us lots of suggestions for songs she could sing, her repertoire was mainly classical but with some ballads which we knew were much loved by our family. For my entrance to the ceremony she sang O mio babbino caro. Our family and friends were very complimentary about Gemma, and she helped to make our day and our guests day very special. She has a beautiful voice, and was lovely to deal with all the way through.
You can hear her singing through her website www.gemmaturner.co.uk.
I hope you enjoy her voice!

Floral arrangements were very special starting from Fiona’s bouquet!
It was made with different dimension of several shades of pastel roses together with a fall of Bear Grass.

Our florist, Fiori di Flora from Locarno, was very creative and made some beautiful flowers for my bridesmaids, myself and also our decorations. She was very friendly and helpful, even though we only decided on the flowers 5 days before the wedding.

Have a look to bridesmaids’ bouquets made with little fuchsia roses in a heart shape.

Last but not least a special note for the photographer of the event, Moreno Nicoloso from Raffarello Mazzoleni – Studio Artefoto Omegna’s team.

Moreno, was brilliant during the day. He spent a lot of time to look for the right light for some of our pictures, but also was very unobtrusive in taking the pictures. We’ve seen three of the pictures already (on Italian lakes Wedding’s post Just Married on Brissago Islands) and love each of them. He was a very lovely man, and all of our guests liked him too!

Fiona and Scott’s wedding went on until late at night: dances, music and lot of fun!

We were very lucky that the weekend of our wedding there was a fireworks festival, so after our meal we went outside to watch these before starting our party. After our wedding, Scott & I stayed at Garni La Meridiana in Ascona and drank some vintage champagne on our terrace, which one of our guests had given us as a gift, whilst opening some cards from our friends and family. This made the perfect end to a very beautiful and special day.

My parents also hosted a drinks evening at our house the night before the wedding, which many of our guests came to, and we spent lots of time with our guests the night after the wedding too. My dad helped by taking friends and family to airports and train stations to make their journeys much easier, and spending all of this time with people meant that we got a whole weekend to enjoy our wedding rather than one day!

Visiting Ticino in the future will now be extra special for us both.

Our best wishes to Fiona and Scott for a lot of happiness from all Italian Lakes Wedding Team.

All images © Raffaello Mazzoleni’s photographers team.

For more information about weddings on Brissago Islands, Ticino – Lake Maggiore – please CONTACT the Italian Lakes Wedding team.

As usual in our Just Married section we offer a little preview of their wedding thanks to quick post production work made by Raffaello Mazzoleni, the photographer bride and groom chose for their wedding reportage.

Religious ceremony was held to Sacro Monte of Ghiffa.
Julie and Thomas’ big day had a light shower very unusual for August period.
But this did not ruin the day at all. They could enjoy Sacro Monte park with its secular trees and ancient chapels.

The reception was held in closer Villa Volpi. The villa was built back in first years of 1900 facing Lake Maggiore. Rooms inside are wonderful with antique furnitures and pictures.

Stay tuned, we will come back speakiing about Julie and Thomas’ wedding with many other pictures by Raffaello Mazzoleni on this special event on Lake Maggiore!

We have already given a preview of this event on our Just Married section.
Waiting for Enrico Mocci‘s entire photo gallery I would like to spend few words on Nicola and Dana’s wedding floral arrangement.

Nicola and Dana’s color scheme varied from pastel pink to cream with the frame of big hydrangeas flowers.
Hydrangeas are simple but elegant flowers. They are very local on lakes. You can find many here thanks to climate and soil.
Hydrangeas are ideal on a summer wedding. They can match every situation: open air, garden receptions or romanic or baroque churches you can find on lakes region.

The religious ceremony was held in Sacro Monte church on top of Orta hill overlooking the lake.
For this occasion I created a white hydrangeas based arrangement with some cream and pastel cream roses adding some greenery too.

Have a look to the floral columns I created to embellish the main aisle heading to the altar.

Dana chose a round shape for her bridal bouquet.
It was made of pastel pink roses on a base of white hydrangeas and falling Ficus Benjamin leaves.

She wanted the perfect bouquet for her wedding dress.

Wedding reception was held to St. Julius Restaurant on St. Julius Island.
Table arrangement was very pretty. I used three different shapes of glass vases to create a elegant and pleasant effect.

For the top table I opted for a a little variation.
I placed a base of glass with water and crystal inside. I added then two little bunches of flowers facing one another as a symbol of the unity of newlyweds.

As floral designer I loved work and build with Dane and Nicola floral arrangement for their wedding. Day after day, decision after decision we reach a great result that you can see in this post.
We will come back speaking about this lovely couple to enjoy their wedding photo gallery.
Do not miss it!

Monika Andenmatten is La Piccola Selva’s floral designer.
Based in lake Orta, has worked with brides for over 20 years to create floral arrangements for weddings in the Italian Lakes district.
His wedding arrangements are creative, elegant and sophisticated. Monika will be able to help you choose how best to incorporate floral design into your wedding celebrations. From the initial consultation to the wedding day, she will make your wedding flowers truly an expression of your dreams.
For any information about wedding on Lake Orta please contact us.

They had a lovely ceremony in Maria Assunta church in Orta San Giulio, a nice dinner to San Rocco Hotel and a great party afterwards.

A special thanks to Enrico Mocci photographer for the great shots here.

We will come back to you telling about it.

Tessa Brix is a Dutch model. She is also famous in her country for many TV spots and catwalks.
In 2003 she was Miss Netherlands Universe and she represented Netherlands to selections for Miss Universe in Turkey.
In 2005 she was chosen again to represent the Netherlands to Miss Europe in Paris.

It was a real honor for Italian Lakes Wedding Team hosting Tessa Brix wedding. We worked hard to make this happen and to let Tessa and Daniel enjoy their event in every single detail.
Valentina Lombardi – our planner for Lake Maggiore – followed the planning event, Monika Andenmatten followed floral design. Enrico Mocci was the photographer chosen by Tessa and Daniel to be their official photographer for their Big Day.

You will see here just few images of all the pictures but do not hesitate to see Tessa and Daniel’s PHOTO GALLERY. There are more than 60 images taken by Enrico Mocci who calibrated colors, lights and shades in a perfect way.

Honest, Sporty, casual and sweet : this is how Tessa describes herself in her on line biography. Her beauty, wonderful Lake Maggiore scenarios are surely the main actors in this great event.

Wedding was arranged among Stresa, Pallanza and Isola Bella.
Three well known destinations on Lake Maggiore. They were the perfect frame for such a great wedding. A wonderful sunny day was the final touch!

Villa Palazzo Aminta was the headquarter of all the events. It was the place where bride and groom and their guests spent their staying in Italy.
At the right time all guests took a lovely motorboat to reach Villa Rusconi Clerici.

Marriage ceremony was held in the lovely lawn of Villa Rusconi on the lake shores.
Just perfect!

Tessa’s choice for flowers was based on Lisianthus, Freesias and Roses.
White and lilac rose petals were scattered on the aisle in the green garden of Villa Rusconi.
As far as the blessing was concerned Monika Andematten created two high arrangements placed side of the ceremony table.

Tessa’s color scheme was based on lilac and white in different pastel shades.
These fine and elegant colors were also incorporated in Tessa’s elegan bridal bouquet who matched her wedding dress just perfectly.

After the ceremony Tessa and Daniel enjoyed the wonderful day with a short toast to the villa and most of all with a motorboat tour to Borromeo Islands and Isola Bella.

If you are looking for an amazing place for your wedding pictures Isola Bella is surely the best option.
We will come back soon with more posts about this opportunity.

After the pictures it was time to come back to their guests for Tessa and Daniel.
They were all waiting for them to Villa Palazzo Aminta.
While waiting for them they all took the opportunity to change their dresses and suits and have a little swim in the swimming pool of the hotel.
It was a hot day!

Tessa and Daniel took many other pictures in the wonderful rooms of the hotel.
This is one of the most exclusive venues on Lake Maggiore.

After a lovely aperitif in the garden and a perfect dinner in the restaurant of the hotel, some speeches and lots of kisses and moving moments it is time for the wedding cake!

A delicious and beautiful wedding cake was the perfect surprise arranged by Tessa’s mother for bride and groom.
Tessa and Daniel cut their cake in the garden of Villa Aminta overlooking a perfect night view on the Lake and Borromeo Island.

Just a magic moment for the unforgettable wedding of Miss Netherland Universe on Lake Maggiore!

For more information about weddings on lake Maggiore please contact the Italian Lakes Wedding Team.

We will speak again about Nicola and Nicolas’ wedding!