wedding team on Mar 10th 2011 Lake Orta Weddings
Wedding color schemes are often based on trends or bride and groom’s tastes and wishes. But not always! Sometimes brides and grooms decides about their theme basing on something they are very close to such as colors of their region or home country. Do you remember about Cristina and Derek and more recent wedding of Sonja and Allard. Today is Nicole and Euan‘s turn.
Nicole is Australian and Euan is from Scotland. It is just for Euan’s home country that the couple decided for a blue and white schemed wedding.
Blue and white recalls the legendary St. Andrew’s Cross national flag of Scotland. This is one of the most ancient flags in the world dated back to 800 a.c. Flag is made of a diagonal cross representing St. Andrew Martyrdom’s cross on a blue background. St. Andrew is the patron saint of all Scotland. Blue and White are in all national sports wears of Scotland starting from national soccer team.
In Nicole and Euan’s wedding blue and white were just everywhere: in floral arrangements, on flower girl’s dresses and in Nicole’s bridal bouquet. This was a special cascade bouquet that Monika – La Piccola Selva Floral designer – created with white roses and blue gentianas.
The event was coordinated and planned by our wedding planner Valentina Lombardi who works on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore. Valentina will tell us more about this event.
A very special interesting and sweet couple!
Euan is Scottish and beautiful Nicole is Austalian they both live and work in Dubai. For their special day they opted for Italy because they simply love the food the rustic and quaint atmosphere and also because Euan worked here for about one year.
Nicole also wanted a wedding by the waters of the sea or the lake. Putting all these elements together we thought that Orta could be perfect, so intimate, medieval, romantic and just on the lake shores!
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wedding team on Nov 20th 2010 Lake Garda Weddings
Lombardy side of Lake Garda can offer to visitors wonderful landscapes. Poets like Virigilio and Catullo sang about them.
On the shores and mountains that surround the lake there are wonderful gardens, orangeries, vines and olive groves and pretty villages to discover.
Gardone Riviera, Salò and Limone are little jewels. They are perfect destinations for a wedding if you are looking for a quaint Italian atmosphere, elegant and appealing.
Today we are discovering Gardone Riviera together with Kate and Kevin and wonderful pictures taken by Alfonso Longobardi one of the best and most wanted Italian wedding photographer. His weddings have been published in both Italian and UK magazines and he is a WPJA (Wedding Photo Journalist Association) competition prize winner.
Kate and Kevin are a lovely English couple in love with Italy.
They toured it from North to South and when they reached Lake Garda they discovered Gardone Riviera and so they decided that it needed to be there!
Gardone Riviera is located just 40 minutes drive from Verona and 1 hour drive from Venice. A perfect position for your Italian Wedding!
Gardone Riviera is surrounded by amazing green hills with thousand of olives grooves and lots of cypresses reminding Tuscany landscapes. Gardone is an enchanting village with quaint narrow roads, a lovely lakeside walk, amazing historical buildings, elegant boutiques, bistros and restaurants.
An outdoor theatre, a botanic garden and neo classical Villa Alba together with Vittoriale degli Italiani – home and museum of Gabriele D’Annunzio poets create a unique atmosphere in Gardone Riviera.
Kate and Kevin chose a civil ceremony in the town hall of Gardone Riviera.
Have a look to Kate’s wonderful bouquet. it is round and compact and it is made with scented gardenias, Vendela roses and pretty freesias.
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wedding team on Mar 10th 2010 Lake Orta Weddings
In all our posts you surely noticed the wonderful colors of Lake Orta.
Green, Blue and light grey. Today we would like to show you a different Lake Orta… all in black and white.
This is a first of several posts that will explore black and white technique on wedding photography.
Main actor of the even are Shawn and Raul a lovely couple coming from Dallas Texas who choose Lake Orta for their wedding in Italy.
All these images were takeb by Alfonso Longobardi a famous and honored photographer coming from Naples. Shawn and Raul simply loved his style.
You can have a look to his web site to understand why they chose him: www.alfonsolongobardi.com.
Just have a look to the beauty of these photos. The monochrome images have great appeal concentrating watcher’s attention to shapes, shadows and impression rather than on colors.
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