Italian Lakes Wedding Planner

It has been two years since we introduced you Villa Ortea.
Since then this amazing villa become one of the most wanted venues on Lake Orta.
Today we come back here to tell you about Claudia and Simone’s wedding.

Thanks to great shots made by Leandro Biasco we are able to show the event in all its beauty!
Young photographer from Novara followed Claudia and Simone photo service and with his great style he created a fresh, bright and spontaneous work!

After the ceremony held in Santa Maria Assunta – Carpignano Sesia close to Novara, bride and groom and their guests reached Villa Ortea where a rich buffet on the terrace was waiting for them.

Just a little time with their guests for a little aperitif and then Claudia and Simone took some time for themselves on a motorboat for an amazing tour on the lake. Photographer and videomaker were with them. Continue Reading »

You probably know that in many village in Italy there are some time restrictions for music party until later at night.
However many venues in Orta allow music and dances until midnight or half past midnight that with an early dinner could a nice time to have your first dance some more drinks and dances!

Moreover if you are planning to move the party somewhere else after the reception to end the day in a more casual and relaxed way we could suggest some options.

If you are looking for some more Italian wines and beers for your after dinner party and a nice venue to mingle ad talk a little more with your friends there are a couple of wine bar and pubs just in Orta itself. One is just in the mainsquare, the wine bar is very small but it has the widest terrace in Orta…the whole square!
In a very relaxed way you could enjoy a glass of wine in the empty main square of the village.

The other wine bar/pub is in Orta main street a cosy intimate venue with a rear terrace. Lights of candles and rustic brick walls wit many bottles of wine and wine bar furniture will let you appreciate the real and quaint atmosphere of Orta by night. Continue Reading »

Balbianello Villa – Official Rental Fees 2012

Many of you write us to ask further information on Villa del Balbianello rental.
For this reason we would love to give you more information on our blog that we hope could be useful.
As mentioned Villa del Balbianello is a very exclusive and unique venue, for this reason rental fee is related to the luxury and exclusivity of the location itself.
Click here to find official rental fee that Villa del Balbianello property gave us for 2012

After the great and special rehearsal dinner to a beautiful Lake Como beach club, the Big Day has finally arrived for Antonin & Louise.
Many details made this wedding really different!

Both bride and groom stayed to Villa D’Este where they spent few relaxing days enjoying the lake and warm summer weather.
On the wedding day Antonin joined his friends who stayed for almost a week in a fantastic Villa with pool and private pier located in Laglio.

Ceremony was arranged to Villa del Balbianello followed by an wonderful reception in a private Villa in Cernobbio, on the lakeshore: a real masterpiece of the Lake Como architecture.
From this Villa, Antonin and his best men got on a charming Riva motorboat to go to Villa del Balbianello: they were really handsome.

In the meanwhile, the bride, together with her dad and the bridesmaids left Villa D’Este on a second charming Riva motorboat and reached Antonin who already reached Villa del Balbianello waiting for her together with family and friends, all very excited.
Louise was so beautiful in her wedding gown!

The ceremony was celebrated in the Loggia of Villa del Balbianello and conducted by a close friend of the couple.

All decorations were precious and elegant, with a big arch of flowers as main detail. Continue Reading »

Photography covers an important role within the contest of a unique event such as a wedding.  This because a photograph can catch all the unforgettable instants of the Great Day. But it is only a matter of instants. Where  photography does not arrive, video can.
It consists in the capacity to tell the story as if it was a film,  with voices, movements, words and joyful scenes…
We are not speaking of a home made video, but a real film, with its clear storytelling, climaxes and flow. It will be professionally post produced and edited. A film that can support pictures, but not substitute them. It can be a unique support to memory of the day if the videographer was able to catch all the unforgettable moments within the flow of the day.  
There are many moments in which video which becomes even more important and essential than photos. During the dinner party and the dances for example.     
Do you remember Loretta and Scott wedding at Villa Rusconi Clerici on Lake Maggiore?
Team of Myitalianwedding were present. From the full 30 minutes long video. We have extracted the final part for the party to the Villa.

Ability in the editing, slow motions, black and white conversions, wonderful music, to express joy emotions and climaxes. All this concentrated in three fantastic videos.

Team of Myitalianwedding is not only a video service, it can offer also high quality professional PHOTOGRAPHY service. We offer a mix of natural photojournalism and formal and elegant photography.

Please have a look at selected photographs taken during Lorettas’ and Scott wedding.
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If you are looking for something different for your music entertainment at your wedding, with a special Italian style and that all your guests will enjoy and remember HOT CLUB TRIO is the right choice. Their music can be a nice background or a real fun entertainment.

Hot Club Trio plays traditional 30s European music defined Hot Club Music. Combo includes a violin, a solo guitar and a rhythmic guitar. Three very good professionals and skillful musicians who are able to entertain your guests with a wide repertoire that goes from Bossa Nova, Standard Jazz, Evergreen American and Italian classics. All is totally unplugged without bases or special effects.

The secret of Hot Club Trio success is a perfect combination between jazz sounds of violin and latin sound of solo guitar: a perfect match that is able to create a romantic and sophisticated atmosphere for your wedding. A timeless music that all guests of all age will love, appreciate and most of all….dance!

Few days ago Hot Club Trio published a new cd: Swing Trio. For us it is a real pleasure giving you the opportunity to listen 6 tunes from this cd. Just an exclusive occasion!

Click on iPhone button here to listen. You will love Hot Club Trio music!

For further enquires, bookings or simply check the availability, please complete our enquiry form.

In summer 2008 I had the pleasure to meet Amy and Tom for the first time. She is a lovely Irish girl and he is a handsome English guy. Such a great couple! After visiting many venues across Northern Lakes area they reached Orta San Giulio and they fell in love with that immediately. Amy and Tom thought that Lake Orta incorporated the precise idea they had for an intimate and romantic wedding on the lake.

My first wedding of Summer Season 2009 was Amy and Tom’s: 3rd July 2009. Amy arrived some days before to settle in Orta and define some last details.

She spent some lovely days before the event, with her parents and family in a lovely villa on the lake that I often suggest to my couples. It is just in front of Ortello Gulf.

And finally the wedding day came!
Amy and her father took a nice walk from the lovely house on the shores to reach village church. Tom, flower girls, purple dressed bridesmaids and all guests were all waiting for her there. Lilac was the theme of whole wedding.

Amy choose this wonderful color for her main theme and Monika Andenmatten from La Piccola Selva created wonderful arrangements to accomplish her desires. She based her work on a color palette going from white to purple-lilac. Monika created wonderful church arrangements for the balusters and external columns of the church itself.

At the end of the ceremony… just a lovely kiss of bride and groom! Photographer Andrea Dapueto took a wonderful shot of it. Andrea Dapueto was the perfect reporter for such a wonderful event. Continue Reading »

It has just came to life Enrico Mocci’s new web site!
Enrico Mocci is one of the photographers of Italian Lakes Wedding Team. Starting from the name of the site www.ortaweddingphotographer.com you will understand Enrico’s goal: being specialized on wedding photography on Lake Orta, the place Enrico knows best. No doubt the mission was completely achieved thanks to his wonderful images and long experience he has. Enrico’s studio is right into Piazza Motta – Orta main square – in Orta San Giulio; his photographs are characterized by rich colors, skillful black and white tecnique, and vignetting technique that is just perfect to focalize the attention on a certain point of the image.
The new web site has an essential and clear style that wants to stress all the images inside its Wedding section which is divided in 4 parts showing different steps of the wedding day.

GETTING READY
This section describes the meaningful moments of the preparation before the wedding: dress, make up, guests arrival but most of all the excitement and happines of the bride and groom to be. Many of these images were taken in luxury rooms of Villa Crespi that Enrico loves.

CEREMONY
Guests are waiting, bride arrives, she steps into the church…after that the ceremony, signatures and newly weds exit. Each step of the ceremony is taken with privacy and attention. Many pictures were shot in Orta’s main churches: Maria Assunta and Sacro Monte.
Images of civil ceremonies were taken to Castello di Miasino and on the terraced garden of beautiful Villa Bossi, Orta San Giulio town hall, where bride usually arrive by boat.

PORTRAITS
In this section you will find pictures taken after the ceremony on the lakeshore on wonderful St. Julius Island. Many pictures are portraits but taken in a lovely natural style!

RECEPTION
This is the wider section that describes better bride and groom arrival to the venue, party with their guests, speeches, dances, bouquet throwing and wedding cake moment. The photographs were shot in the best venues on Lake Orta such as Villa Crespi and Hotel San Rocco.
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Laglio is a small fascinating town located on Lake Como.
It counts only 930 residents and it’s only 6 square kilometers but in the last few years became one of the most touristic place around the lake.
The beauty of this venue attired famous people as the actor George Clooney who bought here four houses! George Clooney’s most famous property is Villa Oleandra: an ancient villa of the XVIII Century facing the lake with splendid Italian gardens.

But this part of lake reserves incredible surprises, a romantic boat trip will give you the real perspective of this place: there are so many ancient and stunning villas lying on the water that you would have never imagined…and some of this are the perfect and unique wedding venue…
Between this quantity of ancient splendid Villas emerges another famous one: Villa Regina Teodolinda.

This ancient Villa has a typical deep Italian lacustrian character marqued by its pink salmon color and the blue lilac windows that really gives it a special touch.
Regina Teodolinda has recently been transformed in an elegant relais and is available for exclusive wedding reception.
Villa Regina Teodolinda has spectacular gardens and terraces and a private access from the lake, so that the bride can romantically reach his groom and guests by boat after a breathtaking trip between the beauties of the lake and the other marvellous villas surrounding all this area.

All the wedding reception can be organized outdoor, the aperitif can be served on the large terrace facing the lake while for the dinner there’s a unique room, very fascinating overlooking the terrace and the gardens.
After the open air cut of the cake and toasts, your special event can be followed by magnificent fireworks that really match perfectly with this landscape.
This relais also offers 6 luxurious suites to accommodate the bride and the groom with their families the day before and after the wedding.
What a magical way to start the honeymoon…
The scenery is completed by a swimming pool in the gardens, directly on the lake, to relax after the emotions of the most beautiful day of your life.
If you’re idea of wedding is something really intimate and exclusive, Villa Regina Teodolinda is one of the best location to celebrate it.

But having a wedding in Laglio is not only a dream for few, there are many stunning venues at affordable prices. Continue Reading »

Going up on the Lake Maggiore, towards Switzerland, in ten minutes drive you will reach Villa Volpi in Ghiffa which is very close to famous church of the Sacred Mountain of Ghiffa.

Villa Volpi is an elegant neoclassical villa in Liberty style that can host wedding receptions up to 120 people in its charming rooms after a nice aperitif in the garden with charming lake view.

Its ancient parquet and stuccoed cellings are wonderful. The venues has also a cellar, the ideal place for after dinner dances without time limits in case you will rent the entire villa that has also about 30 sleeps.

Our journey on Lake Maggiore to discover the most beautiful venues for your wedding finally arrive to Oggebbio, just few kilometers from Switzerland border. Villa Margherita is a cozy villa built in the beginning of 1900. A relaxing oasis in a stunning garden with swimming pool with a fantastic view on the Lake. Villa Margherita could be the ideal venue for a cozy intimate wedding enjoying the natural beauty of Lake Maggiore.

Wedding receptions are arranged in the garden of the villa with a nice aperitif in the open air and a gourmand seated dinner in a lovely pavilion that can host up to 60 people. For bridegroom and their guests there are on disposal 18 exclusive and nice rooms. Continue Reading »

Lake Orta has always been one of the best destination for bridegrooms coming from all over the world. But not only!

Often is the trait d’union between different culture, very far from each other.
This is the case of Cristina and Derek. She comes from Genova and he is from Scotland.
A long love story and then the decision to getting married. Considering the wonderful places they both come from it is not easy making a decision. Portofino, Five Lands, Porto Venere or even some legendary castle in green Scottish country side.
What a difficult choice! And here it comes Lake Orta. They immediately fell in love with it. The perfect destination for their wedding.

Considering the distance it was not easy organizing all the event: ceremony, reception, flowers, music, invitation, guests coordination coming from Scotland and Ligura.
They decided to hire a wedding planner specialized in Lake Orta area. Their natural choice went on Valentina Lombardi from SposiamoVi – Torino. Valentina is a wedding planner with long experience on Lake Orta and she works with skillful professionals on the territory.

The photographer is Raffaello Mazzoleni who is the author of beautiful photojournalistic pictures that you can see in the SCOTTISH WEDDING PHOTO GALLERY for Cristina and Derek.

Floral arrangements are from La Piccola Selva thanks to the fantasy and creativity of floral designer Monika Andenmatten. La Piccola Selva has been leader for more than 20 years in floral arrangements and bridal bouquet creation for churches and best venues on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore.
Cristina and Derek for their reception venue decided for Hotel San Rocco in Orta San Giulio.
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Many couples in Italy like something different than the traditional posed style of photography. They prefer a more natural approach to their wedding photography to show the fun and enjoyment of their wedding day with their families and friends in the Italian Lakes District.
There are many stories and vignettes at a wedding: the bride getting ready, ring bearer being coaxed to walk up the aisle, the bride’s mother watching the father-daughter dance. Moments like these, when photographed without posing, are Wedding Photojournalism or Wedding Reportage Photography.

So what is reportage wedding photography or wedding photojournalism? It is a way of photographing a wedding without setting up any of the photographs. The wedding photojournalist usually arrives well before the bride is dressed and stays until they take last photo of the bride and groom leaving the reception.
The photographer stays in the background and photographs events as they happen without any prompting. The advantage of reportage photography for the couple is they can spend more time with their wedding guests. This style of photography shows the atmosphere of the wedding and is non intrusive. The photographs are taken in a mixture of black & white and colour, telling the story of the day as it unfolds.
The Italian Wedding Photojournalist Raffaello Mazzoleni offer this method of photography for your celebration day in Italy. Continue Reading »

We would recommend that you ask a few simple questions before taking the time to visit the venue and let alone book it!

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 »