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!

Nicole for her wedding wanted something classical and chic with a timeless elegance theme just like Grace Kelly times. Orta architecture touched their hearts with its facades, narrow roads, pastel colors of houses and little details like the iron gate of the town hall and coat of arms.

When Nicole and Euan looked at Black and White Orta article with Alfonso Longobardi’s photos the finally decided that Orta was more than perfect and Alfonso was going to be the one taking care about their wedding pictures!
A couple who did care about details and historical settings for their wedding!
Valentina – wedding planner

As usual civil ceremony was held in the garden of Villa Bossi. Groom and groomsmen wore their traditional kilt, white and blue were everywhere for a day Lake Orta become a little strip of Scottish Highlands!

Have a look to wonderful white little dress of the flowergirls with a blue belt and ribbon on their waist.

After the ceremony bride and groom had a lovely boat tour with a motorboat reaching St. Julius Island. Alfonso Longobardi took a lot of portraits. Great shots from the very famous photographer coming from Naples.

The reception has been set in the garden of Villa Crespi with famous Lake Orta Moorish Villa on the background. Frescoes and decorations and the high minaret are the perfect setting for an elegant reception like Nicole really wanted.
Villa Crespi is also well known for its 2 Michelin Stars restaurant a dinner you cannot forget!

A fairly tale wedding for Nicole and Euan on the music of Scotland the Brave….

Towering in gallant fame, Scotland my mountain hame, High may your proud standards gloriously wave, Land of my high endeavour, Land of the shining river, Land of my heart for ever.
Scotland the brave.

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!

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

Angela and Katiuscia both work on Veneto region and Lake Garda. They both have a degree in Architecture and Interior Design and both come from this world.
Their background and natural creativity will be at your disposal to create a wonderful scenography, some amazing arrangements and choose little pretty details that will make your wedding just unique!
Moreover their problem solving qualities will be helpful to arrange to a wonderful day on Lake Garda.

Lake Garda is an important destination for weddings in Italy: a wide lake whose distinctive feature is the wonderful panorama immersed in a mild Mediterranean climate all year long, among cypresses, olive and lemon trees and the quaint and colorful borghi overlooking the lake such as Malcesine, Limone, Torri del Benaco, Gardone Riviera, Salò and Isola del Garda: the perfect ingredients for a dream wedding!

Angela and Katiuscia will take you to discover traditions, savors and colors of Veneto region, not only on Lake Garda! They can help and support you for a dream wedding on other wonderful locations such as Venice, Verona and Veneto gorgeous countryside where you could taste some of best wines of Italy.

Welcome on board Angela and Katiuscia!

Amy and Kevin are both Americans and they choose the wonderful scenarios of Lake Maggiore for their Italian Wedding.

For Italian Lakes Wedding Team our musicians of Koinè String Quartet were present. They created the perfect soundtrack for this lovely event on the lake shores with their enchanting music.

It was just amazing playing in such a wonderful and romantic frame.
The weather seemed to be grey but at the end the sun came out unexpectedly just few minutes before the ceremony. The sun was just as a guest invited by bride and groom and He could not say no!
Silvia – Koinè String Quartet

This wedding was arranged between Stresa and Pallanza with a Belle Epoque style of Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées in Stresa and spectacular Villa Rusconi in Pallanza.

Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées is one of the best and most luxury hotels on Lake Maggiore. It is located on Stresa lakeside facing Borrome Islands. The hotel recalls golden times of Belle Epoque thanks to its frescos and plasters.

Blue lake was the background together with the magic sun of this perfect day!

We would like to tell you about Amy and Kevin’s wedding thanks to precious shots taken Marine Fonteyne, the lovely photographer who gave us the pictures of the event.

Amy’s first impressions after seeing the pictures of the wedding were more than enthusiastic:

Marine,
 these photos are amazing!!! 

My favorite is the one of me and the bridesmaids on the boat.
I also really like the one of me boarding the boat. The black and white makes it look like it happened in a film of Federico Fellini. 
Thank you so much!

- Amy

Marine Fonteyne has a Belgian heritage but was born in Brazil and now live in Milan.

She has a master and degree in marketing and advertising.

Since 2003 works in Italy. With more than 12 years experience she can match her tecnique with great feminine sensitivity to tell your wonderful day in an original and unique way!

Marine has a very feminine style.

She works with a team made up of only women. According to Marine only a woman can really get the importance and the feeling of a wedding day!

Marine Fonteyne is a WPJA member. The Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA) is a professional organization composed of photojournalists and wedding photographers from around the world.

She won in 2008 2 international prizes of important American magazine Bride’s Magazine.

But we let Marine Fonteyne tell us Amy and Kevin’s big day!

This is a perfect example of an American wedding with an Italian flavor!

A refined couple from Chicago, in love with Italy , especially with Lago Maggiore, choose this place to celebrate their union at Villa Rusconi Clerici – Verbania Pallanza.

Every single detail was thought with extremely good taste & finesse.
The day was spectacular and, as the hours passed by, the sky got bluer and the sun shined, perfect conditions for an open air celebration!

The couple & guests were staying at Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées in Stresa and sailed in typical lake boats to the Villa waiting for the arrival of the bride & brides-maids.
The time when the bride boarded the little boat reminded… a Fellini’s movie!

At Pallanza, the grooms were blessed in an open-air ceremony by a protestant pastor as the sun was shining over the lake and a little orchestra was playing classic music … an extremely spiritual scene!
The whole event has been perfectly set up with a extremely good taste, matching the American traditions with the Italian charm!

The dinner has been held in a separated covered part of the garden and the night was closed with the magical atmosphere created by hundreds of candles floating in the lake!
Enjoy!
Marine

Thank you very much Marine for your amazing shots!
…Amy and Kevin, just another great wedding on Lake Maggiore!

Jan and Olga’s style is elegant and refined but they also added a a touch of humor that gave the castle a brand new interpretation.
Have a look to some of the pictures here and you will surely have a better idea.

Even if the sky was a little cloudy they could enjoy the lake and its amazing view..
The wedding frame was more than scenografic.

We would love to thank Alessandro Zingone Studio. Very good and professional photographer Alessandro Zingone working on Lazio region, Lake Bracciano and Rome gave us the possibility to have a first glance on this wedding.

We will come back to you in the next days to tell you every single detail of this great event.
Stay tuned!

Once the location was decided, it could start the teamwork of the Russian and Italian wedding planners. Misha, the head of the Russian wedding planner team, was the creative author of the event, ensuring to respect the Russian traditions very important both for the spouses and the guests. While the Italian team was responsible for the scene, the decorations and the realization of the creative ideas together with our trusted, professional suppliers. After a lot of working hours during the day and night, videoconferences through skype with the spouses, and finally the BIG day has arrived. Actually, it was not just the day itself, but a complete weekend with 3 days program, full of surprises for the guests…

After an exciting and funny treasure hunting in Venice, the wedding party arrived in Desenzano the night before. Followed by a hectic morning with the preparations, the guests arrived In the villa, where a refreshing rich aperitif welcomed them in the loan area, with delicious fingerfood and lot of champagne to admire the scene on comfortable sofas and pillows. Little white fans were offered to the women, to be able to support better the hot temperature. Soft jazz music gave background to the peaceful moment. Then the special wedding guest ( a tradition in Russia) called the guests to join him in front of the stage, decorated with the romantic white huppah and lively red flowers in huge white glass vases.

After the entrance of the Groom and the Bridesmaids, finally Olesya has appeared on the water, in a little fishing boat. A man in a sailor’s striped vest was rowing the boat, then slowed down in front of the guests to allow to everybody the celebrate the Bride’s arrival. Then the boat went to the pier, where Mothers of the groom and the bride met Olesya, holding candles in their hands.

After the romantic ceremony under the huppah, the guests took place at the tables, decorated with a fabulous flower cup in the middle and apples signaling the places of each guests. And this is the point when the wedding started to be very different from the italian weddings: in the breaks between the different plates of the dinner, various entertaining activities ensured that the guests are having fun. They had “fake” waiters turning up as singers with traditional italian songs, a little “group work” to build sketches with objects taken from different nations’ wedding traditions, a creative corner where every guests could create his/her own personalized venetian mask, a caricaturist to make funny drawing of the participants. But the main spectacle was the first dance of the newly wed spouses, who danced a romantic classical ballet piece (as both of them are found of classical ballet, and the Bride practicing also actively this beautiful art).

Obviously, fireworks couldn’t be missing to complete this very special evening, together with a romantic slideshow projection of the photos of Olesya & Fedor in Venice, few days before the wedding. Music and dance closed the event, while the surprise limousine (organized by the groom) didn’t come to take the spouses to their hotel to their first night as husband and wife….

And it still did not finish: the day after a relaxing boat trip was offered to the guests to exploit better lake Garda before leaving our beautiful lakeshores.

We take the opportunity to say a big thank you for the Russian wedding planner team, and all our suppliers for this amazing weekend, and we wish again all the best and forever love to Olesya & Fedor!

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!

For any information about wedding on Lake Garda please CONTACT US.

All Images © Mauro Pozzer.
Mauro Pozzer was born in Vicenza and he’s a Lake Como lover.
He’s a wedding photographer with a long experience in ceremonial photography.
His unique style captures the events and its unique details emphasizing with his shots emotions and expressions of each special event.
For a gallery of wedding reportages please visit his website www.mauropozzer.com.

Have a look to wonderful Laura’s dress with some little details in silver matching Johannes’ tie and bridal bouquet created with cream roses and some greenery with silver shades.

Have a look to the preview of this special event and we could come soon telling you more details about this event on Lake Orta.

Images © Italian Lakes Wedding. All right reserved.

Eve-Marie and Roland are coming from Ireland and they chose Italy and its romantic Lake Orta for their love dream!

A great sunny day was the perfect frame of the event. Religious ceremony was held in Sacro Monte church in Orta one of the most beautiful churches in the area.

Eve-Marie arrived to the church on an amazing vintage Bentely together with 4 elegant bridesmaids dressed in light blue.

Eve-Marie color scheme was based on ivory cream and light blue.
You can notice it in floral arrangements and bridal bouquet created with light blue hydrangeas and cream ivory Vendela rose.

In the church Eve-Marie wanted tall candles for the aisle to get to the altar. So original!

We do not want to ruin the surprise! We will come back soon telling you more about Eve-Marie and Roland’s wedding with details and many amazing pictures! Stay tuned!

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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!

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.

Brissago Islands are two little islands on Switzerland waters of Lake Maggiore. They are located just few kilometers from Italian border. Isola Grande is famous for his botanic park and wonderful Villa Emden.
Inside the villa there is now a lovely restaurant where Fiona and Scott hosted friends and family for their wedding reception.

Here you will see the first images of the event which are given to us by Raffaello Mazzoleni. Raffaello was the official photographer Fiona and Scott chose for their event on Lake Maggiore.

We wish all our best to Fiona and Scott!
We promise we will come back to you telling about this lovely English couple with more details about their wedding on Brissago Island. So stay tuned for more photos to come!