Italian Lakes Wedding Planner

Spring is almost here and a new long wedding season is going to begin soon on Italian Lakes.
Before all will start again we would like to have a look to the best moment of past season.
To do it we selected 36 pictures that tells you about our 2009 weddings.

Each image we selected tells a story and emotion a great lived moment. Most of all each shot has been take thanks to great experience and skill of all photographer who worked with Italian Lakes Wedding during 2009.

Which is the best one among all 36?
We deiced to ask bride and groom directly! Starting from tomorrow we will put on line the Wedding Poll Shot of the Year 2009. You can vote your favorite photos.
You could do it with a password that will be sent to all bride and groom who choose Italian Lakes Wedding Team services during 2009 or just booked for 2010 or following… someone is already working for their 2012 wedding! Continue Reading »

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.
Continue Reading »

The Italian Lakes provide a beautiful location to host a destination wedding. A few beautiful areas are Lake Como and Lake Iseo. These Italian lakes provide you with a breathtaking view that should not be forgotten. If you are planning a destination wedding in Italy, you should choose from wedding dresses that compliment the scenery. The designer dresses at Priscilla of Boston are an excellent location to begin your search because of their selection from many top designers.

Since your wedding will most likely be outdoors, you may want a shorter style such as the Minnie by Melissa Sweet or Priscilla of Boston Style 4402.

A wedding in Lake Como provides a quiet location with many luxurious hotels for your guests. You can get married on an island of Lake Como. To make this experience more memorable you may choose to arrive at the wedding destination by boat.

Wherever you decide to host your wedding at the Italian Lakes, be sure to find the correct dress because it can increase the beauty of this special moment.

Italian Lakes Wedding Team is getting bigger!
Starting from now our offer will be wider. Flipping through our pages you will discover new lakes and wonderful destinations for your wedding. This our special gift for 2010 season!
Discover Southern italian Lakes and wonderful Lake Bracciano.

It is a stunning location few kilometers from eternal city of Rome where history and nature get together to create a perfect frame for your dream wedding.
Italian Lakes Wedding team is happy to introduce Stefania Zen, our wedding coordinator for Southern Lakes area that will include famous Lake Bracciano and rustic Lake Bolsena.

Stefania was born close to Italian Northern Lakes in Piemonte region so she perfectly know the charm and appeal of the lakes and often come back to visit these special place and work with us over here.

Before becoming a wedding planner in Rome some years ago, she worked as flight assistant on intercontinental flights. She travelled all over the world. Her interest for people customs and habits and language skills helps her to be a perfect planner.
When she settled in Rome, she decided to become a wedding planner in this wonderful charming and amazing city discovering also wonderful lakes close by.

She will be happy to guide you to find the best venues, charming solutions, lovely decorations for your unique wedding on Lake Bracciano. She will let you know the charm of this great spot of Italy helping and supporting throughout all your wedding planning!

Join us to welcome on board Stefania!

Silvia, the bride. Giorgio, the groom. Angela, their pretty daughter.
They are the main characters of an intimate wedding on Lake Orta.

Silvia and Giorgio both come from Rome.
For their civil ceremony they were looking for a romantic and intimate destination to celebrate this special day. What’s better than Lake Orta?

A wonderful idea. Lake Orta gave to this lovely couple a great Spring day, warm and sunny.
They choose for a week day ceremony so atmosphere was even more intimate and cosy.
During week days village of Orta is very quiet and relaxing with very few tourists.
Very different from week ends on July and August which are much more busy!

As floral designer I had to create bridal bouquet, buttonhole and ceremony floral arrangements.
Enrico Mocci of ArteFotoArona, a wedding photographer specialized on Orta weddings, and with many years of experience, was the photographer of the day.

For their Orta staying Giorgio and Silvia choose the best: Hotel Villa Crespi.
Villa rooms are just enchanting and they were the perfect frame for stunning pictures.
You can see the bride and the bouquet I created for her. It was made of a long and wonderful fall of Phalaenopsis orchids.

Civil ceremony was held to Villa Bossi, Orta San Giulio town hall. Continue Reading »

On Lake Orta posts we usually show our couples in wonderful green and blue landscapes with bright medieval houses under the sun.
Today we would like to suggest something completely different and unusual:
a white Christmas on Lake Orta!

Yesterday, just two days before Christmas, lot of snow whiten Lake Orta creating and enchanting Christmas atmosphere.
Raffaello Mazzoleni one of Italian Lakes Wedding photograher captured it for us.

This is Lake Orta that many of you never saw, right into a fairly tale landscape almost unreal.
Don’t you think it could be perfect for a Winter Wedding on Lake Orta?

Continue Reading »

Dear readers,
we are happily proud to announce a new web site born from the experience of Italian Lakes Wedding Team, this is a real spin off and it is called Italian Country Wedding!
Italian Countryside seemed to us another lovely idea side of the lakes for the ones who are are looking for a different, romantic, relaxing and pleasant kind of wedding.

On Italian Country Wedding web site you will discover a multitude of choices for unique ceremony and reception, an intimate elopement, sites, small town hospitality, and a variety of activities for you and your guests in the Italian countryside
Surfing on Italian Country Wedding you will undiscovered and unspoiled places to create the perfect setting for a special and real country wedding: gardens, vineyards, country villas, traditional Italian restaurants, agriturismos or farm houses, or even in a wonderful castle!

Italian Country Wedding is specialized in weddings across Piedmont region and Langhe and Monferrato country side areas….just have a look at it we are sure you will be amazed by the charm of countryside!

Just few days ago Valentina has told you about Chris and Suzanne’s Italian Style wedding.
Many couples coming from United Kingdom and United States arrive on Italian Lakes choosing a typical Italian Style wedding: dresses, venue, music and Italian musicians, food, wines and even flower or favors.
Suzanne and Chris opted for an additional touch: an Italian vintage car!

Italian cars are famous all over the world: Ferrari, Fiat, Maserati and Alfa Romeo among the others.
This famous story begun back at the beginning of 1900. Among several brands, some become real Must of Italian Style. One of this is lovely Fiat Balilla the legendary car of 30s.

Balilla car is a real piece of Italian history. Fiat produced it in 1932 and it was the first Italian “city car”
It was called by Giovan Battista Perasso also known as Balilla that in 1746 begun a riot against Austrian power throwing a stone to one of their officers. A real patriot.

Fiat Balilla sold more than 100.000 cars even outside the country.
It was very innovative for the times, it even had hydraulic brake system.
It was Giovanni Agnelli’s dream. He decided to produce it with automation chain after an interesting visit to Ford factory in United States. Continue Reading »

Here I am again to talk about Villa Rusconi Clerici, this time I will describe the gorgeous symbolic ceremony of Nicky & Chris. As flower designer, I have had the great pleasure and honour of handling the decoration of this special event, which took place in September in Verbania Pallanza on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

I would like to start by thanking the photographer Carlo Conti, who has kindly provided these fabulous images of the day. After many years of experience as a fashion, still life and architecture photographer, Carlo Conti has founded RPS Studio – Reportage Per gli Sposi – choosing to continue his career as a specialist wedding photographer. His style is characterised by a great ability to capture the most natural and spontaneous moments of any event in order to compose a fresh, modern and lively album…the pictures of Nicky and Chris’ big day are a very good example of his creativity.

Nicky & Chris are both born and bread in London. Nicky is pursuing a successful career in human resource, while Chris owns a recruitment agency focusing on the sports sector.
Being two very busy young professionals, they did not have a lot of free time to dedicate to the organisation of their wedding and decided to rely on the expertise and professionalism of Chic Weddings, a leading wedding design agency that works with the team of Italian Lakes Wedding.

Nicky and Chris were dreaming of a wedding by the water, informal and elegant at the same time. An event that matched their personality, not too flashy but very fun. After evaluating various options, they opted for Villa Rusconi Clerici for its wonderful position right on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

The colour theme chosen by Nicky & Chris focused on ivory and lilac, with a hint of purple. This successful combination is very much on trend recently and is often requested by my clients.

The ceremony at Villa Rusconi Clerici started with the arrival of the bride, Nicky, by speedboat. She was accompanied by her father and her lovely bridesmaids. The location benefits from a private jetty which offers the possibility of organising an extremely scenic entry as well as lake tours for the guests during the cocktail reception.

Nicky chose a sleek and modern bouquet, in perfect harmony with her dress: to design it I mixed mini white Calla Lilies, purple Lysianthus and Rose Tibet, enhancing the long shape of the bouquet with a few leaves of Beucarnea. Continue Reading »

We’ve told you many times about wonderful medieval Orta village and how cosy and intimate it is.
Now let’s imagine a more intimate, cozier and more romantic place just mystic and legendary:
here you are San Giulio Island.

St. Julius reached this land for first around 1600 sailing on his mantel. He arrived here and found it haunted by dragoons and snakes.
He sent them all away and built a little church that after become the nowadays cathedral.
This is what the legend tells….

After that a castle, Bishop Palance and villas for priests.
About half of 1800 a convent was built and it cancelled the last symbol of a powerful past let the island becoming more religious.
Today a small group of nuns live in the convent. They are Benedectines and they are totally dedicated to manual works and spiritual hospitality.

St. Julius Island is a silent an mystic place rich in history and traditions.
If you take a look to the island from the hills high tower bell, gardens and ancient roads look like a fairly tale castle born from ancient ruins of a castle.

On this very Italian corner of paradise we would like to suggest a unique opportunity to arrange your wedding reception: a little cosy restaurant with terrace on the lake inside one of the most ancient villas of the island.

We love to imagine a romantic civil ceremony to Villa Bossi or a lovely religious ceremony in one of Orta churches (Maria Assunta or Sacro Monte) with a pleasant trip on the boat to follow.

You and your guests will have the opportunity to completely know and savor the beauty of the lake.
Cruise from Orta to St. Julius Island is a show you can not miss.
From the waters could admire ancient villas on the shores and their aristocratic and alter appeal.

After this lovely trip you will arrive directly on the pier of a little restaurant just on San Giulio Island or you could get there from the little road that goes across the Island.

Ristorante San Giulio (St. Julius Restaurant) is located inside Villa Tallone date back to 1700.
It is well know to host a rich summer concert season in which you could listen to great concerts in such a wonderful frame. Continue Reading »