It is name is Orta Beach Club.
If you are looking for a different young, informal but elegant venue, this is the right place!

Why choosing Orta Beach Club for your wedding?
First of all for its great position just on the shores facing romantic Bagnera Gulf.
Thanks to its special position Orta Beach Club is the only place where you can admire a magic sunset on the lake.

Orta Beach Club is a real alternative to other wedding venues.
The arabian and marine atmosphere, ethnic furniture recalling Morocco and Indonesia.

Restaurant is another main feather of Orta Beach Club.
Cuisine is really innovative: traditional and innovative at the same time with some multiethnic and fusion elements without forgetting about classical Italian cuisine.

Orta Beach Club offers menus for all budget and the possibility to arrange a music entreatments for all tastes.

Orta Beach Club has a lovely beach with umbrellas, pedalo, sunbeds, beachchairs and motorboats.
A wide parking area and private pier where you can arrive after a lovely ceremony to Villa Bossi or one of the churches in Orta and a lovely tour on the lake and its island.

For further information availability or a proposal please fill the form below and see you soon to Orta Beach Club!

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All images in this post have been taken by Enrico Mocci,photographer of ArteFotoArona with a long and wide experience in wedding photography on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore.
For further information on his works visit his websites www.artefotoarona.com or www.ortaweddingphotographer.com

It faces the lake in the heart of Borromeo Gulf just few minutes boat ride from Stresa. Hotel Ristorante Verbano’s appeal fascinated artists and writers of the past who found in this special place inspiration and peace.
Today thanks to its magical position this little romantic hotel is one of the most evocative destination for weddings on Lake Maggiore.

If you are looking for an outdoor reception Ristorante Verbano has a wonderful terrace facing Isola Bella and its magnificent Borromeo Palace.
Your guests will love the charm o this place just romantic and spectacular!

Ristorante Verbano has also two wide rooms for your receptions, both facing the lake who can host up to 190 guests.

Ristorante Verbano cuisine is among the best of the area. Here you can taste local ingredients and fresh lake fish and let’s not forget about best wines pf Piemonte of their cellar!

Hotel Ristorante Verbano has also 12 rooms with all comforts with stunning view on Isola Bella and Isola Madre.
A great occasion to enlarge your staying on Pescatori Island to be ready before the wedding or to enjoy a magic honeymoon here.

Hotel Ristorante Verbano offers a boat shuttle with their private boats.
You can leave from Stresa, Baveno or Carciano – Lido di Stresa where there is also the departure of cable cab to reach the peaks of Mt. Mottarone.

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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!

Even if fuchsia and orange are two very different colors if you match them in the right context they could made up an absolutely different and beautiful scheme that could be so fun for your wedding!
In order to recall Summer nothing is better than bright colors such as fuchsia and orange. These colors could be the perfect frame for a natural wedding in a garden, on a beach or just by the lake shores like Sonja and Allard did.

Sonja and Allard ara another lovely couple coming from Holland who chose Lake Orta for their wedding in italy. Do you remember about Desire and Sander and they sweet balloons themed wedding? Or do you recall about Danielle and Silvain the groom with the top hat?

Choice for colors was not accidental. Orange is the color which represent Holland, Prince of Orange and National Football Team, soccer players are called Oranges (Oranje in Dutch).

Sonja contacted me via email a couple of months before the wedding and she had very precise ideas on her colors scheme. As floral designer my task was advising Sonja about the most suitable flowers to use considering that the couple had not a huge budget.

The month before the wedding I personally met Sonja and Allard and I was touched by their kindness and simplicity. After defining some details the choice for flowers went on fuchsia rose and gerberas, little button flowers of Craspedia and orange Solidago.

For the table of the ceremony we opted for a glass cube full of oranges (Sicily Oranges) and fuchsia gerberas with a bright orange table cloth underneath!

Sonja wanted to be different as far her wedding dress was concerned too! She chose an aquamarine color dress. It was an informal but still elegant wedding dress that perfectly matched the bright and happy theme of her wedding.

Civil ceremony was held in the garden of Villa Bossi in a wonderful sunny day of the beginning of the summer with many orange and fuchsia balloons.
Bride and groom decide to brake the tradition once again! Rather than making the groom waiting for the bride side of the ceremony table, bride and groom decided to arrive together with a rowing boat. Such a great idea!

After manu pictures in medieval Orta villae bride and groom had a lovely boat tour on the lake up to St Julius Island. Once on the Island Sonja and Allard decide to visit San Julius Abbey and its wonderful piece of Art the “Ambone” the most precious item on Lake Orta. They they moved to their happy and fun reception on the Island.

A special thank to Valentina and Stefano from VAST Photography for the amazing photography service they made for Sonja and Allard.
As Maren Ollmann did for Rebecca and Marcus’ wedding, Valentina and Stefano were able to made a relatively simple event without many scenography effects, in a wonderful photo set one of the best we have on our site for sure!

We would really like to compliment with Valentina and Stefano and most of all…. Congratulations to our wonderful couple Sonja and Allard.

Together with Monika, Paola is La Piccola Selva floral designer. She is part of La Piccola Selva team who are specialized in floral arrangements and lovely bridal bouquets on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore.

After her graduation in English language her passion for nature and flowers brought her to a long and successful career in floral design.
Thanks to her long experience and creativity Paola will be able and happy to suggest you best flowers, color, details, shapes and styles that could match your tastes and ideas.
She will be able to add a final touch that could turn your wedding in an even more special day!

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.
A great touch of elegance!

Town hall of Gardone Riviera is a lovely villa of 1700 built in liberty style in the heart of the quaint village.
The villa has an amazing park with exotic and mediterranean vegetation.
At the entrance you will find a great marble staircase and in the inside there are antiques and wonderful paintings.
The room where civil ceremonies are held has a stunning frescoed ceiling.

After the ceremony Kate and Kevin took a short walk on the lakeside in Gardone Riviera village. Alfonso Longobardi took the chance to take fantastic wedding shots! Have a look!

Kate and Kevin arranged their wedding reception in Gardone Riviera in an evocative villa of 1800. The villa has a wonderful neo classical facade facing Lake Garda waters.

Park of the villa recalls they classical landscape of Lombardy side of Lake Garda with olives, cypresses… such a perfect frame for Kate and Kevin’s wedding cake!

Villa gives the possibility to arrange and outdoor reception on a lovely lawn on the lake shores a dreamy setting don’t you think so?

The villa is part of a big monumental and historical complex which includes Villa Alba – used for congress and exhibitions – and San Marco tower.

San Marco Tower was built at the beginning of 1900 by the owner fo Villa Alba: Richard Langensiepen. He was a famous German business man.
San Marco Tower was an observatory and it is just on the lake shores.
In 1925 it was purchased by Italian poets Gabriele D’Annunzio. He transformed the German gothic style of the villa into a Venetian Military style. The tower became an enlargement of Vittoriale and the name changed from Ruhland Tower into San Marco Tower.

Between 1943 and 1944 San Marco Tower was the place where Benito Mussolini and his lover the actress Claretta Petacci met secretly.
A famous love story for this special place that today is the unique scenery for all brides and grooms who choose Gardone Riviera for their wedding on Lake Garda.
Just like Kate and Kevin did.

Our best wishes from all Italian Lakes Wedding Team!

For further information on a wedding in Gardone Riviera – Lake Garda please CONTACT Italian Lakes Wedding Team.

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!

Our readers surely remember that we spoke about this wedding in our Just Married section. We promised a longer post and here we are.
We come back to you speaking about Victoria and Richar’s wedding thanks to Enrico Mocci, the photographer bride and groom chose for their day.
Enrico Mocci gave us in short time the full service of the event. So I selected some lovely images but do not forget to see the entire PHOTO GALLERY. You will find 32 great shots describing this special day.

Victoria and Richard are a lovely couple came from UK and as often all decorations were decided via email. I had the pleasure to meet Victoria only few days before the wedding. She is a lovely and pretty girl.

Since the very first emails Victoria knew what she wanted: roses in two color with a predominance of red.

Red, color of passion and love was the main theme of all floral arrangements I created for Victoria and Richard. Red was in bridal and bridesmaids’ bouquet, groom’s tie and buttonholes and of course in the decorations of the ceremony.

Another color was present too: blue.
it was not in the flowers but on groom and groomsmen’s suits, bridesmaids’ dresses, and Victoria’s father suit too. They were all in blue with a touch of red!

Civil ceremony was held in the gardens of Villa Bossi. It was an intimate and cosy ceremony with three moving wishes made by Victoria’s bridesmaids!

Have a look to Victoria’s hair do.
It is more than refined and surely very elegant. It perfectly matches her face and her wedding dress: a masterpiece of style!

After the ceremony Victoria and Richard took the occasion to have lovely pictures in the narrow roads in Orta village and St. Julius Island.

The party was held in a little restaurant just on the shores overlooking St. Julius Island.
Victoria threw her bouquet to start the party!
Once at their tables guests found a sweet surprise: a little rose blossom in their napkins. Little details made an event charming and pretty!

Victoria and Richard’s wedding was certainly one of the most elegant wedding I worked for in the first part of 2010 Summer season wedding!
Blue like the lake, Red like love!

Together with Monika, Paola is La Piccola Selva floral designer.
She is part of La Piccola Selva team who are specialized in floral arrangements and lovely bridal bouquets on Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore.

After her graduation in English language her passion for nature and flowers brought her to a long and successful career in floral design.
Thanks to her long experience and creativity Paola will be able and happy to suggest you best flowers, color, details, shapes and styles that could match your tastes and ideas.
She will be able to add a final touch that could turin your wedding in an even more special day!

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.

For the reception we worked a lot at Cernobbio Villa to create a perfect atmosphere. It had to be perfect!
After a long preparation the result was magnificent.

The cocktail was served in a lateral terrace which was adorned with tables, buffets and flowers, while the dinner was arranged on the main terrace, with a long table for the couple and their close family and friends, surrounded by many other round tables.

Centerpieces were something to be remember. High chandeliers totally covered with greenery and enriched with cascades of precious orchids and ivory candles.

Antonin and Louise wanted a real party where music, dance and scenery had a leading role.
For this reason, the band chosen for their event was great! It was made up with 11 musicians who involved the guests in dances and entertainment since the beginning of the aperitif.
Wonderful Italian Food, dance and lot of fun!

But our couple still wanted to surprise their guests with stunning fireworks on the Lake, accompanied by touching and romantic music.

And we do not have to forget the cut of the cake! It was totally unusual.
For this special moment they decided to get on a stage and cut the cake at the rhythm of a Samba.

After this special moment the party continued until late at night: a night that nobody will never forget.

All images © Morlotti Studio – Lake Como. All rights reserved.

Alessandra Fabi is the Italian Lakes Wedding’s coordinator for Lake Garda and lake Como area. If your idea of wedding is refined, sophisticated and with a special attention to details, she’s your perfect wedding planner!
She makes each client feel unique and she treats each wedding as if it were her own.

For any information about wedding to Villa del Balbianello and Cernobbio – please CONTACT US.

Photographer Raffaello Mazzoleni followed the event for Italian Lakes Wedding team, and he realized a really dynamic, sunny and funny photographic wedding service for this lovely couple.
In this post you can see only some images which we have selected for you: but don’t miss the Elisabeth and Oyvind wedding’s PHOTO GALLERY.
Over here you will see more than 50 stunning pictures of photographer Raffaello Mazzoleni.
For further information on availability and rates please fill in the form HERE.

Villa Carlotta is located in Tremezzo, close by of 2 famous destination weddings locations on Lake Como: Bellagio and Varenna. Villa Carlotta is one of the most famous villas on lake.
It is a wonderful place where you will be able to appreciate its structure, its works of art and its wide park with many tropical and exotic trees and coloured flowers. In spring blossoms of Azaleas and Rhododendros are really simply amazing.

The wedding civil ceremony can be celebrated inside the Villa in one of the rooms, or outdoor, in one of the beautiful terrace. “Sala dell’amore” (Room of Love), where the ceremony can take be arranged, it is embellished by 2 famous masterpieces representing famous “Amore e Psiche” (Love and Psyche) of Canova school and “Ultimo bacio di Giulietta e Romeo” (Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet) by Francesco Hayez, one of the most admired painting.

Thanks to the wonderful sunny day, Elisabeth and Oyvind decided to celebrate their wedding outdoor ion the terrace with a great a breathtaking view over Lake Como. About thirty guests were present to the event: relatives and friends coming from both Norway and Sweden.

At the end of the ceremony, Elisabeth and Oyvind took their time for some unforgettable pictures inside Villa Carlotta’s stunning rooms and outdoor, in its amazing gardens.

After a short walk along Tremezzo lakeside, newlyweds and their guests reached a typical Italian Pizzeria for a very informal meal.

Have a look to funny picture taken by Raffaello Mazzoleni – style “Abbey Road” by the Beatles!

During a nice walk on Tremezzo, Elizabeth and Oyvind took the chance to visit a typical Cantina (Wine Cellar) where they could enjoy a delicious glass of Italian wine.
At Tremezzo Pier, newlyweds and their guests left for a funny trip on the lake to reach reached Lenno Town. It is just here where Villa del Balbianello is.

For their reception Elizabeth and Oyvind chose a quaint restaurant on Lenno lakeshore with a beautiful garden and beautiful marquees covered with white delicate fabrics. A really unique atmosphere!

Although our newlyweds’ Big Day is not over yet! An elegant motorboat Colombo Super Indos was waiting for Elisabeth and Oyvind for another fantastic tour of the Lake (this time for our couple only!).

Oyvind also tried the inebriation of driving this legendary motorboat of the 70’s! During the boat trip, Elisabeth and Oyvind couldn’t resist and asked for a lot of pictures with Balbianello Villa as magnificent background of their wedding photographic service.

It has been really a long day, but full of joy, fun and sun! This was exactly what Elisabeth and Oyvind were looking for their wedding on the Lake Como!

For any information about wedding to Villa Carlotta – lake Como, CONTACT US or leave a post in the proper field below.

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.

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!