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!

Most couples chose to get married in spring, because April, May and June are typically considered the appropriate time for a traditional wedding.
But if you are planning to get married in Italy , and in particular in the lakes area, you may consider seriously the idea of getting married in winter and in particular in December.
“Why?”, you may ask. “But because it is Christmas time” I say! And your marriage can take advantage of “the most beautiful time of the year”!
Imagine: all the little villages are filled with Christmas decorations, ligths, candles, and snow capped mountains all around! Isn’t this a gorgeous setting for you photo album?
You can have Christmas holyday menu for you dinner party and what about a Panettone, the classical Italian Christmas cake instead of the usual wedding cake?
But what entices me most (and not just because I am a singer) is Christmas music! Christmas songs are known by everyone and are mostly the same all around the world. They remember us of our childhood, of beautiful moments spent with our parents and relatives, of gifts and kisses, of old friends, of happiness and love…
This is why I always suggest my special Christmas live show to couples getting married in December.
On this webpage you can listen to some samples of the Christmas songs I like most…with a little Christmas present: you can download some of my Christmas songs for FREE!
MERRY CHRISTMAS from Martha J.!

As floral designer I’m always looking for interesting and creative solutions but this always depends on bridegrooms choices!
To give you an example Rossella and Giorgio’s wedding was a great occasion to work on a charming theme to me: autumn colors.
Rossella and Giorgio got married last Saturday in Orta San Giulio, lake Orta. A simple ceremony at Villa Bossi followed by a nice reception in wonderful atmosphere of Palazzo Penotti Ubertini.
Bridegroom’s wishe was having a color scheme that could reflect intense Autumn colors with some elements recalling this romantic season that lots of poets love.
As far as the floral arrangements, bouquet and ceremony table arrangement were concerned I opted for a strong contrast between chocolate brown and purple smoothen by soft shades.
I used Black Baccara rose, Leucodendron with Hypericum berries, dry Hydrangea and Gypsum leaves.
On tables at Palazzo Penotti Ubertini I completed the arrangements with rose petals, pine cones and chestnuts.
You can see the final result above. I really hope you like it too!

My name is Karin Brides.
I am classical trained singer, a soprano with a wide vocal range and versatile repertoire. I live on the shores of lake Como and I dearly love it.

Born and raised in Germany I simultaneously studied Lyric Soprano voice and painting/visual arts. I worked and studied in NYC at Off Broadway productions at the Sage Theatre. One of the teachers I owe most to is Andrea Mellis from the Vienna Conservatory, head of the Musical section.

As a co-producer , director and performer I created a Music Comedy Theatre piece based on Opera, Musical and Cabaret. Besides this I worked as a Jazz/Blues vocalist in various groups, starting to enlarge my repertoire into the Pop range while working at corporate events. I also started to sing on Weddings at that time and realised how much I loved that.

During my London time, together with an English colleague, I created an Anglo-German Cabaret Show programme. We toured in Europe but where also called several times by the Royal National Theatre, Southbank in London. I also performed my solo opera show program, tailored for private and corporate events intertwining it with my work as a wedding singer.

I am very passionate about singing at wedding. This kind of work enables me and gives me the opportunity to contribute to this very special moment in people’s lives. There is something magical and unique about weddings. Everybody is emotional and in a solemn mood, positive tension and expectation lies in the air. It is wonderful to be part of that atmosphere and enhance it with soul touching music.
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Together with Castello dal Pozzo, Villa San Remigio is today one of the best destination to celebrate a civil wedding on lake Maggiore.

Villa San Remigio is located on the top of Colle della Castagnola, near Verbania Pallanza and overlooks Lake Maggiore. Its garden was studied and realized from a young couple of lovers. It has a romantic and interesting story.
Musician and poet Marquis Silvio della Valle di Casanova and passionate painter Sophie Browne, after their wedding in 1896 decided to realize their dream, transforming into a villa an old grandparents’ chalet. They renewed the park that became their lover refuge.
After more than 100 years Sophie and Silvio’s dream this wonderful villa is now on the disposal of bridegrooms who want to crown their big day.
Just a touch of continuity and good fortune.
An informal part, a garden and a wood with Mediterranean plants compose the park. They are all inspired by romantic mood of young lovers.
Thirty gardeners worked to build the park during 1910 and 1916 to model the hill, obtaining a great result!
Sophie and Silvio completed their eight hectares garden in 1916 end right after that they opened it to visitors.
They were opened to fixed hours and the entrance was given as charity.
Public opening lasted in 1929.
Villa San Remigio has an articulated structure.
You can have access to the central body from both entrances through internal stairs.
One of the most important rooms is La Sala della Musica (Music Room) with a big piano where usually are held civil celebrations.
Surrounding main room you will find the gothic little room and the humanistic study.
Antique furniture is stunning and precious: doors, frames, fireplaces, and wooden ceilings.
Its Lombardy Baroque façade has beautiful and huge artworks.

At Villa San Remigio sides you will find a balcony from where you will appreciate an amazing view on the Lake. Under the balcony there is a rock gallery used also as Winter garden. This is for sure on the most stunning and evocative part of the entire garden, used also for wonderful wedding photos. Please browse through the Villa San Remigio Photo Gallery.
This villa is now owned by Regione Piemonte and it is of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province headquarter.
During spring and summer weekends gardens are opened to visitors with a single entrance at 10.00 am for a total guided tour of 2 hours.
In order to celebrate a civil bending in the villa you have to book previously.
In this case park and rooms will be on disposal and Mayor of Verbania will be the officer of the celebration.

Attention: UPDATE July 2011
Hotel Restaurant Villa Crespi IS NOT ASSOCIATED to Italian Lakes Wedding Team anymore because of their new policy on weddings.

As alternative to Hotel Restaurant Villa Crespi you can find on these pages the best venues, villas, restaurants and hotels recommended by Italian Lakes Wedding.

Villa Crespi is located in Orta San Giulio, on lake Orta one of the most fascinating Lakes of Piemonte.

This home was built by the end of 1800 from Beniamino Crespi, a rich Italian business man charmed by Baghdad appeal. It took 12 years to build this wonderful building and for its handcrafts he decided to use the most precious materials. Green marbled came from Polcevera, red one from Levanto, he wanted Sicily jaspers, Swedish, Spanish and French marbles. As for stuccoes he wished for handmade embossed copper moulds. There were stalls for horses, a greenhouse, a dock a big wall with wonderful iron gates and a 48 meters minaret; all this was surrounded by terraced gardens toward the Lake.

After more than 100 years, after hosting princesses and queens, Villa Crespi is now an luxury hotel. Bridegrooms coming from all over the world simply love it. They choose it for an exclusive ceremony, a special wedding, a different reception, an important party or just for an unforgettable dinner.

A suggestion for all the brides that dream of a unique and really different wedding: why don’t you opt for an ethnic theme wedding?
It is one of the most wanted trends of the moment!
Villa Crespi thanks to its memorable Moresque atmosphere will be the perfect fairy tale scenario for your precious Ethnic Wedding.

Turning your attention toward an ethnic wedding theme is a wonderful way to personalize your wedding day. Why not be different and use the customs and traditions of your own or a different culture?
Your wedding guests will also appreciate experiencing some other wonderful cultural traditions.

Just as in any traditional wedding theme planning, you need to look at each aspect of your bridal plans and decide how and what cultural traditions could be included. From colors to bridal attire to accent decorations, there’s much to choose from.

In most cases, you can interject certain colours into your colour scheme for example if you are planning an Oriental wedding you could include reds and yellows, perhaps. However, don’t go overboard with this or your decorations could become garish and tacky. Accents of colours work best.
As far as wedding favours are concerned just give a look to ethnic house decorations that you might have, to provide you with some inspiration.

Most important are ethnic wedding decorations!
Try to choose wedding flowers and arrangements such as Orchids, Lotus blossoms, Waxflowers and South Africa’s Proteas…
Use decorating accents and props strategically to help bring the “feel” of the theme to your guests. For example fringed table runners in deep colours would surely enhance an Arab or East-Indian theme.
Some other ideas to add a touch of ethnic to your wedding could be hire a musician for the ceremony to play a traditional musical instrument and maybe play some of this type of music during key parts of your reception.

The above should help you with generating some of your own ideas on what you can use for your ethnic wedding theme. Moreover one of our coordinators would be pleased to help you finding some more on what you can do to highlight your ethnic background at your wedding.

The lake is famous for the first and only docg wine in the Veneto Bardolino as well as for its delicious food/cuisine. Lake Garda charmes with its splendid colors, ranging from the calm deep blue to “that” lake storm dark green. This place is one of the most romantic places in the world, forits proximity to Verona, the famous home of Romeo and Juliet. That’s why many couples from all over Europe/the world come to its shores to pleadge/promise each other eternal love.
Being able to describe this magic place is impossible, but the truth is that once you visit it it ends up becoming part of you.

This place rich in history and nature,it has always charmed from the past, even Dante talks about it in his Divine Comedy. Ever since ancient times the lake shores have witnessed paleolithic and neolithic civilisation flourishing (the name of the village Pai comes from the Italian word “palafitte” that means “primeval houses”). A human settlement of Gauls has followed the Bronze Age, until the arrival of the Roman. The long peninsula of Sirmione, described by Valerio Catullo’s poetical lines, still
shows a huge roman mansion. The so called “Riviera degli Olivi” (the veronese shore of Lake Garda) named after the olive trees that produce a world wide famous olive oil is a popular destination of fiancées who want to associate their love dream to this wonderful lake.

Used since ancient times to symbolize undying love, affection and enchantment, these colorful blossoms may add a fresh touch of elegance and class to your ceremony and reception.
The meanings of tulips coupled with the immediately identifiable shape of their colorful blooms make them a comfortable flower choice. They are not too elegant, too romantic, too big, too small, or too bright; the tulip is always just right.

Tulips are beautiful spring flowers that come in a variety of colors and blooming times with some starting as soon as March and others still are blooming into the summer. Even if you have a slow growing season, you will have some variety of tulips available for your wedding. The versatile tulip can enhance both elegant wedding settings and more casual venues, and work well in almost any permutation, from bouquets to boutonnieres to table arrangements. The huge choice available makes it so easy to co-ordinate the bouquet to match the color scheme and really complement the bride’s dress. From frilly edged tulips to the more unusual parrot varieties, they certainly are showstoppers! Why not use simple fresh white tulips for the bride and delicate pink shades for the bridesmaids?

There is nothing that makes a better background for spring wedding photographs then tulips flowers! For example,  if you get married in Verbania Pallanza, on lake Maggiore, it is worth to plan your wedding photographs at Villa Taranto in spring during Tulip Week when over 80,000 tulips are in bloom. The Villa Taranto is one of the world’s finest botanical gardens.

Tulips are so versatile and the many varieties available make them unique. So if it’s head turning flowers you are looking for then the tulip is the flower for you.

I recently met Valentina Lombardi of SposiamoVi Group and had a wonderful chat about the wedding events industry in the Italian Lakes area, and learned a bit about Wedding Planning.

Having a Wedding Planner can do wonders for your wedding! For the busy couple that doesn’t have the time, or needs to travel a lot, a wedding coordinator can provide a sense of security and ease.

Wedding planners are professionals at making your special day memorable and stress free. They know the ins and the outs of planning a wedding!

Check out Valentina’s interview: Valentina is truly wonderful, and she gives us a lot of insight into her wonderful job!

• Valentina, what made you decide to become a wedding planner and how did you become one?
  I decided to be a wedding planner a lot of time ago.
  I’ve worked as event planner in a US software company for years.
  My creativity wasn’t satisfied so I decided to make my dreams come true, I met my Genova colleagues Cinzia and Alice and everything started…

 

 

• What do you like about your job?
  I love helping couples to build their own event following their style and passions.
  Working together with them to build the perfect day!
• How would you describe your working style?
  I try to interpreter couple tastes in order to suggest them the best solutions for them.
  I really do not want to force them into a decision…I’d rather prefer to be a consultant for them.
• What’s your idea of an excellent/lovely marriage proposal?
  Getting married on Lake Orta…. the perfect venue for a perfect day. Cozy, romantic and charming as Italy can be!
• Favorite thing to do outside event planning?
  I really do love Disney and 50s musical movies, swing music, shopping, discovery channel, traveling or relaxing with my family and I used to sing in a band….

• When you travel, what is one thing you can’t live without?
  Almost everything….I have always heavy luggage!
  Mostly, a Camilleri’s book, the I-pod and cosmetics.
• What is your idea of a unique romantic destination?
  Lake Orta for sure and a charming Winter Wedding on the top of Alps.
• SposiamoVi has been around for a few years, care to fill us in on a few of the trying obstacles you faced in the beginning stages?
  Most of all the diffidence of some Italian companies to understand this new job.
  But I think that now is pretty much better!
• Reasons why prospective clients should choose SposiamoVi first and foremost?
  SposiamoVi provide to clients high standards level professionals, stress relief and a professional competence that help you to organize your best day at the top.
• Lake Orta has been ranked as being one of the best Wedding & Honeymoon destinations in the Italian Lakes area, numerous times I believe…what would you attribute to Lake Orta’s success?
  It is just as people coming from abroad imagine Italy. Romantic, charming, cozy, antique, poetic and….so Italian!
• Any tips or advice to a soon to be bride?
  Just be herself and choose what she prefer without being influenced to other people but just deciding with her partner what they will love best!
• More grooms appear to be getting involved in the planning process. What do you think of this trend?
  It really seems that men are more involved in wedding planning. This is a good news! Maybe it is because they need to be involved or because they pay more attention to style and trends now….or just because they love building this big event with their brides. Anyway it is a very good news!
• What is your most memorable wedding event / bridal couple that you will never forget?
  I think I will never forget any of my bridegrooms. In their differences they will stay all in my memories. Planning such an event creates a sort of special relationship between bridegrooms and me and I’m pleased to have built those.
  So I really do not want to say I will remember best him or her….I will just keep in my mind every single event….At least I will try to!
• Is being a wedding planner very stressful?
  Yes it is! But it is also a real satisfaction!! I think is one of the few jobs where clients say “thank you”…and they really mean it!
• Is there a primary difference in planning for an Italian couple as opposed to say a US or UK/Ireland couple?
  Yes there is. Foreign couples are used to hire a consultant for every kind of service…while in Italy people don’t really understand the meaning of this job. We are a step beyond other countries. Commonly Italian people hire a wedding planner if they don’t have time to plan the event…while people coming from abroad, side of time saving, hire professionals to have good advice and they really trust the professionalism.
• Finally, what do you enjoy most about working with a bride and groom to plan their wedding?
  I love building together the event. I like studying together the best solution for make bridegrooms dreams come true and seeing in their eyes their excitement about that, looking forward for the date to come!

Thanks Valentina and good luck with all of your future projects!