Italian Lakes Wedding Planner

In the last few years Winter Weddings are getting more popular and today we would love to speak about a very intimate and romantic one.

Barry and Novi are two lovely guys coming from Indonesia and living in Netherlands.
They wanted a very intimate and romantic setting for their winter wedding…. or better for their Christmas Wedding as they got married on December 18th!
They chose Lakes districts!
Some may think that lakes in winter could be less beautiful than in warm moths but for those who love intimate romantic and solitary spots they could be the prefect choice.

Berry and Novi wanted an intimate event so they invited only their parents and Novi’s sister.
They decided to stay in Orta for the getting ready and celebratory meal.
But for their religious ceremony they opted for a very special spot Sacro Monte of Ghiffa on Lake Maggiore. Continue Reading »

Estella and Diego are a lovely couple from Milan. We know them since many years!
Side of being Photo27 main photographers they have been some of the very first fellow passengers of our adventure with Italian Lakes Wedding.
It has been thanks to their wonderful pictures that our blog grew up to be one most important Italian wedding blog in English.
Thank you Diego and Estella!

For this reason it is a real pleasure for us posting the brand new Diego and Estella Photo27 PHOTOGALLERY.
You will find there more than 60 pictures divided in 4 sections and 4 weddings: one each lake.
A Wedding portfolio where you will appreciate Estella and Diego’s Photo27 photography technique, experience and innovation…but most of all a real passion!

First section is Fiona and Marco’s wedding. Our planner Valentina spoke about this in An Italian – Scottish wedding on Lake Maggiore post.

Here following you con see some of Lake Orta  Edel and Kieran’s best wedding photos. You can read more about it in post A magic venue for a wedding on Lake Orta shores. It was written by Valentina, Edel and Kieran’s wedding planner.

Lake Como is represented by Marcia and Andrew’s wedding. A wonderful couple who decided to get married in Varenna with a religious ceremony by the shores of the lake. A real must you cannot miss them!

We close with Lake Garda and Sarah and Steve’s wedding in the tower of Castello di Malcesine a fairy tale.
You will find out all details about Sarah’s and Steve wedding in our Lake Garda wedding planners Angela and Katiuscia’s post From the infinite past… to Malcesine!

Thanks once again to Diego and Estella for their wonderful pictures and for their great contrubute to Italian Lakes Wedding.

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you will be amazed!

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We recently introduced a lovely venue just on the shores of Lake Orta. This is located just 15 minutes boat from Orta village and it is just on the waters.
It could be a wonderful set for your reception overlooking St.Julius Island and the wonderful bay.
We are talking about L’Ustaria Cà dal Rat.

We had several weddings this 2011 season here but we would love to mention two in particular because they stayed in our hearts.
I picked two events because they are two wonderful examples of how you can plan a wonderful day in Orta with reception to L’Ustaria.
Wonderful pictures taken by Photo27 for both events will explain you better!

First couple is Edel and Kieran.
They are two lovely guys coming from Ireland who wanted a romantic religious ceremony in the church of Sacro Monte of Orta.
Guests were all staying in Orta and to reach the church they opted for the lovely touristy train leaving from Orta main square!

They had a great fun a great ride overlooking the lake and its island!
Bride arrived with a lovely car afterwards.
The ceremony was very touching inside the wonderful church of Sacro Monte and the pictures after the ceremony just stunning with a breathtaking panorama. Continue Reading »

What about a dream wedding on Lake Maggiore with a romantic religious ceremony overlooking the lake?
Today we would love to speak about Fiona and Marco’s wedding.

Fiona and Marco are a wonderful couple who chose our wonderful Lake Maggiore to tie the knot!
Marco is Italian, his family lives close to Milan but he lives in UK since many years. It just there where he met beautiful Fiona!
She is Scottish and surely a beautiful girl!
Marrying an Italian guy she also speak a little of Italian and she wanted to incorporate some of Italian traditions in her wedding matching them perfectly with Scottish ones!

Marco and Fiona opted for a religious ceremony to the amazing church of Sacro Monte of Ghiffa.
All guests stayed in Pallanza and arrived here with a short transfer we planned for them. Fiona arrival was more than beautiful! She arrived on wonderful Bentley owned by her father who is a car lover since ever! Continue Reading »

The church of San Remigio is located on top of Castagnola the cape above Pallanza.
It is part of the wonderful gardens of Villa San Remigio – civil ceremonies venue for many of our weddings.
It is a wonderful pretty church, very romantic, in the nature and built on a rock.
The back of the church overlooks Lake Maggiore.

This morning Ilaria and Giovanni got married here.
For their floral arrangement in the church bride and groom asked us pink and white peonies with Avalanche roses and Dendrobium Orchids.
In this pictures you can see a detail of the long arrangement placed on the altar of the church.

Ilaria and Giovanni’s reception was held in Sala Toscanini of Grand Hotel Majestic where bride and groom had a wonderful wedding lunch with their friends and relatives.
For this occasion we created big rounded centerpieces with lilac and scentful Freesias, Avalanche roses and pink Gypsophila.

Our best wishes to Ilaria and Giovanni for a lot of happiness from all of us at Italian Lakes Wedding.

There is an Italian song called Cielo d’Irlanda (Irish Sky) by Italian singer Fiorella Mannoia. This is a real celebration to Irelend as Italians see it.
A wonderful green land where you can drawn in the blue (this is a verse of the song). This song is the perfect union between Ireland and Italy as Shauna and Marco wedding we would like to tell you about in our post today.
After Helen and Daehun’s wedding here is another very human and symbolic wedding on Lake Orta. Shauna is Irish and Marco is Italian. We love thinking that this wedding is a perfect union between two nation that has been always friends!
Both Ireland and Italy have this special human and natural feeling that goes beyond every difference.

A union begun centuries ago thanks to close relationship between Irish church an Vatican. You can see it with the Flight of the Earls back in 1608 one of the most famous event in Irish history.
We cannot forget about James Joyce who wrote in Italy many of his books. You can also see Italian classical tradition in rich Irish artistic patrimony.

These days Italy and Ireland are among the best supporters of European Union. From the touristy point of view Irish people love to come to Italy and Italians love travel to Ireland. Italy and Ireland are close also in soccer world, national soccer team’s coach is an Italian man: Giovanni Trapattoni.

For these and other reasons we love to think that Shauna and Marco’s wedding is another confirmation that Ireland and Italy are so close to each other. Continue Reading »

Today Lake Maggiore was the scenario of two wonderful events.
Marco and Fiona got married in the church of Sacro Monte of Ghiffa with reception to Villa Rusconi Clerici and Cindy and Christian tied the knot in the church of sant’Agata in Novaglio with reception to Villa Margherita.

A wonderful sunny day with a clear amazing sky and deep blue waters of Lake Maggiore made up the perfect frame for these two events, both planned in locations famous fir their stunning panoramas.

Let ‘s begin with Sacro Monte and Fiona and Marco’wedding.
Fiona’s relatives and friends arrived from Scotland and England and they immediately fell in love with the magic view Sacro Monte of Ghiffa offers.

After the ceremony the party went on to Villa Rusconi Clerici where guests were welcome by a rich aperitif by the shores, dinner to follow and a dances until late at night.

Cindy and Christian opted for a church with a spectacular view too.
This is the ancient church of Sant’Agata in Novaglio, a little village on the hills of Lake Maggiore surrounded by wide lawns. Continue Reading »

Waiting for upcoming week end on Lake Maggiore (Fiona & Marco and Cindy & Christian) we come back on Lake Orta for Marina and Carlo’s wedding.
It is a nice couple coming from a little town near Milan and we are glad to to show you the first pictures of their big day!
Marina and Carlo got married this morning in the pretty church of Assunta in the heart of Orta San Giulio village.

Marina arrived on a legendary vintage Fiat 500 a real symbol of Italian 60s.
Carlo was waiting for her just in front of the church. Continue Reading »

If you are dreaming of a romantic wedding ceremony in a little ancient church in a secluded place, I’m sure you will fall in love with Francesca and Pigi’s choice!
For their romantic wedding on Lake Bracciano they chose one of the most romantic church in the area a wonderful place to discover for a sweet wedding with stunning view!

The pretty church is located not far from Bracciano village.
From here the landscape is the perfect frame for amazing wedding pictures.

This pretty corner of paradise is not only one of the most romantic churches on Lake Bracciano but it also gives you the possibility to arrange your religious ceremony and reception to follow without moving the guests with transfers and coaches.
The ideal place for a destination wedding!
This was one of the reasons because Francesca and Pigi chose this little church for their ceremony.
All guests could relax and enjoy the day without any stress.

Francesca was the first to reach the venue with her close relatives.
In the very hours of the morning she touched base here.
A little room of the convent was at her complete disposal to get ready and start getting in the mood of the wonderful day she was going to live! Continue Reading »

Veneto region surely has great features to offer! Not far from beautiful Lake Garda you will see amazing plains and hills surrounded by the Dolomites and rivers which cross cities such as Verona, Vicenza, Padua to finally reach magical Venice.

Along Brenta River, not far from Venice, ancient noble Venetian families built outstanding abodes to spend their holidays, that could reflect their wealth and power.

Ideal extension of Venice onto the mainland, the ancient course of river Brenta lived from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century a golden age that made the area a favorite place of vacation of the rich Venetian nobles.

Along the river there are many villas designed by masters of Italian art. Along the centuries these places has been visited by artists, popes, kings, men of culture, envied for their beauty, perceived as country houses in which to celebrate the rite of procession on water, of sumptuous dinners, of parties lasted until dawn.
In Riviera del Brenta you can appreciate today blooming gardens of noble villas, water reflections intercepted by the statues, the gardens lapped by the current.

One of these wonderful villas was the perfect frame for Max and Valentina’s wedding.
17th century architectural complex called Villa Foscarini-Rossi hosted this special event we would love to tell you about today.

Valentina and Max opted for a religious ceremony in a church not far from the villa.
Parents, relatives and many friends were all waiting for the bride to come!
Church of Sanctuary of Madonna in Borbiago bride and groom chose, was adorned with beautiful white roses to keep theme Valentina wanted: very charming and romantic! Continue Reading »

We introduced Villa Pestalozza on Lake Orta a couple of days ago.
This is one of the best venues on Lake Orta for sure. It has a wide park and grand rooms with frescoes and paintings. Villa – managed by owner Donna Giulia – has also a lovely and intimate atmosphere and a stunning view over the lake.
These are surely the main features of this venue located just above Orta in Miasino village.

Micaela and Corrado a lovely Italian couple coming from Milan fell in love with Villa Pestalozza at first sight and they chose it for their wedding dated 11 September 2010.

We wold like to tell you about that thanks to Alessandro Ambrosetti’s pictures, official photographer for Micaela and Corrado’s wedding.
For further information please visit www.alessandroambrosetti.it

Our readers will remember that we introduced Alessandro Ambrosetti in occasion of Sandra and Mirko’s wedding to Castello di Miasino.
One of those pictures was appointed for Italian Lakes Wedding shot of the year 2009.

We take the occasion to announce that Italian Lakes Wedding Shot of the Year edition 2010 will be on line soon. You will choose among 34 wonderful pictures of 17 very good photographers!
Just do not miss it!!

Back to Micaela and Corrado’s wedding have a look to this candid image of bride and groom coming out of the church!

For their religious ceremony bride and groom chose wonderful Maria Assunta church, a gem in the little medieval village of Orta San Giulio. Continue Reading »

A spell of days gone by, among ancient furniture, painted in fresco walls and adventures’ memories.
A refined, intimate and cosy atmosphere, due to Donna Giulia’s homely management, Villa Pestalozza’s owner.
A breathtaking view on the Orta Lake.
A wide park, perfect for an open air wedding party.

In a few words….this is Villa Pestalozza, the fascinating location in Miasino, on the Orta Lake.
But not only! For the married couple’s first night there is, included in the location’s rent a cosy, pink, ancient suite with a wonderful view on the lake.

Miasino is a little ancient village, situated on the hills just above Orta: it’s one of the little villages who kept better its times past and fascinating soul. Its splendour began in the seventeenth century,
when some wealthy families of Milan arrived here, seeking safety in fight from the Black Death.
A short walk among the tiny cobbed paving streets will get you to the monumental San Rocco church, raised ona dominating height, through the beautiful main square, till the village’s threshold,
towards the lake, where Villa Pestalozza raises.

As soon as you cross Villa Pestalozza’s wrought iron gate you enter in a blooming and fascinating park, where the wide green meadows surrounded by blooming flower-beds alternate with shaded areas, creating a perfect frame for a ceremony or an open-air party.

Blue and white hydrangeas flank the romantic avenue which will take you to the beautiful construction wisely restored with the utmost respect of a calibrated harmony between the age-old park and the mansion hose building began at the end of eighteenth century. Continue Reading »