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| New Weddings - Rachel and Gavin |
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Rachel and Gavin held both a civil
wedding in the town hall of San Gimignano,
and a symbolic blessing at the villa. The
civil wedding fulfilled their legal
requirements, but the ceremony was intimate
and meaningful. The symbolic, non religious
blessing was a private and personal sharing
of vows and commitments before family and
friends. This is always a beautiful and
emotional event...
One of the highlights of this event was the
wedding cake. Italyweddings arranged as a
surprise - actually for the bride and groom
in this case, as well as for the wedding
guests - a special marquee setting in a
hidden part of the villa gardens, with
hanging lanterns, tea candles and citronella
lamps, under a silk canopy.
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| New weddings - Adriana and Sean |
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Adriana and Sean were married with a
Catholic blessing, in an important church in
the heart of Florence. This is one of the
most superb locations in the city, with a
long historic background, renaissance
frescoes, and a quite and powerful ambiance.
The feeling was enhanced in this cas with a
string quartet and a small choir, singing a
traditional Italian repertoire.
Italyweddings also arranged for the altar
decorations, the modern and linear candle
arrangements for the aisle, and a stunning
1953 Bentley to accompany the bride to the
church.
The evening reception was held at our Villa 6
just ten minutes from the center of Florence,
but in a quiet and refined area along the
Arno river. The cake was a three tiered, iced
fruit based millefoglie.
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| New weddings - Kari and Roy |
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Kari and Roy were married with a
Catholic celebration in San Gimignano, July
2006. The family and friends enjoyed the
wonderful summer weather, the relaxed
atmosphere of rural Tuscany, and a private
and intimate reception as a small villa, with
exclusive weekly use.
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| New weddings - Cristina and Jason |
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Cristina and Jason
The couple write:
We have not stopped talking or thinking about
the wedding since we have been home. The
entire trip was like a fairytale, and
everything we had imagined it would be.
Everything you did for us that day was
absolutely amazing, I did not have to worry
about anything! Paola at the villa was
amazingly helpful the entire week, giving us
weather updates, helping us find lost
relatives and giving us restaurant tips.
Thank you so much for giving us the wedding
of our dreams, if we had to do everything all
over again we would not change a thing! Thank
you, thank you thank you!! You cannot even
imagine what your help has meant to us.
Cristina and Jason
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| Italian sayings about marriage |
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La buona moglie fa il buon marito
A good wife makes a good husband.
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| Italian wedding traditions |
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Folklore called for the groom to carry a
piece of iron in his pocket (tocca ferro) on
his wedding day to ward off the evil eye
(mal'occhio) since his happy situation might
provoke envy, and invite supernatural danger.
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Featured wedding - Dawn and Michael |
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The couple write:
We are finally home after being in Italy for
three weeks and making the adjustment back to
our local time zone and traditions. How we
will miss our wine lunches, five course meals
and afternoon naps.
I wanted to take some time and express our
sincere appreciation for all that you did for
us during the past year and a half to assist
us with the most extraordinary wedding we
could have ever imagined. It was wonderful to
meet you in person after so many posts and
for all to determine that we are warm, caring
people. Our time in Italy especially the week
of our wedding exceeded every expectation.
The rehearsal dinner was a great success and
the wedding even more so. Every detail was
provided to our desire and beyond. Your
suggestion to move the wedding outside to the
grounds was perfect and the fact that you
could make that change at the last minute
without effort was impeccable. Everything
looked incredibly beautiful; Marisa is quite
the designer and the floral arrangements
exquisite, we hated leaving them behind. It
was so thoughtful of her to provide me with
the extra bouquet for our civil ceremony and
the boutonnière for Michael, who we know
fought the whole idea up to that point.
Please extend our thanks to Marisa, as we
were not able to meet her during the time she
was there, although we had hoped to, in order
to thank her in person.
From the moment Roberto arrived to style my
hair to the moment the cake was made,
everything was flawless. You anticipated all
our needs and those we didn't even know we
had. The photographers were absolutely
perfect, I believe they recorded every moment
of the day and we are anticipating the
arrival of the photographs.
All of our guests in awe of the beauty of it
all, expressed it was the most moving wedding
they have ever attended and I believe much of
that had to do with the location, my brother
and the coordination that was provided by you
and Italyweddings.
It is hard to believe in your mid forties
that you will have a fairytale wedding and
you begin to think in a more practical
manner, much to my delight, it was the
perfect "fairytale wedding"; a day of
excitement and emotion that we will never
forget. An anonymous author once wrote "life
is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the number of moments that take
our breath away"; this certainly was a moment
of breathlessness.
We extend our sincerest appreciation and
gratitude to you!
All the best,
Dawn & Michael
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