"... We have just returned back from our fantastic trip away and are feeling completely depressed the whole thing is over. Everyone has been looking at the piccis and saying how fantastic it all looked.

We both couldn't have wished for a more beautiful day and setting. The villa completely exceeded our expectations..".

Karen and Jon were married in San Gimignano, and returned to a quiet secluded villa for ther intimate event. As families and freinds were coming from around the globe, and the bride and groom themselves were travelling from the Middle East, Italy was a central location. As well as the advantages of good weather, great food, wonderful views....

The style of the reception was relaxed yet creative - close attention to table decorations, colors and flower styles were required, and of course, on the wedding day, the bride and groom had simply to enjoy all they had put together.

Dear Italyweddings

We hope you are well after a hectic wedding season. A belated e-mail to say a huge thank you for arranging our perfect wedding day. Everyone who joined us in Italy said it was the best wedding they have ever been to - we are already being asked for your details! The flowers were stunning, the food and wine delicious, the location spectacular and not even the thunderstorms could spoil a day that was truly everything we could have hoped for - a fairytale wedding!

Thank you again for everything, your organisation and calming presence on the day eased all of our stresses and is something we will never forget.

Take care and best wishes to Marisa (a fantastic florist)

Gemma and Matt

For your pleasure and enlightenment we continue our series of weddings from the past years...

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.

Sara and Ben were married in the Cortona countryside at the end of summer. They had a Jewish wedding in the gardens of a private villa, with aperitifs to follow around the pool, and the banquet and dancing under a large marquee into the night.

The couple wished that the event was elegant, the ceremony formal and meaningful, respecting the family traditions, while meeting the couples own beliefs and style.

Sara and Ben also wanted the wedding to match their creative background, together with Italywedding's staff, we worked together on floral design, timing, photography and music, to get the exact feel the couple wanted, while making the whole event relaxed and charming for the guests, as well as the wedding party.

Puccini Opera Festival
Torre del Lago Puccini

This is the town where the famous composer Giacomo Puccini lived and composed some of his most remarkable works. Born in Lucca in 1858 when the city was still under the control of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, he was considered a musical genius at the young age of 17 for his complex orchestral works that could not even be performed by the Lucca Orchestra because it was not large enough. He then went on to study and compose opera for Milan's Teatro all Scala and Turin's Teatro Regio before composing many world-famous operas such as Madame Butterfly and Turandot. Every year since 1955 the town has celebrated this great man by offering performances of both his most famous and his most obscure pieces. As the event has matured it now features some of the greatest performing talent available. Performances are held in the Open Air Theater and events vary from year to year

Sposa bagnata, sposa fortunata
A wet bride is a lucky bride (referring to rain on the wedding day)

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