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Posts Tagged ‘getting married in italy’
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Bride look-alike – who is she?
December 2nd -
Green bouquet
December 2ndNow THIS is a green bouquet!
Green Calas for a Bride in Florence
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The secret of a good Brunello wine
October 6thTuscany holds endless secrets that visitors and locals alike try to uncover. The harvest season brings up two of them, one of which is the secret behind making an award winning Brunello wine. (the other one we’ll talk about soon, after a good day in the woods
As grape harvesting ends this week, a visit to the producer of 20% of all Brunello wine was a must. Brunello and Banfi are not just two names – they are Tuscan history, tradition, and a one of a kind success story. In 2010, Brunello is once again chosen as the world’s best red wine at the International Wine Challenge and Banfi carries forward this fine wine tradition with a young and vibrant co-CEO Cristina Mariani-May.
Where does the secret lie: in the hand-picked grapes? in the hybrid barrels? in the innovation inspired by the youthful managers?
Your call. Good excuse to come to Tuscany and find out
Hand pickings
Each barrel yields 16,000 bottles of wine - salute!
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3 good reasons to have a New Moon Wedding in Italy
September 13thIf you aren’t a Twilight fan now, you will be after you spend a little time in the Italian town of Montepulciano which was the set for New Moon, the second saga in the series. The sunlit square Edward Cullen walks out into is Piazza Grande and the clock tower in the background is the one on top of the town hall where weddings are held and where bride and groom can climb up to for a Hollywood-style photoshoot.
Without the Hollywood crowds, surprisingly enough. Although a well-known destination for wine-lovers, downtown Montepulciano is never really packed. You and your wedding party can leisurely stroll the streets without having to elbow your way through hoards of tourists, mouths gaping in awe at the beauty of the place.
Piazza Grande panorama by Uwe Buecher c/o 360cities.net
There’s plenty of room for your photoshoot as Piazza Grande is just that: GRANDE! Your photographer will have no trouble dodging strangers who don’t belong in your album. Less editing people out with Photoshop too.
No crowds, great photoshoots, so what’s number 3?
While it’s not the price of the civil ceremony (a whopping 1,000 euros), it is the price of accommodations nearby. Plenty of wonderful stone farmhouses where you can enjoy fine Tuscan food and the local noble wine.
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Meet Italian Wedding Planner: Angelo Garini
February 6th
The most popular and successful Italian Wedding Planner debuted at Joy Sposi tonight: Angelo Garini charmed a full house made up of aspiring wedding planners eager to hear his stories of planning and staging great events.Garini’s latest civil ceremony in Venice was the backdrop to a comfortable living room talk with the crowd. He patiently streamlined his planning timeline from a creative architect who happened to know the right people to a TV show duo with partner Enzo Miccio. Humble, grateful and generous, Angelo promotes ethics, professionalism, and charity, as an advocate of Children in crisis.
We asked Angelo what that one essential element is in a wedding emergency. He answered, “Calm. You have to keep your cool and make it through the situation without blinking. I’ve had magnificent church decorations crash, ropes catch on fire, candles burn down to the nub and grooms ditching the whole thing at the last minute. All I know is that you have to grin and bear it and it all works out for the best!”
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Get married in Italy on the Far Side (says the New York Times)
January 9th
view on the Italian Coast of Gargano
The New York Times published its 31 flavors for 2010 and flavor number 29 is that little bump half way down the Adriatic Coast of Italy called Gargano. Mediterranean pines grow all the way to the shores making this concave part of the boot a great place to pitch a tent. Summertime beckons hoards of Italians to populate the long white beaches and family-friendly resorts of Peschici and you can bet they answer that call in the millions. The popular town of Vieste boasts a windsurf center founded by Italian waveboarder and father of the ‘cheeseroll’ maneuver Cesare Cantagalli and his brother Sergio. Fun and sun guaranteed!
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Simple Sunflower Wedding in Tuscany
September 14th
Wedding in Tuscany
July is the epicenter of sunflower season in Tuscany and this is when colors erupt and the maize-colored haze flows across the fields like lava. Warm summer breezes fragranced with wheat spikelets glide smoothly over the hillsides, soaking the air with that je ne sais quoi …. young lovers unite and celebrate!
In 2009 Tuscany made a come back as the top place to be even during the warmest months. And as civil weddings in Italy become easier and cheaper, more dreams come true for those brides counting on a magical destination wedding. Whether it be in a castle, a villa, a farmhouse, or in the middle of a sunflower field, an unforgettable Italian celebration is in store for you!
Viva gli sposi!
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Romantic weddings in Italy
December 21stWatch our slide show to the tune of Andrea Bocelli!
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The truth about civil ceremonies in Italy
December 21st
This article was inspired by an episode viewed on a reality TV series where a Wedding Planner was organizing a civil ceremony on the isle of Capri, just off the coast of Naples in southern Italy. Derogatory remarks portrayed the civil ceremony as being ‘medieval’ – read on and judge for yourself.*
Banquets in medieval castles, strolls down the cobblestone streets of ancient villages, flag throwers and mandolin players all set the atmosphere for romance in a fairy-tale journey into the past for an unforgettable Italian Wedding. And while hundreds of years have passed since knights in shining armor roamed the Circus Maximus, the echo of ancient Roman Law[1] governing citizens in the middle ages still rings in the Italian Civil Code today. But it comes as quite a surprise to many couples who choose to unite legally in Italy that those century old articles of law still define the legal process of marriage in a truly modern doctrine for equality and the rights and obligations of the spouses. Continue reading…
