Favourite stilettos or torture device...

Ever leave a bar or a club after a night of dancing and festivities in your favourite stilettos only to find your feet feel as if they've been smashed bruised and as if you have been walking on fire?

Catholic wedding in Italy

photo by Marco Ficili

The final location test for your destination wedding is making sure that you can not only be legally married there but that the Church permits foreigners to get married there!

Italy is predominantly a Catholic country and as such you would expect that the Catholic Church would have one rule throughout the land, unfortunately you are forgetting this is Italy!

Designer wedding dresses on a budget

Today as I web dreamed I came across a site for almost new wedding dresses, perfect for brides on a budget but who dreams of that perfect Caroline Castigliano; Amanda Wakeley; Jenny Packham; Suzanne Neville or Vera Wang wedding dress... 

Click here for more information.

Italian wedding tradition

I have been told that there is a age old tradition in Italy of brides wearing green, which is apparently a colour of fertility, the night before their wedding. So if you are planning your wedding in Italy or you are marrying in to an Italian family or maybe you are an Italian bride... why not bow to Italian wedding traditions and go green!

Keira Knightley in "Atonment''

American legal requirements for citizens getting married in Italy

Photo by Alfonso Longobardi

Paperwork Required for US Citizens getting marry in Italy

Katie and Ben's engagement photos

I have had the honour of working with Katie at The Italian Wedding Planner and she is one of the kindest, full of fun, hardworking, intelligent people I have ever had on my team. Now back in the USA Katie is in the throes of organising her wedding to Ben.

Winter wedding's in Italy

Amanda Holden's winter wedding

Weddings in Italy are predominately in the summer. People think warm weather, al fresco dinning, summer dresses etc, but in recent years we have been called in to help organise and design winter weddings in Italy.

Guide to a weekend long extravaganza!

photo courtesy Thorsen Photography

Hosting your wedding in Italy allows you to offer your family and friends a fun filled mini holiday! Remember it's no longer just a wedding -- it's a weekend-long extravaganza. Here's a Friday to Sunday guide to keeping guests out of trouble.

Dawn and Darren part 2

The wedding of Darren and Dawn in the heart of the Prosseco region...

British citizens getting married in Italy

Civil ceremony in Italy

Photo by Joanne Dunn

Couples getting legally married in Italy are amazed at the stateliness of the civil ceremony. The Representative of the state wearing the traditional Italian red, white and green sash reads the articles of law governing the rights and responsibilities of married couples in Italian and is simultaneously translated into English.