Destination Italy Weddings E-Book

Monica Balli

• Herausgeber: Monica Balli
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Destination Italy weddings is a simple hands on very practical guide on how to pick, get around and be a local guest with no unpleasant surprises. Discover the different geographical areas in Italy with highlights and tips, either these are hotspots or emerging destinations to be able to pick the best ever spot for you.
Learn how to get around by car, train or plain without feeling uncomfortable or getting parking tickets. Discover a few of my favorite venues for events, either in the tuscan hills, overlooking the sea or in the Alps.
This small guide helps you find your best spot, become a trendsetter and don't just use what the others do. Discover new unique spots, visit the highlights, explore the unseen yet be You.
Enjoy and see you in Italy

Leseprobe

Magical Places & Tips for Your Most Fabulous Day!

Professional Destination Planning made Simple

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CHAPTERS

Introduction

Monica Balli . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Sam & Rayana Sacramento. . . .7

Fernanda Bellucci . . . . . . . . 8

Part IDestination Weddings: Italy

1. Let’s discover Italy!. . . . . . . 10

2. Tips on how to get around . . 14

Flying To Italy . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Travelling Around Italy. . . . . . 15

Public Transportation . . . . . . 17

Driving Around. . . . . . . . . . 18

The logistics in terms of streets in Italy:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Roman routes. . . . . . . . . . . 21

Renting a car . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Part IITravelling Tips

1. Cars and more . . . . . . . . . 24

Sports car rental & vintage car rental:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The NCC (chauffeured service) . 24

Utility Car rentals . . . . . . . . 25

Motos and scooters. . . . . . . . 25

Wi-Fi and Sim card . . . . . . . 26

2. Parking in Italy. . . . . . . . . 27

White and Blue Stripes . . . . . . 27

City Centre: ZTL. . . . . . . . . 27

3. Health & Aid . . . . . . . . . . 28

4. Useful & Emergency numbers29

5. Curiosities on Italians . . . . .30

Part IIIPicking the perfect spot and place

1. Properties Glossary. . . . . . . 32

2. Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3. Foods & Catering Services. . 36

4. Dealing with Local Vendors . . 38

5. Ceremony and Promises . . .40

6. Italian Most Known Love Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

7. Italian Real Authentic Wedding Food Traditions . . . . . . . .46

8. Italian Food Habits . . . . . . .48

9. Italian Timing . . . . . . . . . 49

10. Music Policy. . . . . . . . . .50

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Chapters

Part IVHotspots, Emerging spots and the Undiscovered

1. Destination Italy Hot Spots. . 52

Lake Como . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Portofino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Tuscany - Firenze - Chiantishire. 54

Rome the Eternal City. . . . . . . 55

Amalfi Coast. . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Capri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Venice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Verona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Apulia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

2. Destination Italy Emerging Spots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Sicily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Umbria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Cinque Terre. . . . . . . . . . . . 64

The Lakes: Lago Maggiore & Lago di Garda . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Lucca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

3. Destination Italy My Secret Favorite Spots . . . . . . . . . 67

Costa Smeralda - Sardinia Island 67

Aeolian Islands . . . . . . . . . . 68

Isola D’elba . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

The Tuscan Coast: Punta Ala And Maremma . . . . . . . . . . 70

The Tuscan Coast: Forte dei Marmi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Venetian Villas: the Palladian Villas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Italian Alps: Madonna Di Campiglio, Corvara, Cortina . . 73

Part VDestination Wedding Guide Practical Tips: Why Pick Them?

1. Tuscany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Tuscan Countryside . . . . . . . 76

Firenze And Surroundings. . . . 79

The Tuscan Coast. . . . . . . . . 82

2. Lake Como. . . . . . . . . . . 85

3. Lakes Garda & Maggiore . . .86

Lake Garda. . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Lake Maggiore. . . . . . . . . . . 87

4. Amalfi Coast & Sorrento. . . .88

5. Capri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

6. Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

7. Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

8. Sicily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

9. Apulia. . . . . . . . . . . . . .96

10. Sardinia. . . . . . . . . . . . .98

Part VITheme Destination Weddings In Italy

1. Beach Weddings. . . . . . . . 102

2. Wine Weddings. . . . . . . . 103

3. Yacht Weddings. . . . . . . . 104

Part VIIHoneymoon and Elopement

This is it for now . . . . . . . . 110

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . .112

Hello,

Thank you for picking this e-book for your destination wedding in Italy.

My name is Monica Balli and I have been creating amazing memories through destination weddings, parties and any sort of celebration in the last 20 years.

I decided to write this book to share with you my personal thoughts, likes and do’s and don’ts as in the years I have seen how the market has developed and now many of you love the idea of a destination wedding, and naturally Italy is a great destination.

Destination Italy has it all, I understand your point. From amazing countryside and history, to tradition and food, a  lifestyle, the views, the sea, the mountains and cliffs, the beaches, as well as the amazing cities.

In one word I would say: Welcome to Destination “Romance”.

I hope you will enjoy it and find it useful. It’s a practical guide with those things I would do, pick or look for. It’s a personal guide based on my experience and likes, as I have a  simple rule in my life and job: I just suggest and sell what I would buy myself….. in the years I’ve become quite picky :-)

This is my first advice:

Whatever you decide to do, go or say… Enjoy the Ride, it’s worth every second of it! Promise.

If you pass around Firenze, call me and stop by for a drink 

www.monicaballi.it

Instagram & FB — @MonicaBalliEvents

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Introduction

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Sam & Rayana Sacramento

photographers

We’re Sam & Rayana Sacramento, husband-wife, best friends, parents, daydreamers, story-tellers and Photographers.

We consider ourselves a lucky couple because this fantastic and demanding profession allows us to make hopes and dreams come true. We are motivated by the constant desire to create unique images full of love, life and personality.

We were both born in Brazil but we consider ourselves citizens of the world, our 3 daughters were born in London and today we live in beautiful Tuscany. Together we have photographed more than 500 unique weddings in 16 countries.

Rayana, daughter of amazing artists, also studied theater, cinema and was a professional athlete for many years.

Sam, also an ex-athlete, attended photography school in London and has always been passionate about this art since he was a child. Today Sam is among the 10 best photographers in the Photography World Cup 2020.

Ciao

https://www.thesacramentos.photography/

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Fernanda Bellucci

for creative arts video clips

I always loved to tell stories. Since I was a teenager my mother, an anchorwoman for a famous Brazilian TV, used to take me with her at work.

She often left me in a post-production room waiting for her and I really enjoyed observing how moving images could transmit so many emotions in a few minutes.

I grew up and when I turned 18 I started working in TV I graduated in graphic design, journalism and photography. In TV I worked as a reporter, responsible for production and post production of documentaries. I spent 10 years with TV Globo as a journalist until 2003, then I decided to move to Florence, in Italy. My father is Italian and Italy is always part of me. Your perfumes and its culture have always been asleep in my life.

A presto,

www.creativeartsweddingfilm.com

@creativeartsweddingfilm

https://vimeo.com/user98595141

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1. Let’s discover Italy!

Yup, for as small as this country may seem, trust me you can have lots to pick and choose from.

First of all, a little bit of geography to help you understand Italy, as a destination to make it easier, stress free and amazing for yourself and your guests who will travel with you.

Italy is that boot looking country, actually a peninsula, with water on 3 sides in the Mediterranean sea with a  few major and minor islands.

Let’s divide Italy into 3 main parts:

North:Alps, Venice, Lake Como, Milan, Turin, prosecco and Barolo area

Central:Tuscany, Rome, Chianti region and Brunello the major island of Sardinia

South:Naples, Amalfi coast, Capri, Apulia, a major islands (Sicily)

As you will see, these 3 sections may seem just to make it easy on the map, but in reality we divide it this way as the climate, temperatures, people and traditions gather as alike in these areas.

What I will say in the book please keep it related to a wedding or event of any sort, naturally, if you are a leisure traveler every day of the year is a great experience to have in each and every corner of our wonderful country.

Let’s start!

green is north Italy

white is central Italy

red is south of Italy

The northern part of Italyis awesome in both winter and summer time, in my opinion, and less in the other seasons as they get rainy, cold and damp. There are specific areas that are amazing for their local precious and famous products like September is perfect for Prosecco and Barolo for wine grapes are harvested and November for the precious white truìffle of Alba in Piedmont.

If you love snow and wish for white winter wedding there are places you will discover in the next chapters that are just stunning! Trust me!

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The central part of Italy, the very heart of Italy, with its sunshine is also my home: Tuscany with its cousin neighbors Umbria (amazing landscape and cities as Perugia and Citta di Castello ) and Lazio (the eternal city of Rome). Usually sunny in every part of the year makes it amazing. The best period, for me, for your wedding would be from April (most venues open from Easter time) to the end of October. Remember, this is the area of extra virgin olive oil and wine: wine grapes harvesting is between the end of August and the end of September, according to the weather. Olive picking is usually in November.

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