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Here is a sample of a 3 day VIP Destination Wedding:
Assistance with Accommodations and Villa or Castle Rentals:
We will help you select the appropriate setting for both your guests accommodations and the actual reception location. Your personal wedding coordinator will present you with various options for all price ranges showing you photos and detailed information.
Costs to rent a </STRONG<B>private castle or villa for the reception.
Private locations such as castles and villas always have an extra rental fee. We offer hundreds of villas all over Italy regardless of the region you select. The fees start at €300 and go up from there over €10,000 for VIP structures.
Guest Activities
Most large Destination Wedding last 3 to 4 days during which exciting activities are planned for the guests. Some of our most popular options are:
- Special picnics and excursions into the countryside.
- Golfing, hiking, boat excursion followed by a meal
- Private wine tastings and tours of wineries with a fully catered lunch or dinner
- Private excursions into Venice, Florence or other larger cities.
- Cooking courses, where everyone can then have a glass of wine and some delicious food.
Rehearsal Dinner
A special rehearsal dinner in a typical restaurant reflecting the region's culinary heritage can be offered to your guests. From a rustic 3 course meal to a seven course banquet in a luxurious castle are some of the options. meals starting from rustic local restaurants to luxury 5 star castles.
Special wine tasting evenings paired with gourmet menus have been organized to make a rehearsal dinner a little bit different. These are very popular.
Transportation
Destination wedding require specific transportation arrangements from airport transfers to pick-up for the wedding day. We will make sure that everyone shows up on time!
Welcome Package for guests
This can be waiting for each guest upon arrival in hotel and include maps, brochures and welcome gift package prepared for with a
Save the Date Letter
Assistance by staff in furnishing you with details for a "save the date program" with all activities, sign up sheet, directions and hotel pricing and booking form.
Wedding Reception
In Italy the wedding reception includes: 3 to 4 courses plus (if a larger group) a cocktail hour, wines and dessert. Open bar is NOT included.
Good quality local wines are included, both red and white plus Prosecco Champagne and other drinks for the aperitif hour.
In Italy it is customary to have the following at larger weddings:
- Welcome aperitif/cocktails with assorted appetizers. These are all set up on an elegant table while waiters circulate with freshly prepared bites from the kitchen. Usually about 1 hour length. A few are laid out and the rest are prepared to order so that there is constantly changing variety.
- Then you proceed for a sit down meal. The meal can be either a buffet (with fully set tables guests can be seated at) or with a course by course seated meal. Coffee and wines and mineral water included.
- Dessert, dessert buffet or just wedding cake served after
- Optional open bar (usually a SET amount and not by consumption)
- Name cards and table numbers and wedding favours possible. (We offer over 150 wedding favours).
Music for Reception
We use top professionals only. For dancing, a DJ is the most versatile and less expensive alternative in that they have the option of playing anything and everything and quickly sensing any changes necessary during the evening. However, we have some spectacular bands that are able to get EVERYONE moving on the dance floor!
Photographer:
We work with top professional photographers only with years of experience. If you want the very best we offer the finest in every region. We need to know what style and preferences you have and realize how important photos are. Negatives can be purchased.
Here is what one of our brides had to say when a prospective future client contacted her:
Hello Alison,
The wedding exceeded our expectations. Euroevents and her team did a fantastic job. Also, just an fyi, I was very nervous about using a wedding photographer that I knew nothing about. Well, the photographs (we just received them back - we were married on August 25th) were absolutely incredible. I have shown everyone up and down the Coast of California and everyone is amazed that wedding pictures could be this good. He just knew what to do and how to take the pictures. I do not know if he is the one which will be used for your wedding (his name is Giuseppe), but if not I am sure you can trust whatever recommendations Euroevents provides.
So, to make a long story short - I would highly recommend the company. I literally handled everything via e-mail and a few faxes. It all went off without a hitch (and everyone was really happy to be in Italy so even if something did go "wrong" it would not have mattered because of the location!)
Christine Drage
Sample of a Four Day Celebration in Northern Italy
(near Venice)
A 17th century Villa in Friuli
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What our wedding coordinators arranged:
- Took care of all logistics for 120 guests that flew in from 20 different countries: hotels, transportation and relative reservations.
- Welcome package with gift from bride and groom in every room covering maps, instructions, wedding program list of activities and regional information including shopping, restaurants and daily program.
- Bus transportation for every activity and staff present for every event
- Wine region excursion into a prestigious local winery with catered meal in the garden and sampling of 4 different wines.
- Rehearsal dinner in a typical Friulian restaurant for 90 guests - 7 course menu
- Menu printing for every meal.
- Personalized half day cooking course led by the top chef in the region. The meal was then served by waters. Printed recipe booklet
- All arrangements relative to Catholic wedding in a beautiful 18th century church just steps from the Villa.
- Aperitif hour in the upstairs ballroom with views of the entire front and back park
- Opera concert during the aperitif buffet (professional musicians)
- Sit down reception for 120 in the cellars
- Midnight dessert buffet with wedding cake
- Wedding favors for every guest
- After the candlelight dinner in the cellar (12 course menu) a professional DJ led the dancing which lasted until 2:00 a.m.
Sample Menu
(Typical of an important Italian wedding)
Welcome Aperitif with Appetizers
Cured San Daniele Prosciutto
Prosciutto Baked in a Crust
Frittatine - little frittatas with various fillings
Local "Frico" with potatoes
Mozzarelle in Carozza
Zucchini flowers, eggplant and cauliflower in a golden crust
Assorted baby seafood tempura
Aged Montasio cheese with walnuts
Peperoni, Funghi e Zucchine lightly battered and fried
First Courses
Montasio Cheese sformato with Montasio Sauce
Hand made Ravioli filled with ricotta and wild Friulian herbs
Orzotto with duck and seasonal vegetables
Second Courses
Seafood in Brodetto with Polenta
Sorbet
Filet of Veal with Wild Porcini Mushrooms
Mixed side dishes
Wedding Cake and Dessert Buffet at Midnight
All top quality wines, Prosecco Champagne,
Friulian Grappe, Coffee and Mineral Water
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