Destination Weddings in Piedmont

Most people associate Italy's lakes with Lombardy or the Veneto, but Piedmont's share is just as beautiful.

If you enjoy beautiful gardens as natural surrounding for your wedding photos and are looking for an elegant, thought intimate location, Stresa, on the Lake Maggiore, is the town for you.

Another enchanting venue for every kind of ceremony (civil, catholic, protestant and symbolic) is the Lake Orta, a tiny jewel compared to Lake Maggiore, however absolutely unique. The hills and mountains are closer here, and somehow this lends a fairy-tale atmosphere to the villages surrounding the water.

Villages perched on gently rolling hills, vineyards that climb up the slopes, mediaeval castles, and the scent of the earth. Uncontaminated landscapes, a deep agricultural tradition which daily presents excellent agricultural products, a rich cucina that still refers back to ancient traditions.

All this offers Piemonte for an unforgettable wedding in the uncontaminated countryside such as in the Langa or Roero hilly areas situated in the south of the Piemonte, where it will also be possible to arrange private tours for your and your wedding party such as wine tasting at top cellars, one on one cooking courses to learn more about the regional recipes, horseback riding excursions with personal trainer and many more.

There's no better time to come to Piedmont than during the fall harvest season, when the land becomes an abundance of grapes, truffles, and hazelnuts.

The best-known wines of this region are Barolo, Italy's most celebrated red, and Asti Spumante, a sparkling white. Barolo wine is produced in the hills surrounding the town of Alba, where there are a number of wine museums. Alba itself is one of the region's most interesting towns, with medieval towers, Baroque and Renaissance churches, and cobbled streets full of life.

Stay at ancient villas and palaces, which have been converted in first class hotels or can be hired for exclusive dinner parties in historical frescoed halls or unique gardens.

One of the top names are the medieval Castle hotel Castello Rosso, an ancient abode of the aristocracy dating back to the 14th Century, or also Villa Beccaris, situated in a secular park surrounded by lovely sloping hills and vineyards.