If there is one image the whole world holds of a Lake Como wedding, it is this villa: the stone loggia stepping out over the water at the tip of its own wooded promontory, the Lavedo peninsula at Lenno, reachable…
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The Lake Como Wedding Weekend Itinerary
Almost nobody comes all this way for a single afternoon, and you should not either. A Lake Como wedding is really a two or three day event, a whole weekend that lets your guests fall for the lake the way…
Lake Como Wedding Guest Outfits
Being a guest at a Lake Como wedding is its own small styling problem, and a more interesting one than people expect. You are dressing for a garden ceremony, quite possibly a boat, and a late lakeside dinner that turns…
How Much a Lake Como Wedding Costs
Nobody likes to open with money, and most pages about this one dance around it. The lake can be done at wildly different price points, and the number is driven far less by the venue than by the things nobody…
Lake Como Bridal Style
The lake has a way of dressing a bride whether she plans for it or not. The villas, the water, that low bronze light in the late afternoon, they set a tone, and the dresses that work best on Lake…
Getting Legally Married on Lake Como
This is the least romantic page in the cluster and quietly the most important, because understanding the Italian paperwork before you fall for a venue will save you more stress than any other single thing. It is not complicated once…
Boat Transport for a Lake Como Wedding
On Lake Como the water is the road, and the boat is not a flourish, it is the transport that makes a lakeside wedding actually work. A bride arriving by wooden launch is one of the great entrances available anywhere,…
The Best Towns for a Lake Como Wedding
The lake is not one place but a string of very different towns, each with its own character, its own hotels, and its own answer to what kind of wedding you are having. Where you base yourself decides how your…
The Best Time of Year for a Lake Como Wedding
The lake keeps a season, and choosing your week within it shapes everything: the light in your photographs, the comfort of your guests, the price of the whole affair. I have spent enough summers and shoulder weeks here to have…
The Best Lake Como Wedding Venues
Choosing where to marry on Lake Como is really the whole decision, because everything else, the boats, the flowers, the dinner, the light, arranges itself around the villa you pick. I have spent years on this water watching parties come…
The Best Lake Como Hotels for Wedding Guests
Your guests will remember where they slept almost as much as where you married, and on a lake where the towns are small and the good beds book out a year ahead, this is not a detail to leave late….
Lake Como Weddings: A Complete Guide to Getting Married on the Lake
I have watched a great many weddings arrive on Lake Como. Not as a guest, most of the time, but from the water, from the deck of a boat or a café terrace across the bay, the way you cannot…
