Amalfi Coast wedding

luppy

Hi everyone just trying to get my head around looking into weddings. I'm thinking somewhere on the amalfi coast in italy and would love some ideas. theres prob going to be max 100 people. would love somewhere near the waters edge and also where I can walk from the church to the hotel/reception. just want a relaxed day and to enjoy it. no budget as yet!! hoping to have it sep 2011.all ideas/ recommendations wecome!!

Beruthiel

Positano is lovely. I wasn't at a wedding there, holidays for a week, but it's beautiful.
Something I do have to say though, I think there is a dramatic difference between the north and south of Italy. From Rome down, it's shabby. Were I to pick a place, for me, Tuscany is breath taking. Were I to win the lotto, I'd move there in a heart beat.
San Gimignano and Siena being my favourites.

Have a look around this forum, there are other threads with suggestions on wedding planners for Italy.

The Big Red Button

Praiano is a gorgeous little village just between Amalfi and Positano. It's really beautiful, great food and hotels, and the local people are amazing. There's this magnificant church right on the cliffs - I know someone who got married there a couple of years ago and the photos are really breath-taking, in fact that's what made me decide to go there on holidays the following year! It's definitely somewhere I'll be considering for my own wedding in a couple of years. This is the wedding planner that my friend used - http://www.amoreweddings.ie/index.html - as far as I know, they specialise in Italian weddings for Irish couples. She couldn't recommend them highly enough, apparently they're great at what they do and were good value as well.

luppy

thank you very much for your replies, i'm busy here looking into your recommendations!!:)

bernyh

chatterpillar wrote: »

Praiano is a gorgeous little village just between Amalfi and Positano. It's really beautiful, great food and hotels, and the local people are amazing. There's this magnificant church right on the cliffs - I know someone who got married there a couple of years ago and the photos are really breath-taking, in fact that's what made me decide to go there on holidays the following year! It's definitely somewhere I'll be considering for my own wedding in a couple of years. This is the wedding planner that my friend used - http://www.amoreweddings.ie/index.html - as far as I know, they specialise in Italian weddings for Irish couples. She couldn't recommend them highly enough, apparently they're great at what they do and were good value as well.

I'd second this, my husbands cousin got married in that church 4 years ago..... it was absolutely fabulous..... on the day it rained.... but still the photographer was brilliant and the day was stunning... the church was absolutely beautiful!! we travelled along the amalfi coast from Sorrento.... the most stunning views.

Hope u get it sorted... it's a beautiful area.

luppy

Thanks for all the posts. I'm now considering ciliento also, its just south of sorrento.Anyone have any stories good or bad from here??:)

fattybumbum

I was in Sorrento on holiday this year and we saw the most beautiful wedding in the town. Stunning church and then they went just a couple of steps and took lovely pics with Vesuvius in the background and the sun going down. The sky was red/orange and it was just soooooooooooo pretty. The town is just beautiful.
But anywhere we saw along the Amalfi coast was just stunning. Where ever you pick it will be gorgeous. :rolleyes:

magneticimpulse

luppy wrote: »

Hi everyone just trying to get my head around looking into weddings. I'm thinking somewhere on the amalfi coast in italy and would love some ideas. theres prob going to be max 100 people. would love somewhere near the waters edge and also where I can walk from the church to the hotel/reception. just want a relaxed day and to enjoy it. no budget as yet!! hoping to have it sep 2011.all ideas/ recommendations wecome!!

100 people is alot. Do they all have to come from Ireland? I just say that as I was meant to go to a friends wedding this year in Italy, but it all fail through and they got married in Kildare instead.

It was a huge cost (during the recession) for us to book flights and to book in the Villa. We had no other choice but to stay in the villa as it was away from everything else. In the end, she gave all the better rooms to her friends and we were meant to sleep on sofas.

So main thing i would think about, is how many do you expect to come from Ireland? Can they afford it or is alot of your family and friends unemployed? Can they choose where to stay, as in cheaper hotel etc? How easy is it to get to ireland and back, from airport to location? Can all the guests get hair and make-up done there or will they have trouble getting ready?

Then you can make an informed choice on location