Marry in Italy
Say your vows on a Chianti estate or a terrace above Positano. Tell us your date, and we check every venue for it.
It comes off your final price, and is refunded in full if you don't go ahead.
Each region has its own venues, light and way of getting there.
Marrying on the Amalfi Coast or in Sorrento means a ceremony on a cliff above the Tyrrhenian Sea, with lemon terraces, pastel towns and boats in the bay below. 5 venues.
Weddings in Lombardy's lake country are built around water: villa gardens on Lake Como, castle towns on Lake Garda, and boats as part of the day. 2 venues.
Paestum and Cilento suit couples who want southern Italy without the crowds of the Amalfi Coast, with Greek temples, sandy beaches and buffalo farms close together. 1 venue.
A Rome wedding puts the ceremony in a city of ancient monuments, with civil rites held in rooms on the Capitoline Hill and dinners in palazzi and garden villas. 1 venue.
Tuscany weddings are about countryside: vineyard estates, stone villas and hill towns, with long dinners outdoors as the light fades. 8 venues.
Umbria offers hill town weddings in Italy's green heart, with medieval stone towns, olive groves and vineyards and fewer visitors than Tuscany. 2 venues.
Veneto gives couples the most variety in one region, from Verona's medieval centre to Palladian villas, Prosecco hills, the Dolomites and the eastern shore of Lake Garda. 1 venue.
Getting married in Venice means arriving by boat and marrying in a palace on the Grand Canal, with no cars anywhere in the city. 2 venues.
Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
Celebrate on garden terraces above Sorrento, with Capri and Ischia lining the horizon. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
Raise a champagne toast on a Sorrento clifftop terrace facing the Bay of Naples. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
Exchange vows on a terrace high above Sorrento, with the Gulf of Naples below you. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
Arrive by boat at a Ravello paper mill over the sea, then marry on its terrace. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
A 14th-century cloister in central Sorrento, run by the town and used for legal civil ceremonies beside the Villa Comunale gardens.
Amalfi Coast and Sorrento
Wed on a cliff terrace above the Bay of Naples, in an old Sorrento citrus grove. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Lombardy and the lakes
Exchange vows under 17th-century frescoes in a medieval castle in the hills of Como. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Lombardy and the lakes
Take your vows in the gardens of a former Gonzaga residence on the edge of Mantua. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Paestum and Cilento
Say your vows in a garden of Vietri ceramics, between Paestum's Greek temples and the sea. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Rome
Exchange vows on a terrace above Lake Bracciano, with the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle in view. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
Take your vows on a rooftop facing Brunelleschi's dome, with your guests in a medieval tower. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
Say your vows in the 18th-century chapel of a medieval Chianti hamlet that is all yours. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
Say your vows on a villa terrace facing the medieval towers of San Gimignano. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
A castle built before the 12th century in Chianti Rufina, where the Pazzi conspiracy was planned, now an organic wine estate with villas for wedding guests.
Tuscany
Say your vows in a centuries-old sculpture park in the Chianti Classico hills. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
A Chianti wine estate just outside medieval Monteriggioni, with 12 indoor halls, vineyards and a barrel cellar for large weddings and celebrations.
Tuscany
Take your vows in a flower garden near Cortona, then dine in the manor's old stone cellar. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
A restored villa with formal Italian gardens and a fenced pool about 10 minutes' drive from Lucca, with 11 or 16 bedrooms depending on the wing.
Tuscany
A 14th-century estate of 5 buildings on the edge of Florence, sleeping up to 37 with the Duomo in view from its gardens and infinity pool.
Tuscany
Take the whole villa above the Val di Chiana for three nights, with drinks in the olive grove and dinner under the stars. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
A historic Chianti Classico wine villa in the hills about 25 minutes from Florence, with a botanical garden, infinity pool and city views.
Tuscany
Exchange vows in a private Nottolini chapel among the olive groves in the hills near Lucca. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Tuscany
Wed in 75 acres of Maremma countryside, then take aperitivo by the infinity pool. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Umbria
Take your vows in a frescoed medieval church in a hamlet above the Assino Valley near Gubbio. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Umbria
Say your vows in a historic Umbrian cloister, with your guests sleeping on the estate. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Veneto
Say your vows in a park between Lake Garda and Verona, with your guests staying in the villa. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Venice
Wed in an island church from 1131 in the Venice lagoon, with your guests staying there. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
Venice
Say your vows beneath Tiepolo's painted ceiling, in a 17th-century hall in Dorsoduro. Share your date and your advisor plans the rest.
What draws couples to Italy, place by place.
Celebrate among Chianti's vineyards between Florence and Siena, with long outdoor dinners as the light fades.
Terraced gardens, lemon groves and sea views follow the cliffs from Ravello to Positano.
Arrive by water taxi or gondola in a car-free city of palazzi along the Grand Canal.
Villa gardens meet the water and mountains rise straight from the shore, with ferries between Bellagio and Varenna.
The Roman Forum, piazzas and hillside villas surround the day, with history on the walk to dinner.
Quieter than Tuscany, Umbria's hill towns such as Assisi bring Sagrantino wine and black truffles to the table.
Visiting couples can hold a legal civil wedding at an Italian town hall or other approved venue, and same-sex couples can form a civil union (unione civile) rather than a marriage.
The steps, in order:
1. Choose your comune: ask the Ufficio Matrimoni of your chosen town or city for its document list, available dates and approved ceremony venues. 2. Obtain the atto notorio: this sworn statement that you are free to marry comes from an Italian consulate in your home country (Australian and US citizens) or from a court in Italy. 3. Gather certificates and translations: collect your birth certificates and, if applicable, divorce or death certificates, with Apostilles and certified Italian translations as the comune requires. 4. Sign the nulla osta in Italy: australians sign at the Australian Embassy in Rome or Consulate-General in Milan. US citizens make a Dichiarazione Giurata at a US Embassy or Consulate, and UK nationals apply to the British Embassy in Rome. 5. Legalise the nulla osta: australians have it legalised at a Prefettura office, with an Italian revenue stamp (marca da bollo). 6. Lodge your papers and declare: lodge everything with the marriage office and make your declaration of intent with 2 witnesses, plus an interpreter if you do not speak Italian. 7. Marry and apostille your certificate: hold the civil ceremony with 2 witnesses and collect your Italian marriage certificate. Ask the Prefettura to add an Apostille so it can be used at home.
Choose a month that suits the region you marry in.
Cold and quiet, Rome and Venice suit small city weddings only.
Winter weather, Venice Carnival crowds can complicate bookings.
Spring arrives in Rome and Puglia first, lakes still cool.
Lake gardens bloom, check Easter dates for town hall closures.
Mild in Tuscany, Umbria and the lakes, peak season begins.
Long evenings, Amalfi Coast and Puglia beach weather arrives.
Hot inland Tuscany and Rome, coast and lakes stay pleasant.
Peak heat and crowds, Ferragosto holiday on 15 August.
Warm sea in the south, harvest begins in Tuscany and Veneto.
Mild in Rome, Umbria and Puglia, cooler evenings on the lakes.
Wetter, shorter days, suits intimate city weddings in Rome or Venice.
Festive cities, cold north, public holidays limit town hall dates.
Flight times guests can plan around, city by city.
Places your guests will want to see before or after the celebration.
Climb Brunelleschi's dome for views over Florence, then spend the afternoon among the Uffizi's Renaissance paintings.
Walk or take the train between five clifftop fishing villages above the Ligurian Sea.
Arrive by boat to see Positano's pastel houses climb the cliffs above the Amalfi Coast.
Sit in the shell-shaped square beneath the Torre del Mangia, where the Palio horse race runs each summer.
The Odle peaks rise over meadows and a small church in this South Tyrol valley.
Take a boat from Sorrento or the Amalfi Coast to circle Capri's three limestone sea stacks.
Tell us your date, roughly how many guests and where in Italy you are drawn to. Your advisor replies in writing.
