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Italian wedding theme
Lets say you or your fiancé have an Italian background or a love of the beautiful and
classic elegance of Italy. Celebrating your big day with an Italian theme will
bring old world charm and beauty to your wedding.
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The most important part of any Italian wedding is the food. In Italy, wedding
banquets will contain as many as 14 courses, accompanied by wine, cocktails, and
various coffee drinks. And most Italian weddings include the whole family, down
to the youngest children. If you want this type of affair, consider looking into
large banquet halls, Italian restaurants with banquet facilities, or you can
choose an outdoor location with plenty of room for tables and dancing.
Colors for an Italian wedding can call to mind a region of Italy, like Tuscany,
or the red, white and green of the Italian flag. Beautiful gold gowns in a rich
fabric for your bridesmaids would be perfect, and you can accessorize your
groomsmen with gold ties and cummerbunds. The groom traditionally carries a bit
of iron in his pocket, meant to ward off evil. You can certainly break a bit
with tradition and have a very elegant wedding gown with gold embroidery, or add
gold ribbon to your bouquet.
Most Italian weddings are Church weddings, and Sunday is considered the luckiest
day to marry. When a marriage ceremony was going to be held, it was typical for
a large ribbon to be hung over the entrance to the Church, indicating to all who
entered they were coming to see the tying together of the couple and the
families. It’s a very nice tradition that can easily be carried on at your
ceremony, even if you do not have a Church wedding. Italian brides never marry
in May, thought to be a month dedicated to the Blessed Mother, and traditionally
avoid August. Many Italian families vacationed in August, and it was thought the
turnout for the big event would be low due to vacations.
Italian weddings are usually lavish affairs, and quite often more formal than
casual. Dress up your reception location with gorgeous floral centerpieces, and
gold organza table covers. Use red as an accent color in flowers, napkins,
candles, or other decorations. Red glass vases overflowing with white flowers
and trimmed in gold ribbon would be beautiful, or go with crystal vases filled
with beautiful red roses and sprigs of gold sprayed branches. Another beautiful
centerpiece would call to mind the Italian countryside if you bunched grapes of
different colors with fresh flowers and ivy.
Greet your guests with an appetizer buffet that is loaded with fresh olives,
peasant style breads, cheeses, marinated mushrooms, grilled eggplant, Italian
lunchmeats like prosciutto, capicola, and salami. Add an antipasto, a salad
filled with Italian meats, cheese, roasted peppers, beans, anchovies, and
tomatoes. Offer bruschetta, a toasted garlic bread, with a tomato or white bean
spread.
A sit down dinner or buffet will work well for the main part of your meal. Try
to include a pasta course, a meat course, a fruit course, a salad course, and
then dessert. Some Italian weddings include a breakfast after the festivities
have taken place.
A huge part of an Italian wedding is the desserts! It is not uncommon for there
to be no wedding cake at an Italian wedding, and sometimes, the cake is a cookie
cake, used for a traditional cookie dance. The cookie dance is a line dance of
sorts, where the bride and groom lead a train of guests on the dance floor, and
over to the cookie cake. Everyone in the train takes a cookie as they go past,
and when all of the dancers have retrieved their cookies, those who chose not to
participate may go and have their cookie. A typical Sicilian wedding will
feature a Viennese table, a buffet of desserts of every imaginable variety.
There will often be Italian cookies galore, cannoli, cakes, pastries, nuts, and
fresh and dried fruits. Sweet liqueurs will be served, as well as espresso,
cappuccino, and dessert wines.
No Italian wedding is complete without Jordan almonds, also known as sugared
almonds. These candy coated almonds are thought to symbolize the combining of
the bitter and the sweet, just as you would expect in married life. Every guest
at an Italian wedding is treated to a tulle bag containing these almonds, and
for a more elaborate presentation, they can be offered in silver boxes, pieces
of pottery, or other decorative container.
Other favor options to offer include personalized bottles of wine; homemade
vinegars, or flavored olive oils. A small bag of fried, twisted dough sprinkled
with powdered sugar is another Italian wedding tradition.
Food, family, and festive are the best ways to describe the typical Italian
wedding. Enjoy the day steeped in heritage that you will remember always.
Cent’anni!
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Jodie and Josh -- Brooklyn, NY
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Apr 24, 2008
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