Hiking tour in Le Marche

At the moment I'm working on a gentle hiking tour in Le Marche. Above is where I'll take my guests.

And below is where we will go hiking. We won't arrive in front of Le Due Sorelle, but we will see them from above, at the beginning of the Passo del Lupo.

Preparing a wedding in Italy: instructions

Hey there, I'm so sorry to leave you with no news for so many days, but still, I'm really so busy in working on my wedding organization...

Therefore, I take the chance to tell you how a wedding is organized in Italy; of course, lots of things may vary from region to region, here is what we do in Le Marche and in Emilia-Romagna (not Bologna, but the mountain, the Appennino Reggiano, where they make the Parmigiano Reggiano!).

First of all, in Italy, the majority of weddings take place in a church: whether a matter of faith or tradition, the wedding in the city hall are not so common, but still they exist. The "typical" Italian wedding, without leaving importance to the others, takes place in a church.

The first things to check are the priest and the restaurant: where we will get married there are a lot of beautiful tiny churches, but few preachers. Anyway, the 6th October the priest is available. Likewise the restaurant: not a normal Osteria, but a good restaurant, with a lot of space, since an Italian wedding has something like 150-200 guests. Our wedding will be more than 200, which is the average for our tradition. In Southern Italy, 3-400 is usual. In Northern Italy, if you go over 150 is a sort of super-party.

Then, the photographer and the wedding-dress are the second most important things. Usually, one starts more than 6 months before to look for the right thing, and usually is not easy, especially for the dress (don't forget we are Italian!)

The honeymoon and the flower shop is another important matter: in our case, we preferred to organize our tour by ourselves (well, I'm a tour organizer, don't you remember?). We will go to Australia and Cook Islands, not exactly round the corner... :-)

Then comes the rest: the hotel and the bus (for my guests arriving from Le Marche, it's more than 3 hours driving, so I reserved a bus or some rooms in a hotel), the party before the celebration, the comfits, the bonbonnière, the music, the car, the decorations, the tables, the cake... really, so many details, which make your brain and your time very very busy.

So, please... say "Best wishes", thanks!