And we’re doing this by shouting arms stretched from the coloured rooftops: “Ging Gang Goolee – wedding planner winners two years in a row!”

We’re filling every piazza encounter with a subtle “did you know we’re in the top five percent of wedding professionals in Italy?” In Italian of course: “Sai che noi siamo nel primo 5 per cento dei professionisti di nozze in Italia?”

And we’re running up the cobbled roads into the local florist, hairdresser, makeup artist, caterer, vineyard, hermitage, castle ruins, restaurant, bar, video operator, photographer, stylist, musician, bnb and then down to the harbour to the boat skipper, taxi, fisherman and miniscule truck driver (the truck, not the driver) to let them all know – “we’ve received a five star rating from all of our couples!”

And “we” is right – at Cinque Terre Wedding it takes a village to raise a wedding.

But we aren’t just running around the quiet village, saluting too many glasses of limoncino, we are serious wedding planners after all, so we’ve also been dreaming about what an event celebrating this award would look like.

Taking our inspiration from the award winning greats of the region: the romantic poets Byron and Shelly who wrote their best masterpeices while living here and Nobel Prize Poet, Montale, who wrote about the Monterosso lemons, we’ve fused together the greats of the old world writers with the current trends of the wedding planner world: Rose Quartz, Serenity Blue and metallics to create this loveliness.

Enjoy dreaming with us.

Written by Melina Nicholson

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Surrounded by the red grapes of one of our favourite wedding venues, the ancient Buranco Vineyard in the village of Monterosso, we were thrilled as there couldn’t be a more fitting colour to capture the spirit of the old world vineyard life here in the Cinque Terre.

The red grapes, figs and wine can be used to create beautiful Marsala bouquets, table centerpieces and place settings and can also be featured in your aperitivo and menu. Roses, Dahlias and Calla Lilies are just a few of the flowers available here in this colour tone. Paired with rustic wood, vintage wine barrels, soft green grapes and ancient stone walls, the Marsala colour palette pops with sophistication and romance.

Bring your own touch of Marsala into your Cinque Terre Wedding with your bridesmaids dresses, pretty floral hair crowns and lipstick and nail polish.

Here’s a peek at some of our initial inspiration for a Marsala Cinque Terre Wedding. We can’t wait to find out what our 2015 bride and grooms come up with!

Written by Melina Nicholson

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