Choose a Siena Wedding and be Your Own Destination Wedding Planner for Siena
Hints for those choosing to get wed in this very romantic city

Use our tips and information to do your own wedding planning for the most wonderful of weddings in this one of the world’s most picturesque living hilltop cities.

If you are arranging getting married in Siena next year or this year in June like my friend, we think you’ve made a fabulous venue choice. We suggest that you book the service (in the town hall) through a wedding planner, but you need not engage him or her to do much more than that for you.

There is a lot you can organize yourselves and with cheap flights available throughout Europs, many people can go to Siena beforehand to arrange a restaurant for the reception. It is after all a great excuse for soaking up the ambience of the lovely city for an additional enjoyable and relaxing weekend!

For those readers that have not yet been to see it, Siena is a medieval city of brick, packed with unspoilt charm and lovely old buildings steeped in history. From a terrific spot like the top of the Mangia Tower its sea of roof tiles blends into a landscape of steep, twisting stone alleys; and further away is the backdrop of the charming fields vineyards and olive groves of the Tuscan countryside with its softness and rolling hills.

This cityscape hides dozens of Gothic palaces; plus pastry shops galore(!), unseen neighborhood rivalries (which culminate in the annual palio (horse race) around the square) and altarpieces of unsurpassed beauty. Through the Middle Ages Siena flourished artistically; for two centuries (13th and 14th) the Sienese school, represented by Duccio da Boninsegna, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers, rivaled the Florentine masters as the most important in Italy.

The Chianti region is the quintessence of Tuscany. I have to tell you it has the most incredibly beautiful countryside, vineyards, olive groves and forests and they all add to its ambiance. The signature of this area is the sight of all those tall, slender cypress trees which dominate the landscape crowning the hilltops as you wide through the sleepy rural roads.

Visiting the country and strolling through it means entering the world of the famous Chianti wines, such as Vernaccia of San Gimignano and Brunello di Montalcino. The vineyards alternate with silvery-gray olive groves, where much of the finest extra-virgin olive oil in Italy is produced. Look out for the fields of saffron. This is a highly prized spice more precious and costly than gold, which are abundant in this Region.

If you do decide to say 'I do' somewhere other your home town, and get married in Siena, you can do it with TuscanDream. Contact them to help you with planning the wedding of your dreams in Tuscany.

Another wedding location to search for in Google is the Villa Isabella. Originally built in the 1400s, Villa Isabella was expanded to its present configuration in the 18th century and renovated in 1997. Surrounded by twenty eight acres of lush olive groves and gardens, the main villa measures 1,500 square meters and succeeds winningly in combining tradition with modern comfort - just right for your wedding stay.

Posarelli Villas also offer accommodation as well as a beautiful wedding location on a rental basis in Siena.

by by Steve Evans - 17 April 2009

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