Today we’re thrilled to be sharing our first Jewish wedding of 2024, and is it ever a stunner! UK couple Natasha and Marc had the most exquisite lakeside Tuscan Jewish wedding, and we are OBSESSED.
To plan the day of their dreams abroad, the couple opted to work with Michelle Jacobs of Smashing The Glass Recommended Vendor Elegante by Michelle J, and she brought their vision of an enchanted candlelit garden wedding to life – including introducing them to their fabulous venue, Villa Orlando, and sorting everything from generators to furniture and beyond to transform the outdoor spaces.
We love the couple’s on-the-day stationery from Smashing The Glass Recommended Vendor Bigday Designs, and we can’t get enough of the elegant white and green color scheme – and that floral chuppah! Don’t miss it in the wonderful photos by James Mason and video by Whites Film.
There’s so much more to say about this very special day, but we’ll leave it to the bride – who looked ever so chic in her gown by Israeli designer Lihi Hod – to fill you in on the rest…
A Wedding in Tuscany
Natasha, the bride: Our venue was Villa Orlando which is in Torre del Lago in Tuscany, Italy. I always wanted to get married overlooking a lake/water and our wedding planner took us on our venue search trip to Italy.
I knew it was the one immediately. It’s a privately owned villa on the edge of the lake. Our guests all stayed about 20 minutes away in Viareggio which is one of Tuscany’s coastal resorts and we held our welcome party in a beach club .
We kept the venue a secret and arranged coaches to bring all our guests to the wedding.
Our wedding venue was the Orlando family’s private home and we had access to all of the outdoor spaces; we could not have done it without a wedding planner as everything had to be brought in, including generators, toilets, kitchen equipment, furniture and all of the sound and lighting.
We also had a marquee on hold in case of rain, though thankfully we did not need it.
We used different areas of the property for each part of our wedding – so the chuppah was in front of the villa, by the lake, the aperito was by the boat house and the wedding dinner was at the side of the villa. It was an unusual space and it took a lot of discussion to agree how it was going to work including where to place the stage, dance floor and the bar. It ended up being quite an unusal layout with our top table at the side of the dance floor, but it worked really well.
