| The state religion of Italy is Roman Catholicism. If you are Catholics, there are a few priests throughout the country who are willing to perform the ceremony for foreigners, but their number is shrinking because the practice has lately been considered too lax. Your local parish priest may be the best means to finding one of the Italian prelates who do perform the ceremony for those not members of their parish. | |
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If you are not Catholics, then you must have a civil ceremony, which can be very unique indeed, because it will be in the town hall and many of these buildings are hundreds of years old. The ceremony will be officiated over by a local functionary wearing his or her city's sash, and you will be given a certificate by the city. |
| It is extremely difficult to arrange a wedding anywhere else, such as in the garden of a villa or in a vineyard and so on. If this is your dream, or even if you want a simple civil ceremony, we strongly urge you to use the services of an experienced wedding planner. If you decide to tackle this endeavor without a planner, know that you will be dealing with civil authorities and/or Catholic priests, and you will need to find the venue on your own, and then you'll have to wade through a lot of paperwork by yourselves. Even after you have accomplished all this, you run the very possible risk of finding out on the morning of your wedding day that one of the documents you have was not done correctly, and then the whole thing is off! |  |