Amber and Clay were married with a religious blessing ceremony in this wonderful villa in the San Giovanna area, to the South of Florence, and in the North of the Chianti region.

The ceremony was held in the private chapel on the grounds of the villa. This is one of the few villas that has a family chapel open for use for many types of blessing ceremony, and large enough to hold thirty guests.

The reception was catered on site, a buffet aperitif by the pool, overlooking the Tuscan countryside, and the seated meal in the closed courtyard, with speeches, laughter and jazz into the night.

The villa is one of the few which is rented with exclusive use for less than a week, should the couple wish to book this way: you can book this villa for two or three nights for the entire party, and then a few rooms on a nightly basis around the wedding date - the owners have the maximum flexibilty on this, and the villa and grounds will be open for you to plan and coordinate the wedding day exactly as you wish.

More on the villa here

And more on the photography Amber chose here