We are finally home after being in Italy for three weeks and making the adjustment back to our local time zone and traditions. How we will miss our wine lunches, five course meals and afternoon naps.

I wanted to take some time and express our sincere appreciation for all that you did for us during the past year and a half to assist us with the most extraordinary wedding we could have ever imagined. It was wonderful to meet you in person after so many posts and for all to determine that we are warm, caring people. Our time in Italy especially the week of our wedding exceeded every expectation.

The rehearsal dinner was a great success and the wedding even more so. Every detail was provided to our desire and beyond. Your suggestion to move the wedding outside to the grounds was perfect and the fact that you could make that change at the last minute without effort was impeccable. Everything looked incredibly beautiful; Marisa is quite the designer and the floral arrangements exquisite, we hated leaving them behind. It was so thoughtful of her to provide me with the extra bouquet for our civil ceremony and the boutonnière for Michael, who we know fought the whole idea up to that point. Please extend our thanks to Marisa, as we were not able to meet her during the time she was there, although we had hoped to, in order to thank her in person.

From the moment Roberto arrived to style my hair to the moment the cake was made, everything was flawless. You anticipated all our needs and those we didn’t even know we had. The photographers were absolutely perfect, I believe they recorded every moment of the day and we are anticipating the arrival of the photographs.

All of our guests in awe of the beauty of it all, expressed it was the most moving wedding they have ever attended and I believe much of that had to do with the location, my brother and the coordination that was provided by you and Italyweddings.

It is hard to believe in your mid forties that you will have a fairytale wedding and you begin to think in a more practical manner, much to my delight, it was the perfect “fairytale wedding”; a day of excitement and emotion that we will never forget. An anonymous author once wrote “life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away”; this certainly was a moment of breathlessness.

We extend our sincerest appreciation and gratitude to you!