Set in beautiful landscaped gardens perfumed with extensive banks of rosemary, lavender and thyme with views of open fields and woodland hills and with its own private chapel, La Preghiera country house estate makes a perfect and intimate setting for your wedding in Italy and reception alfresco with delicious Italian cuisine…

In the main villa there are 9 bedrooms, each en-suite with marble-clad bathrooms, with a further 2 en-suite bedrooms in Villa Moscatelli, in the grounds of the Estate, providing accommodation for 22 guests. Furnished to the highest standard there is terracotta flooring throughout, ancient oak and chestnut beams, antique and handpainted furniture and collections of art deco silverware, Aubusson rugs, Gallè lamps and vases...

Guests at this exclusive retreat have a choice of wedding ceremony styles. A beautiful, candle-lit legal religious ceremony or blessing can be held in the chapel, which is multi-denominational. The chapel can seat up to fifty guests. Other symbolic ceremonies and blessings of unions are also encouraged, using the garden, the chapel or the monastery itself, as a place of reunion, or meditation, without inference to any specific religion...

Alternatively, a civil wedding ceremony can take place in a local Comune (Town Hall) followed by a reception held in the gardens or dining room at La Preghiera afterwards.

For your special celebration, you may request a harpist, a guest a cappella choir or soloist to sing during your ceremony at La Preghiera with a repertoire including medieval and baroque periods, classic, opera, aria antiche, soul, gospel or traditional folklore...

La Preghiera can be rented in exclusivity, for a three night stay on a bed and breakfast basis (or longer periods if required), to accommodate small wedding parties up to twenty-nine persons, by adding extra beds in some of the rooms, at a special wedding tariff.

If your party exceeds twenty-nine guests, we can arrange for some of your guests to stay in nearby Agriturismi known to us, a combination of very good quality accommodation in restored old farmhouses.

On the wedding night, the bridal room is filled with soft candlelight, rose petals are scattered on the bed and a bottle of chilled Prosecco awaits the wedding couple...

La Preghiera offers an in-house wedding planner service to help wedding couples organise the religious or civil ceremony, caterers, photographers, musicians, special cars, table decorations, favours (bomboniere), wedding cake, flowers, magician and fireworks...

For full information about weddings at La Preghiera, please visit our website www.weddingsumbria.com or email us at weddings@lapreghiera.com.