Lake Garda is a wedding destination Mekka for brides from UK. It is hard to imagine better place for a honeymoon – picturesque villages and towns, castles, mountains, yachts, great weather – and all of it at affordable price, specially comparing to UK. Lake Garda offers rich choice of adorable small towns (former fishing villages) as a place for a wedding. Some of these towns have castles, like Malcesine and Sirmione, and most of wedding ceremonies are being held in those castolettos. This makes Lake Garda a wonderful backdrop for wedding photographs.

While planning your wedding you can choose any of these wonderful towns: Sirmione, Limone, Riva del Garda,  Brenzone, Torri del Benaco, Garda, Bardolino, Lazise, Peschiera del Garda, Desenzano, Salò. My personal favorites are Malcesine, Limone and Sirmione for their castles and beautiful landscape.

Malcesine

After our move from Los Angeles to Munich, Germany we really needed very relaxing vacation. I wanted to fish somewhere on the lake and Denis wanted to do something active like bike ride or walk allot.  Denis found Lake Garda and since we really wanted to go to Italy we thought after Venice it would be perfect to relax in one of the small villages surrounding Lake Garda. We chose Malcesine by chance, it was one place that still had a hotel available. Hotel “Ariston” was adorable. Charming little place with charming little rooms and balconies with great view of the mountains. A terrace downstairs overlooking the small garden with many flowers and tropical plants.

We went walking in the village again and again, we loved narrow charming streets and adorable old buildings. Countless restaurants with fresh fish from

the lake, homemade pasta and infinite pizzas.   Small shops where you can taste and buy local wine, cheese, olives and spices. Gelaterias on every corner.  Everybody ride bikes,  just few cars on the streets. Joy and some special lightness in the air. Aroma of Love!

Malcesine’s castle on the top of the hill makes it perfect wedding destination with the great ceremony venue – few hundreds years old castle. It really adds charm and exotic background to wedding photographs.

The lake is so gorgeous!   Water is crystal clear and blue, the sky is very vivid blue and few clouds create 3D effect.

Sirmione

Sirmione is located on a peninsula and has a wonderful old castle with walls, ditch filled with a water in which you can see huge carps swimming just under the surface. The town itself is a bit too crowded to my taste, since it is basically a starting point for all boat trips due to it’s convenient location. Nevertheless town is very pretty, it has a nice quite garden where you can hide from turist’s hordes and even better : thermal bath spa where you can relax after your wedding.

Every other village on Lake Garda is still unique, and quite different from others. I would recommend everybody to spend a day on boat trips to visit the villages so you can make a choice that fits your taste and dreams about your wedding. The choice is yours: Riva del Garda, Nago-Torbole, Brenzone, Torri del Benaco, Garda, Bardolino, Lazise, Peschiera del Garda, Desenzano, Salò all can make your wedding photographs shine!