5 Original Ways To Announce Your Wedding In Italy

You are getting married in Italy. Congratulations! You are on the edge of living the greatest day of your life in a dolce vita way. Now, you have something important to do: sharing the good news with your close ones. The thing is…you don’t really know how to do it. Why not announce your wedding in an original way to make an impression on everyone? To do so, several options are open to you. Our wedding planners’ team takes you on a tour to discover 5 unique ways to unveil your plan of a wedding in Italy to your family and friends! 

Announce you wedding with a customized gift to your loved ones

Announce your wedding in Italy in a subtle way with a pretty gift to your close ones. Customize it to make it unique. For example, you can offer a hat or sunglasses you invite them to wear in Italy with an inscription such as “Mother of the bride” and “Father of the bride”. Choosing a typical product is also an option: a small bottle of olive oil or of Limoncello. Mark those symbols of Italy with a sentence like “We’re getting married!”. 

Of course, it may be hard to offer a present to everyone. This way of announcing your wedding in Italy can be dedicated to your closest family and friends: your parents, wedding witnesses, bridesmaids, and best men. The latter can keep this gift in remembrance of the day you announced your union to them. 

Announce your wedding with greed!

Start by inviting your close ones for a cocktail or dinner in the colors of Italy. You can serve typical dishes of the region such as a pizza or the famous mozzarella. The moment to announce your wedding is coming! Serve one of the courses in a beautiful box and write the good news inside it. Your guests will be thrilled by the surprise when they open the box ! 

You can also create suspense for the desert. Make a special decoration on your tiramisu or panna cotta by writing the date of your wedding. If you haven’t fixed it yet, a message like “See you in Italy for our wedding” will be perfect! In a warm and joyful atmosphere, your loved ones will be pleased by the news of your Italian style wedding. 

Play the mystery card for your announcement

Use your imagination to reveal the event of the year to your close ones. How about finding inspiration in a game such as a puzzle, a riddle, or an enigma? If you choose a puzzle, don’t take too many pieces and be particularly attentive to the central piece. Your loved ones will have fun while constructing the puzzle to discover your message. Customize your game on Etsy and choose your keywords. 

You can also create a riddle under the form of questions or rebus to make your guests understand you are engaged. The enigma in an escape game type is a good way to make your announcement as well. Whatever you do, the surprise will always be there!

Reveal your event in a video

Recounting your story in a video to announce your engagement or wedding is very trendy. Within a couple of minutes, tell how you met and fell in love. At the end of your movie, announce your event or re-stage the proposal. Mind that the film is no longer than 5 minutes to keep the attention of your audience. Don’t forget the music! What could be better than an Italian song to make them dive into the atmosphere?

If you lack time or equipment to make a video, create a flipbook! Seek inspiration in the same elements as in a video but integrate them as drawings or pictures in a small notebook. In flipbooks, the animation appears when you turn the pages really fast. Shall it be a video or a flipbook, emotions will surely be present!

The “Save the date”, a magical moment

If you live far from your close ones, and thus, cannot announce the good news to them face to face, the “Save the date” is ideal. It is a new way to announce the date of a wedding to your family and friends with printed announcements or animated emails. Send it six to twelve months before the D-day so your guests have the time to organize. Surprise them with original pictures to modernize the traditional wedding announcement card. Create an invitation to your wedding in your image and send it to your loved ones. They won’t have any excuse to miss the date of your ceremony!

We advise you to discreetly record the reaction of your guests when you announce your wedding to them. You can keep those records as memories and maybe play them on your special day. If laughter, shouter, and tears of joy are there, you will be happy to see it again. 

The Wedding Wire suggests many other ideas depending on the circumstances.