Weddings in Udine, Italy
Nestled in Friuli, Udine is encircled by the beautiful Alps and located just a short car ride from Austria, former Yugoslavia and the Adriatic beaches.
Udine offers everything: Wine tours, cooking courses and day trips to medieval hill towns or larger cities such as Venice, Verona, Trieste and Padova.
This lovely Italian city is one of the most enchanting wedding destinations in the northern. Perfect in size, in Udine you will find wonderful shopping and restaurants, attractive cobbled streets and romantic archways.
In Udine civil wedding ceremonies are celebrated in a stately castle dominating the entire city with a superb frescoed hall that holds over one hundred guests. For Catholic weddings, there are intimate churches in panoramic positions and charming squares or you can get married in the main cathedral.
The architecture in Udine is Venetian and can be enjoyed by traveling by foot together with the rest of the downtown area.
Friuli boasts some of the finest white wines in the Italy and the food is highly refined collection of recipes that can compete with any of the French. Whether you decide to get married in an ancient vaulted wine cellar or in one of the spectacular castles and villas in the nearby countryside - there is many incredible options to make your marriage ceremony unforgettable.
Some of the most noteworthy weddings are held here due to the superb selection of unique villas and castles, some of which offer room and board.
Starting from Udine you can drive to some of the best wine country in Italy, heading up into the Colli Orientali del Friuli and stopping at the city of Cividale, founded by Caesar. The town is crossed by the Natisone a well know river of Friuli.
Some of the local specialties are: cured ham or prosciutto, the Montasio cheese and you can wash it all down with a glass of Ribolla Gialla, one of the incomparable white wines of the region of Friuli.
After your wedding in Udine, but before you leave, you might want to stop at a local gelateria and try a homemade gelato. There will be more flavors than you have ever seen before and you and your wedding guests will have one more reason to return.
