Lake Como Fairytale Wedding at Villa del Balbianello

Melissa Baran
May 29, 2019
Categories: Real Weddings, Romantic, The Blog

Lake Como truly is a fairytale wedding destination and Kiira & Arthur’s wedding is the only proof I need. The scenery alone is other worldly—but Eventoile Destination Weddings did an incredible job perfecting a layer of beauty atop that natural charm. The Wedding Tale captured the day as if it were a fictional film, yet it was so, so real my friends.

From The Wedding Tale… On the day of Kiira & Arthur’s wedding Lake Como graced us with a wonderful sunny spring day. The lake was calm, the cherry trees in full bloom across the banks and the light was simply perfect, a magical atmosphere as if time itself wanted to stop and eternalize the moments. We met Arthur returning from a ride on the long lake his smile said it all! His preparations at the luxury hotel Terminus on the lakefront were filled with emotions. His best men and his brother helped him put on his custom white tux and right before they boarded a boat to Villa Balbianello.

Overlooking Piazza Cavour, Kiira got prepared in a beautiful attic, where large windows and an all-romantic balcony filled the room with creamy light. We could tell right from the start these were very special sentimental moments for her. Radiating with bliss and surrounded by her bridesmaids, among them her sister the blogger Petra @petrakorpi, who wore pastel-colored gowns they were all lulled by the sun and the Italian scents of blooms coming from the streets under our prestigious perch. Stunning in a dress designed for her by the Fashion Designer Teemu Muurimäki she couldn’t wait to get in the boat to be with Arthur.

The boat trip to the Villa was accompanied by music, laughs, hard love and some gorgeous lake vistas in the breeze. Upon our arrival Kiira started walking towards the aisle and Arthur waited for his bride in total anticipation. The moment of their meeting was as if it came out of a fairtytale.

The couple’s guests were entertained on the terrace overlooking the lake, with romantic music, Italian antipasti and wine, while Kiira and Arthur whisked each other away for some alone time on a boat ride around the villa, and upon their return the reception inside the villa began, with a candlelit dinner soaked in florals, chandeliers as the excited members of their families began their speeches. Cheek and Elastinen, Kiira’s favorite band played the couple’s song, a nod to the bride’s figure skating moves, as the two danced on the veranda.

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From Eventoile Destination Weddings… I don’t know where to begin in describing the ways I’m thankful to have couples as beautiful as Kiira and Arthur, whose Lake Como wedding in Villa Balbianello played upon the frescoed walls and charming gardens of this outstanding venue, easily one of the most romantic places to get married in the world.

As Arthur was already planning to propose in 2014, he had his heart set on the Villa, for its beauty and for the majestic surrounding landscapes. Although the couple moved to New York, when Arthur proposed last May, they just had to return and whisk away all their loved ones from the States, Spain and Finland for their dream destination wedding on the shores of Como Lake.

The overall planning and styling process began with Kiira and Arthur’s love for a luminous, powder-soft palette that would focus on whites. They’re both such an elegant couple, so tasteful and in love with refined simplicity, so eventually we decided to go for ivory and gold, not only because it is one of the hottest trends but for the way it enhances every single accent with its shine, just like the love of this beautiful couple.

Kiira’s figure-skating nickname in Finland is Jääprinsessa (Ice Princess) due to her resemblance to Grace Kelly, the former Princess of Monaco, so we opted for wedding invitation suites and paper goods made of Amalfi paper and white tranlucent vellum paper, a nod to pureness and ice-skating, with Kiira’s ice swirl represented by the manuscript’s font interlacing their names.

Delicate shades were the basic palette of this amazing celebration, with magical flower arrangements and spanning installations intended to tap on the natural beauty of the elements inside and outside of the Villa and its stunning vistas. Kiira’s wedding bouquet was made up of David Austin roses, ranunculi and peonies.

The festivities continued in a beautiful veranda on the lake that was the setting for their first dance together, poetry. The festivities then continued throughout the night with wild dancing on the notes of the famous Finland singers Cheek and Elastinen.