Symbolic wedding in Venice: how to make that day really special

Venice, in some way, never changes.

Year after year it doesn’t lose its unicity and romantic atmosphere, never getting tired of being a silent witness to many different wedding ceremonies.

We have organized several symbolic weddings and we can assure you that what you feel during this kind of celebrations is as intense as what you feel in a real wedding, the only thing that actually changes is its legal value.

What is a symbolic wedding?

Many foreign couples usually ask us for a symbolic wedding, which is a wedding ceremony that has no legal value, but a strong sentimental meaning.

In other words, it’s the best way for a couple to show their love for each other, without getting annoyed with bureaucracy.

If you got already married in your home country, you might want to celebrate your symbolic wedding in Venice just to make it even more special. It can involve just the two of you or a group of guests too.

There are infinite ways to organize a symbolic wedding here in Venice, you just need to ask us and let us know how you want it to be.

In the main time, we would like to give you some ideas, based on our own experience.

Symbolic wedding on a terrace, with a splendid view of Venice

If you see Venice by walking among its streets, you’ll certainly fall in love with it. But if you see it from above, it will definitely bewitch you!

Getting married on a terrace with a symbolic wedding is something you won’t forget, mainly because you’ll be surrounded by an incredible city, that is looking forward to meeting your love.

Venice is special, of course, but the feelings you are sharing and showing to the world on that day are more important and they need to be celebrated in the best ever.

Sara and Sean, for example, got married on a terrace with a magnificent view of St. Giorgio island and the whole St. Mark’s Basin, you read the whole story in this article.

Tina and Morten decided to get married on a terrace too and their symbolic wedding was so touching that still moves us, every time we see their photoshoot.

You can read about their symbolic wedding in Venice at this link.

Symbolic wedding on a gondola

An original way to celebrate your symbolic wedding in Venice is on a gondola. Don’t you believe it? We assure you that is absolutely possible and it’s even one of the thing we usually suggest to live an unforgettable wedding day in a city like ours.

Venice is the only place where you can get married on a gondola - except for Las Vegas, but let’s face it, it won’t be exactly the same! - so the real question you should ask yourself is “why not doing it?”

To have a clearer idea of what getting married on a gondola means and entails, we would like to tell you the story of Charles and Lily.

This sweet and beautiful couple arrived in Venice a few months ago to celebrate their endless love. We organized everything to let them live their dream: saying the “fateful yes” while floating on the water of the Venetian lagoon.

Lily started crying happy tears as soon as she set down on the gondola, but what did you expect? Getting married on a gondola in Venice is such a touching and one-of-a-kind with among happy tears.

Symbolic Wedding in Venice, inside a spectacular Venetian palace

Palaces in Venice are incredible.

You might have seen some of their interiors in a movie or in some pictures on the web, but when you see them in first-person you’ll find out how a photo or a film scene doesn’t justice them.

Here’s an example of a moving wedding in a Venetian palace we had the opportunity to organize, for Alexandre and his better half.

If you were dreaming of getting married in Venice, but in a secret garden, we can organize that too. Secret gardens in Venice are less known than palaces, only because it seems impossible that a floating city can have some, but even if they aren’t many, we can assure you they all are pieces of heaven.