Tuscan Wedding By Amanda K Photography

By Magnolia Rouge

I hardly knew where to stop with this beautiful Tuscan wedding from Amanda K Photography that we featured in Magnolia Rouge Magazine Issue 5. It's utterly dreamy location and styling are just a sensory overload!

If love were a storybook, Patrick and Courtney met on the very first page, at the tender age of seventeen whilst attending boarding school in Oregon. It was on the hundred acres of land, with beautiful views of the countryside that they took long walks getting to know each other and inevitably fell in love. From the minute they got engaged � eight years and a move cross country later � they knew they wanted to do something different and exciting for their wedding. With travel being a given with friends and family scattered throughout the United States, they decided they might as well have guests travel to an incredible destination. Which is when a fourteenth century villa on a vineyard in Chianti came in to the picture.

�If it's possible to pick one part, I think we'd both agree that the ceremony was one of the most memorable parts of the day. It was so intimately perfect with the forty guests who had flown in from all over the United States to celebrate our love and marriage. My mom wrote and performed the ceremony, which I cried pretty much non-stop throughout. She surveyed us individually a few months before the wedding and wrote the most meaningful, personal and romantic ceremony I could have ever imagined. We had one of my bridesmaids who is a singer-songwriter write original music for our wedding and sang to us during the ceremony. We had a string quartet playing during the bridal party processional and recessional which seemed to go so well with the setting sun and the rolling hills around us.�

We are so glad we had the courage to take the rish on a destination event because it enabled us to have the wedding of our dreams that truly reflected 'us'. Our very own wedding in Italy! Who would have thought!? As for a few words of wisdom, if you're thinking or planning a destination wedding: start early, take one project at a time, and don't be too shy to ask for help. At the end of the day, you will be married to the person you love. Don't stress about the details � take it all in and enjoy the fleeting moments. I thought the whole day would pass by as a blur, but we soaked in as much as we could, and it will be one of the most cherished days for the rest of our lives.�