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Italian weddings lend themselves well to great salads! This easy Caprese Salad looks great and tastes good. Great for a formal wedding or a casual outdoor wedding as well. The colors make this salad really 'pop!' and the flavor is incredible!

So if you're planning an Italian wedding consider serving these individual Caprese Salads-your guests will thank you!

Italian Wedding Cookies With a Florentine Renaissance Touch

Italy and wedding cookies are synonymous.  But these are not your usual Italian Wedding Cookies. No white sugar coated anise flavored balls of dough here. These sugar cookies are decorated with Florentine wafer papers and gold accents.  They are perfect for a sweet table at a wedding with an Italian Renaissance theme, or any wedding looking for an upscale look. 

Want to give your cookie favors a high class look? Add gold accents (also sold at fancyflours) to the Florentine wafer topped cookies.  The beautiful Florentine design was inspired by traditional Renaissance patterns.  The sheets that come with your order can be used to decorate almost anything.

Where can you buy everything you need to make these fabulous cookies? fancyflours is a web site that is dedicated to providing discriminating bakers with top notch baking supplies.  You name it, they probably sell it.  Visit fancyflours site today.

Tuscan Farmhouse Wedding

Feel like having an Italian wedding? Why not decorate your tables like a Tuscan farm feast? Bread sticks, heirloom tomatoes, olives....the three varying heights entrance the eye and the colors and scents make everyone feel like they are in Tuscany, (even if they're really in Chicago!)    Serve with some hearty Tuscan fare for dinner and you are set!  A destination wedding without ever leaving home!  Photo courtesy of Martha Stewart.

Panna Cotta-- A Dessert Dream Come True To Serve At Your Wedding

Panna Cotta, a silky yet elegant Italian custard that can be served in a variety of ways and with assorted toppings to change it's flavor, texture and color is highlighted as a great wedding dessert offering on OnceWed.com.  They give you a recipe from the New York Times but there are a variety of recipes out there so you can create just the texture and flavor you want for your wedding day in case you are a DIY bride who doesn't want to leave the cooking to your caterer.

Serve this elegant dessert at your Italian wedding.  You can make it ahead of time and serve it in shot glasses for easy serving. Why not offer a panna cotta bar for dessert?  Offer your guests a variety of toppings in different colors to suit every palate. 

If you're looking for some good recipes for panna cotta, Amazon.com offers Panna Cotta: Italy's Elegant Custard Made Easy by Camilla Saulsbury.  This book not only gives you recipes for this upscale dessert but recipes for topping as well.  What more could you ask for?

Florentina Oval Favor Box

Photos courtesy of http://www.confettiflowers.com/

Exquisite fleur-de-lis embossed design decorate this beautiful box for the Italian wedding. Inside, sugared almonds are added and personalization for each guest.  Tie each box with a pretty ribbon or one with your names and wedding date on it.
 

  

Tuscan Table Setting in Pinks and Browns

Photography Courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens Website

This long narrow table is typical of a wedding reception in Tuscany. Tables are long and narrow and arranged in a U-shape in the wedding color combination -- chocolate brown (in the linen runner), pink (in the peony arrangements), and chartreuse (in the menus tucked into the folds of the napkins).