Last week La Chiesa di Santo Stefano provided the perfect romantic wedding venue for a beautiful Italian style wedding - with endless food and drink, and dancing until the small hours. The couple on this occasion chose to get married in the town hall in Treia, which has a lovely room for large groups, and Treia is a truly beautiful small town. They hired a vintage car to bring them to Santo Stefano, where their friends were waiting for them.
Canapés and champagne or Pimms were served at the front of the house, so that guests could mingle and chat to each other, and photographs could be taken. And then it was round to the back of the house to sample some of the delicious antipasti that our chef had prepared.
An hour of selecting from dishes such as courgette flowers stuffed with ricotta cheese, tomatoes stuffed with prawns, smoked turkey with a melon salad - and a host of other dishes was only the preliminary course to what proved to be a splendid feast.The formal part of the evening began with the risotto and pasta course, followed by a delicious choice of beef fillet or guinea fowl, and then a laden dessert buffet table to finish off an incredible meal. Dancing continued until 2 am - and nobody wanted the evening to end!
