While we all agree that Italy is both a romantic and beautiful country in which to hold a destination wedding, there are also Italian traditions that should be considered when planning a wedding in any part of Italy. Incorporating one or more of the long-standing customs will make your wedding that much more individual.
Before we focus our attention to the traditions, however, let us first clear up an Italian wedding food myth. For North Americans, it has always been believed that part of the traditional wedding feast was the Italian Wedding Soup. This is not true in Italy. In fact, the name of the soup refers to the marriage of the ingredients and not the marriage of people so basically 
the soup is not an age-old tradition handed down from Italian generations. Indeed, it may be part of the reception menu for younger Italians in the US or Canada but it is not an “old country” custom for weddings.
One tradition, of which most people are aware, is the ribbon tied, tulle bag of sugary almonds presented in a glass dish. Historically the precursor to wedding favors, the bag will usually contain five precious treats that symbolize happiness, longevity, wealth, children, and health.
Although today most Italian brides wear white as the color of choice for their wedding gowns, the traditional color is green and since colors other than white are recent trends for wedding gowns, a bride holding her wedding in Italy may opt for a hue of green or may add green accents to the gown to be completely traditional.
A highly religious country, Italian wedding tradition states that Sunday is the luckiest day on which to be married. Further, weddings were not permitted during Lent and it was felt that a wedding in August would cause sickness and bad luck. A pretty touch, the church door would be decorated with a large ribbon for the bride letting passersby know that a wedding will take place.
In some regions of Italy, the groom will walk the bride and the wedding party to the church but will encounter obstacles along their way. Apparently the obstacles consist of a broom, a homeless person to whom one gives alms and a crying baby. (Although this author is not sure how you find the two people?). In other areas, the groom waits for the bride at the door of the church. Receptions usually include many courses of meals with pasta, meat, fruit and desserts.
A fun custom is to cut up the groom’s tie into pieces and sell off the bits. For a destination wedding in Italy, there may not be many guests to buy the pieces, but it is still a comical tradition to uphold. When decorating, fresh flowers are preferred instead of paper or plastic streamers as this is a symbol of long life and fertility.
Lastly, every Italian reception must hold the “Tarantella” Dance. Steeped in long history from the fifteenth century, legend says a poisonous tarantula spider bites a lady, and then everyone must dance fervently to cure the lady known as a “tarantata”. At a wedding in Italy, everyone at the reception participates in the large dancing circle.