http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/ Dialogue with the readers of the newsletter Buongiorno Venezia Sat, 23 May 2026 22:23:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/#comment-22 Gaia Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:53:00 +0000 http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/#comment-22 If I have understood right, it's a document FOR the hotelliers about the foreign wedding use. But I agree with you that would have been more usefull a document for people who would like to marry in Venice. If I have understood right, it’s a document FOR the hotelliers about the foreign wedding use. But I agree with you that would have been more usefull a document for people who would like to marry in Venice.

]]> http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/#comment-26 buongiornovenezia Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:16:07 +0000 http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/#comment-26 Hi Gaia. well, i'll see the booklet tomorrow, and in the intention of the authors it should be helpful to couples and to hotelliers. the hotelliers should have some suggestions for a better service, based on past inquiries: most requested places, hotels, restaurants, costumes (aargh! it's unbelievable what people invent for their marriage); and it should also help couples with the list of needed papers. so i fear it will mostly be a directory of deja vu plus assorted absurdities, which the venice hotelliers will be pleased to transform into a price listing. mre about this coming soon.. Hi Gaia. well, i’ll see the booklet tomorrow, and in the intention of the authors it should be helpful to couples and to hotelliers. the hotelliers should have some suggestions for a better service, based on past inquiries: most requested places, hotels, restaurants, costumes (aargh! it’s unbelievable what people invent for their marriage); and it should also help couples with the list of needed papers. so i fear it will mostly be a directory of deja vu plus assorted absurdities, which the venice hotelliers will be pleased to transform into a price listing. mre about this coming soon..

]]> http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/#comment-27 buongiornovenezia Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:09:16 +0000 http://blog.buongiornovenezia.com/2007/04/04/wedding-in-venice-theres-a-guide/#comment-27 the promised update: no such guide book is available at the moment at the hotels or elsewhere: the printing house was late with delivery and so only a few copies have been printed. the only people who saw it are the journalists who attended yesterday's conference. i couldn't go and i had asked for the press book, which i'll receive when available. i'm not blaming it on the hotelliers association, who may have found the less trust-worthy printing people. but i heard this explanation so many times here and there, that it looks like we have the worst printers in the world. poor Aldo Manuzio (who invented the printing movable characters in the 15th century, right in Venice). to tell the truth, planning and a good use of time is never enough, and we generally tend to work with "acqua alla gola" (water to the throat): under stress, with strict deadlines which depend on the slow process of having a project approved, money raised, things done. in short: we'll re-launch the book news when it's distributed. the promised update: no such guide book is available at the moment at the hotels or elsewhere: the printing house was late with delivery and so only a few copies have been printed. the only people who saw it are the journalists who attended yesterday’s conference. i couldn’t go and i had asked for the press book, which i’ll receive when available.
i’m not blaming it on the hotelliers association, who may have found the less trust-worthy printing people. but i heard this explanation so many times here and there, that it looks like we have the worst printers in the world. poor Aldo Manuzio (who invented the printing movable characters in the 15th century, right in Venice). to tell the truth, planning and a good use of time is never enough, and we generally tend to work with “acqua alla gola” (water to the throat): under stress, with strict deadlines which depend on the slow process of having a project approved, money raised, things done.
in short: we’ll re-launch the book news when it’s distributed.

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