Richard and Sharon Hampton (UK)sharonsarahhampton@yahoo.com.uk
May 2007

Where do we start ? When we had set our hearts to marry in a fairytale castle our first port of call was the internet - window to the world..... We were amazed to find that the first venue we discovered was "Il Borgia " and it was love at first sight ! We contacted Julie, who from the start was a complete godsend  and ( by the way - I promise she hasn't paid us a penny to say any of this :-))) She made us feel completely at ease right from the start with excellent communication and advice, ever ready to explore opportunities from our "wish list" and accomodate our requirements and ideas. It has been almost two years now since we initially had the good fortune to find Julie Palombaro, who we now consider to be a very dear friend. She has supported us through very tumultous times when my father became seriously ill, leading to cancellation and postponement of the first date we set and cancellation of the second when tragedy struck and my father was taken away from us. We were totally devasted..........Julie was absolutely incredible in re-organising everything at such a devasting time that was stressful and traumatic as it was without having to cancel a wedding aswell. We will never be able to thank her enough for that !  As time passed and we had to get ourselves together again Julie was back on the case and re-organised everything once again. On 23rd May 2007 we finally tied the knot at the fairytale hill-top town of Cortona ( suggested to us by Julie) followed by a dream reception at the castle, which we were lucky enough to call our "home" for a week - we had to keep pinching ourselves :-) We literally felt like queen and king ! The wedding day ran like clockwork - Julie and her business partner Camilla arranged the day seamlessly and at no point in the whole process did I ever worry about organising a wedding remotely, we felt secure and in the best possible hands possible from day one ! We would like to make some special thank you's to