Italy Will Pay You $2,200 to Get Married There
Planning on getting married? Dreaming of a destination wedding? How about a free one (not completely) in Italy?
Lazio, a central region in Italy where Rome is located, is offering just that. A new campaign for couples getting married there is offering up to €2,000 ($2,200).
The campaign is called Nel Lazio Con Amore (In Lazio with Love). There’s a budget of €10 million ($11 million) available from Covid recovery funds, which will be given to couples planning weddings or civil unions that take place in Lazio in 2022. That’s at least 5,000 couples, Italian or foreign.
If your claim is successful, you can use the grant towards expenses like flowers, outfits, rings, hair and makeup, photos, or even the venue and catering and your honeymoon. Things like catering or the the honeymoon are limited to a maximum of €700, or $770.
Expenses must be dated between December 14, 2021 and January 31, 2023, and you must provide receipts. Online purchases don’t count.
You can find more details here (in Italian), file a claim here, and also check out the video below.
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Got married in Venice in 1993 (same place as George & Amal Clooney)…divorced in Edinburgh in 1997. Had such a great time with both, lol. Except for running around to various consulates and city government offices in Venic, Milan and NYC to get things “stamped” with stamps from a newsstand where they kept selling me postage stamps instead of pay-the-government stamps – and my Italian was good enough to make that clear. Still can’t believe I got married on the day and at the time I had originally scheduled, given that obstacle course!
Clever idea by the gummint there in Lazio. I am proud of my people there in Italy. But after 4 marriages, 2.2 MILLION dollars would not be enough to get me to get married again! LOL!
Good luck to all of those who give it a whack, though!!