A Winter Wedding in Val Gardena

A civil ceremony in Selva, a helicopter to a snow-clad Dolomite peak and a ski run down in gown and black tie — Max and Jelena married in winter Val Gardena.

Theirs was a real winter wedding, kept small and spent entirely in the snow. They said their legal vows at the registry in Selva di Val Gardena — red folder, the town’s crest, the registrar’s tricolour sash — with only their closest people around them. Then a helicopter lifted the two of them out of the valley and set them on a high, wind-scoured shoulder of the Gröden Dolomites, the peaks standing white against a heavy winter sky.

What came next is pure Max and Jelena: still in gown and black tie, they buckled in and rode the piste back down, then met their families for Aperol and a long, sunlit lunch on a mountain-hut terrace, the Sassolungo glowing behind them. A winter day like this asks for warm layers, a helicopter window and a flexible eye on the weather — we handle the flight, the timing and the light, so you can simply get married and then ski home.

What we love about this day is the contrast: a quiet civil ceremony in the valley in the morning, papers signed and legal, then an afternoon on a summit that felt like another planet. The formal and the wild, back to back — the certificate that makes it real and the mountain that makes it theirs.

A winter day like this asks for a little more — warm layers under the gown, real boots to the spot, a close eye on the weather — and gives back the most spectacular version of the Dolomites there is. We handle the flight, the permits and the timing; you bring the nerve and the ski legs.

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