It's on the second floor of what guidebooks claim to be the 14th century Casa di Giulietta (home of Juliet) in Verona, Italy, visited each year and photographed by thousands of tourists. And it's as phony as a $3 bill. There's not a shred of evidence that this was either the balcony or the home of the Renaissance-era Cappellos (supposedly the model for the family portrayed in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as the Capulets).

Yet starting in April, a payment of €1,000 will enable you to rent the house and its balcony for a wedding performed between persons of any nationality, European or not. Though the ceremony itself will be conducted inside the home, the amorous couple can then step out onto the firm stone balcony to embrace and smooch for a photo captured by a friend standing below.
 
Could any place be better for a wedding?

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
...
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

Contact the Verona Tourist Board (IAT Verona, Via degli Alpini 9, 37121 Verona; tel. 39 045 8068680; e-mail iatverona@provincia.vr.it), which also claims that Verona is now the fourth most heavily visited tourist destination in Italy.