The websites are in Italian, and half never reply
The venues worth having are family-run. They answer the phone, in Italian, between 9 and 6 — which is the middle of your night.
Venue matchmaking · Veneto · Lake Garda · Tuscany
The right Italian venue,
The right Italian venue,
found in ten days.
We shortlist four to six real venues that fit your date, your budget and your guest list — and we tell you what's wrong with each one. Fixed fee. No commission from any venue, ever.
9 questions · about 90 seconds · no card, no commitment
- We take no commission from venues
- Published fixed prices
- English · Português · Español
- Four-venue guarantee
10working days to your shortlist
0%commission taken from venues
45minutes from our door to most venues
3languages we answer in
The actual problem
Choosing a venue from six thousand kilometres away is close to impossible
Directories list everything and recommend nothing
Two hundred results, all photographed at golden hour, none of them telling you which ones are actually free on your date or inside your budget.
Planners quote €12,000 for work you didn't ask for
You wanted help choosing a venue. You were sold full coordination of a day you already know how you want to spend.
What we do instead
One job, done properly, for a price you can see before you talk to us
01
Take the quiz
Nine questions, about ninety seconds. We learn your date, your budget, your guest count and — more useful than any of those — what you actually enjoy.
02
Twenty minutes on a call
Evenings in Italy, which is the middle of your working afternoon in New York, Toronto, London or São Paulo. No sales pressure. Prices are already published.
03
Your shortlist, in ten working days
Four to six venues we have stood inside. Availability confirmed on your date. A budget model in your currency. Direct introductions to the people who own them.
The part nobody else does
We tell you what's wrong with every venue we send you
Every venue in Italy looks perfect in photographs. Our shortlists include the part the photographs leave out — the 23:00 noise curfew, the compulsory in-house caterer, the four hundred metres of gravel between the car park and the ceremony, the rain plan that seats sixty of your ninety guests.
That single field is why couples pay us, and it is the one thing no directory will ever publish.
Why couples trust us with this
Italian, in Italy, and on your side of the table
You are about to send five figures to people you have never met, in a country you don't live in. That fear is reasonable, and a paragraph is not an answer to it. Ours is a studio based in Treviso that calls venues in Italian during Italian working hours, has physically stood inside every venue it recommends, and takes no money from any of them. When you fly in to look around, we meet you at the gate.
Based in Treviso, Veneto · Venice, the Prosecco Hills, Lake Garda, Verona and Tuscany
Where we work
One corridor, driven regularly — not a map scraped off the internet
Everything in our core region sits within ninety minutes of our front door. That is the whole reason we can tell you the closing time and the rain plan.
Fly into VCE / TSF
The Prosecco Hills
UNESCO World Heritage · Conegliano to Valdobbiadene
Fly into VCE
Venice & the Lagoon
Palazzi, private islands, water everywhere
Fly into VCE
The Brenta Riviera & Treviso
Palladian villas, formal gardens, 16th-century rooms
Fly into VRN
Lake Garda
Lakefront villas, olive terraces, one private island
Fly into VRN
Verona & Valpolicella
Amarone estates, Roman city, wine cellars
Fly into FLR / PSA
Tuscany
Borghi, hilltop estates, cypress avenues
Six kinds of Italian wedding
Which one is actually yours?
Most couples arrive asking for “a villa in Italy” and leave having booked something they hadn't thought of. The quiz exists to find that thing in ninety seconds.
Vineyard Estate
Working wine estate, cellar dinners, harvest light
A family that has made wine for four generations, a barrel cellar you can eat in, and a terrace looking down rows of vine. Warm rather than grand, and the best value of the six.
Best for: wine-lovers, autumn dates, 40–120 guests
Palladian Villa
Frescoed rooms, formal gardens, ballroom capacity
Sixteenth-century architecture built for exactly this: arriving guests, long tables, dancing in a room with a painted ceiling. Where you go when the guest list is genuinely large.
Best for: 100–250 guests, formal occasions, spring
Lagoon Palazzo
Venetian palace, arrival by boat, water and marble
A private palace on the water, guests arriving by boat, and photographs nowhere else on earth can produce. Small numbers only, and worth every complication.
Best for: under 150 guests, winter light, big budgets
Lakefront Villa
Terraces over the water, mountains behind, boats
A villa with its own water frontage on Lake Garda: aperitivo on the terrace, dinner under the pergola, and a boat for the two of you at the end of it.
Best for: summer, 50–180 guests, guests who'll make a holiday of it
Hilltop Castle
Ramparts, courtyards, a village underneath
Stone, height and a view over the whole valley — usually with rooms inside it, so the wedding party never has to drive anywhere. Cheaper than it looks in the photographs.
Best for: whole-weekend weddings, autumn, 60–250 guests
Countryside Borgo
A hamlet you take over entirely, for three days
An entire restored village — houses, chapel, pool, kitchen — rented exclusively so that everyone you love sleeps a hundred metres from dinner. The three-day wedding in its natural form.
Best for: exclusive use, 60–200 guests, families travelling far
Prices, published
No quotes. No negotiation. No commission.
You will not be asked for your budget so we can price against it. The prices are the same for everyone and they are on the website.
Show prices in
Shortlist
You know what you want. You need someone on the ground to find it and check it's free.
€490
one-off, per couple
- 4–6 verified venues, availability confirmed on your date
- Honest budget model, in your currency
- What's wrong with each venue, written down
- Delivered in 10 working days
Credited in full against an upgrade within 30 days — there is no wrong place to start.
Most chosen
Blueprint
The one most couples take. Everything in Shortlist, plus the introductions and the vendor list that actually save you months.
€1,490
one-off, per couple
- 4–6 verified venues, availability confirmed on your date
- Honest budget model, in your currency
- What's wrong with each venue, written down
- Delivered in 10 working days
- Direct introductions to venue managers
- Vetted vendor shortlist — photo, flowers, food, music
- 45-minute video call to work through it
- Negotiation notes: what to ask for and what to refuse
No card today. We agree the package on the call and invoice only once you've said yes in writing.
Concierge
For couples who want a professional in Italy standing next to them — including on the day they come to see the venues.
€2,900
one-off, per couple
- 4–6 verified venues, availability confirmed on your date
- Honest budget model, in your currency
- What's wrong with each venue, written down
- Delivered in 10 working days
- Direct introductions to venue managers
- Vetted vendor shortlist — photo, flowers, food, music
- 45-minute video call to work through it
- Negotiation notes: what to ask for and what to refuse
- Viewing-trip itinerary planned around your flights
- One of us with you at the viewings, in person
- Guest logistics plan — airports, hotels, transfers
- WhatsApp line until your contracts are signed
No card today. We agree the package on the call and invoice only once you've said yes in writing.
The Shortlist fee is credited in full against an upgrade within 30 days — so there is no wrong place to start.
The guarantee
Four venues, or you don't pay
If your shortlist doesn't contain at least four venues that are available on your date and inside your budget, we refund you in full. We qualify carefully on the call precisely so this never has to happen.
Falamos português. Hablamos español.
Brazilian and Spanish-speaking couples marry in Italy in large numbers and are served, almost everywhere, in a language they are merely competent in. Not here. Every call, every document and every venue introduction happens in your language.
We take 8 couples a month.
Questions couples ask
How is this different from a wedding planner?
A planner runs your wedding day and charges €5,000–€20,000 to do it. We find and verify your venue, and stop. That is roughly a fifth of the price, it is the part you genuinely cannot do from abroad, and it leaves you free to hire a coordinator later — or not.
Do you take commission from the venues?
No, and we structured the business specifically so we can't. Venues pay a fixed monthly marketing fee or nothing. No venue can buy a place on your shortlist. It is the reason our recommendations mean anything.
What does a wedding in Italy actually cost?
For 80 guests in the Veneto, most couples land between €45,000 and €90,000 all in. Venue hire is typically €8,000–€28,000 of that. Our budget calculator breaks it down line by line, and the numbers come from real quotes rather than from a blog.
Can we legally marry in Italy as foreigners?
Yes. You'll need a Nulla Osta from your consulate, a sworn translation, and an appointment at the comune. It takes 6–10 weeks and is very manageable — but many couples choose to complete the legal part at home and hold a symbolic ceremony in Italy, which removes the paperwork entirely.
How far in advance should we book?
Twelve to eighteen months for a Saturday in May, June or September. Six months is workable for a weekday or for winter. Under three months we'll be honest with you about what's left.
