The Architect’s
Blueprint

Twelve to eighteen months. Italy’s finest venues and suppliers are booked further ahead than most couples expect: for a weekend in high season, eighteen months is not caution, it is arithmetic. Shorter timelines are sometimes possible, and I will tell you honestly whether yours is one of them.

Yes. Destination weddings are logistically complex, and holding the entire lifecycle — first concept, venue scouting, suppliers, technical coordination on the day — is what allows a design to survive execution. Taking on half a project would mean promising a result I no longer control.

It starts with a long conversation and a detailed questionnaire — not only about what you like, but about how you want your guests to feel when they walk in. From that I write the design brief: palette, materials, scenography, the rhythm of each day. Nothing I have designed before is reused.

No more than ten a year, and never more than one in a weekend. It is a deliberate limit on what I can earn, and it is what allows me to answer the phone on the days that matter.

Yes. I direct every phase myself, from the first delivery to the last guest, with my team on setups, suppliers and timing. You will not meet me at the signature and someone else at the altar.

Scheduled video calls for project reviews, WhatsApp for quick decisions and images, and email for contracts and documents. I reply within the same working day, and when something depends on an Italian supplier’s office hours, I am the one waiting for them to open, not you.

Then you will see it through me: renderings, video walkthroughs from site visits, material samples sent to you, and my own honest opinion on every option. It requires more trust, and I have earned it before — Molly and Ari married across three venues in Sicily, even though they had seen none of them.

A percentage of the total wedding budget, scaled to the number of days, the guest count, the complexity of the venue and the season. Like an architecture studio, what I sell is design and responsibility, not hours. I accept no commissions from suppliers, so my fee comes from you alone and my judgment stays free.

I negotiate and hold every contract on your behalf. You pay each supplier directly, at their own price: no money passes through my account, and I take no margin on anything. Your control over costs stays absolute.

Yes. I have a network built over twenty-five years and continuously reassessed, but I am glad to work with people you already love. They simply coordinate with my studio in line with the project’s standards and calendar.

I never design without one. Plan B is not a fallback: it is a second complete project — same atmosphere, same elegance — drawn and costed alongside the first, ready the moment the sky changes. It is also why I steer large celebrations towards venues whose interiors are worth using.

This is where I earn my place. Nulla Osta, civil and religious requirements, permits for protected properties, the paperwork every municipality does slightly differently — I manage all of it, and I speak to everyone involved in their own language. You will never be asked to interpret an Italian form.