How long does it take to plan a wedding? More than 240 hours!
After our first free meeting in one of our offices or through a call on the phone or on Skype, our team will ensure an excellent service by selecting the best locations – out of the 400 we have agreements with in Italy– that will match your desires, budget, style and guest list size.
It is important for us underline that every detail of your Big Day is going to be 100% tailored on your exclusive vision, because YOUR WEDDING IS YOURS, and yours only. We believe that every wedding is a different and unique fairy tale of love, and we are eager to be the original and creative storytellers of your incredible story, rather than copy-paste projects.
Starting from your chosen location, we will share with you all the available services we have, in order to realize your vision and to make you and your guests enjoy your Big Day.
You will then have 2 options:
1. Budget estimated by you and services planned according to that;
2. Budget estimated by our team after the choice of the services for the wedding.
Always remember: Our aim is to design a wedding tailored on you and your personality and to relieve you from the stress of planning the most important day of your life.
P.S.: If you have already booked some services out of our coordination, do not worry!
We will be eager to keep them and help you with all the other further services you will need, taking over all the residual logistics and planning.[
“The ceremony is one of the most important and emotional parts of a wedding.“
Do you want to know why?
Because the ceremony is where your marriage starts: it is where it breathes life, it is where it takes shape.
In a way, the ceremony is the symbol of commitment and the foundation of your love to your partner.
Therefore, we believe that it is important that you choose the right type and style of ceremony for you.
In addition to that, we can assure you that our team would be eager to help you throughout all the bureaucratic procedures: indeed we will always be by your side!
Speaking of what we usually do for perfect ceremonies, here is a fun fact: During civil, non- denominational and non religious ceremonies,
Giada Marcuzzi often acts as a marriage officiant and a sworn certified translator.
Religious ceremonies
Ceremonies that follow the process and structure in accordance to their religion.
Interfaith ceremonies
Ceremonies between partners professing different religions. Although interfaith marriages are most often contracted as civil marriages, in some instances they may be contracted as a religious marriage. This depends on religious prohibitions against the marriage by the religion of one (or both) spouses, based on religious doctrine or tradition.
Symbolic – non-denominational ceremonies
Ceremonies for couples who have a “general” faith, but do not prescribe to one particular type of church or religion. Indeed, the entity of God and the couple’s religious spirituality are mentioned, but simply without any allusion to any god or religion in particular. This ceremonies are quite personalized and are frequently celebrated in destination weddings.
Symbolic – non religious
Ceremonies that do not contain any religious references or content: this kind of ceremonies are very personalized and tailored to each couple. Destination weddings with symbolic or blessing ceremonies are becoming more and more popular every year here in Italy. Such ceremonies allow couples complete freedom to plan their Italian wedding wherever and however they may wish, based on their preferences, cultural background and values. Best of all, no paperwork is required since the ceremony is not legally binding.
Civil ceremonies
Ceremonies that make couples legally married: usually, they take place in a town or city hall, registry office or other official or recognized building/location and are conducted by a local official or a registrar who follows a specific legal process that can vary from country to country.
Other peculiar forms
In Italy, for example, there is a unique wedding ceremony, called “matrimonio concordatario”, which is both civil and religious (for the Roman Catholic Church and few other Churches).
Dreaming of an incredible and luxurious location in a land far away?
Looking for help with finding your dream venue?
GMW can help you find the perfect location for you and your guests
to experience the wedding of a lifetime.
We will ensure an excellent service by selecting the best locations
that will match your desires, budget, style and guest list size.
After this process of careful screening, we will show you our hand-picked venue recommendations and set up on-site tours in those you will be most interested in.
Our on-site visits will serve as inspections that will ease your final choice.
Our experience and our work ethic will be crucial at this particular stage: indeed, GMW Team will be open to share with you not only the pros’, but also the cons’ of each location.
Finally, we will be with you each step of the way, also the trickiest ones: payments and agreements are our bread and butter so, do not worry,
we will even help you read over the contract before you will officially book the venue of your dreams.
Wherever you will desire to tie your knot, GMW will always excel in making
your destination wedding flawless and sophisticated! Once you have covered the “WHERE”, it is time for you to choose
what to do with the “WHAT”.
Listen to your heart and follow your taste: we will take you by the hand
in a world of planning and creativity!
Starting from wedding invitations’ graphics, we believe that our weddings reflect the lifestyles and personalities of each couple we work with.
Our Team (made up of wedding planners and designers) works closely with our brides and grooms in order to create the most incredible design anyone could ever imagine.
We are famous for creating designs that break all the patterns and for realizing our customers’ dreams: from fairytale weddings painted with romantic pastels and 50s-style nuptials in leather-jacket and pois, to country jamborees and boho marriages full of wildflowers’ perfume, we can imagine and create much more than you will ever expect.
Our wedding planners are extremely passionate about what they do and our clients testify that letting us plan their wedding for them implies having somebody by their side who understands their needs and who will be relentless in realizing what they want.Once you will have a tailored wedding design, our team will write up an estimated budget.
Believing in transparency, we always describe the details of each expenditure item and we weight all the possibilities and all the changes to be made directly with you.
Your estimated budget will include each service and decoration you will request, such as:
– lighting and decor;
– live-music performances;
– deejay;
– official wedding video;
– car renting;
– wedding catering;
– wedding cake and cake topper;
– open bar.
Have you ever heard of Wedding Concierge Services?
Just like hotel concierge services help you find the best restaurants and attractions in the area, Wedding Concierge Services either help you dream up your perfect Big Day and then do the grunt work for you, or offer an array of epic options to choose from.
In short, these one-of-a-kind services will have you and your attendants breathing a sigh of relief and having loads of fun.
For all the potential reservations concerning the spouses and the wedding guests, such as overnight accommodation or transports, we will obviously coordinate all the services. In addition to that, it will be our job to coordinate all the further reservations of beauty services, wellness & SPA, plus an entire provision of other additional services.
Make room for our team in your wedding plans and let us do everything we are able to in order to help you, so that you can have all the fun and focus on what is really important: your wedding day! The day before the wedding, our team will set a meeting (a kind of pre-con) with you and all the wedding vendors and suppliers, such as the photographer, the officiant and the catering manager.
The meeting will be set at all the locations where the wedding will be scheduled to take place: we always plan to do so to review the logistics of the event.
The days after the wedding, our team will be at your disposal, too: we might plan for you guided tours, excursions, cooking courses, wine-tastings or a classy “day-after” brunch.
Our service of wedding planning ALWAYS includes:
– A personal and English-speaking wedding planner that will be with the couple through all the steps of the planning, until the end of the Big Day;
– Constant communication with the personal wedding planner through e-mails, Skype and phone-calls;
– Personal Wedding planner on-site – with her coordinators – during the Big Day;
– Creation of a well-tailored wedding design;
– Detailed description of all the expenses (transparent budget);
– Creation of an event timeline for the organization of the event;
– Plan and coordination of all the services connected with the wedding – flower compositions, decorations, entertainment, shooting, transports, accommodation, beauty services [etc.];
– Coordination of budget, payments and arrangements with vendors and suppliers;
– Triple confirm by the suppliers: 1 month before, 1 week before, one day before the Big Day; Send a request for a free meeting with our team.
We have an extensive network of offices in Italy and we are always available on the phone and on Skype!
Why Italy
Italy is a breath-taking destination for a wedding abroad and, well, there are many good reasons to it: stunning and diverse views and venues, breezy and sunny weather and tasty Mediterranean food, to start with.
But these, to be fair, are just some of the perks that will help you choose Italy as your marriage destination.
Stunning Views
From the azure Mediterranean Sea to the glistening lakes in the North, and from when the sun rises over the centenary olive groves in Apulia to when it warmly sets on Tuscany’s rolling hills, Italy is always and in every single bit the most romantic and mesmerizing place where to say “I do”. What is more, is that Italy is nothing short of incredible venues as well: whether you want a wedding in a countryside barn in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, on a clifftop hotel in Ravello or in a luxurious historical villa, Italy does not disappoint. Like, ever.
Mouth-watering Food
Food in Italy is The Bomb™. Our cuisine offers an abundance of taste and flavour and heavily relies on hearty and simple quality ingredients that vary by region and season. Pasta and focaccia, polenta and sauce, cheese and cured meats, but also creamy risottos and delicate gnocchi, juicy beef cuts and freshly caught fish, zesty sorbets and fine wines and an abundance of colourful and fragrant fruits and vegetables are just waiting for you to enjoy them until the very last bite.
Warm Hospitality
Rooted in a fascinating mélange of Mediterranean and central European cultures, Italian age-old hospitality is a blend of an open, cosmopolitan attitude with a cosier and traditional charm.
It is not unusual for venues and service providers to welcome wedding couples and their guests with elegance and style while being as effortless and as generous as they would be if they were interacting with their own circle of friends – or even families: indeed, Italians would do anything to make you feel both comfortable and special during your Big Day!
Breath-taking Honeymoon
Every region of Italy has different traditions that can enrich your destination wedding with history, art, and culture: without traveling too far, you and your guests will be able to enjoy mesmerizing natural wonders, buzzing cities, remote villages and historical buildings, monuments and sites. The choice is so wide that picking Italy as both your wedding and honeymoon destination not only makes so much sense, but will also feel like travelling to an all new – but always welcoming and beautiful – country each stop of the way.
Lush Design
“Organise your wedding in Italy”, they say.
“Trust Italian Wedding planners”, they say.
And you know what? They are right!
A destination wedding coordinated by Italians in their very own land is a credit to the inimitable quality, elegance and design of our Belpaese. When you decide to give us the responsibility to tell your story during the most important day of your life, we are ready to bring our style and taste in the game and translate it into something that will wow your guest while genuinely reflecting your personality and wishes.
Love
That’s it. Just love, amore. Italians are incredibly romantic, passionate and emotional, and Italy is, by definition, one of the most romantic and magical destinations in Europe. A very big part of what makes Italy so romantic is the fact that Italy has romance in its DNA: think back to Romeo and Juliet, La Dolce Vita and Frank Sinatra. And again: the food, the climate, the views, the people, and literally anything else that has even just a 0,1% of Italian in it.
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It would be our greatest pleasure to help you make your dream wedding a reality. We look forward to meeting you!