I plan weddings the way I’d want mine planned.

My story

I studied people before I studied weddings.

My background is in psychology. It’s an unusual place to start for someone who now spends her days choosing linens and briefing florists, but it turned out to be the most useful training I could have had. A wedding brings together two families, old friendships, several strong opinions and a considerable amount of money. Reading a room matters more than any colour palette.

I didn’t begin with weddings. I began by travelling, looking for places that were beautiful for no particular reason, and organising picnics and seaside proposals for people who wanted to ask a question in the right setting. I never stopped looking — I still plan a good part of my year around places I want to see.

I am, without much hope of recovery, a romantic. I’m also the person who reads the supplier contract twice and asks what happens if it rains. Couples tend to be relieved to find both in the same person.

Photography shaped the way I see the rest of it. I’ve always been drawn to light, to composition, to texture, to the small things that change the feeling of an entire room. It means I think about a wedding visually as well as practically — not only whether something works, but how it will look at seven in the evening, and how it will look years later in the one photograph you keep on the wall.

No two weddings are the same story to me. I take an idea, a place, a feeling, sometimes a single sentence from a first conversation, and build something around it that could belong to nobody else.

I have a weakness for difficult projects. If there’s a problem to solve I’ll still be turning it over long after everyone else has gone to bed — sometimes literally, drawing a new idea at two in the morning because the first three didn’t work. You won’t see that part, and you shouldn’t have to.

What I care about are the small things and the unexpected ones: the details your guests will never know were decided months earlier. Planning a wedding isn’t only making a day look beautiful. It’s listening to the people who trust me, understanding what they’re actually describing, and then building it so they can walk into it.

Today I work from Sicily, and I go wherever a wedding takes me — another region, another country. What doesn’t change is the way I start: with a conversation, and a great deal of listening.