Pricing
Most planners won’t put numbers on a website. I’d rather you knew now whether we’re in the same range — it saves us both a conversation neither of us wanted.
How I charge
Not a percentage of your budget. That model rewards me for making your wedding more expensive, which is a strange thing to want from the person advising you.
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Quoted after the first conversation, once I know the size and the shape of the day. It doesn’t move afterwards unless the wedding itself does.
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I take nothing from the suppliers I recommend, and nobody pays to be on my list. You see their quotes exactly as they wrote them.
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Venue, catering, flowers and everyone else are paid by you, directly. Nothing passes through me, and there’s no mark-up to find later.
Starting figures
These are starting points, not quotes. Most weddings land above them, and I’ll tell you how far above before you commit to anything.
Everything, from the first conversation to the last table.
from €3,500Full planning, plus paperwork, guest logistics and the days around it.
from €5,000The project and every setting built from it. Included if I’m also planning.
from €2,500The final month and the day itself, after you’ve planned the rest.
from €1,500Two to twenty people, with the paperwork and the day itself.
from €2,000Two sessions and the documents, then you plan it yourselves.
from €600All figures are my fee alone. The wedding itself — venue, catering, flowers, photography, everything you’d pay for with or without me — sits in your own budget, and is usually several times this amount.
Where the money goes
Useful whether or not you work with me. These proportions hold surprisingly well from thirty thousand euros upwards — what changes is the total, not the shape.
The single largest line, and the one that scales directly with the guest list. Cutting twenty names saves more than any other decision you’ll make.
Higher if it’s exclusive-use or comes with rooms; lower if catering is bundled into the venue’s own price.
The most elastic figure on the list. It can be a third of this or twice it, depending on how much is built rather than hired.
The only part of the day you keep. Couples who economise here tend to say so afterwards.
Ceremony musicians, aperitivo, band or DJ for the evening, and the sound and lighting that make them work.
Including alterations, shoes, hair and make-up, and the trials nobody budgets for.
Stationery, transport, favours, the ceremony itself, and the contingency you’ll be glad you kept.
What moves my fee
Everything scales with the list: suppliers, logistics, seating, the number of decisions. It’s the first question I ask and the one that moves the figure most.
A wedding an hour from me and one that needs flights and two nights are different jobs. Travel is quoted openly, not buried in the fee.
A venue that already looks the way you want it needs very little. An empty space that becomes a whole world needs months.
One afternoon, or a welcome dinner, a wedding and a Sunday lunch with beds and buses for everyone in between.
Questions
A deposit when we start, which confirms your date in my calendar, and the balance in instalments across the planning, with the last one shortly before the wedding.
The dates and the amounts are written into the agreement at the beginning, so there’s never a payment you didn’t see coming.
You do, directly, on their own contracts. I negotiate, check and manage them, but your money never passes through my account.
It means you always know exactly what each thing costs, and it means I have nothing to gain by steering you towards one supplier over another.
It happens more often than you’d think, in both directions. We rework the plan around the new figure — that’s part of the job and it doesn’t change my fee.
What does change my fee is the wedding itself growing: another hundred guests or a second venue is more work, and I’d tell you before doing it, not after.
Not a formal one. But below a certain point a planning fee eats a share of the budget that would be better spent on the day itself, and I’ll say so rather than take the work.
If that’s where you are, planning guidance or coordination will serve you better than full planning. Both exist for exactly this reason.
Within Sicily, yes. Beyond it, travel and accommodation for site visits and the wedding itself are quoted separately and at cost — I don’t add a margin to a plane ticket.
Everything you’d be paying for with or without me: venue, catering, flowers, rentals, photography, music, stationery, transport, and anything hired or built for the day.
My fee covers my time, my judgement and my direction of all of the above. The quote separates the two clearly, so you can see which is which.
Still not sure where you’d land? Tell me the date and the numbers and I’ll give you a real figure.
Ask for a quote