FAQ

With 16 years of experience Wedding Venues in Tuscany provides the best selection of wedding locations around Tuscany. Our mission is to provide you quickly and in the most clear way venues options, availabilities and costs for your big day in Tuscany. Our team of responsive and proactive wedding planners will guide you to realize all of your dream! We will follow you every step of the way and take care of every detail.

Most of the brides love to do everything together and speak about all the services in the first few exciting months of the planning. We prefer to work per chapter to be focused on one point at the time following this order:

• Venue research – this is the most important part of the wedding process, we need to select and book the right place with the perfect vibes for you.

• Catering research – on top of the venue, the catering will take up most of your budget and it has a huge impact on the wedding day. We will need to find the perfect catering company with the right style and service that can match your expectations. Consider that some of the venues already have an internal catering. A very important point to be considered when you choose your perfect Wedding Venue in Tuscany.

• Music and lights – music creates the perfect mood of the day and it’s very important that the Musicians you like would be available on that day. Also the lighting is a very important part of the planning as it can create the perfect Italian atmosphere you are dreaming of.

• Flowers and decors – all of you have already a Pinterest page with thousands of ideas and it’s good starting point. Please send it to us so that we can follow your taste and requests and then prepare the best suggestions for your wedding.

These above are the most important aspects of the wedding planning process but we would love to help you with all the other services like photographer, videographer, transportations etc.

For sure there is! A realistic budget per person for a wedding in Tuscany is around €800 per guest. It means that if you have 80 guests the whole wedding would cost around €64.000 in total. This price includes:

•Reception fee

•Good Italian wedding dinner and Bar service

•Seasonal flowers and decors

•Music to entertain your guests

•Planning assistance

•Photographer

•Hair make-up service for bride

Most of the couples start to plan their wedding between one year and one year and half in advance to be quite sure to find a good availability for venues and suppliers and to have all the time to plan their Big Day.

Are you a last minute bride? No worries, we arranged weddings also with 3 months of advance!

All the vendors have different payments policies but we can help you to figure out the finances you need during the planning process:

• From 30% to 50% of the total amount to be paid for each service as a deposit to secure the date

• Another 30% roughly 6 months before the wedding

• Balance for all the services and venues around 1 month before the big day

Venues in Tuscany can be classified in two categories:

• Venues with no accommodation: some historical villas in Tuscany have no accommodation at all. In these kind of venues, you can host the ceremony, cocktail, reception dinner and after dinner party. If you like a venue like this we can help you to select local hotels for your guests.

• Venues with partial accommodation: These venues can host part of your families and friends; we can suggest you extra accommodation nearby for your guests.

• Venues with accommodation for all your guests: if you would like to have all your guests together this would be the best solution for you. You will not have to be worried about transports etc, it will be a sort of holiday all together.

In Italy there are many different types of ceremonies you can choose from.

Here below the most popular:

• CIVIL CEREMONY: The civil marriage ceremony will be performed by a Major or Registrar Officer. The required documents depend on your nationality and place of residence. Our experienced planners can help you providing the right documents to be issued. We can also assist you to find the interpreter and we can manage all the process. We guarantee that you will leave Italy with the right marriage certificate valid in your Country.

In Italy the civil ceremony can be performed at the local Town Hall or at private wedding venues with the special authorization.

Here some venues that allow you to have the civil ceremony onsite:

• WEDDING VILLA IN FLORENCE - 227

• WEDDING RUSTIC VILLA IN TUSCANY - 103

• TUSCANY WEDDING HAMLET - 144

• VILLA MEDICEA IN TUSCANY - 801

• ORGANIC FARMHOUSE FOR WEDDINGS IN TUSCANY - 102

• CASTLE FOR WEDDING IN SIENA - 508

• WEDDING HAMLET IN SIENA - 503

• CATHOLIC CEREMONY: Catholic ceremonies have to be performed by a Catholic priest inside a consecrated church. We know some of the most beautiful and romantic churches in Tuscany.

• CATHOLIC CEREMONY LEGALLY RECOGNIZED: In Italy it is possible to perform a catholic ceremony in a church with a legal value. This is possible without performing a legal ceremony in advance. We will guide you with all the required documents.

• SYMBOLIC CEREMONY: A symbolic ceremony can be celebrated everywhere and you don't have any restriction in term of exchange of vows and music.

For all the other ceremonies, like Protestant, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish and others do not hesitate to ask us for more info.

In your Big Day the Wedding Venues in Tuscany Team will be present all day long to leave you relaxed and thoughtless.

In most of the venues music limit outdoor is midnight. However there are some venues where music can be done until late outside. For music inside there are no specific limits.

Here some venues with flexibility on the music outdoor:

• WEDDING VENUE IN TUSCANY - 131

• VILLA WEDDING TUSCANY - 118

• VILLA IN FLORENCE - 225

• FARMHOUSE FOR WEDDINGS IN TUSCANY - 115

• WEDDING FARMHOUSE IN SIENA - 507

• WEDDING LUXURY CASTLE IN SIENA - 514

SIAE, which stands for “Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori” (literally Italian Society of Authors and Editors) is the Italian organization which collects tax due to artists and musicians for the use of their copyright protected works.

The SIAE TAX is a mandatory tax to be paid any time music is played both indoor or outdoor.

The amount of the tax can be between €200 to €500 depending on the event you are organizing.

Together with the signed contract, you will be asked to pay a deposit to block the date.

Each venue has different rules for cancellation policy that will be stated in the contract.