There is a particular silence that falls on a wedding morning in Italy, just before everything begins.
The flowers are in place. The light is still soft. Somewhere in a corridor of a Tuscan villa, a bride is breathing slowly. And behind every seamless timeline, every vendor who arrives exactly on time, every problem that never reached the couple — there is a wedding planner. Someone who has been carrying the invisible weight of this day for months, sometimes years, so that the couple can simply feel it.
As wedding filmmakers based in Italy, we at Thirtyfive Studios have shared that silence with some of the most talented planners in the country. We’ve stood beside them in the gardens of Tuscan villas, on the terraces of Lake Como, on the cliffs above the Amalfi Sea, in the private gardens of Rome. We’ve watched them navigate sudden downpours and missed deliveries with the composure of seasoned directors. We’ve seen them turn chaos into invisibility.
This is not a ranking. It is something more honest: a filmmaker’s portrait of the wedding planners we have personally worked alongside across Italy. If you are an international couple dreaming of getting married in Italy, this is where we’d point you.
Why the Relationship Between Planner and Videographer Matters
Before we introduce you to these teams, let us say something couples rarely hear: your wedding film is only as good as the day it captures.
A great planner orchestrates not just logistics but time. They build a day with rhythm, intention, and emotional space — knowing when to hold a moment and when to move it forward. When we arrive at a wedding where a great planner is at work, we feel it immediately. The vendors communicate. The timeline breathes. The couple is present, not managing. And those are the days our most powerful films are born.
Every planner in this guide has given us exactly that kind of day. And if you’re wondering why both photography and videography matter on a wedding day, the planner is the person who makes it possible for both to do their work well.
Read also: Why the Wedding Videographer You Choose Matters More Than You Think
Brenda Babcock — The Standard Everything Else Is Measured Against
If you ask any Italian wedding photographer or filmmaker who they’d call first, Brenda Babcock’s name comes up before they finish thinking. Born in Minnesota, educated in Boston and Paris, shaped by eight years as Vice President of Vera Wang’s retail division in New York — she arrived in Rome in 2000 for three months and never left. She founded her company in 2005 and has since become one of the most recognizable names in Italian destination weddings, cited by Vera Wang herself and featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Style Me Pretty, and Carats & Cake.
What distinguishes Brenda from almost every planner we’ve worked with is the scope of her territory and the consistency of her standard. She works across Tuscany, Florence, Rome, Umbria, the Amalfi Coast, the Lake Region, and Puglia — anywhere in Italy where the event demands her level of execution. She personally attends every single wedding. You are never passed to a junior coordinator. That choice defines her entire philosophy.
We’ve had the privilege of filming three of her events, each completely different in scale and character, and each marked by the same defining quality: a couple who could simply be there.
At Il Borro, the exclusive Ferragamo medieval estate near Arezzo, we filmed Tessa and Sebastian’s multi-day celebration — a welcome dinner, a pool party, and a ceremony under the late Tuscan summer sun. When an unexpected August rain threatened to derail the day, Brenda’s calm was absolute. She re-orchestrated the sequence with the ease of someone who had prepared ten contingency plans before breakfast. The rain became part of the story. Read the full story of Tessa & Sebastian at Il Borro
At Belmond Castello di Casole, a 10th-century castle surrounded by vineyards outside Siena — one of the most iconic luxury wedding venues in Tuscany — we filmed Bridget and Kyle’s three-day Italian dream. A couple who had traveled from Florida and entrusted Brenda with everything. The word that echoed most in the messages they received from their guests afterwards was magical. Read the full story of Belmond Castello di Casole
At Collegio alla Querce, the five-star Auberge resort perched above Florence with 360-degree views of the Duomo, we filmed Jessica and Billy’s wedding — where Chinese tradition and Florentine elegance coexisted in one of the most cinematically layered events we have ever captured. Read the full story of Collegio alla Querce
From a filmmaker’s perspective, what Brenda does that few others can match is build a day with a genuine narrative arc. The guests feel cared for. The couple feels free. That freedom — that presence — is everything when our cameras are rolling.
Elena Pensini — The Lake Como Legend
There is a description of Elena Pensini, written by a wedding photographer who has worked alongside her, that we have never forgotten: she produced the biggest, most logistically complex wedding he had ever photographed — celebrity chef, famous opera singer, fireworks, an aerial performer suspended above the guests — and she did it all in stilettos. He still doesn’t know how she managed it.
Elena is based in Laglio on Lake Como, where she has been planning destination weddings for over fifteen years. Educated at Bocconi University in Milan and Berkeley, she arrived in the events world from marketing and communication — a background that shapes everything about how she thinks. Her design philosophy takes inspiration from the neoclassical ideal of perfect beauty as equilibrium: nothing excessive, nothing missing, everything in proportion.
Her portfolio spans the greatest addresses on the lake — Villa d’Este, Villa del Balbianello, Villa Pizzo, Villa Leoni, Villa Regina Teodolinda — and her couples are overwhelmingly international, most from the United States and UK, many planning from thousands of miles away. What they consistently describe is a process so calm and organized that they arrived at their wedding day not as logistics managers but as guests of honor at their own celebration.
We filmed alongside her at Villa del Balbianello — perhaps the most iconic wedding venue on Lake Como, the one that appears in Casino Royale and Star Wars, perched on its narrow headland above the water. For Kristina and Kasil, who arrived by boat as the late morning sun turned the lake to silver, Elena created a day that suspended time. The ceremony on the loggia, the first boat ride as newlyweds, the tenor’s voice drifting across the water at dinner — every moment had been prepared for, and yet nothing felt rehearsed. That is the Elena Pensini paradox: the more thorough the preparation, the more spontaneous the day. Read the full story of Villa del Balbianello — and if you’re planning an event there, don’t miss our complete guide to Villa Balbianello →
The Tuscan Wedding — Twenty-One Years of Florence
The Tuscan Wedding is led by Daniela, born and raised in Florence — a woman who has spent over twenty-one years turning the hillside villas and Renaissance estates of her native city into settings for other people’s greatest days. The team she has built around her — Camilla, Martina, Viola, Katia — shares her attentiveness and her unhurried approach to international couples who arrive with a dream and need someone to turn it into a reality they hadn’t yet imagined.
Their specialty is full-service destination weddings for American and British couples: multi-day celebrations at Tuscan estates, villa weekends with welcome dinners and post-wedding brunches, ceremonies in the Florentine hills or in the heart of the Renaissance city itself. If you’re wondering why Tuscany is such a compelling choice for an international couple, The Tuscan Wedding is the team that can show you rather than tell you.
We filmed alongside them at Villa Cetinale, near Siena — one of the most architecturally extraordinary venues in Tuscany, a 17th-century Baroque estate designed by a student of Bernini, with its sacred forest, its cypress avenues, its votive chapels and ancient statues. For Helen and Joshua, an American couple, it was the setting for a wedding we pushed further than any we had shot before: cinematic footage woven with Super 8 grain for the romantic moments and VHS rawness for the spontaneous ones. The team’s seamless coordination gave us the creative freedom to experiment. Read the full story of Villa Cetinale
Sposiamovi — Italy at Scale, Beautifully
Since 2006, Sposiamovi has planned over 600 weddings across Italy. Based in Florence, Portofino, and Amalfi, with planners fluent in English and German and a team structure that includes coordinator, stylist, and dedicated guest concierge manager, they operate at a level of organizational sophistication that is genuinely rare.
Their territory is the wedding that doesn’t fit in a single day: multi-day celebrations, complex guest logistics, boat excursions, welcome dinners, farewell brunches, curated concierge services that extend throughout the entire stay in Italy. Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, Portofino, Venice, Capri, Lake Como — they operate everywhere, and everywhere with the same intentional, bespoke approach. The only standard package at Sposiamovi is the absence of standard packages.
We filmed alongside them at Villa Pizzo on Lake Como, for Beryl and Jimi’s wedding — a celebration that overflowed with joy, vibrant color, elaborate hats, live music playing late into the night. Lake Como has a visual power unlike anywhere else in Italy, and Sposiamovi harnessed it completely. The operational complexity — the boat transfers, the timing, the vendor coordination across multiple spaces — was invisible to every guest. Everything simply flowed. Read the full story of Beryl & Jimi at Villa Pizzo
WeddingItaly — Stile Italiano Since 1999
Sonia and Alberto are married to each other and to their work, and you feel both things when you meet them. They founded WeddingsItaly in 1999 — which makes them one of the most experienced destination wedding planning agencies in Italy — and they have spent the decades since building a practice around what they call Stile Italiano: a philosophy of weddings that are immersive, authentic, and rooted in the genuine culture of their country.
Their territory is genuinely national. Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, Positano, Lake Como, Rome, Puglia, Sicily, Venice, Capri, Umbria — their portfolio spans the full geography of Italian destination weddings, and their team’s knowledge of each region is matched by collective experience across all of them. Over four hundred planned events in more than twenty years means they have seen and solved almost every scenario a destination wedding can produce.
We filmed alongside them at Villa Scorzi, a beautifully preserved Tuscan estate surrounded by olive groves and vines. What struck us, as it always does with WeddingsItaly, was the ease they give to couples. Sonia and Alberto had already resolved everything worth worrying about. The couple simply got to arrive.
Moretti Events — Elia Moretti and the Art of Effortless Luxury
Elia Moretti started his career at twenty-three, at a time when wedding planning was still an emerging profession in Italy. That early beginning is not incidental — it means that Moretti Events has been shaping the language of Italian luxury weddings since before that language was fully formed. Founded in Florence in 2010 and now operating across the whole of Italy as well as Provence and the Côte d’Azur, the company he built has grown into one of the most recognizable names in the field. The aesthetic he has defined over fifteen years is precise: romantic elegance with contemporary sensibility — never predictable, never ordinary, never outdated.
What strikes us most about Elia and his team is the quality of stillness they bring to complex days. Couples consistently describe the same experience: a planning process so calm and organized that they arrived at their wedding feeling like guests at their own celebration, not co-organizers of a logistical operation.
We filmed alongside Moretti Events at Villa Arvedi, the magnificent 17th-century Baroque villa near Verona, set within one of the most extraordinary formal gardens in northern Italy. Villa Arvedi is a venue that demands a planner who can match its scale and its grandeur without being overwhelmed by either — a venue where the architecture itself sets an impossibly high standard for everything around it. Elia met that standard with complete composure. The day was as considered as the setting. Every detail, from the ceremony positioning in the garden to the reception under the villa’s frescoed ceilings, felt inevitable. If you’re drawn to the grandeur of northern Italy’s historic estates, our guide to getting married at UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy captures why venues like Villa Arvedi occupy a category entirely their own.
The Amalfi Experience — Jacquie Coppola and the Art of the Coastal Wedding
Australian-born Jacquie Coppola has been planning weddings on the Amalfi Coast since 2006, and The Amalfi Experience has grown into one of the most respected planning companies on the coast. Jacquie is based in Amalfi itself, and her team — Rosie, Jocelyn, Lucy — shares her intimate knowledge of every venue, every logistics challenge, and every light condition that makes this coastline so complex to manage and so impossibly beautiful to film.
The expertise that defines The Amalfi Experience is not transferable. It comes from living on the coast, knowing the ferry schedules, the restricted access hours at certain venues, the vendors who understand the rhythms of the cliffside. Couples who plan an Amalfi Coast wedding without this depth of local knowledge discover quickly how many invisible variables they hadn’t considered — and if you’re weighing your options, our guide to the best wedding venues on the Amalfi Coast is a good place to start.
We filmed alongside Jacquie and her team at Belmond Hotel Caruso in Ravello — one of the most celebrated wedding addresses in Italy, a former bishop’s palace where the infinity terrace pool appears to pour directly into the Mediterranean. It is one of the most cinematically extraordinary locations we have ever worked in, and The Amalfi Experience handled it with the ease of a team that knows it intimately. The couple was free to live the day. Our cameras were free to find it.
Camilla Boniek Events — Roman Roots, London Soul
Camilla was born in Rome and has lived in London for nearly a decade — a combination that gives her a perspective on destination weddings that very few planners possess. She understands what international couples actually want, not just what they say they want. She speaks the language of Italian logistics and the language of British and American expectations, fluently, in both cases without translation.
Her approach is built explicitly on empathy — in her own words, it is the one fundamental skill that makes any event truly unique. Her clientele is largely British, American, and international, and her most-requested destination is Tuscany, though her work follows her couples wherever their vision takes them. She has been featured in Vogue Weddings, Harper’s Bazaar, and Tatler.
We filmed alongside her at Villa Alberigo in Rome — one of the capital’s most exclusive private venues. Everything she had chosen for the day had been chosen with full understanding of this specific couple. Nothing felt generic. Everything felt chosen. If you’re considering Rome as your setting, our guide to the best wedding locations in Rome shows why the city rewards exactly this kind of planner.
Original Tuscan Wedding — For the Detail-Oriented Couple
Based in Sesto Fiorentino, Original Tuscan Wedding has been helping international couples navigate the specific complexity of destination weddings in Italy since 2004. Their expertise lies in the invisible layer — the legal paperwork, the municipal requirements, the vendor relationships that only years of presence in the region can build.
We filmed alongside them at Castello La Leccia, a medieval fortress turned winery deep in the heart of Chianti — one of the most authentic venues in Tuscany and a perfect example of why Tuscany continues to define destination weddings in Italy. Their coordination produced the kind of wedding day where the couple never has to think about anything except being together.
Your Wedding in Florence — Rita Tavella and the Art of Florentine Hospitality
Your Wedding in Florence was born from a very particular combination: Rita Tavella, its founder, is Italian-American — born in New York, raised in Rome, with Florence as her adopted city. That biography is not incidental. It gives her a rare double fluency: the warmth and precision of Italian hospitality, and a native understanding of what international couples — especially American ones — actually need from a planner working in a language and a culture that isn’t their own.
Founded in 2017 and backed by over twenty-five years of experience in event planning through her company MCR Conference, Rita has built a practice rooted in one conviction: every wedding should be tailor-made, in every single detail. Her agency is based in the heart of Florence and works across Tuscany and the whole of Italy, covering everything from ceremony logistics to the kind of creative direction that turns a beautiful venue into a day that feels entirely, unmistakably personal.
We filmed alongside her at Villa Palmieri, the extraordinary historic estate set in the hills of Fiesole, overlooking Florence from above — a venue of Renaissance grandeur, terraced gardens, and sweeping panoramas that has hosted illustrious guests since the era of the Medici. What Rita does in a setting like this is translate the complexity of the place into ease for the couple. The logistics of Villa Palmieri are considerable; the couple experienced none of them. They arrived, they felt it, they lived it.
Corsini Events — Florentine Roots, Flawless Execution
Corsini Events was founded in 2015 by brothers Tommaso and Lorenzo Corsini, who brought with them more than fifty years of family presence in the events sector in Florence. That heritage is visible in everything they do: the kind of organizational depth that only generations of experience can produce, combined with a creative sensibility that keeps each event genuinely fresh and specific to the people at the center of it.
Based in Impruneta, in the hills just south of Florence, they work across weddings, private celebrations, and high-end corporate events — but it is on the great estates and historic villas of Tuscany that their work truly comes into its own. Their network of venues and vendors is built on real relationships, the kind that open doors that remain closed to planners who haven’t put in the years.
We filmed alongside them at Il Palagio, the legendary private estate near Florence belonging to Sting and Trudie Styler — one of the most exclusive and cinematically extraordinary venues in all of Tuscany, a working wine estate surrounded by rolling hills and ancient cypress avenues. Getting a wedding right at Il Palagio requires a planner who understands the weight of the place and the precision its logistics demand. Corsini Events delivered both. The day felt effortless in the way that only truly complex, perfectly executed days can.
Noemi Wedding — Bespoke, Personal, Northern Italy
Noemi Wedding is a freelance bespoke planner who operates across some of the most spectacular landscapes in northern Italy: Lake Como, Lake Garda, Venice, the Dolomites, Verona, and Tuscany. She works with a small number of couples per season, ensuring that each receives her full and undivided attention. If you’re drawn to the mountains of northern Italy, our guide to eloping in the Dolomites shows just how extraordinary that world can be on film.
We filmed alongside her at Convento dell’Annunciata on Lake Iseo — a former Renaissance convent transformed into one of Italy’s most serene boutique venues. Her ability to hold the complexity of a destination wedding while making the couple feel completely at ease is a quality that few planners possess.
Guja Pusterla — Lake Como, From the Inside
Guja Pusterla lives on Lake Como. That sentence alone distinguishes her from the majority of planners who work the lake — and it matters more than it might seem. The knowledge that comes from living somewhere, from knowing which ferry runs late on a Saturday in July, which vendor needs an extra hour, which corner of which garden catches the last light of the evening — that knowledge cannot be learned from a checklist. It can only be accumulated over years of being there.
Based in Como and working primarily across the lake’s most celebrated addresses, Guja has built a loyal following among international couples — overwhelmingly American — who find in her exactly what they need: a planner who speaks the language of their expectations and the language of Italian logistics, and who moves fluently between the two. Her couples consistently describe the same experience: arriving at their wedding day with nothing left to worry about.
We filmed alongside her at Hotel Villa Cipressi in Varenna — one of the most quietly extraordinary settings on Lake Como, a historic complex of buildings and botanical gardens cascading in terraces down to the water, built between the 15th and 19th centuries. It is a venue that rewards a planner who knows it intimately. Guja moved through it with the ease of someone who had been there a hundred times, because she had. The couple arrived as guests of honor at their own day. Our cameras had everything they needed.
Affresco Events — Villa Cimbrone, and the Meaning of Flawless
Affresco Events claims the words fresh and flawless, and at Villa Cimbrone in Ravello — home to the Terrace of Infinity, one of the most photographed views in Italy — we saw exactly what those words mean in practice. If you want to understand what makes Villa Cimbrone extraordinary, our dedicated article on Villa Cimbrone captures it fully.
With a background in producing events for the world’s leading luxury brands, Affresco brings an operational precision to weddings that shows most clearly in the most logistically complex venues. Villa Cimbrone, which sits at the top of Ravello and requires careful coordination of access, timing, and vendor movement through its cliffside gardens, was handled with complete composure. The day felt effortless. The couple had no idea what had been required to make it so.
Lovely Tuscany Weddings — The Intimacy Specialists
Lovely Tuscany Weddings specializes in the kind of wedding that doesn’t need to be large to be unforgettable. At Podere Lamino, a beautifully preserved farmhouse in the Tuscan countryside, and at Tenuta Corbinaia, a classic Tuscan estate where the cypress trees and the Italian garden create a setting of quiet, timeless beauty, we filmed celebrations of complete intimacy — days shaped entirely around two people rather than the spectacle of an event.
Teams who understand restraint are rarer than those who understand grandeur. The best wedding moments are often the quietest, and Lovely Tuscany Weddings understands this instinctively.
CloudEight — Francesca Simoncini and the Beauty of Conscious Celebration
Among all the planners in this guide, Francesca Simoncini occupies a category of her own. CloudEight — the company she founded after more than eleven years working inside larger agencies — is built on a conviction that most planners treat as secondary: a beautiful wedding should also be a responsible one. Local flowers, farm-to-table cuisine, zero-waste receptions, km0 suppliers — sustainability is not a suggestion at CloudEight, it is the foundation on which every event is built.
The name itself carries her philosophy: being on cloud nine is happiness at its highest pitch, but ephemeral. On cloud eight — one step below — you find something steadier: infinite serenity, grounded in real choices. The number 8, reversed, is the symbol of infinity — and for Francesca, it connects the eternity of a union to a commitment to the world that will outlast it.
What strikes us immediately working alongside her is the quality of attention she brings to each couple as individuals. She describes it herself: not fulfilling wishes, but understanding them, and then elevating them beyond what was imagined. Her couples consistently use the same word: magic. Not the spectacle kind — the quiet, personal kind that you feel when a day has been built entirely around who you are.
We filmed alongside her at La Foce, the legendary estate in the Val d’Orcia — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — originally built in the 15th century and transformed from 1924 onwards by Antonio and Iris Origo into one of the most beautiful private gardens in Italy. The cypress avenues, the formal box-hedged gardens designed by architect Cecil Pinsent, the sweeping panoramas over the crete senesi hills: La Foce is the kind of venue that sets an impossibly high standard, and then dares you to meet it. Francesca did, with complete composure and her signature sustainable touch. The day felt rooted in the land it was held on — which, at La Foce, is exactly right.
Anita Galafate — Eighteen Years of Emotional Precision
There are planners who coordinate a wedding, and there are planners who inhabit it — who are so completely present in the day that their calm becomes the couple’s calm, their certainty the couple’s certainty. Anita Galafate belongs to the second category. Based in Rome, with over eighteen years of experience in luxury destination weddings across Italy, she has built a practice on a principle that is harder to maintain than it sounds: every event is personal, and nothing is ever left to chance.
Her territory is genuinely national — Rome, Tuscany, Lake Como, Puglia, the Amalfi Coast — and her clientele is international, drawn from the United States, the UAE, the UK, and beyond. What they consistently describe is a planner who listens before she plans, who understands not just the vision but the people behind it, and who translates both into a day that feels entirely, unmistakably theirs.
We filmed alongside her at Tenuta Corbinaia, a classic Tuscan estate where the cypress avenues and the countryside light create a setting of quiet, enduring beauty. What Anita does in a venue like this is not impose a concept — she listens to what the place already is and amplifies it. The day felt rooted, considered, and completely free of the effort that had produced it.
Unique Events in Tuscany — The Hidden Tuscany
Led by Alice, Unique Events in Tuscany is for the couple who wants Tuscany without the template. At Borgo Finocchieto — one of the most exclusive private estates in Italy, a restored medieval hamlet in the Val d’Orcia — her approach was entirely unhurried, entirely specific to these particular people. Alice’s deep rootedness in the region gives her access to venues that reveal themselves only through genuine local knowledge. Our guide to the best places to get married in Tuscany shows why the Val d’Orcia occupies a category of its own.
The Knot in Italy — An Architect’s Eye
The mind behind TheKnotInItaly trained as an architect — someone taught to think in terms of space, proportion, and light. At Castello Vicchiomaggio, one of the oldest wine estates in Chianti, the architectural sensibility was visible in every choice: the ceremony positioned to use the stone loggia as a natural frame, the aperitivo flowing through the courtyards, the dinner table set against the perspective of the vineyard. For our cameras: clean compositions, intentional space, frames that feel cinematic before we press record. If you’re curious about how light and space shape a wedding film, our piece on cinematic wedding videography explains exactly why this matters.
Denise More — Presence as Craft
We filmed alongside Denise More at Villa Aurelia in Rome, one of the most beautiful private gardens above the Gianicolo hill. What we observed was the quality that separates the finest planners from the rest: she orchestrated everything from the margins. Every problem was solved before it became visible. The couple never needed to think about anything except each other. She belongs to the rare category of planners who accompany a wedding rather than manage it. The day felt entirely theirs. The invisible architecture was hers.
Happy Brides — The Authentic Southern Coast
Happy Brides works the southern stretch of the Italian coastline — Sorrento, Positano, the waters between the peninsula and Capri — with a specialty for weddings that carry the genuine character of the region. At Borgo Colognola, a historic estate near Sorrento surrounded by citrus groves, their approach was exactly this: local vendors, seasonal flowers, genuine Italian hospitality extended to every guest. A Happy Brides wedding, on film, looks like something that grew naturally from the land. If you’re considering this area, our wedding in Sorrento article and our Amalfi Coast elopement guide show you just how extraordinary this coast can be on film.
Eventi Le Rêve — Elisa Orsetti and the Dream of Timeless Elegance
There is a phrase one of Elisa Orsetti’s brides sent her after her wedding that has stayed with us since we heard it: my wedding planner is different. It is the kind of compliment that cannot be manufactured. It arrives only when someone has done something genuinely her own.
Elisa founded Le Rêve in Rome in 2010 with two promises to herself: that no challenge would ever be too large, and no detail ever too small. Over thirteen years and hundreds of events later, both promises remain intact. Based in Rome and operating across all of Italy — with clients arriving from every corner of the world — Le Rêve has built its reputation on a philosophy that is harder to articulate than to feel: the event should speak of you, not of the planner.
What distinguishes Elisa from many of her peers is the combination of design sensibility and emotional intelligence she brings to each event. She describes herself as someone who has trained her eyes not to be deceived by surface alone — a discipline that shows in the layered, considered quality of everything she produces. Her word is eleganza, and she means it in the fullest sense: not decoration, but proportion; not abundance, but intention. If you’re considering Rome as your destination, our guide to weddings in Italy’s art cities shows why the capital rewards exactly this kind of planner.
We filmed alongside her at Villa Aurelia, the extraordinary private garden above the Gianicolo hill in Rome — one of the most quietly breathtaking settings in the city — and at Villa Rusconi Clerici on Lake Maggiore, a neoclassical villa of remarkable formal beauty overlooking the water. Two locations of entirely different character, two events with entirely different souls — and in both cases, the same quality of Elisa’s presence: unhurried, precise, completely attuned to the couple in front of her. The day never felt managed. It felt dreamed.
What We Look For, From Behind the Camera
We are often asked what makes a wedding great from a filmmaker’s perspective. The answer is simpler than most expect.
A wedding is great when the couple is present.
Not managing. Not worrying. When the planning has been so thorough, so quiet, so complete that the couple has nothing to do but feel the day — that is when our most powerful films are born. Every planner in this guide understands that truth. They protect the couple’s presence. They build a day that takes care of itself.
If you want to understand what goes into building an ideal wedding team in Italy, or what to look for when choosing a wedding planner, we’ve written guides to both — because the people around you on your wedding day shape the entire experience.
Planning Your Wedding in Italy: A Few Things to Know
Book early. The finest planners here are often fully booked twelve to eighteen months in advance. Book your videographer early too — the best talent fills up at the same pace.
The vendor network is everything. Italy’s best florists, caterers, musicians, and venues often work exclusively with planners they trust. Hiring a respected planner is not just about coordination — it is access to an ecosystem that doesn’t advertise itself. Our guide on how to choose your wedding venue in Italy is a practical starting point.
Legal requirements take time. Civil weddings in Italy require paperwork that varies by nationality and local registry. Our guide on everything you need to know about getting married in Italy walks through the essentials. Your planner navigates it — but it needs time.
Trust your team completely. The couples with the most beautiful wedding days in Italy are the ones who arrived trusting entirely. Ensuring your wedding goes smoothly starts with choosing the right people and then letting them do their work.
We Are Thirtyfive Studios
We are Francesco and Livio — wedding filmmakers based in Italy, telling love stories across Tuscany, Lake Como, Amalfi Coast, Rome, Puglia, Capri, Lake Garda and beyond. Featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Inside Weddings, and TMZ.
We are not just videographers. We are visual storytellers, quiet observers, filmmakers who believe your wedding film should make you feel the day again — not just remember it. If you want to understand how we work, our guide to cinematic wedding videography and our article on the art of editing explain our approach. And if you’re curious about what a wedding film actually costs in Italy, we’ve written that guide too.
If you are planning a destination wedding in Italy and looking for a videographer who understands elegance, storytelling, and international couples — you are in the right place.
