How much does it cost?
Almost every figure you will read about Tuscany wedding costs is someone's estimate presented as a fact. This page takes a different approach. It sets out the costs that…
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Tuscany wedding planning guides
What a Tuscany wedding actually costs, which paperwork you need as a foreign couple, when to marry and where. Written for people doing this from another country, for the first time.
Where to marry
Tuscany is not one place, and the eleven areas couples usually choose between suit genuinely different weddings. This page is a way of deciding rather than a ranking…
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Planning from abroad
Planning a wedding in a country you do not live in, in a language you may not speak, is mostly a problem of sequence and information. The venues publish little, the…
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Best months
Most advice about when to marry in Tuscany recommends late September and October. The official climate record does not support that as confidently as the advice…
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Checklist
Most wedding checklists are built around a generic timeline. This one is built around the deadlines that actually exist in Italy — the notice periods comuni publish, the…
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Legal requirements
Most of the paperwork for an Italian wedding comes down to one question: can the registrar see proof that nothing in your own country's law prevents you from marrying?…
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Venues guide
Choosing a venue in Tuscany means choosing it from photographs, usually from another country, from websites that publish far less than you need. This guide explains the…
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Villa weddings
A villa wedding is the picture most couples have in mind when they start thinking about Tuscany: a private house with its own grounds, your people staying on site…
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Elopements
An elopement is a wedding without guests: the two of you, the people the law requires, and whoever you have asked to photograph it. Not a small wedding — a different…
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Small weddings
A small wedding is not a scaled-down large one. Different properties suit it, different costs dominate it, and some of the assumptions that make a 100-guest wedding work…
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Luxury weddings
At the top of the Tuscan market the word luxury is applied to almost everything, which makes it close to useless as a filter. This page tries to be more specific: what a…
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Budget
A budget is not a price list. A price list tells you what things cost; a budget decides what you will spend, in what order the money leaves, and what you will do when a…
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