Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

Ceremony set-up on a lakeside lawn on Lake Como: a white rose arch, petal aisle and chairs facing the water and mountains, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

Venice and the Veneto, Italy

Destination wedding planner and designer · Venice, Veneto

No. 520 · Autumn 2026

A long table laid down a row of vines at golden hour, cane chairs either side, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

Location

Getting there

Airport: Venice, 35 km straight line distance
Airport: Verona, 112 km straight line distance

The wedding party on the steps of a Lake Como villa, arms raised, the veil spread down the stairs, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

The planner

Meet the planner

She leads each wedding herself, with her husband and co-founder Nicholas as financial manager and co-coordinator on the day, and a permanent team of four. On the day at least two planners run the event from set-up to breakdown, rising to ten or more people for larger weddings. The team works in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and English, and Suellen describes part of her role as a cultural go-between for couples marrying across two cultures.

Celebrating love has become much more than a profession, it's part of who I am.Suellen Fernandes, founder

Founded2012

Weddings200+

Based inVenice and the Veneto

A gilded, mirrored ballroom laid for dinner with silver candelabra, tall candles and blush flowers, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

The work

Behind the events

Her published weddings run from Lake Como villas and a Renaissance garden in Verona to Tuscany, Florence, Siena, Rome, Capri, Ravello, Positano and Amalfi, with one in Stintino in Sardinia. She also takes weddings in Switzerland, France and Spain.

Cutting the cake at the foot of a palazzo staircase, the table banked with white flowers, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

Services

What is on offer

A destination wedding practice based in Treviso, thirty minutes from Venice, planning weddings across Italy for couples from abroad. Brazilian-born Suellen Fernandes started it in 2012 and puts the total at more than 200 celebrations.

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Service

Planning

Full destination wedding planning. Budget forecast and live online budget.

A South Asian wedding ceremony under a flowered mandap on a garden lawn, hills behind, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

Service

Design

Theme and mood boards. Sketches, 3D renders and room layouts.

A lakeside villa, its formal gardens and harbour on Lake Como from the air, Suellen Fernandes Weddings & Celebrations

The wedding

Recognition

She is certified by FAC (2016, registry seal no. 7) and UNITER (2021), both accredited through ACCREDIA, and was named best destination wedding planner in Veneto at the Italian Wedding Awards 2020, then a national finalist in 2021.