Garini Immagina Eventi

Garini Immagina is the wedding and events studio of Angelo Garini, an architect who works in Milan and designs weddings in Italy for Italian couples and for couples who travel here to marry. The studio sits within his wider practice, Garini della Sforzesca, which also takes in interior design, a banqueting kitchen, a magazine and a small publishing house.

He calls himself an emotion designer and says the job goes beyond furnishing and decorating a room. Each wedding starts with the couple: he meets them to understand what they want, then studies the spaces involved to find their strengths and designs decorations or whole sets around them. Flowers, objects and the table are chosen as one scheme, so that a reception reads as a series of installations rather than a hired-in look.

The table carries particular weight here. Garini della Sforzesca Banqueting is the studio's own catering arm, cooking a contemporary take on traditional Italian dishes, so the menu, the service and the room are drawn up by the same office. His published work moves between gilded ballrooms, Florentine salons, clifftop terraces, gardens under the pines and long tables by the pool.

The family house on Lake Maggiore is also a wedding venue. Villa Garini e Cà Bianchetti stands in a centuries-old park on the Golfo della Polidora at Ceresolo, near Laveno, with a small Romanesque church in the grounds for the ceremony, a pavilion called the Barchessa della Regina for lunch or dinner, and the option of arriving by boat or holding a symbolic ceremony in the garden. It is 75 km from Milan, 35 km from Lugano and 25 km from Malpensa airport. Valerie Garini looks after weddings and events at the villa; Angelo Garini takes wedding, event and design enquiries.

Away from weddings he writes and publishes books on the art of the table and on wedding planning, presents television and co-hosts the podcast Let's Celebrate with Tabata Caldironi. He also lends his name to a course for aspiring wedding planners run by Volta Institute Academy, whose 2026 intake finished with a day at the villa.