Italian Event Planners

Ilaria Guarino and Serena Ranieri founded Italian Event Planners in 2011. They describe themselves as business partners and lifelong friends, in that order, and their weddings are run as a shared creative project rather than a checklist. Annachiara Varriale, a multilingual destination wedding planner, works alongside them.

Their base is Ravello on the Amalfi Coast, with Naples International Airport about an hour away by road. From there they plan weddings across the Amalfi Coast, Sorrento and Capri, Tuscany, Umbria, Lake Como, Veneto, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily and Rome.

The range of weddings is wide. The portfolio on their own site holds roughly fifty-five named celebrations, among them Hindu ceremonies, same-sex weddings, a Scottish groom married in a kilt beneath a Tuscan sunflower arch and a couple in traditional Chinese wedding dress on a gravel drive outside Florence.

Most couples plan from a distance, sometimes across a six-hour time difference, and some cannot visit Italy until the week of the wedding. Client reviews describe master spreadsheets kept current, budgets tracked and adjusted, and vendors recommended and coordinated for a year or more beforehand.

The work reaches well beyond the ceremony and reception. Welcome dinners, boat tours, guest transport, accommodation and post-wedding beach parties are all handled as part of the same job, from weddings of a few guests to celebrations of more than a hundred, and the team stays until the last guest has left.