Natasha Barbato

Natasha Barbato is a luxury travel and events specialist and destination expert based at Lake Como. She is the specialist for Casas Latinas, a collection of private estates, boutique hotels and resorts across Italy, Spain, France, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Her background spans luxury hospitality, bespoke travel and high-end events, which gives her an international view of each wedding she supports. She draws on first-hand knowledge of the estates in the collection and on a personal network of professionals in each destination.

The weddings she curates are personal rather than templated, from an intimate Tuscan villa to a grand Latin American celebration.

Because Natasha manages the estates herself, as their agent, a wedding with her is not planned into a venue found on a list but into a place she knows intimately and has run celebrations in before. The estate, the local suppliers, the food and the wine, the surrounding days, all of it is held by one person who knows the ground personally. That is a rare thing, and it is the whole of her approach.

Every wedding begins with listening: the couple, their vision, the feeling they want the day to hold. From there Natasha curates the estate, the design, the suppliers and the experiences around them, drawing on her network in each destination and her knowledge of art, culture and local heritage. She stays a trusted point of reference before, during and after, so that a couple marrying far from home carries only the day, and she carries everything else.