When someone writes to us from far away — from another region of Italy, or from the other side of the world — to ask us to plan their wedding here in Tuscany, there’s one question we find ourselves asking first: why here?
The most honest answer we’ve found is to show them two weddings we talk about often: Valentina and Alberto’s, at Castello del Trebbio, and Lucia and Francesco’s, at the Abbey of San Galgano. Two venues that look like they’re straight out of a film, and two couples who made them feel, in completely different ways, like home for a day.
Castello del Trebbio: Valentina & Alberto
Alberto is from Puglia, Valentina from Sardinia. They live in Bologna, and their friends are scattered everywhere. Why get married in Tuscany? Simple, they told us: this way, for once, everyone had to travel. No one favoured, no one left out.
Castello del Trebbio, tucked into the hills above Pontassieve, is a place where history and nature overlap — once home to the powerful de’ Pazzi family, today a refuge for anyone chasing real Tuscany. It was the right choice from day one: one single venue for the ceremony, the reception, and even the guests’ rooms.
The ceremony, in the castle’s courtyard, was intimate and quietly moving — moving enough that even we, the wedding planners, had to wipe our eyes. We’re there to work, of course, but after seventeen months getting to know a couple, we get attached, and a tear or two always slips out.
If I’m honest, though, the moment I still picture first is dinner: two long tables set on a terrace overlooking the hills, a June sunset, and that rare, precious feeling where everyone, guests included, feels completely at home. If there’s one thing that defines Valentina and Alberto as a couple, it’s exactly that — making everyone around them feel welcome.
P.S. Vale, we love you.
The Abbey of San Galgano: Lucia & Francesco
With Lucia and Francesco, it all started with an email in early January, on days that were meant to be quiet for us (we had the flu). They brought us straight back to reality: a wedding in Tuscany, with the ceremony inside the suspended, roofless frame of the Abbey of San Galgano — a 13th-century Gothic church open to the sky, a five-minute drive from the legendary sword in the stone at Montesiepi.
We always tell our couples that there’s no better theme for a wedding than their own personalities. With Lucia and Francesco, that was exactly the challenge: two very different people — she calm and patient, he full of energy — who somehow work perfectly together. Blue for their loyalty, red for their passion, and a touch of gold because, let’s be honest, gold goes with everything.
Every detail of the day told a piece of their story. Abruzzo, the region where they both grew up, shaped the aperitivo — cured meats, bread, and ferratelle biscuits took centre stage on the seating chart. Then Tuscany, where they actually fell for each other, took over for the rest of the day, with a pappa al pomodoro and a wild boar ragù their guests still talk about.
Guests walked in through the abbey’s original stone doorway, vows were exchanged under open sky, and a reception at nearby Castello Badia a Berardenga carried the same warmth into the evening.
If You’re Planning Your Own Wedding Here From Afar
When a couple writes to us from outside Italy, these are more or less the things we tell them over that first (often virtual) coffee:
- Season matters more than you’d think. May-June and September-October give you the light in these photos, without July’s heat.
- Symbolic vs. civil ceremony. Most couples marrying here from abroad hold their civil ceremony at home and a symbolic one here — we’ve written a full guide on how to make sure yours doesn’t feel like a performance.
- Guests are part of the plan, not an afterthought. An international guest list comes with its own logistics — we cover why here.
- You don’t need to speak Italian. With us, you work in English from the first call to the wedding day.
If a castle among the olive trees or a roofless Gothic abbey sounds like the right place for your “I do,” get in touch — wherever in the world you’re reading this from.
Photo Matteo Fagiolino
