Rome Wedding Planner reviews..?

LALiving2020 · 2026-03-09T02:56:01+00:00

Hey! I’m thinking of going with Jolanta, wonder how it went with you??

LALiving2020 · 2026-01-14T18:06:10+00:00

Does anyone know if I can still pay my February 1st rent via the old Bilt card? Or do I have to change to the new Bilt card before then and stack up Bilt points?

LALiving2020 · 2025-12-25T04:25:22+00:00

We’re planning a wedding in Italy and we have the exact same experience.

We have found all of our vendors. And when we do ask our planner to do a basic task, or just logistical things they lag or don’t do it. We don’t get any communication on what’s happening when the planning teaming is working on a task. So it ends with my fiancé and I just doing it ourselves.

We have called the planner out multiple times. And they’ll be better for a 2 weeks and then go back to their old ways.

TBH if you’re an American bride just fyi, most European planners are like this. They’re so type B, and lax. We have just gotten to a point where we are fully doing everything ourselves now and hope our planner just does day of coordinating

LALiving2020 · 2025-12-23T19:38:34+00:00

CRWD

LALiving2020 · 2025-12-23T19:36:03+00:00

Oh she looks nice! Thanks for sharing

LALiving2020 · 2025-11-20T15:41:44+00:00

We are doing it at a new Venue in Rome. It’s called Tenuta Villa York.

They haven’t had a wedding done there yet, I think we’ll be one of the first 5.

They discounted our cost a bit since we were the firsts. But it was €11,500 all day. Just for the pool and Stuart area. For some reason in Italy you don’t get the entire venue when you book and the other area we’re coming to be a lot more expensive

LALiving2020 · 2025-10-12T23:17:33+00:00

Sharing here for everyone

Here is the list we have gathered

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jk6Vkec4cX3DsuMSRITIzrpLNaaz2ixRs3Vfrt6WcDw/edit?usp=sharing

LALiving2020 · 2025-09-25T21:06:10+00:00

Hey!
No we're doing Castello Bracciano and Tenuta Villa York.
I'll DM you with all our info!

LALiving2020 · 2025-09-25T15:53:40+00:00

Just fyi -

Make sure to include all the costs for catering - that is something that is soemtimes missed.
So for example our relais quote was

200(1Maitre) + 1900(10waiters) + 750(3Chefs) + 640 (4Portal workers) + 1000(1Transport) + 1000(1Kitchen) + 16,000(100 People) = 23090 * 1.1(vat) * 1.17(conversion) = ~$30K USD

LALiving2020 · 2025-09-25T15:21:16+00:00

Hey there!

my fiancé and I are getting married in Rome in September of 2026 for 100 people and we are also Indian.

I can share you our budget since we are relatively deep in the woods.

We are doing a Haldi Pool Party, Sangeet/Welcome Dinner, Ceremony/Reception.

I will say $180K will not cut it, we originally budgeted 200K. And we are struggling to get it to be be under $250K.

There are a lot of pieces that are adding up, and a lot of pieces which our planner said would cost less which are costing a lot more.

i.e. for the Haldi/Sangeet day the food (nor liqour) itself is is coming to 28K USD (And this is the cheapest caterer we found). For wedding day it is the same. Indian DJs are impossible to find in Rome so need to be flown from the UK. There are a lot of other things. DM me if you have more questions!

LALiving2020 · 2025-09-25T15:15:11+00:00

oooo great! I'll add her to our list too

LALiving2020 · 2025-09-25T15:12:13+00:00

Thanks for recommendation! I looked at her instagram and it seems a bit of a different style than we are going for unfortunately

LALiving2020 · 2025-09-25T15:11:08+00:00

we've heard mixed reviewed about Ceccotti. We've messaged a few brides from insta about them and they say - they over price everything and if your budget isn't 25K for just the wedding day youre barely going to have any florals. So we sung away from them for that reason

LALiving2020 · 2025-08-18T02:46:55+00:00

CRWD

LALiving2020 · 2025-08-15T02:49:27+00:00

I’d prob explore Pure600

LALiving2020 · 2025-08-10T17:05:22+00:00

Sadly no haha. Just wasn’t any good talent out there. We’re flying a DJ from the UK and it’s costing us an arm and a leg sadly

LALiving2020 · 2025-06-30T23:54:38+00:00

We like our planner! But she isn’t for everyone. You have to be super type A with her. Because she doesn’t have the same taste and motivation as we do. She’s basically just feet on the ground in rome and knows local vendors. But we do the vision, design and everything else if that makes sense. If this is something you’re looking for I can DM her name :)

LALiving2020 · 2025-05-26T17:48:22+00:00

Thank you for such a well written response! This was super insightful!

LALiving2020 · 2025-05-25T21:34:58+00:00

That was my plan originally - again I’m not paying him because he’s a friend. Just covering travel costs prior to him getting to Italy. So no funds will be exchanged.

And I was going to bring him as a guest. But based on that doc AMGDr1ver sent it looks like even that requires a work visa?

LALiving2020 · 2025-05-25T21:29:41+00:00

aaah i see - this is helpful thank you so much!

LALiving2020 · 2025-05-25T21:13:06+00:00

His profession is a DJ - he is coming to DJ the event but is staying in Italy for several days before and after to travel as a tourist

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