Our clients

No. Most of our clients came to us before they had chosen a country, and helping you choose one is part of the work rather than something to do before it starts. Our current database has over 25,000 venues throughout Europe, with roughly 1,500 of them pre-vetted as worth a trip for a destination wedding.

More than 500 events in total, and at least twenty in every kind of venue: private estates, castles, historic houses and museums, hotels, vineyards, villas, and marquees built from nothing on open ground. A tent is its own discipline, and so is a building where nothing may be fixed to anything.

We have planned Jewish weddings and Shabbat dinners, bar and bat mitzvahs, Indian and Persian weddings, and religious ceremonies across denominations from Muslim to Armenian. Two families with different expectations of the same day is the ordinary case here rather than the difficult one.

More than 200 across France and more than 150 across Italy, with the rest spread fairly evenly across the other countries we work in. Ask about a particular city and we will tell you what we have done there rather than what we could do.

Our coordinators on the ground are where that knowledge comes from, and it sits alongside our own databases of venues and vendors. Noise limits, curfews, permits and what a particular mayor will sign are local facts that change from one valley to the next, and we do not guess at them from another country.

A fixed fee, agreed alongside the draft budgets and unchanged as long as the wedding evolves within the same scope. As an example: across twenty recent 120- to 150-guest wedding weekends in France, Italy and Spain, each three days of events in three venues on a budget of around €600,000, our fee ranged from €42,000 to €67,000. The difference in fees was due to the complexity of the guest experience, production, logistics and entertainment.

No. The fee is fixed against the approved scope. We are working for you and aim to deliver the best for your investment, so we are not motivated to sell you more expensive services. You pay every vendor directly. The money goes from you to them and nothing routes through us.

Our fee reflects the responsibility we take on.

Each celebration is supported by a team across planning, design, production, logistics and guest experience. We manage the budget, contracts, vendors, timelines and contingencies as one operation, so the complexity stays with us rather than with you.

You are not paying for more planning. You are paying for more of the responsibility to sit with us.

We do not expect to be the right planner for every wedding. For celebrations that need a simpler level of involvement there are excellent planners with different structures and different fees.

No. No commission, no rebate, and no discount we keep for ourselves. You pay every vendor directly, and the price they quote you is the price they set.

The fee covers everything from the first conversation to the moment the photographs and films reach you: planning, design, coordination, guest management, logistics and production. Nothing inside that is charged again.

What it does not cover is other people's work. We do not print and post your invitations, take the photographs, build the flowers or cook the dinner. Those are vendors, and you pay them directly.

In a purpose-built online tool, updated the moment anything is confirmed or paid and open to you at any hour. There is no monthly reveal. We go through priorities and costs as each vendor and each service comes up, which is when the decision is actually being made.

Yes. Every figure in it is what will leave your account, service and tax included.

Last month, and it nearly always happens the same way: we flag that something will take the budget past the line, and the client tells us they want it anyway. An overrun nobody chose is a different thing, and preventing that one is what we are paid for.

Yes. Tell us about anyone you already love and we will first tell you everything we know about them. Our vendor base runs to over 100,000 names of every type across Europe, with all the pros and cons we have been able to collect. The choice is always yours, and we will bring them in properly, on the same schedule and the same paperwork as everyone else on the day.

Yes, and it is written out in full rather than described on a call: see Our approach, in the navigation at the top of every page.

In the same tool as the budget. Every task, owner and date lives in one place, so nothing depends on somebody remembering to forward an email.

We aim to have them settled at least six months before the wedding, or a month out where the event itself is last-minute. After that the work is production, and a decision changed then costs considerably more than it did to make.

We aim to have everybody booked within the first two to four months of planning. The best of them are gone a year or more ahead, and a date held early is worth more than a better negotiation later.

Three to five to begin with, chosen against what you have described rather than pulled off a list, and then more for as long as it takes to find the one that clicks. You are not being asked to shop a directory.

Between two and ten of our coordinators. More at the wedding itself, fewer on the more relaxed days. For a hundred and fifty guests there are usually between seventy and two hundred people working across the days, most of whom you will never see.

Yes, and it is the usual arrangement. Every event is covered by an agreement, and nothing appears in the press, on this site or on our social accounts unless a client has agreed to it first.

Across Europe, and sometimes beyond. We have worked in 19 countries and keep local coordinators on the ground in 11 of them. Nothing beats a combination of our proven process and local knowledge.

A call, always. It tells both of us whether this is a good match, and it is usually obvious to both sides at about the same moment.

18 years of destination weddings, a genuinely multi-disciplinary team, our own people in the countries we work in, and an unusually operational approach: creative direction, budget control, logistics, production and guest experience under one accountable team rather than five separate ones.

The atmosphere in the room, and clients and guests who were happy while it was happening rather than only when the photographs arrived.

None, as a starting point. The design comes from what you describe and from the place it happens in, not from what is current. A wedding built out of this year will look like this year for ever, and we would rather set a trend than follow one.

Yes: anniversaries, milestone birthdays, bar and bat mitzvahs, private concerts, corporate retreats, launches and gala dinners among them. The planning is the same discipline whatever the occasion is called.