Four Seasons Florence wedding

Behind a wall on the Borgo Pinti, a few streets north-east of the Duomo, two palaces share a garden that most of Florence has never seen.

Bartolomeo Scala built Palazzo della Gherardesca in 1473. A Medici cardinal lived in it after him, and then the della Gherardesca family, who gave it their name. Its frescoed ballroom still hangs with eighteenth-century chandeliers.

Palazzo del Nero across the garden was a property of the Wool Guild. Baron Filippo del Nero remodelled it in the seventeenth century, and in the twentieth it held a neo-Gothic church, which is now the Conventino Ballroom.

Between them lies the Giardino della Gherardesca, eleven acres, the largest private walled garden in the city. The two palaces opened as a Four Seasons in 2008.

The hotel holds three Michelin Keys. It was the first in Florence to hold three, and kept them in the 2026 selection. Its restaurant, Il Palagio, holds one Michelin star under Executive Chef Paolo Lavezzini.

A Four Seasons Florence wedding uses Palazzo del Nero and the garden, and the evening moves from the lawns to the ballroom.

The lawn around the neoclassical temple, for the ceremony, the cocktails or a dinner of up to 200. It is the ceremony we choose for most weddings here, with the temple behind the couple.

The lawn facing Brunelleschi’s dome above the garden wall, seating 200 for dinner. This is where we set the long tables of a Four Seasons Florence wedding when the weather allows, because the view is the city itself.

A formal garden of clipped box and statues, for the cocktail hour between the ceremony and dinner.

The former church of Palazzo del Nero, under a vaulted ceiling of unusual height, seating 140 at round tables. The hotel recommends 100 to 110, so dinner and dancing share the room without a turnaround. It is the dancing in every case, and the dinner when it rains.

A Four Seasons Florence wedding starts from €250,000, and for optimal results we recommend budgeting €350,000 all-in for 100 to 140 guests.

The Palazzo del Nero event spaces and gardens are from just over €30,000 a day, VAT included.

Flowers, audio-visual, live music and its entertainment tax, and the fee for closing the Palazzo del Nero outlets are all budgeted on top.

The kitchen is the hotel’s own. A reception and a four-course dinner with wines are from just over €310 a head, VAT included, with a 10% service charge on top, and an open bar, late-night food, champagne or a dessert buffet beyond it.

Fourteen rooms above the ballroom are required, from just under €34,000 a night with VAT, before breakfast and city tax. The minimum stay is two nights midweek and three over a weekend.

The hotel prices its rooms against the dates and the demand, so we cost the block against your dates before anything else.

Music at a Four Seasons Florence wedding can play until one in the morning, at a maximum of 85 decibels.

The hotel grants that hour with the fourteen rooms above the ballroom, so the room block is part of the music plan as much as the accommodation.

Eighty-five decibels is enough for a band and a full floor in the Conventino. It is not enough for an open-air rig, and we give the band the figure when they are booked rather than on the night.

Four Seasons Florence has 120 bedrooms and suites across the two palaces.

Palazzo della Gherardesca holds 85, many over the garden, with the frescoed public rooms below them. Palazzo del Nero holds 35, including the fourteen above the ballroom that come with the wedding.

Most Florence venues seat more people than they sleep. Here the hotel can hold the whole wedding, and we place the families above the ballroom and everyone else across Palazzo della Gherardesca. The spa, with ten treatment rooms, carries the morning of the wedding.

The hotel is at Borgo Pinti 99, a few minutes north-east of the cathedral. Palazzo Vecchio is four minutes away by road.

Florence Peretola airport is 16 minutes away, with direct flights from London.

Bologna is an hour and 17 minutes and Pisa an hour and 29.

Guests flying direct from the United States land at Rome Fiumicino, three and a half hours away, and we bring them up by train or car. Siena is an hour and 13 minutes from the hotel.

The garden is the reason to marry here, and the ballroom is what the evening turns on.

Plan to the ballroom.

Either lawn seats 200, but the Conventino seats 140. We plan Four Seasons Florence weddings at 100 to 140 so the dinner has a room if it rains, and above that we cost a covered structure on the lawn from the first budget.

Fill the block with the right people.

The fourteen rooms are compulsory and carry the one o’clock hour. We give them to the families and the wedding party, the people who most need to be in the building at two in the morning.

Marry at Palazzo Vecchio the same day.

Palazzo Vecchio is four minutes from the hotel. We hold the civil ceremony there in the morning and the garden ceremony in the afternoon, without a convoy.

Close the outlets in the first budget.

The wedding takes over Palazzo del Nero, and the hotel charges a fee for closing its outlets there. We put it in the first budget with the space, so it never arrives as a surprise.

Magic Day plans weddings at Four Seasons Florence from the first conversation to the final farewell, for 100 guests in the ballroom or for 200 on the lawn. The hotel lets the Palazzo del Nero spaces, the garden, its rooms and its kitchen. The design, the flowers, the production, the music, the civil ceremony at Palazzo Vecchio and the days either side of the wedding fall to the planner.

What we know from working the hotel is how its evening runs: the lawn for the ceremony and dinner, the Conventino for the dancing, the band at 85 decibels until one, and the fourteen rooms that buy that hour. We also know the ballroom seats 140, so the guest count and the rain plan are settled together.

Tell us the dates you are considering and how many people are coming, and we will tell you what the weekend comes to.