Slow Dreams' Weddings Italy Team and History

We Make Weddings Memorable & Successful

• Scores of testimonials - To best understand our success in  managing & planning Italian weddings, look at our weddings Italy testimonials, and Tripadvisor posts.  We have been successfully managing & planning weddings in Italy since 2003.
• A large choice of venue types    -  regardless if your wedding is a luxury wedding or a budget wedding in Italy, all our venues are in stunning locations with wonderful views - some of the finest views in Europe.
• Careful wedding management    -  Most of our staff are native English speakers but all have lived and managed weddings for many years in Italy - this minimizes not just verbal / written miscommunications but also culturally induced miscommunications,
• We always assign multiple wedding planners to every wedding' regardless of size,  who repeatedly cross check everything.
• Unusual Italian wedding venues  -  To make your wedding in Italy even more memorable at highly affordable prices, as  well us the usual type of wedding venues in Italy (castles, villas, hotels, etc.), we offer  some of the most memorable,  and certainly most different  ideas for a  destination wedding in Italy  - e.g., see our "Unusual Italian Weddings"  - these include  sailboat,  beach and deserted island,  cliff-tops, a lovers walk on the sea, agriturismos  (family farms).   We can even arrange an "armada" of boats to one of Italy's most secluded and dramatic cliff surrounded beaches.  

We Give The Bride & Groom Peace Of Mind

• You can change your wedding in Italy  contract significantly for most things right up to several weeks before the wedding. This eliminates the stress of wondering how many guests will come, what meals they want.
• We offer a three  payment schedule with most of the payment due only several weeks before the wedding.  See our policies and fees.
• This site clearly lists ALL  wedding costs, fees, and taxes - so you will have a solid idea of the cost of your wedding in Italy even before contacting us.  All prices include all taxes, unless, in  rare circumstances, explicitly stated.
• We meet you after you arrive at your hotel or villa and go through the details in person.
• We personally escort you to the town-hall to lodge your approval paperwork for civil wedding.
• We offer a guide to help with getting the final paperwork in Rome, Florence and Naples.
• Above all, we care for your wedding guests. We have a concierge service, free of charge,  that will make reservations for your guests for hotel, hair, make-up, spa, and airport transfers. This service is also there to personally answer your guests' questions  -  guests also want a relaxed & memorable experience as well.  

We Make  Italy Weddings Affordable

• Low cost of services  -  since we bring a lot of business to the various service providers (florist, photographer, etc.),  we strongly negotiate prices with then  and, importantly,  publish those prices on this site for you to see even  before contacting us.    Have a look at our cost and prices (all taxes are  included)  -  you will find these costs to be simply low.  The average cost of an Italian wedding with Slow Dreams is a fraction of the average cost of a wedding,  for example, in the UK or the US.
• Italy's Best Kept Secret  -  We offer a lot of venues in  the Coast of Maratea & The Cilento - Traveler Magazine says "Maratea is Heaven - It's The Amalfi Without The Crowds.... Italy's Best Kept Secret".  beside being one of the lower cost areas of Italy,  most  mayors of this region will conduct outdoor ceremonies at the venue of your choice -  saving the significant  cost of having a symbolic ceremony in addition to the civil town-hall marriage costs.
• A wide range of differently priced venues  -  there are venue prices to fit all types of budget from the low to the extremely high.   See list of venues.
•  Special Offers  -   these range from  special offers from individual venues to local tourist board rebates for having your wedding in their region - this rebate can significantly lower the cost of your wedding.   See current special offers:

We make your wedding experience relaxed, we will:

• Meet you when you arrive at your hotel or villa and go through the details in person
• We will personally escort you to the town-hall to lodge your approval paperwork for civil wedding
• This site clearly lists ALL wedding costs, fees, and taxes - so you will have a solid idea of the cost of your wedding in Italy even before contacting us.
• You can change your wedding in Italy contract significantly for most things right up to several weeks before the wedding. This eliminates the stress of wondering how many guests will come, what meals they want, etc. Also, we offer a three payment schedule with the last 50% due only several weeks before the wedding. See our policies and fees.
• We care for your wedding guests. We have a concierge service, free of charge, that will make reservations for your guests for hotel, hair, make-up, spa, and airport transfers. This service is also there to personally answer your guests' questions - guests also want a relaxed & memorable experience as well.
• No Minimum Stay - Many wedding venues in Italy require a 6 or even 10 day stay.  However, most of our venues have no minimum stay  -  however, we do recommend coming a day or two early during the week to lodge paperwork at the town-hall and to simply chill-out.

We Make Weddings In Italy Flexible

• Venue Choice - We offer a large variety  of venues, and types of Italy Weddings.
• Marry Where You Want   -  in many of our venues,  the mayors and ministers  will marry you at the venue of YOUR choice - hotels, villas, churches, beaches, etc.  You are NOT restricted to just town-halls and Catholic churches, as is the case  for most Italy weddings.
• No Minimum Stay
• Outdoor Weddings Italy  -  Many of our  mayors and ministers offer outdoor ceremonies.  Unfortunately Catholic weddings in Italy are still restricted to a church - however, we do offer a great choice of beautiful and historic churches.
• Last Minute Weddings Italy/Elope to Italy  and No Hassle Approval -  We offer last minute weddings and simplified approvals -  who can use the services is quite constricted  -  Contact Us to see if this approval fits you - We Make Italian  Weddings Flexible and Easier.

• ​Non-Catholic Church Italian Weddings  -  We have churches that allow for non-Catholic religious weddings,   including, for example,  the Church of Our Lady  of The Snow & Olives, a small historic church with ancient frescoes  situated alone  on a mountain-top cliff overlooking -  the sea, the historic red-tiled roof town of Maratea with its 44 churches, the world class Coast of Maratea,  and two national parks,  the Cilento and Pollino.
• Bring Your Own Celebrant  -  Bring your own priest (most of our churches allow this, but not all), minister, rabbi, etc. 
• Italian Weddings For  Woman Divorced  LESS than 300 days -  We have certain mayors who ignore the 300 day arcane law for Italian weddings that prohibits woman from marrying within 300 days  of their divorce. 

We Make Access To Rest Of Italy Easy