Design before anything
Concept, venue floor plan, timings and cost structure are drawn and put in writing before any commitment.
Design · Direction · Territory
Rigour in creating bespoke projects
Il Sole 24 Ore
Weddings as a restart for Calabria
Gazzetta del Sud
The Faragalli–Calomino institutional wedding
ilReggino
Among the most reviewed in the province since 2018
Matrimonio.com
The studio
A design studio, not simply a wedding planner.
Alessandra Villelli directs a wedding design and direction studio based on the Ionian coast and working across the whole of Calabria. Every wedding is treated as a work of architecture: a concept, a floor plan, a cost structure, a direction of works. Legal training, a dedicated team and a limited number of projects each year.
Weddings
First the design, then the wedding.
Concept, floor plans, timings, cost structure, direction of suppliers: the wedding is drawn before it is built, and every choice has its reason in the overall design. A scope defined together and put in writing, no catalogue packages. For couples living far away, a remote process that usually requires only two trips to Calabria.
Events
From intimate celebrations to grand occasions.
Anniversaries, private parties, institutional and corporate events: the same design method as our weddings, applied to every occasion worth remembering. A concept, a structure, a direction. Absolute discretion.
Getting married in Calabria
You don't rent a castle. You rent a piece of history.
You don't just see the sea. You see the route the Greeks sailed to found Magna Graecia.
You don't choose a venue. You choose a century.
Two seas less than an hour apart, hilltop villages, Norman castles, Byzantine churches, thousand-year-old olive groves and the light of the South. Calabria is one of Italy's still-authentic wedding destinations: never crowded, never the same twice. The studio knows it inch by inch and designs it around you: the place is not a backdrop, it is the first choice of the design.
Discover where we can take you
Two seasIonian and Tyrrhenian
May – OctOutdoor season
LameziaDirect flights from Europe
The method
How a wedding is built
Rooted in the territory
Calabrian professionals known for years, places that open only to those who know them, logistics built around the venue.
Direction of works
Alessandra personally follows every supplier and every phase, from the site visit to the day itself: the project is not delegated, it is directed.
Independent
The studio's fee is separate from what you pay your suppliers; we take no commission from any of them.
The design
Every wedding begins as a drawing.
Before the flowers, before the table, before the light: the studio draws. Every setting is planned on the floor plan and rendered as a design board, so the couple sees the wedding before it exists. Here, the design and the day of Biagio and Mena at Masseria Mazzei.
Biagio & Mena · Masseria Mazzei
Le Castella, Gerace, Tropea, Capo Vaticano, Scilla, Stilo, Santa Severina, Costa degli Dei, Soverato, Sila, Squillace, Pizzo
With your determination you transformed a venue and made our dream real. We would choose you a thousand times over.
Featured in
Il Sole 24 Ore
A profile on the method and the legal training behind the studio.
Jan 2026Gazzetta del Sud
Weddings as a restart for Calabria and the role of the sector in the regional economy.
Video interviewilReggino
The Faragalli–Calomino wedding: an institutional wedding organised in Calabria.
Article
Contact
Let's start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, no commitment: date, place, number of guests, priorities. From there, a written design and estimate built on the real cost items of your wedding. For a summer wedding, twelve to eighteen months ahead is the right horizon.