British Wedding At Bagni Di Lucca

[Gala Placidia]

There is a photographer at Bagni di Lucca on the main street near the Comune. I think that the name is Pastrengo. No idea whether they speak English or not.

[Primavera]

Thanks Gala
I'll look into it.
x

[sdoj]

Originally Posted by Skichi

...and I'll continue my own campaign in Italy to make Wedding Planners operate, as they should according to most of the wedding planner associations, without a 'kickback scheme' from their vendors. No doubt, you're one of the good guys/gals Primavera - however I'd estimate that many of the wedding planners in Italy operate in an extremely dubious manner & certainly not with their clients' best interests at heart.

I don't know diddly-squat about the wedding planning business my mother in law organised mine but I do know quite a bit about how business is done in Italy and by the Italian Global D
diaspora. If the English are a nation of shopkeepers then the Italians are a nation of rappresentante and mediatore and very good at it they are too, especially the Tuscans.

It is always a moot point who an agent regards as his master the service provider or the provided for. Weddings are more akin to double glazing sales than aeroplane spare parts in the sense that repeat business won't normally be expected. So there is no point the owners of a Tuscan villa wasting lots of time on a couple who might give them just one weekend's work and they will be happy to place bookings in the hands of a "wedding planner" or two who may bring them five or ten weddings in a year, every year.

For this the "wedding planner" will expect a commission, which he will see as a way of keeping his price down for planning the wedding. This doesn't necessarily mean that the happy couple are being ripped off because if they had found said villa on their own the villa owner might ask the same sum to account for them having to get low down and dirty.