Italian Wedding Photographer
I am based in Lombardy and I work across Italy.
Most of the couples I work with are planning from another country.
I live in the province of Varese, an hour north of Milan, between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como. I photograph weddings all over Italy, but this is the part of the country I know without a map.
Knowing a place matters more than it sounds. It means knowing how long it really takes to get from the church to the villa on a Saturday in June, which corner of a garden still works while the sun is high, and when the light will leave a terrace facing the water. None of that shows up in the photographs directly. It shows up in the fact that the day runs instead of stalling.
How I photograph a wedding
I photograph one wedding a day. That day I have nowhere else to be and I do not watch the clock.
I work as a documentary photographer, which means something simple: I watch a lot and interrupt very little. I do not stop the day to build a scene, I do not ask you to repeat something that has just happened, and I do not take you away from your guests for an hour. Twenty or thirty minutes are enough for the two of you. The rest of the day stays yours.
The wedding comes first. Everything else follows from that.
Where I work
Most of my weddings happen within a couple of hours of home, and the places couples ask about are very different from one another.
Lake Maggiore is the closest. The Lombardy shore is my own province, and I know Stresa and the islands on the other side just as well.
Lake Como and Lake Garda are the two lakes people ask about most from abroad, and they are not interchangeable: the pace of a day, the transfers and the cost are all different.
Milan is a city wedding in every sense: courtyards, palazzi, several moves in one day, and traffic that decides your timings more than you do.
Franciacorta and the countryside between Brescia and Bergamo are quieter and slower, and usually cost less than the lakes for the same number of guests.
I also travel for weddings elsewhere in Italy and abroad. Tell me where yours is and I will tell you what to expect there.
Weddings told from start to finish
Planning an Italian wedding from abroad
You will not need to fly over to meet me. I reply quickly and I reply myself, and everything we agree ends up in writing: hours, coverage, what is included, what happens if something changes. Six months later neither of us has to rely on remembering a video call.
If you have never seen your venue in person, that is far more common than you think. I speak to the venue, work out where and when the portraits should happen, and arrive with a plan rather than a surprise.
On dates, the only honest advice is to move early. For weddings in Italy between May and October a year ahead is normal, and Saturdays go long before most couples expect. Tell me the date and the place and I will tell you straight away whether I am free.
If you are getting married in Italy
Tell me the date and the place. I will tell you straight away if I am free.
Organising a wedding in Italy from another country is already enough work. Flights for your guests, a menu you have only read about, suppliers you have never met. The photographer should be the easy part: someone who replies, writes things down, and turns up on the day knowing where to stand without having to ask you.
If we see a wedding the same way, we will probably both notice it long before we start talking about photography.
Where most of them happen
Two places come up more often than any other. I photograph a lot of weddings in Milan, an hour south of where I live, and on Lake Maggiore, which starts twenty minutes from my house. If yours is somewhere else in Italy, that only changes the drive.
