Umbria Weddings and Events

Umbria is the only region in Italy with no coast and no border with another country. That is the fact behind everything else: it was never on the route, so it was never priced like Tuscany, and the twelfth century abbeys and hill towns that would be booked out three years ahead anywhere else are still, in some cases, available for next summer.

Fatima Palomares founded Umbria Weddings and Events in 2014 for exactly that reason. She is Spanish, took a degree in International Business, and worked in tourism agencies and for Prada and Louis Vuitton across the United Kingdom, Dubai and France before she came here. She stayed because the region had no destination wedding specialist in it, which was a gap and an argument at the same time.

The portfolio reads as a tour of places a couple would never find alone. The Benedictine abbey of San Pietro in Valle, with its cloister laid for dinner under chandeliers and a bell tower standing over the Valnerina. La Badia di Orvieto, twelfth century, with a marble mosaic floor and a tower you can see from the road. Castello di Petrata above Assisi, built in 1340. A Renaissance villa hidden in a forest, restored by an Italian artist. Over the Tuscan border, Villa Monaciano near Siena, where Killing Eve was filmed, and an eighteenth century villa a few kilometres from Florence.

She publishes no fee. She does publish, at unusual length, a guide to what an Italian wedding actually costs and why, which is a more useful document than a price list and a good deal harder to write.

Services Offered

Planning Approach

Planning Philosophy

Specialise in one region until you know every road, every cook and every plan B in it, then let the wedding be shaped by that place rather than by a scheme that would travel anywhere.

Destinations

Umbria, Tuscany

Design Philosophy

How this planner shapes the look, feel, and experience of a wedding celebration.