My Sicilian Wedding

Her own About page adds a detail the homepage does not: "a background in international events and a deep love for storytelling", offered as the reason she can translate a couple's own history into a wedding rather than defaulting to a generic template. It is a small line, but it lines up with what the sourced wedding actually shows: a design built around specific people rather than a repeated formula, down to the choice of Sicilian pupo folklore over a more conventional favour.

The one full wedding gallery published for this planner anywhere online was photographed near Viagrande, on Etna's eastern slope in the province of Catania: dry-stone walls running between vineyard rows, olive terraces, and a converted stone building reached along a cobbled drive under a wooden pergola. It is not a styled shoot built to sell a fantasy. It is a real couple's wedding, and it reads that way: a groom adjusting his own braces before a mirror, a bride laughing with a glass of champagne while her hair and make-up team work around her, guests applauding mid-ceremony with a hand-painted Sicilian pupo doll held between them.

That last detail is the kind of thing a generic Mediterranean wedding brochure never includes, and it is the clearest evidence of what Alessia's own site claims in the abstract: a design vocabulary built from real Sicilian craft rather than an imported aesthetic. A named client review, from a bride who calls herself “quite specific on some of the design Ideas” she wanted, describes Alessia “driving to Caltagirone to ave over 100 tiles hand painted,” designing custom napkins, and drawing on “her knowledge of the Sicilian motifs and art, architecture” to give the wedding what the reviewer calls “a true Sicilian touch,” down to helping the couple work Sicilian dialect into their cocktail menu.

The same review supplies a fact the official site never mentions about its own founder: a previous career as a solicitor. “She helped us negotiate acors multiple vendor contracts, with her previous work experience as a Solicitor, she was invaluable in ensuring every contract was correct, fair, and benefitting our terms,” the reviewer writes. It is the kind of detail that only surfaces because a client noticed it, not because a bio page claimed it, which makes it more credible rather than less. The same review names the wedding's real venue, Braccialieri Resort just outside Noto, for a three-day celebration with the bride's family travelling from the US and the couple based in the UK, the kind of cross-continental logistics My Sicilian Wedding's own site says is the normal shape of its calendar.

The service structure staged on the official site runs from full-service planning, concept through to coordination, to multi-day celebration design covering welcome dinners and farewell brunches, guest travel and hospitality management, custom moodboards and full design direction, and one-on-one consulting sessions for couples who want to plan parts of it themselves. Elopements are named as their own service too, for couples wanting something intimate rather than a full-scale celebration. A 5 Star Wedding Directory listing adds a figure the official site does not repeat: 60-250 hours of planning investment per wedding, a wide enough range to suggest the hours genuinely track the complexity of each booking rather than being quoted as a flat marketing number.

The official site sets out its process as a named four-stage "Love Story Timeline" rather than leaving the sequence vague: Consultation, where Alessia takes the time to understand a couple's story and destination vision before any venue is discussed; Planning, the budgeting, timeline and vendor work she does as what the site calls a "trusted guide"; Design, built from custom moodboards before any florals or lighting are layered in; and Execution, the wedding day itself. That fourth stage carries the most specific claim on the whole site: a dedicated, bilingual team on the day, including the planner, an on-site assistant and a personal bridal attendant, whose stated job runs from steaming a gown to tying a groom's tie correctly before the ceremony. It is a granular enough promise that it reads as a description of an actual process rather than a marketing category.

Geographically, the demonstrated core of the practice is Sicily itself: the sourced gallery runs from Etna's vineyard slopes to a stone reception venue with no need to travel further to find drama in the landscape. The official site states a wider reach into the Amalfi Coast, the Greek islands and Morocco, and Alessia's own Instagram bio adds Puglia and Mallorca to that list. No photography from any of those destinations was found in the course of this research, so none is shown here; the claim is reported as the business's own stated reach rather than illustrated with images that are not actually from there.

The recognition My Sicilian Wedding claims comes from a wedding-industry directory rather than a press award: a Top 5 ranking for planners in Sicily and a Top 30 ranking overall on Wezoree, alongside seventeen reviews at a full 5.0 rating and a 100% recommend score from married couples. A second reviewer, Christelle Azar, married in June 2025, makes a point that recurs across several of the seventeen: “we are not Italian and do not live in Italy, but with Alessia, we got exactly the wedding we wanted with only travelling twice before the wedding.” Cindy Arana, married in September 2025 and based in Switzerland, describes trusting a planner she had never met in person, writing in Italian that entrusting a wedding to someone “sconosciuta e a distanza” (a stranger, at a distance) was not easy, but that she and her husband knew within their first meeting that Alessia was “LA persona giusta,” the right person. A third review, from Imogen Chapman, married in September 2024, names a second person on the ground for her wedding day, “Alessia and Giorgia,” the only mention found anywhere in this research of a colleague working alongside her, and consistent with the bilingual on-site team the official site describes for the Execution stage.

No fixed fee is published anywhere checked for this planner: not on the official site's own pages, and not on the 5 Star listing's pricing tab, which is empty on inspection. A third-party directory shows an average service cost of $8,000, offered here as indicative rather than as Alessia's own quote, because it is not one. What the official site does put a number on, plainly, is the shape of the business itself: a deliberately limited number of weddings each year, which is a more honest signal of what a couple is actually buying into than any single headline figure.

None of this reads as a single fixed aesthetic applied wherever a client happens to be marrying. The sourced wedding runs from a black-and-white vow exchange in an ostrich-feather gown to a tablescape dressed in hand-painted ceramics and orange dahlias to a night dance floor strung with festoon lighting between an old tree and the dark hillside, which is closer to an honest account of one real wedding's own arc than a signature look imposed regardless of the day. What repeats instead is a working method: keep the calendar small, build the design from real Sicilian craft rather than a borrowed aesthetic, and stay hands-on enough that a bride notices her planner's own legal background helping negotiate the contracts nobody else reads closely.

The official site sums up its own promise in four short phrases rather than a paragraph: warm hospitality for a couple and their guests, top vendors curated with experience, fine catering, and a choice between many dream locations. Read against the sourced wedding, none of the four reads as filler. The hospitality claim shows up as welcome bags and travel coordination handled for guests flying in from the US and the UK; the vendor claim shows up as a catering company secured at short notice, praised by name in a client review; the locations claim shows up as a converted stone building on Etna's own slope rather than a generic hotel ballroom.

The practical case for My Sicilian Wedding is built less on a single signature look, which shifts from Baroque table ceramics to a stone masseria reception to a black-and-white portrait sequence across the one gallery available, than on a specific, repeated claim from her own clients: a planner who is genuinely present, who drives to a ceramics town herself rather than delegating the detail, and who keeps her calendar small enough that a couple gets that attention rather than a share of it. For a couple marrying in Sicily from somewhere else entirely, unable to check in on every decision in person, that is the harder thing to fake and, on this evidence, the thing My Sicilian Wedding actually delivers.