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Wedding Italy - Fees & Policies
This site explicitly contains all prices and
costs for all services. There are NO other fees, service
charges, or taxes, except for consular fees. |
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Organized
Event Planning &
Management Fee
The service fee for setting up & managing
events is an additional 15% of the total price
of all 3rd party vendor reservations made for the bride &
groom (e.g. hotels, transport, photographer, things to do,
trips). The 15% fee is NOT applied to
wedding-guest accommodations. In fact, these are subject
to a discount - see
special-offers.
The 15% fee covers:
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On-going planning and itinerary
development & budgeting
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A record of all reservations (e.g.,
hotel, place of ceremony/reception, transport, flowers,
photographs, trips, activities).
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Pre-event status reviews
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Pre-event review meeting after you arrive
in Italy (weddings only)
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Event set-up and tracking
Hotel Costs
It is our policy not to mark up hotel
room costs for couples or their guests. We always use the
hotel Room-Rates from the hotel's web site with no alteration,
except translation from Italian to English where needed.
Hotels reservations are made as a courtesy to wedding guests at
no extra fee. Note: this does not apply to our
self catering venues - e.g, villas, castle, etc.
Payment Schedule for Bride &
Groom
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Amount due for 1st Deposit |
Amount due 180
days prior to event |
Amount due 45 days prior to event |
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25% of
total reservations made |
25% of total reservations made or
50% if reservations are made within this time period |
50% of
total reservations made or 100% if reservations are
made within this time period |
Payment Schedule for
Wedding Guest Accommodations
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Amount due for 1st Deposit
upon confirming reservation |
Amount due 30 days prior to
arrival |
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25%
of total reservations made; except for
Santavenere which requires 30% |
75 %
of total reservations made or 100% if
reservations are made within this time period |
Method
of Payment
For current exchange rate go to
www.xe.com/ucc
Notes:
All credit card charges are charged in US dollars -
Credit card companies employ different exchange rates
than the going exchange rate. We advise all clients for
Euro currency countries to pay by wire transfer.
Credit Card
Information Handling
We strive to to fully protect our
clients credit/debit card information. As such:
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We take credit card information
ONLY over the phone or by fax.
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We DO NOT store in any form client
credit card information - this means
that for every credit charge card, even repeated
charges, we make we need to request your
credit card information.
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We are participants in the
Trustwave
Information Security and Compliance program.
Cancellation Policy
All payments are subject to loss in the
event of cancellation (includes guest hotel bookings).
We recommend you investigate wedding and/or travel
insurance.
Note: weddings are especially
difficult for hotels - if a wedding gets
cancelled, hotels can find themselves with an empty or
near empty hotel with no or little time to fill it.
As such wedding cancellation policies are usually quite
tough.
Venue Marketing Policies
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It is our policy to use the venues
standard Room-Rates - we simply cut and paste
this into our web site.
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On very few occasions for marketing
reasons below, we will change the name of a specific
venue. However, we never change their Room-Rates.
As of this point, we have two venues where we have
changed the name - Albergo Vicino
Palinuro and Palazzo Vicino San Marco. This
hotel has excellent on-line reviews. We will,
obviously, give the real name after the contract.
The marketing reason for changing the name is that
our site is used by lots of people just
looking for hotels and we refuse their request.
They subsequently book the hotel through some travel
agency. This is not a problem with most of our
hotels; however, very small hotels get booked very
quickly eliminating an opportunity for us to have
weddings there - the purpose of our business.
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