- Wedding Italy - Total Price Transparency
- Personal Consultation
- We Literally Provide You a One Stop Shop
- Rapid Finding Your Dream Wedding in Italy Venue
- Detailed Fully Priced Plans Literally in MINUTES
- Guest Communication Automation
- Guest Management Automation
- Automatic Generation of Your Personal Web Portal
- Automatic Generation of Your Itinerary
- Automatic Generation of Unique Registry
- All prices are clearly stated and easily accessed - See "Our Costs for a Wedding Italy"
- All taxes are included - the price you see is the price you pay. The only exception is the "Local Emergency Room Tax" (just a few Euros per night per room) - this must be paid directly to the venue.
- See costs which are NOT included.
- See Our Planning & Management Fee for a Wedding Italy
- We have successfully done thousands of weddings in Italy since 2003 - see our many testimonials for a wedding Italy.
- We provide every wedding, however, small or large, with a team of highly experienced wedding professionals. The teams is composed of British, American and Italians, all of whom either are based in Italy or have lived there many years.
- Members of the team are available to you to:
- Provide to answer any questions - e.g., about the location, getting there, how to best use our system - Contact US
- Consult with you on the best choice of venues and services
- Provide design consultation for the ceremony and reception
- Meet with you after your arrive at your venue to discuss everything in person
- Spend much of the wedding day to ensure all goes as planned.
Apart from travel to Italy services, we provide ALL services and apps to ensure successful wedding Italy all of which are highly automated - saving you time and frustration.
These include:
These include:
- Rapid venue find
- Rapid planning/costing/changing.
- Guest Communication
- Guest Management
The system, like advanced ecommerce systems, support:
At a glance - for each venue, details the capacity - max # of guests for reception and ceremony, max # rooms or apartments, etc.
A detailed text description of the venue
Photos of the venue and events at the venue.
ALL services with prices and detailed descriptions
Detailed Venue Information - e.g., venue polices (check in/out times, pets, children ceremony regulations, facilities (e.g., A/C).
A brief description of the region where the venue is located.
Map of venue location - shows all other venues in that area.
Nearby Venues (with distances to them) - hotels, town-halls, churches,
- A Comprehensive Set of Filters (e.g., region of interest, type of venue, minimum # of days, venue facilities, max/min size of events) to enable you to rapidly find one or more suitable venues. Simply click the "Favorites" button to add each to your Favorites List - This list can be easily accessed in the PLAN section where can put together detailed fully budgeted plans for any venue, then compare them.
- An Astonishingly Comprehensive Knowledgebase - helps maximize your knowledge (therefore your comfort level). For example see - Hotel Meraviglie. You will see
- A photo slide show - (note: scroll down page to see videos)
- A set of Icons to select - see below.
- Area information
- A list of venue capacities - e.g., max # of people for accommodation, ceremony, reception, etc.
At a glance - for each venue, details the capacity - max # of guests for reception and ceremony, max # rooms or apartments, etc. A detailed text description of the venue Photos of the venue and events at the venue. ALL services with prices and detailed descriptions Detailed Venue Information - e.g., venue polices (check in/out times, pets, children ceremony regulations, facilities (e.g., A/C). A brief description of the region where the venue is located. Map of venue location - shows all other venues in that area. Nearby Venues (with distances to them) - hotels, town-halls, churches, 
Our Online Planner enables you to rapidly build and cost detailed plans. Each plan can be composed of any number accommodations and events over any number of days - e.g., a plan could be composed of:
- any number of venues for accommodations (check the map to make sure they are located near each other
- any number of venues for any number of types of events - e.g., a church for the ceremony, a restaurant for the rehearsal dinner, a hotel garden for the reception, a hotel pool for a BBQ or pizza party, etc.
Two way to get fully priced plans in minutes:
- At the top of each venue page, you can click - ONLINE PLANNER. The system will take you to "How To Get Costs". There are two such ways:
- A detailed list of services with costs - click on each of these to get description and costs.a
- A list of "Typical"/"Example" plans. Click View to see the details of each plan. Click Customize on the plan which most closely resembles what you are looking for -these are easily modified (add, change, deletes services) to your specific requirements. (note: the system will require you to get a login if you do not have one. Using the Copy app, each plan can then rapidly be applied to other venues so you can quickly compare costs among different venues.
- At the top of each venue's Services List are "Typical Plans", select the plan that comes closest to what you are looking for. Select "Customize", and modify as needed.
Note: we require a login so that your plans are always available to you in the future.
Guest Communication Automation within the Online Planner includes and automates:
- Guest List construction - NOTE: once you become a client, the guest list app can be re-used (and modified) for any event, even those not involving Slow Dreams - e.g., for birthday parties, showers, etc.
- Guest Communication:
- Choose and customize from various templates for invitations to any wedding event - just the ceremony, just the recepetion, pizza/bbq party, area tour, boat ride, etc). In fact, you can use the automated communications app for any type of guest communications (e.g., change of plans).
- Schedule the sending of selected communications to selected members of the guest list. - e.g., you might send "save the date" to all on the guest list, then send invitations to those who have responded. Or, you might send an invitation to the rehearsal dinner to just a few.
Guest Managment Automation within the Online Planner includes and automates:
- Assign guests to specific rooms
- Assign guests to seats and table
- Assign guests to specific meals.
- Guest payment (Online payment will be release next version)
- Guests can create their own plans/budget, guest list, etc. For example, often guests may want to take advantage of their trip to Italy to renoew their vows, have a birthday party, host a segment of the guest list to a party or mea
The system with a single click will generate a personal web portal so that you can (note: this app is still under development):
- Share your event with your friends family and associates
- Use it as an entry point for your guests so that can, if you wish, select their own rooms, meals, and seats. NOTE: Guests can also develop their detailed PLAN for the wedding trip - e.g, they might want to hold a birthday party, renew their vows.
Once you have created a plan:
- You can automatical create an itinerary from that plan,
- You can then augment the itinerary with other items - e.g., meet uncle Joe at the airport, 4 pm.
- The Itinerary will appear in your person event portal (see below) so that it can be communicated to guests, friends,family and associates.
- The registry option in the portal can be used to simply direct visitors to your selected registry (ies).
- Once you have a plan/budget completed and approved by Slow Dreams you select any item (s) of that plan and have those items added to the registry which will appear in your personal event portal.
- Visitors to your portal will be able to select item(s) from the registry that they will to pay for. They would pay online.
- The registry section of the portal will display the registry and who paid for what