Ana Toniolo Weddings & Events

Ask Ana Toniolo Weddings' own FAQ whether it does wedding-day coordination only, and the answer is flat: "No. We specialize in full-service wedding planning, overseeing the entire process." That one line says more about the business than the homepage does. This is a registered Swiss GmbH, UID CHE-331.507.443, and its entire site runs in English by default, testimonials included. There is no language toggle sitting behind the copy, no German or French version to click into: English is simply the language the business operates in, for a Zurich-area planner working across 3 countries.

The site names the actual stages of what a couple gets, rather than leaving it at a single "we plan weddings" line. Full-service planning "may include venue and supplier selection, budget and timeline management, contracts and payment schedules, guest accommodation and transportation, wedding weekend planning, supplier coordination, and on-site production." The studio calls itself "the central point of contact between the couple, venue and creative team," meaning a couple deals with Ana Toniolo Weddings, not with each vendor separately. Venue research is explicitly part of that: the FAQ says the team weighs "the destination, guest count, budget, accommodation, accessibility, event format and visual atmosphere" before recommending anywhere, and will organise site visits.

Design is where the stored summary calling Ana a "designer" undersells the business rather than overstates it. Event design is always folded into full planning, covering colour direction, floral concepts, spatial layout, stationery, lighting and table styling. It can also be bought on its own, without the planning wrapped around it, which the FAQ spells out directly: "wedding design can be booked separately from our planning services," covering the design concept itself rather than the décor items, with selected floral and rental vendor quotations, budget management for those categories and on-site installation. Ana's own background feeds directly into that half of the business. She began her career in events at the age of 18 in Brazil, later worked in Florence and Milan with the team of event designer Vincenzo Dascanio on the production of luxury events, and now offers original watercolor studies as an optional add-on: commissioned paintings of the wedding scene itself, sold separately from the planning deliverables.

The destinations are specific rather than aspirational. In Switzerland the portfolio covers Lucerne, Vitznau, St. Moritz, Pontresina, Verbier and Gstaad. In Italy it runs to Tuscany, Lake Como, the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Sardinia, Puglia and Sicily. In Portugal it is the Douro Valley. 2 of the site's client stories put real weight behind those names. A wedding in a small Sicilian town involved narrow streets and limited access that the couple describes as a genuine logistical problem, worked through rather than avoided. A wedding at a castle outside Siena had no catering or accommodation of its own, so the team built 3 separate event areas, catering, transport and several musicians from scratch, and added a second-day barbecue at the same property. That is the shape of work a multi-day, remotely managed European wedding actually needs, not a photogenic backdrop on its own.

Guest logistics get the same attention as the couple's own day. The FAQ confirms accommodation recommendations, group room blocks and transport between venues and guest hotels, flagged as "particularly important for mountain, island, countryside and coastal destination weddings," and multi-day planning covers a rehearsal dinner, ceremony and reception, after-party, brunch and farewell gathering as one connected weekend rather than a single ceremony with extras bolted on afterward.

A percentage fee, quoted only after you ask

Nothing about price sits on the site itself. The FAQ is explicit that the fee is "calculated as a percentage of the total wedding budget, reflecting the scale and complexity of the production," with vendor quotations "presented transparently, without hidden markups," and the actual fee structure appearing only in the proposal a couple receives after enquiring. No percentage, no minimum spend and no flat figure is published anywhere on the site. What is published is the process for getting one: submit the enquiry form with a destination, month and guest count, and the team sends an initial budget range by email within 24 hours. If that range works, a first call goes over the couple's vision and the services in detail; a second, explicitly non-binding call then lays out a more detailed preliminary estimate. It is a percentage model dressed as a conversation rather than a price list, which suits full planning better than it would a simple day-of booking, but it does mean nobody sees a number before exchanging emails twice.

3 planning languages, not a 4th

Working language matters more here than on a typically bilingual Swiss vendor page, and the FAQ answers it directly rather than leaving a flag icon to imply it: the team "communicates in English, Portuguese and Italian throughout the planning process." Both of the latter track where the business actually works. Portugal and Italy sit alongside Switzerland in the portfolio, and the site says its Portuguese- and Italian-speaking staff deal directly with couples, venues and suppliers in those 2 countries. For a wedding somewhere else, the site adds "additional local team members who speak the relevant language to support on-site coordination." German and French are never mentioned anywhere on the site. For an English-reading couple marrying in Switzerland, that is beside the point: the planning relationship itself runs in English as a matter of course, not as an accommodation made for one enquiry.

Where the FAQ runs out of answers

For a business handling weddings for people who live somewhere else, the FAQ's 19 questions cover venue selection, guest logistics and the enquiry pipeline in real detail. None of them mention the paperwork a foreign couple needs for Switzerland's civil preparatory procedure: apostilled documents, certified translations, or which office handles it. That is a genuine gap for exactly this reader, worth raising directly on the first call rather than assumed away. The site also gives no street address, only an email inbox and "based near Zurich" as the sum total of its location claim, which fits a business built around remote clients and destination site visits rather than a walk-in office, but leaves nothing to verify a physical address against.

None of that outweighs what the FAQ does answer, and in more specific terms than most planners in this category bother with: a recommended lead time of 15 to 18 months, a firm no to day-of-only bookings, a fee model explained honestly even without a number attached to it, and named client weddings a couple can actually read about rather than a gallery of stock-styled shoots. A couple planning a Swiss or wider European wedding from abroad, who wants one planner running the whole project instead of piecing together a coordinator and a florist separately, gets a clear and honestly described offer here.