Testimonials

I cannot thank Gina and her crew enough for the amazing job that they did for creating the most magnificent fairytale wedding for our daughter.
Two days before the wedding Gina and her assistant were there to welcome the family and bridal party to help us settle in our accommodations at the venue.

The next day she arranged optional activities for all the guests. She and her assistant walked us through the rehearsal in mid afternoon followed by a welcome cocktail and pizza party for all the guests and their families. Pizza was freshly made on the premises at the venue with entertainment by local folk musicians and dancers. The highlight of the evening was a surprise visit by a gelato truck. Imagine all you can eat gelato of different flavors! What a treat!

The wedding day was hectic as expected. Gina was there to calm everyone’s nerves. The caterer and florist were busy setting up for the wedding overlooking the town below. What started out as a beautiful sunny day suddenly turned dark and ominous an hour before the ceremony. We could see heavy down pour a distance away heading toward us. Gina very calmly reassured us that everything will be fine. They will move the cocktail reception into the villa and cover everything else with tarp. No sooner did they finish, rain poured.
Gina must have had a direct line with God. While still raining twenty minutes before the scheduled time, she asked us to tell the guest to get ready to head out in ten minutes. The ceremony will be starting on time as planned. She was right. The rain stopped ten minutes later, the sky was clear and sunny, the midsummer temperature cooled down by the rain. The ceremony went without a hitch.

I could go on and on about what followed. The food, the traditional Italian wedding cake, the fireworks; yes, fireworks shot up from below with magnificent displays right before our eyes. Everything was perfect. Thank you Gina and your team. You are truly exceptional at what you do. God bless you for making dreams come true for so many couples.

Where do I begin. If I could give 100 stars I would. As soon as I had an initial zoom call with Gina, I knew she was the one. Gina and her team were phenomenal! I had a vision of how I wanted my wedding day to go, and she made it 10000x better than I could have ever imagined. She is so attentive and goes above and beyond to make your day perfect. From answering any question you might have in a timely fashion, to finding the perfect venue and vendors, to staying within a budget you give her. For brides on a budget, she’s also very affordable and will work with whatever budget you have. She makes you feel comfortable to where I don’t look at her as a wedding planner, but as a friend. Through all my crazy ideas and changing my mind she was so calm and just made it happen with no complaints. Her attention to detail is beyond what my head could ever process, so it made the details even more perfect. She is your biggest advocate and will make sure vendors are not over charging you for anything. Through all my events she made the day flawless, if there was something that went wrong I never knew about it and she handled everything. I had a wonderful experience and I want every bride’s wedding day to be as magical as mine. If you’re considering My Tuscan Wedding, you should choose them with no hesitation. I promise you that you will not regret it!!!

As the mother of the bride, I am here to tell you that If you get the opportunity to work with Gina, owner of My Tuscan Wedding , do it, you won’t regret it! What a blessing to cross paths with her and have her collaborate with us to create a fairy tale wedding at Villa Medici di Lilliano.

By the end of our one-year journey, we felt like Gina and her assistant were part of our family! Planning a wedding for 100 people traveling to Italy from the United States is challenging, but having Gina by our side made this process fun and exciting.

She is English speaking and fluent in Italian and well respected by all of the high-quality vendors she recommended who in many cases went above and beyond what was requested.

She is extremely caring and organized and always advocated for us.

Our once-a-month zoom calls were always productive. We interacted via email as needed each month and Gina and her team were very responsive.

Our wedding guests are still talking about how magical our wedding week was.

Gina made everything feel seamless - the Welcome Party in Florence, Dinner for our 27 guests at the Villa the day before the wedding, and of course Wedding Day.

An unbelievable journey our family and friends will never forget!!

Gina was absolutely amazing! Every single detail was exactly what our grooms ask for. She made not only the wedding day but the wedding weekend absolutely PERFECT!

We have had a very very good experience with Gina and a fully competent dialog and planning about our wedding and everything did go 100% perfect Gina and her team did a great job. we can recommend My Tuscan Wedding to everybody. Nice job Gina

I knew Gina would be my wedding planner when she went above and beyond even BEFORE we hired her. My husband and I were traveling in Italy, thinking about getting married there, and she came up with a schedule for us to look at venues and helped us every step of the way before she was even our official planner. Gina, Sabrina and Robbie treated us like they were planning their own families’ wedding- with so much care and careful planning. I can’t recommend them enough - for their incredible organizational skills, network of incredibly talented vendors, and their quick response time. They completely put us at ease. Planning an international wedding was no small task, but I would recommend it to anyone who had Gina and her team on their side.

There are people who are quite the epitome of excellence and it is evident to ALL that their career is really sheer artistry. It is a rare phenomenon to encounter the level of craftsmanship, knowledge and the extra care that we witnessed in our wedding planner Gina Rodriguez.

She is the Proprietor, Founder and CEO of My Tuscan Wedding. She and her wonderful staff in the persons of Isabelle Grabau and Sabrina Sartoni curated magic for my daughter Anastacia and her new husband Larone L. Gilmore, Jr. on October 11, 2023 at Villa Grabau in Lucca, Italy.

And it was marvelous in ALL our eyes. But, this fairytale wedding could have gone left easily if it wasn't for My Tuscan Wedding. Though Anastacia said "Yes" almost 2 years prior; it seemed as if the clock was on Vulcan warp time and expediting with each pendulum stroke in quantum leaps by January 2023.

Nothing was on cue based on the Knot's timeline. Panic was setting in within the young couple's camp. Anastacia had already gone down various rabbit holes and through the looking glass to try and plan this Great Big Italian localed wedding.

This was a hard feat from East Chicago USA. She assumed that if you had a Macbook computer, asked Google the right questions and made calls at the right time of the day despite navigating two time zones and two countries… all would go well. Au contraire, Euro conversions, unfamiliarity with potential vendors, VAT tax, siestas times and the lay of the land was more than a notion.

My daughter and her fiance needed a professional.

The search for a wedding planner was very disheartening. Some of the quotes were ridiculously ludacris and some of their attitudes were haughty because they believed the young couple's dream was a bit much and could not be executed!

But not Gina Rodriguez! Her quote was more than reasonable. Her patience, passion, and joyful demeanor was quite engaging. When she spoke Anastacia and Larone felt all was well. Oh but when she laughed in excitement they knew they were in safe hands for sure. Gina felt like home. At last, we all believed the dream could come true. Gina listened intently and seemed very intentional in executing a couple's creative venture through her organizational skills and network of vendors that she trusted and who trusted her.

Gina's team worked in synchronicity to ensure Anastacia and Larone's dream would be the blissful day they envisioned. Her knowledge of all things Italian weddings is quite vast.

Stacia and Ronnie were able to go to Italy and meet with Gina and Olivia Catering a few months before the wedding for a taste test and to talk about cake! They were geeked, treated like royalty and given a wonderful experience! Her attention to details includes YOU..not just timely payments, wire tracking and getting a vendor for the occasion.

The wedding night, she moved like the hostess with the most..even stepping in at the last minute as Mistress of Ceremony. Her ability to anticipate and guide you through the process of experiencing a beautiful Tuscan wedding comes with practice, attention to details, having a great team and loving what they do! And though the big wedding day is over, the feeling of the day of and all the days leading up to ' The Day' is near and ever present. It is a feeling of gratitude and amazement knowing that dreams do come true!

Our entire family highly recommends My Tuscan Wedding.

They will not disappoint, We promise!!

Grazie Gina and Team for being the quintessential Dream Weavers.

With Great Affection,
Valrie Kemp- Davis
Mother of The Bride

I cannot recommend Gina enough…

My husband and I found Gina online just over a year prior to our wedding. Straight away she was super quick to reply to all of our questions and recommended the perfect venue for us.

Throughout the whole process Gina was available for zoom calls, responded to our lengthy emails and was a very calming and reassuring presence.

We visited our venue in October last year which was really well organised. We were able to visit our amazing florist, Gabrielle, as well as stay for a night at our venue, Villa Daniela Grossi, and try our wedding menu. It really was perfect!

Gina has excellent recommendations for vendors and is very intuitive and really understood what we were trying to achieve. She has options for very every budget and helped us to plan each aspect of the wedding within our price range and was able to advise us on the best quality for our budget.

In the final weeks before the wedding Gina was great at keeping us calm and negotiating with all of our suppliers. She is very organised!! She also had some great suggestions to make the ceremony even better in the few days prior, such as having a fairy light backdrop behind the wedding cake which looked incredible in photographs.

On the day of the wedding Gina and her team were indispensable. We had a tight schedule and packed quite a lot in between 5pm- midnight. The level of organisation and planning was incredible! All of her team were on hand to help with absolutely everything and the ceremony, reception, meal and dancing all went so smoothly.

Gina and her team helped to look after our guests and took care of any issues so that we didn’t need to worry about anything. She completely took the stress out of the day and we trusted her 100%

There is no way we could have organised a wedding like this without Gina and her team. The whole setting was absolutely incredible and the decor was beautiful. We are so happy we chose Gina as our wedding planner and thank her for creating the most beautiful wedding ✨

Our experience with My Tuscan Wedding and Gina were incredible.

Coming from the states, there is no way we would have been able to pull of an international wedding without the help of her and her team.

Our wedding was absolutely amazing and we are so so grateful to Gina and her colleague Ludovica for arranging everything.

Not only did they organize our wedding, but they also went above and beyond to help us arrange housing and hotels for us and our guests, transportation suggestions and also booked restaurants and wine tastings for our group in the couple days prior to our wedding.

They were always available if any issues arose with reservations, and helped us figure out things like where to park inside the city walls of Lucca which would have been impossible to navigate without their help.

I can’t recommend this team enough for all the work they put in and their consistent positive spirits and attitudes that made our wedding a breeze.

Gina even single-handedly solved a wardrobe malfunction when a fruit fly got smushed into the front of my wedding dress during the ceremony.

If you are looking for an amazing wedding in Tuscany and a great team, look no further than My Tuscan Wedding!!!

Our wedding was all I ever wished for and so much more and Gina alone made it all possible! For that I will always be grateful. We would have NEVER been able to plan a destination wedding by ours selfs (and I would never recommend anyone to do so eather.)

Gina was by our side in every part of our wedding. She listened to our wishes and came with the perfect suggestions and ideés. She surround herself with the most loving professionals you can imagine. The lovely Daniella who owned the venue, the amazing catering, lovely florist, DJ and bakery and so many more…

I trust Gina with my life when it comes to wedding planning and Im forever grateful that she was there when the corona situation was at its worst and we hade to reschedule to next year she was the best support.

My warmest recommendation to this wonderfull, professional and kind women.

Thank you Gina❤

Me and my husband Ruudi are so happy we chose Gina as our wedding planner.

Our wedding turned out better than we envisioned with everything planned out to the smallest detail by Gina, but what is even more important, we had a person we trusted 100% with us the biggest day (week) of our lives who we knew could solve any upcoming problems with ease. Gina planned a perfect 4 day event for us and our guests and with only 8 months. All activities, dinners, tours were planned out so well, that us and our guests could just enjoy the our time.

During the time leading up to the wedding, these were the outstanding qualities in Gina’s service:
* She was always available and answered emails quickly
* She was open to have video calls often and we always felt she had time for us
* She provided several different plans and options for us to choose at variety of price ranges
* She helped us with budgeting the wedding and advised us on ways to balance the cost and best quality
* She adapted quickly to our wishes to change anything
* She understood our wishes and vision without us having to explain it too much, and came up with a style for the whole wedding based on that.
* She had a very personalized approach and great ideas that fit well with our style
* She has a large network of very professional service providers (band, catering, florist) that she proposed
* She suggested out of the box ideas that worked very well
* She was warm and open in her discussions
* She negotiated with the service providers and organized the contracts, payment details etc

Overall we couldn’t have chosen a better person to organize our dream event.

Thank you, Gina!

Gina.

What can I say—she is an incredible wedding planner who brought our dreams to life, and then some!

When my husband and I decided to plan a destination wedding we interviewed numerous planners and are so glad we chose Gina.

I don’t know where to start, but I’ll say that having a planner who is originally from the US but has lived in Italy for decades was a huge asset – she understands what American brides want and how to help navigate all the idiosyncrasies that come along with being in Italy—such as Italian (in)efficiency!

Also, her value for the price is extraordinary. While they say you get what you pay for, I truly believe that we actually got far more than we paid for, as there’s so much that goes into planning a multi-day affair. We spoke with planners who cost more and planners who cost less but feel like we got the vibe and quality of the super-expensive boutique planners at a reasonable rate.

e spoke with one planner who essentially told us a wedding wasn’t possible with our budget, but Gina made it happen!

Further, everything was personalized to us, rather than a basic cookie-cutter wedding that others would have offered. She had great ideas across all price points and was able to identify ways to bring down the cost of our pre-wedding pizza party, such as reusing certain décor or purchasing the wine ourselves. She also has amazing connections with vendors—including exclusive access to a caterer with a Michelin-rated restaurant, a brilliant florist, great DJ, and the best photographers in Tuscany, who shoot for many couture fashion houses.

Gina’s style is impeccable! I had some vague ideas of what I liked, and omg, it turned out better and more gorgeous than I could have imagined. We had numerous guests say it was the best wedding they’ve ever been to, including one bridesmaid who was also a bridesmaid in another Italian destination wedding! I’d also be remiss to not say what a wonderful person she is—making the whole process fun, even when we had to adjust and change things due to COVID.

We’ve since referred other friends to Gina for their wedding, which also turned out beautifully!

I cannot imagine planning this wedding without Gina!!.

She helped to plan every aspect of our day, understood our needs and found the best quality services and products, even things i hadn't considered.

I loved every minute of our day and loved the surprises she had planned for us throughout the day.

Gina helped us plan realistic budgets/timescales etc... so there were no real unexpected extras on the day.

We cannot thank Gina enough for everything.