9 Italian Wedding Venues Having a Moment
Image: Tonnara di Scopello
An ancient tuna fishery on the Sicilian coast. A 12th-century Umbrian monastery still run by the same family. A brand new island estate that opened in 2025 and is already one of the most talked about venues in Italy. These nine venues have almost nothing in common, except that right now, they are the ones that keep finding their way to the top of every shortlist.
Left: Borogo Laticastelli, Photography by Marcela Ferreira Photography, Planning by Ani Lami Wedding | Right: Torre di Scopello, Photography by Marco Torcivia, Riccardo Richiusa, Jess Kearney, Planning by Marina Guccione
Tonnara di Scopello | Sicily
There is nowhere quite like Tonnara di Scopello, and if you've spent any time in the Italian wedding world, you already know that. Nestled in its own private bay on the northwest coast of Sicily, the Tonnara began life as an ancient fishing village and operated as a working tuna fishery for centuries. Today it functions as a museum, which matters because it means the venue carries a level of authenticity that no amount of interior design can manufacture. The rusted machinery, the courtyards worn smooth by generations of fishermen, even the faraglioni sea stacks rising from the water just beyond the terrace, are all part of its rich history.
Planning note: The venue’s open supplier policy and bring-your-own alcohol option are rarer than you'd think and they make a real difference to the overall budget.
Photography: Tonnara di Scopello, Kseniya Antonova, Matt Godkin Weddings
Monastero Santa Margherita | Umbria
Umbria has a habit of making people reconsider everything they thought they wanted from their Italian wedding, and Monastero Santa Margherita is no exception. A 12th-century monastery, it’s been in the same family for generations and feels every bit of it, in the best possible way. Where many Italian venues lean into grandeur, this one leans into warmth. Couples talk about being welcomed like family, with a wedding planner who knows the place the way only someone who has grown up inside it can, and catering that’s more like someone's grandmother just decided to cook for 300 people. It is, in every sense, your Italian home for the weekend.
Planning note: Just 200 metres away stands the Tempio di Santa Maria della Consolazione, one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance architecture, and one of the most extraordinary churches you could ever say your vows in.
Torre di Scopello | Sicily
Built as part of Sicily's coastal defence network against Turkish and pirate raids, Torre di Scopello communicated danger to its neighbouring towers via smoke signals, a warning system so efficient it could circle the entire island within a day. Four hundred years later, couples are still sending messages from this clifftop, just rather different ones. Perched directly above the Faraglioni on the island's northwestern tip, with the Gulf of Castellammare spread out below, this is one of those venues that even without styling or a mood board, stands its ground.
Planning note: For guests who want to make a long weekend of it, the setting beyond the venue is as beautifully untamed as the venue itself. The Torre sits just a short walk from the Zingaro Nature Reserve, one of Sicily's most protected and beautiful stretches of coastline.
Photogaphy: Torre di Scopello, Marco Torcivia, Riccardo Richiusa, Jess Kearney | Wedding Planner: Marina Guccione
Borgo del Carato | Sicily
Tucked into 90 hectares of private parkland in the Monti Iblei, the ancient and little-visited hill country of southeastern Sicily, Borgo del Carato offers a sense of peace and immersion in Sicily. What was once a fortified farm with workers' quarters and shepherds' houses, is now 27 elegant rooms, with a lived-in atmosphere that takes centuries to accumulate. The restored Baroque chapel alone, with its original lime plaster walls and Caltagirone ceramic altar, is worth the visit.
Photography: Leonardo Tornabene
Braccialieri | Sicily
Launched in 2025 and already one of the most talked-about new venues in the Italian wedding world, Braccialieri is a reminder that newness and depth are not mutually exclusive. The 1800s estate near Noto has been restored with a level of intention that borders on obsessive, including pool tiles that were chosen to replicate the architect's grandmother's kitchen and a carefully preserved stone mill. Every detail exudes pure Sicilian luxury.
Planning note: An experienced wedding planner is required to get married here. Not a restriction so much as a reflection of how seriously this venue takes the weddings it hosts.
Masseria Grieco | Puglia
In the heart of the Valle d'Itria, just five kilometres from the Adriatic, is the jewel that is Masseria Grieco. Held in time by the Pietra Viva limestone that creates every arch and pathway, the venue reflects light in a way that makes everything glow at any hour of the day. But the detail that stays with people is the central stone piazza; the conical stone structures that are as synonymous with Puglia as olive oil and burrata. It’s here that most couples choose to sit down to dinner as the valley falls into dusk.
Planning note: Masseria Grieco doesn't host weddings in July or August, which means if you feel drawn to a wedding here, your venue will already have a built-in rarity to it.
Photography: Cinzia Bruschini Studio
Villa Catignano | Tuscany
Villa Catignano has been in the hands of the same family since the 1500s, and it shows in the accumulation of four centuries of taste. Built by Monsignor Lodovico Sergardi, a writer and art aficionado, the estate is scattered with sculpture gardens, frescoes and Renaissance art from the family collection. The villa still produces its own wine and olive oil, which means the Chianti on your wedding table is quite literally from the ground beneath your feet. Set eight kilometres from Siena, in the heart of the Classico winemaking region, this is Tuscany as it has always been.
Planning note: Guests can be hosted on-site across two buildings with very different histories: the villa, where the Sergardi family lived, and the fattoria, where the farming and wine production happened. Both are now beautifully restored.
Villa Tasca | Sicily
In 1788, the Marquis of Villabianca described Villa Tasca as a place of extraordinary lushness, and nothing much has changed since. Still inhabited by the same family, still surrounded by its six-hectare park of monumental trees, grottoes, a swan-filled pond and temples designed specifically to mystify visitors, the villa sits in the heart of Palermo like a secret the city has been keeping for three centuries. Most recently it provided the backdrop for the award-winning HBO series The White Lotus, which tells you something about how stunningly it photographs.
Borgo Laticastelli | Tuscany
Laticastelli translates, roughly, as “the castle where light comes from all sides”, and standing on its hilltop terraces above the Crete Senesi, the name makes immediate sense. Once a fortress caught in the crossfire between the two rival cities, the borgo was abandoned for decades before being carefully restored and opened first as a boutique hotel, and eventually as one of Tuscany's most compelling wedding venues. Dine at long tables along ancient streets, and when dinner is over, there is La Cava, the old wine cellar transformed into an atmospheric room with a piano bar and space for dancing until late.
Planning note: Borgo Laticastelli can hold entire wedding weekend in one hamlet, with thirty-three suites sleeping 80 guests on-site.
Photography: Borogo Laticastelli, The Santoros Photo + Video, Marcela Ferreira Photography | Planning: Ani Lami Weddings, Alessandra Bollo | Florals: Le Francesche | Hair & Makeup: Nelli Made
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