C&G Wedding and Event Designer

Claudia was such an incredible resource during the very long and frustrating process of planning a wedding during Covid. We were originally set to get married in Tuscany May 2020 ....this obviously proved impossible. Claudia was so calm / helpful / reassuring with all the stress and uncertainty that plagued the process of planning and scheduling and rescheduling etc. Claudia was flexible with every curveball that came our way - and she worked hard to ensure that all aspects of our wedding were executed without a hitch.

It would not have been possible for us to get married in Italy if it were not for Claudia. Truly. Planning a destination wedding in a country where you do not speak the language would have proved an impossible feat without her, and if that challenge alone didn't make us throw in the towel - COVID certainly would have caused us to cancel entirely. Aside from being an exceptional intermediary and translator between vendors (both leading up to and day of) - Claudia made the process of picking vendors delightful. She has worked with many of the best vendors across Tuscany and was able to present us with her list of best options for each need. We listened to her advice and recommendations and were blown away. The flowers, the band, the makeup, the photography (all of which will get their own separate glowing reviews) exceeded our highest expectations 10-fold. Claudia has valuable relationships with these vendors and she was so able to seamlessly organize them all to execute a perfect weekend for us this last September.

Even more impressive was that Claudia wasn't just responsible for a single day - we had events Thursday, Friday, and Saturday that were all planned with Claudia. She handled an entire weekend of events and ensured each day / activity had a distinct and unique feel.

I am not typically suited to give up the reigns of planning and managing - though with Claudia it was wonderful to know that I wasn't the only person on top of details, and to know that she is in expert in things I was only learning about for the first time. The value provided FAR exceeded what I imagined Claudia could do for us.

We love her and are so grateful that she put up with us for nearly 3 years to pull of the greatest weekend of our lives!

Claudia is a very good and conscientious wedding planner. She is available to attempt all her clients requests and she makes our wedding better than we thought it could be.

Where do I start, in the midst of a pandemic, we had the most BEAUTIFUL wedding in the Florence.
Looking at world events today, I cannot believe that we were even able to have our wedding, not to mention flying out 90 guests from London, no-one catching COVID due to Claudia's diligence and safety precautions and us having the best day of our lives.

Claudia (CG Events) was nothing less than amazing, our wedding was originally scheduled June 4th 2020, but took place by nothing short of a miracle on September 20th 2020.

We began our wedding planning journey in July 2019 where we flew to Florence to meet with Claudia and look at different venues, she was very knowledgable and held great relationships with all vendors. Just when we thought we had found our dream location, Claudia encouraged us to see just one more - Castello Il Palagio and we fell in love. It was super classic, romantic and surrounded in vineyards.
We travelled back to Florence a second time in November, Claudia arranged a tight schedule which led to us picking caterers, lights, doing an engagement shoot with our amazing photographers Benni Carol.
Claudia was so supportive and took us through every detail at our pace so we understood. Claudia consistently had our best interests at heart and took time to genuinely get to know us.
Then the Pandemic hit - in this season, Claudia was truly and angel, without her this wedding would not have happened. I had high levels of anxiety, I lost hope and also lost a lot of weight, Claudia was constantly there to encourage and to reassure. Even when we decided to go ahead (July 2020) as it looked like things were improving, I still had my doubts but Claudia sprang back into action and had everything arranged perfectly.

She even helped us arrange two events either side of the wedding day including a Pizza Party and a Pool party with speakers and great food!
The day was perfect, we even had rain but that did not impact the schedule of events, Claudia had already thought of plan B and also planned so we could still maximise time outside. In the end the flow of the day was even better than we had imagine, ceremony in the garden, dinner in the marquee, cake and dancing in the courtyard. It was magical.

I would highly recommend Claudia, not only is she talented and incredible at what she does but she also cares and is someone we are genuinely indebted to. 2020 was the year I had my heart set on for my wedding and it happened. Claudia, thank you for everything you did for us. We love you so much
Melissa and Eugene Max Max-Macarthy x