DWS Italy

As an unorganized, type B bride, DWS helped organize such a beautiful wedding! Planning a wedding is stressful and Gaia and her team helped lift the weight off your shoulders!
Starting from choosing the venue to communicating with vendors, she does it all to make it easy for the couple! Would recommend them to anyone who is looking to get married in Italy ❤️

We cannot thank Gaia and the DWS team enough for planning and organizing our dream wedding! Gaia was so knowledgeable, kind, and honest, and helped us make the decisions that would be best for us. The amount of stress, time, and energy that DWS saved us was incredible. Gaia handled all of the logistics on our wedding day and made sure that we were able to remain calm and focus on enjoying our special day. Our wedding was better than we imagined it to be, and we were pleasantly surprised with how beautiful everything was. It was honestly perfect. We are so grateful for everything DWS did for us and would highly recommend hiring them as your wedding planners!

I cannot recommend DSW Italy enough. We worked majorly with Gaia and she was AMAZING! Planning a wedding in another country can seem daunting but we felt cared for and always secure with Gaia’s guidance and support. The day was the best day of our lives and stress free because of the planning and how well the venue ran. Everything was so smooth and perfect. I would do it all over 50 times if I could!

We cannot say enough good things about Gaia and her team! We give 5 stars and recommend her to anyone and everyone ❤️ She is professional, patient, kind, and so much fun to work with. We did her full wedding planning package with coordinating the day of and day before events and everything went flawlessly. We planned our Lake Como wedding from Texas, so we thought the time difference would be difficult, but Gaia always made things super easy. We would have morning calls and communicated constantly via WhatsApp to make sure we were always on top of things. I can’t say enough about how organized and incredible Gaia, Bea, and the team are at what they do- we never had to be worry because she always had it covered. I was extremely tense and high strung on the wedding weekend and she relaxed me and helped me to be calm and enjoy our special day. She will always have a place in our hearts for everything she did for us. Do not hesitate to hire her!

Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life, and it often comes with stress and inevitable last-minute changes. DWS made sure everything was absolutely incredible. They were patient, supportive, and helped us navigate every aspect of planning a destination wedding on Lake Como. They truly understood our vision and brought it to life in a way that exceeded our expectations. Our wedding day was everything we dreamed of and more, and it would not have been the same without them. We will always be grateful for their dedication, professionalism, and attention to detail. Seriously, your search for a wedding planner is over. DWS is the best!

If we could give Gaia and Bea 100 stars, we would! Planning a destination wedding from America sounded SO stressful at first, especially not knowing any of the vendors, but they made the entire experience feel exciting, easy, and honestly so much fun.

They helped us stay within our budget while still making everything feel beautiful and special, which meant so much to us. They handled every detail behind the scenes, kept everything organized, and somehow made us feel calm through the whole process. We never had to worry because we knew they had everything under control. Watching our vision come to life was better than we ever imagined!

Our wedding day was absolutely perfect, and we were actually able to relax, soak it all in, and enjoy every second thanks to them. We are beyond grateful for all of their hard work, support, kindness, and guidance. Truly the best decision we made was choosing the DWS team!!!

Planejar nosso casamento dos sonhos na Itália com a Gaia foi, de fato, um sonho. Desde o primeiro contato, sentimos muita segurança no trabalho dela, e ao longo de todo o processo isso só se confirmou. A Gaia cuidou de cada detalhe da cerimônia com um olhar atento ao que a gente queria e precisava. No grande dia, tivemos a sensação de simplesmente “existir” e aproveitar cada momento, com a tranquilidade de saber que tudo estava sendo conduzido com organização e cuidado. Foi perfeito!

We couldn’t have asked for a better wedding planner! They took care of absolutely everything, making our day completely stress free! Their professionalism and responsibility were outstanding yet they remained kind, and friendly throughout the whole process! It truly felt our best friends were looking after everything!
We are deeply grateful and would recommend them to anyone looking for a planner who combines expeditors with heart!

It’s been a little over a month since our complete and utter dream of a September wedding at La Madonnina di Barni, planned, coordinated, and completely guardian-angel-ed by Gaia.
My now husband and I first spoke with Gaia a little over a year ago when looking at possibilities to have the intimate Lake Como wedding of our dreams and from that first instance, we knew we wanted to work with her. She was so kind, so enthusiastic, open-minded and creative, listening to us and making suggestions about how to make ideas work together. We are based in the UK and would have not wanted to plan something overseas without her wisdom and experience to draw on. 
I knew early on that I wanted to spend our day enjoying every vantage of the lake that we could - a ceremony on the lakeside, cocktails on the water, followed by dinner and reception on the mountainside with La Madonnina’s dreamy balcony view as our backdrop. Gaia took on the challenge with total enthusiasm - working with the team at Villa Monastero through a change of governance that delayed confirmation and booking, sorting out taxis, boats and coaches, making sure our idea of the day would be a reality. Throughout the process of planning our wedding, she was a great contact and I loved sitting down for Zoom calls with her and hashing through the details. We figured she had probably seen it all in her years as a Lake Como wedding planner, and we were proved so right! We got advice on footwear for our guests, contingency plans, weather, lighting, reusing flowers, sunscreen, wake up times - you name it. Given our active schedule travelling around the lake all day, it is completely due to her that we had no guests, rings, vows, or boutonnieres go AWOL. I am deeply grateful for her collaboration with our photographers, who were based in Spain, for putting together a schedule of the day that everyone could follow and kept us (pretty close) to time!
On the day of our wedding, Gaia had everything under control and had great communication throughout the day - able to redirect my taxi driver to the right port, calling boat drivers to coordinate timings, etc. Her calm and sunny professionalism was invaluable come the reception when a thunderstorm appeared on the weather radar. She asked my husband and I if we would be okay to move our party and desserts inside, and with our approval, she executed it all seamlessly before the meal was over. In the end, it was an absolute godsend as everyone got to come into the warm, get their dance and drink on, and emerge to enjoy the perfect fireworks, hardly even noticing that the sky had been filled with lightning less than an hour before.
We had two coaches booked to take our guests back to Bellagio but disruption struck when our first coach broke down in the La Madonnina car park. While our guests came back to the party, Gaia by some magic managed to sort out the situation (I’m sure it was not nearly as easy as I am making it sound in the slightest) and we were all off back down the mountain in a new coach by closing time.
It’s almost a shame to not have reason to chat flowers and colour palettes with Gaia again now that our wedding is through! We already know that we will be back to La Madonnina for a meal whenever we are back in the lakes and I truly hope we will be able to give Gaia a hug and a personal thank you while we’re there. If you are considering an Italian lakes wedding at any budget, we cannot recommend her enough.

I don't even know where to begin - Gaia is the absolute best!!!!
We planned the best wedding we could have ever imagined all the way from Australia and honestly it was a breeze. Gaia & Gabi pulled off the most spectacular weekend of events for us and it truly couldn't have happened without them. Gaia thought of every single possibility and had plan As, Bs & Cs in case of anything going wrong with weather etc. She is super responsive and so understanding.
We had a mixed race wedding and had a lot of Palestinian traditions incorporated into our wedding and even though this isn't commonly done in Lake Como - Gaia helped us out with every single element and even gave us the great idea of having personalised tambourines which were a HUGE hit with our guests.
We had guests come from the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, the middle east and Gaia helped us coordinate it so well that everyone could get all the info they needed to make their trip as easy as possible.
Honestly, Gaia is worth her weight in gold. We truly feel so blessed to have found her and if I could hire her for every future event in our lives - I would!!
Gaia you really are the best and I hope you have the most amazing career to come - you really deserve it!!
All our love always, Ameera & Joe xxx