Borgo Finocchieto Wedding Cost: Prices & Capacity

Borgo Finocchieto is a restored hamlet of five houses around a piazza in the hills outside Buonconvento, south of Siena, with a pool, tennis, bocce, a spa and a chef cooking Tuscan food for everyone who stays. It is let as a private village: 22 bedrooms for 44 guests, breakfast and housekeeping included, a long table under the pergola for 110, and a lawn facing the Crete Senesi for the ceremony or a marquee.

Three-night packages start at €58,080 for the villa's nine suites, €85,500 for all five houses and €99,340 for the Grand package that allows 150 event guests, VAT included, with meals priced on top from €275 a head for the wedding dinner. The estate's own guidance for a full wedding is €300,000 and up. The indoor fallback is two small rooms, so above 44 guests the marquee is part of the design.

Finocchieto's pitch is a village of your own for three days: five houses around a piazza, so families have their own front doors and everyone meets for breakfast, the pool and dinner. The pergola is the image to plan around, 110 at one continuous table with the hills behind, and the lawn, the piazzetta and the arcaded courtyard give the ceremony, the aperitivo and the welcome dinner three different settings without leaving the walls. The food is the estate's, from a chef, which keeps the weekend hosted rather than catered.

The honest number is the €300,000 the estate quotes for a full wedding, not the €99,340 package, because the meals, the bar, the marquee and the production all sit on top. Forty-four beds is the natural size, and the comfortable large wedding is 70 to 100 with the rest in Buonconvento and the agriturismi nearby. The rain plan is two small rooms, so a marquee on the lawn is a real line item for anything above 44, and at 150 the pergola is too small and the marquee becomes the reception. Music runs to midnight outdoors and later inside.

Three-night packages for the houses and the hosted stay, with meals priced per person on top. All figures include 10% VAT.

The marquee setup fee covers the estate's handling and a pre-event day, not the structure, flooring, power, climate or lighting, which the marquee company quotes separately. Aperitivo and bar, extra wine, cake, flowers, rentals, lighting, sound, entertainment, photography, planner and transport are all on top, as is any use of the neighbouring Castello Villa Torre.

Planning ranges for 100 guests over three nights with 44 in residence: the Grand package, a welcome dinner, wedding dinner and farewell lunch for everyone plus a lunch and dinner for residents, bar and upgrades, a marquee, florals, production, planner, photography, entertainment and shuttles. They exclude off-site rooms, flights, attire and any castle hire.

The pergola seats 110, the courtyard 44 to 80 depending on table shape, the piazzetta takes 200 standing, and the Grand package allows 150 at an event, which above 110 means a marquee on the lawn.

For 18 guests the larger indoor room works; for 44 it is a two-room dinner, which is survivable but split. Above that the Borgo has no indoor reception, so the marquee on the lawn is the plan and should be specified from the first quote: floor, sides, heating or cooling, lighting, and zones for the ceremony and drinks as well as the tables. Entourage and Grand include the setup fee and a build day; the structure is the marquee company's price. The castle next door is a separate hire with its own rooms on different floors, not an included fallback.

Forty-four sleep in the village at double occupancy, in five houses that suit allocating by family rather than by room. Everyone else stays in Buonconvento or the countryside within fifteen minutes, in one or two blocks, with shuttles.

The estate's chef, Roberto Rossi, cooks the weekend: a pizza-and-pasta welcome night, lunches by the pool and a tailored wedding dinner from €275, with DOCG wine at a bottle per four and a separate aperitivo and bar to add. Specialist or cultural catering is by agreement. You choose your planner, florist and photographer; the estate recommends a local planner but does not require one, and with a marquee, overflow hotels and three hosted events, hire a strong one.

Outdoor music runs to midnight and the party can carry on indoors with no stated curfew, so agree which room, at what volume and with what bar hours. An enclosed marquee does not count as indoors; move the dance floor before midnight so the transition does not stop the party.

The lawn and the arcaded courtyard host symbolic ceremonies, one open to the hills and one inside the architecture. A civil ceremony on the estate needs the Comune di Buonconvento to authorise the setting and provide a registrar; the practical route is the Comune's rooms or marrying at home first. Santa Teresa's chapel is now accommodation, not a church; a religious ceremony happens in a parish church nearby. Non-Italian couples need a Nulla Osta, an Atto Notorio and certified translations; allow 60 to 90 days.

Run shuttles from one or two hotel hubs with an early return and a last bus at the agreed finish, and confirm vehicle size and the loading point with the estate before booking coaches.

Late May, June and September, with the marquee funded whatever the month. July and August are hot on the lawn and need a late ceremony; October is wetter and the covered plan becomes central. No seasonal discount is published.

Best for: 70 to 100 guests at one long table under the pergola with 44 living in the village; a hosted stay with a chef and no hotel feel; families who want their own house; a party that runs past midnight.

Things to consider: €300,000 is the real starting point; 44 beds; two small indoor rooms, so the marquee is the rain plan; meals priced per head on top of the package; the legal ceremony is at the Comune; Florence is nearly two hours away.

• What is the complete price for our guest count, including the houses, the gatherings and any mandatory charges?
• Which houses are in the Grand package?
• What exactly does the marquee setup fee cover, and what does the structure cost?
• Can we see the two-room indoor plan for 44, and the marquee zones for 100?
• Which indoor room hosts the party after midnight, and at what volume?
• Can we bring a specialist caterer?
• Is the castle available, and on what terms?
• What are the payment and cancellation terms?

• Villa La Selva, Bucine: another residential wine estate with 50 beds and a ceremony hall and barrel room indoors.
• Villa Cetinale, Sovicille: the great garden villa near Siena with 48 beds and an 80-seat Limonaia.
• Castiglion del Bosco, Montalcino: the Rosewood resort twenty minutes away for a far bigger wedding at a far bigger number.
• Borgo Santo Pietro, Chiusdino: the five-star hotel version with a starred kitchen and 22 rooms.

Explore the RoamRecs Tuscany wedding venue guides to compare private villas, villages, castles and resorts by actual package structure, sleeping capacity and rain options.

For Borgo Finocchieto, the most useful question is not whether the grounds can accommodate your guest list. It is whether the complete stay, dinner layout, covered alternative and guest transport create the kind of wedding you want to host.