Castello di Celsa Wedding Cost (2028): Prices & Capacity

Castello di Celsa is a private castle in the Montagnola hills west of Siena, with towers, a circular Renaissance chapel, an Italian garden of clipped hedges and citrus pots, woods, a pool and a converted granary for dinner under a timber roof. It is a family home that hosts weddings, not a hotel, and it is priced that way: a wedding-day fee, a short stay for the couple's closest people, and everything else brought in.

For 2028 the wedding day is €12,000 with a two-night stay in the castle and Villa Limonaia, or €14,000 on its own midweek. Two nights in both houses brings the venue line to €23,400 before catering and production. Up to 120 can come to the wedding; 22 can sleep there. Celsa is the castle wedding without the castle week, and it suits couples who want their family under the towers and the rest of the guests in Siena.

Celsa's appeal is a castle wedding on a two-night commitment. You get the towers, the chapel and one of the better Italian gardens near Siena without buying a week, which is what Villa Cetinale up the road asks for, and the pricing separates the wedding from the beds so you pay for what you use. The gardens carry the design: ceremony in the Italian garden or on the chapel lawn, aperitivo in the courtyard, dinner on the lawn by the stone wall or in the Granary, and a 2 am finish, which is late for Tuscany.

Two things shape it. Only 22 sleep at Celsa, so this is a wedding where the couple, parents and a few friends live in the castle and everyone else stays in Siena and arrives by shuttle; that is the point, not a shortfall. And the Italian garden is for the ceremony and the photographs only, since no food or drink may be served in it, so the day moves on from it. The comfortable size is 60 to 100. At 101 to 120 the Granary's two halls and the marquee question decide whether it works, and below about 40 the fixed venue line stops making sense.

The wedding day and the stay are separate lines. With accommodation the wedding day is €12,000; the two houses are charged per night with a two-night minimum, and accommodation is required for a weekend wedding. Without accommodation the day is €14,000, midweek only.

The rental gives exclusive use of the agreed event areas, chapel, courtyard, English garden, Rocco, Granary and the lawn between the barn and castle, from 9 am to 2 am. The castle and Limonaia interiors are for the people sleeping there; getting-ready access is two castle rooms for ten people including staff. The stay includes housekeeping, pool and tennis, utilities and heating. Residential meals are extra: breakfast €20, light lunch €35, hot dinner €60 per person, ordered 15 days ahead. Payment is 20% at signing, 40% nine months out and 40% sixty days out, non-refundable.

Planning ranges for one wedding and two nights in both houses, with external catering and bar, planner, photography, florals, rentals and production, a DJ-led party and Siena shuttles. They assume the Granary works as the rain plan without a marquee and exclude off-estate rooms, extra events, VAT on supplier quotes, flights and attire.

The wedding limit is 120 and the estate offers several settings for the day, with one rule running through them: the Italian garden is for the ceremony and the photographs, and everything edible happens elsewhere.

The Granary is the indoor plan: two halls under a trussed roof with a loggia, enough for a real dinner for most Celsa weddings, with the question being whether everyone sits in one hall or across both and where drinks and dancing go while the tables turn. A marquee is permitted in a spot the castle chooses, weighted rather than pegged. For a wedding near 120, decide early which of the two you would be happy with, and if it is the marquee, add the extra setup day and the €15,000 to €35,000 to the budget from the start.

Twenty-two sleep on the estate: 12 in the castle and 10 in Villa Limonaia, with two extra beds for 24. Children stay in the castle's family suite or in Limonaia. Check-in is 5 pm and check-out 11 am, with an earlier arrival or later departure when you add a welcome dinner or a pool party. Everyone else goes to Siena or a country hotel, in one or two blocks, with shuttles.

Catering is external and the caterer brings the kitchen, the tables, the chairs and the glassware; nothing on the food side is in the rental, and the bar and aperitivo need a lawn or the courtyard rather than the Italian garden. Any exclusive-caterer, wine or corkage conditions are set per event, so agree the catering plan with the castle before you sign a supplier. A planner is recommended and, with Siena shuttles, a 2 am finish and a possible marquee, worth it.

The event window runs 9 am to 2 am for guests and suppliers alike, with extra hours at €350. Breakdown has to fit inside it or be paid for. Confetti is banned in the gardens, petals are fine, the pots and basins stay where they are, fireworks need a licensed company and a police permit, and cold sparks are allowed in an agreed spot.

Celsa is an authorised private location for civil weddings in the Comune di Sovicille, so the legal ceremony can happen in the garden with the registrar: €800 for non-residents, booked through the castle and the civil-status office, not on Christmas, New Year, Easter or May 1. A symbolic ceremony works anywhere in the gardens or on the chapel lawn, and the round chapel takes an intimate blessing or a family moment, with a Catholic ceremony arranged separately with the church. Non-Italian couples need a Nulla Osta, an Atto Notorio and certified translations; allow 60 to 90 days.

With most guests in Siena, the shuttles are the wedding's transport: an outbound run, an early return for families, and a last bus matched to the 2 am finish. Send the entrance pin and written directions; the final approach is country road.

Late May, June or September. June is warm and dry and the garden is full; September is gentler in formalwear with the evenings drawing in. July and August are hot, so seat the ceremony late and give guests water before they walk into the garden. There is no seasonal discount, so April and October are weather decisions, and October is a Granary-first wedding.

Best for: 60 to 100 guests; a private castle weekend rather than a castle week; family in residence and the rest in Siena; a legal ceremony in the garden; a party that runs to 2 am.

Things to consider: 22 beds; no food or drink in the Italian garden; the Granary's two halls as the rain plan; everything from catering to chairs is brought in; a non-refundable payment schedule; the 50% discount on a second event needs confirming.

• Is accommodation charged per night, and how does VAT apply to the fees?
• Can we see the Granary laid out for our guest count, dinner and dancing together?
• Where would a marquee go, and what setup days would it need?
• Are there caterer, wine or corkage conditions for our wedding?
• Does the 50% discount apply to the second extra event?
• Which rooms are twins, which are step-free, and where do children sleep?
• Can suppliers break down after 2 am, or must it be inside the window?
• Is our date available with the Comune for a civil ceremony?

• Villa Cetinale, Sovicille: the neighbour, a Baroque villa with 48 beds and a compulsory week in season, for couples who want more of the group in residence.
• Villa La Selva, Bucine: a wine estate with 50 beds, breakfast and two events bundled into one nightly rate.
• Borgo San Luigi, Monteriggioni: the country-hotel alternative with rooms, restaurant and pool under one operator.

Explore the RoamRecs Tuscany Wedding Venue Collection to compare private villas, castles, wine estates and hotels by rental structure, sleeping capacity and rain-plan options.

Celsa belongs on the shortlist when the castle stay is for your closest group and the wider wedding will be based nearby. Compare the full stay-and-event cost and the covered reception, not the wedding-day fee in isolation.