Villa Le Fontanelle Wedding Cost (2028): Prices & Capacity

Villa Le Fontanelle is a villa with a tower in the Careggi hills on the north side of Florence, run as a seven-room boutique hotel with a terraced garden, a small chapel, a pool and the Citrarium restaurant in the old citrus house, all looking down on the city. For a wedding it offers a Florence backdrop twenty minutes from the airport, a weekday route in that costs a fraction of a weekend buyout, and seven rooms for the inner circle while everyone else stays in town.

The 2028 packages run from €6,600, for a low-season weekday wedding day with no rooms, to €33,000 for a high-season three-night weekend with 140 guests, VAT included. The salon seats 70, the in-house kitchen serves up to 60, and above 70 a marquee is required. Outdoor music ends at 10:30 pm. The owners live on the property and the restaurant trades separately, so this is a hotel wedding with a villa's looks rather than a private estate.

Choose Le Fontanelle for a Florence wedding with a villa setting, not for a private house party. Guests spend the trip in the city, come up the hill for the ceremony in the garden, drinks over the rooftops and dinner under the pergola, and go back to their hotels; the couple and six more rooms' worth of family sleep at the villa. The weekday packages are the real value: Bronze buys the wedding day for €12,100 to €13,750 in high season with no rooms, and Silver adds one night for about €3,300 more.

The sweet spot is 40 to 60. That keeps dinner inside the salon's 70 seats if it rains, inside the kitchen's 60-cover comfort zone, and clear of the marquee that becomes compulsory above 70 and costs more than any difference between guest bands. The compromises are privacy, since the owners are at home and Citrarium stays open unless you pay to close it, and the 10:30 pm outdoor cut-off, which turns the evening into dinner outside and a party indoors.

Five packages, each a total price for the wedding event window plus the stated stay in all seven rooms, VAT included. Weekday packages run Monday to Thursday; Diamond is the Friday-to-Sunday tariff with three nights required.

The stay packages include the rooms for 14 with breakfast from 7:30 to 10:30 and the event spaces from 3 pm to 1 am on the wedding day. Sofa-bed places, welcome dinners, farewell brunches, closing Citrarium, exclusive use of the pool and any marquee are priced separately, as are catering, bar, flowers, music, lighting and production. Check-in is 3 pm, so a Silver stay starting on the wedding day needs earlier room access agreed for getting ready.

Planning ranges for a high-season Diamond weekend: three nights for 14, one wedding day with a symbolic ceremony, catering at €240 to €360 a head, planner, photography, florals, rentals and production, music and city shuttles. The 100-guest line adds a marquee. They exclude Florence hotel rooms, flights, attire and extra events.

The salon seats 70 and that is the planning number; the price bands run to 140 but the outdoor layout for a larger wedding is agreed case by case, and a marquee is required above 70.

Up to about 60, the salon takes dinner and the ballroom the party, with a covered spot for drinks while the room turns; ask for the drawing, since a dance floor left in place lowers the 70. From 61 to 70 the layout is tight and the practical number may be lower. Above 70 the marquee is mandatory for bad weather or winter and should be in the budget from the first quote. Citrarium can be the backup only with a separate advance reservation and the villa's approval for the whole day.

Seven rooms for 14 at standard occupancy, 25 with the sofa beds: individually furnished, with air conditioning and breakfast, and stairs inside Pool, Tower, Colombaia and Fortress to a bed or bathroom. Use the doubles first and the sofa beds for children. Everyone else stays in Florence, in one or two blocks, with shuttles up the hill.

Food and drink come through the villa: Citrarium's kitchen for up to 60, larger groups by availability, or two approved outside caterers. Nothing is brought in, including wine, Champagne and the cake. Price the whole service, aperitivo to bar hours and staff, for your number. The villa shares a preferred list for flowers, music and lighting after booking; if you have a photographer or band you love, confirm they are acceptable before choosing the package. A planner is worth it with guests in the city and a possible marquee.

Outdoor music stops at 10:30 pm and the event runs to 1 am, so dinner is outside and the party is in the ballroom. On a late summer evening the window for speeches, cake and a first dance outdoors is shorter than it looks; start the ceremony earlier rather than later.

The garden takes a symbolic ceremony or a non-Catholic religious one, and the chapel a blessing. A Catholic wedding happens in a church, with Careggi's parish a natural fit, before the reception at the villa. Civil marriages go through the Comune di Firenze at Palazzo Vecchio's Sala Rossa on a weekday; the villa is not an authorised location. Non-Italian couples need a Nulla Osta, an Atto Notorio and certified translations; allow 60 to 90 days.

The entrance leads to a 500-metre drive; confirm which vehicles can turn at the top. Run an early return for families and a last shuttle at 1 am, and let city guests use the tram and taxis the rest of the trip.

Late May, June and September for the terrace; April is the value month, with low-season rates and a garden starting to fill. October is wetter and still at the high-season tariff. July and August are hot and push the ceremony late, which shortens the outdoor evening before 10:30.

Best for: 40 to 60 guests; a Florence trip with a villa wedding; a weekday package at a fraction of a weekend buyout; the inner circle in seven rooms and everyone else in the city.

Things to consider: not a private buyout; 70 seats indoors and a marquee above; in-house or approved catering only; outdoor music ends at 10:30 pm; 14 standard beds; a non-refundable 40% deposit; the legal ceremony is at Palazzo Vecchio.

• Which areas are private for our group, and what do closing Citrarium and exclusive pool use cost?
• Can we see the salon and ballroom laid out for our number with a dance floor?
• Where would a marquee go, and at what cost?
• Can our photographer, florist and band be approved?
• What are the in-house catering terms above 60 guests?
• Can we have early room access on a Silver wedding day?
• What do a welcome dinner and farewell brunch cost at the villa?
• What vehicles can use the drive?

• Villa Gamberaia, Settignano: the private garden estate above Florence, €76,000 for three nights and 150 guests with 36 beds.
• Villa Cora, Florence: the 43-room palace hotel on the south side for a bigger group under one roof.
• Villa La Selva, Bucine: 50 beds on a wine estate for couples who would rather keep everyone together in the country.

Explore the RoamRecs Tuscany Wedding Venue Collection to compare villas, estates, castles and hotels by rental structure, guest accommodation, indoor capacity and the kind of wedding weekend they make possible.

For Villa Le Fontanelle, start with the experience you want: a Florence trip with a villa wedding, or a completely private residential estate celebration. That distinction will narrow the shortlist faster than the headline rental price alone.