Villa Medicea di Lilliano Wedding Cost (2027): Prices & Capacity

Villa Medicea di Lilliano is a Medici villa and wine estate in the hills above Grassina, 11 kilometres southeast of Florence, with a long raised terrace looking toward the city, a courtyard, a fountain garden and the Limonaia, a 245-square-metre timber-beamed hall that takes dinner and the party. Guests stay in suites at La Corte beside the villa and in five villas at La Torre a few hundred metres away, which makes it a countryside wedding with the family on the estate and everyone else in Florence.

The 2027 packages bundle one wedding day with the 16 suites for 32 guests, breakfast and housekeeping, from €15,035 for a Thursday wedding in low season to €37,752 for a three-night weekend in the May-to-June and September peak, VAT included. Catering comes from an approved list, estate wines are required, a planner is mandatory, and the music moves into the Limonaia by 10:30 pm for a 1 am finish that can be bought to 2.

Lilliano is a countryside wedding that keeps Florence in the weekend. The terrace is the reason to come: long, raised and open to the view, it makes a ceremony feel like a procession rather than a lawn with chairs, and from there the day moves through the courtyard for drinks, the Medici garden for dinner and the Limonaia for the party. The package is clean, one price for the stay, the suites and the wedding day, with one-, two- and three-night formats instead of a compulsory week.

Thirty-two beds is the shape of it: the couple, parents and wedding party at La Corte and La Torre, and 68 of a 100-guest list in Florence hotels 30 minutes away, which for a city-break crowd is a feature. The constraints are the approved catering and technical suppliers, the required estate wines, and the clock: outdoor volume drops at 10, the party is inside by 10:30, and 1 am is the finish unless you buy the second hour. The Limonaia is both the rain plan and the party room, so the dinner-to-dancing turnover is the layout decision that matters.

Twelve package prices, each a total for the stay with all 16 suites, breakfast, cleaning and one event day at the Historical Villa, VAT included. Saturday weddings are the three-night weekend; a Thursday wedding takes the one-night package.

Catering, drinks, flowers, décor, music, lighting, sound, furniture, tabletop, planner, photography and guest transport are all outside the package; the villa does not supply tables or chairs. Reception runs 8 am to 10 pm, an estate shuttle links La Corte and La Torre, and check-in is 4 pm with check-out at 10 am.

Planning ranges for a three-night Sangiovese weekend with a Saturday wedding, a welcome dinner and farewell gathering at La Torre, the 2 am extension, approved catering at €220 to €350 a head, planner, photography, florals, rentals and production, a DJ and Florence shuttles. They exclude off-estate hotels, flights, attire, sofa beds and the civil-ceremony fees.

The Limonaia's 150 is the planning ceiling and the seated number depends on whether the dance floor stays in during dinner. The gardens take more standing than sitting.

The Limonaia takes dinner and the party; the Granaio takes the ceremony; drinks need a covered corner while the hall is set. The hard part is the turnover from dinner tables to dance floor inside the room everyone is already in, with the music due inside by 10:30, so either keep the floor in the layout or build a reset into the timeline with somewhere for guests to go. Up to 100 the hall does it without a structure; above that, a gazebo on the Limonaia terrace is the extra cover and it is priced separately.

Thirty-two in regular beds: ten at La Corte, the five suites with their own pool beside the villa, and 22 in the five villas at La Torre, 400 metres away, with kitchens and a shared pool. Six sofa beds take the total to 44. Everyone else stays on the southeast side of Florence or in the centre, with shuttles from one or two pickups.

Catering, lighting and sound come from the estate's approved suppliers, and Malenchini wines pour throughout with corkage on anything else; the caterer brings the tables and chairs. You choose your DJ or band, florist and photographer, and a planner or day coordinator is required until the last guest leaves. Price the caterer's proposal with furniture and tableware in it so nothing is rented twice.

The clock is strict: 70 dB outdoors until 10 pm, 45 dB after, music into the Limonaia by 10:30, 70 dB inside, and a 1 am finish extendable to 2 for €732. The standard event is eight hours from 5 pm. Fireworks go through the estate's licensed company with a €427 site fee.

The terrace and the Lower Garden host symbolic ceremonies, the Granaio an indoor one. The villa is authorised for civil ceremonies, at €610 for the venue plus the Comune's €1,000 for non-residents, but the municipal agreement runs to March 13, 2027 and its renewal should be confirmed before you plan a legal ceremony later that year; non-resident foreign couples also attend a declaration at the Comune three days before. Non-Italian couples need a Nulla Osta, an Atto Notorio and certified translations; allow 60 to 90 days.

The estate shuttle runs between La Corte and La Torre only. Wedding-day transport from Florence is yours, in minibuses that suit the final approach, with an early return and a last run at the finish; more than 20 cars triggers a parking attendant, which is another reason for shuttles.

Late May, June and September for the terrace, all in the top Sangiovese band. July and August are a cheaper Canaiolo window, €4,936 off the weekend, at the cost of real heat on an exposed terrace. Early October stays Sangiovese; from October 5 the rate drops and the Limonaia leads. Cabernet is November to March and an indoor wedding by design.

Best for: 60 to 100 guests; a terrace ceremony with Florence behind it; the inner circle on the estate and the rest in the city; a clean package with one-, two- and three-night formats; a Thursday wedding at a fraction of the weekend price.

Things to consider: 32 beds across two clusters; approved caterers and technical suppliers; estate wines required; a mandatory planner; the party inside by 10:30 and over at 1 unless you pay; the Limonaia doing double duty as rain plan and dance floor; civil-ceremony authorisation to confirm after March 2027.

• Is the whole estate private during our stay, or only the villa on the event day?
• Can we see the Limonaia set for our dinner and the party, with the turnover?
• Which approved caterers can handle our menu, and what do their proposals include?
• Has the civil-ceremony authorisation been renewed for our date?
• How are suppliers counted toward the 149 threshold?
• Can guests pay for a villa directly, and how is it allocated?
• Where would a gazebo go on the Limonaia terrace, and at what cost?
• What vehicles suit the final approach?

• Villa Gamberaia, Settignano: the other great garden above Florence, €76,000 for three nights and 150 guests with 36 beds.
• Villa La Selva, Bucine: 50 beds and two events bundled into one nightly rate for couples who want more of the group on the estate.
• Villa Cetinale, Sovicille: the garden-first private villa near Siena with 48 beds and a compulsory week.

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