Top 5 Planners in Monaco
Monaco packs an outsized amount of glamour into just two square kilometres, and the five planners on this list have built entire careers around spreading that glamour across the wider Riviera. Provence's lavender fields, Lake Como's villas, Tuscany's rolling hills, and the coastline stretching from Cannes to the Italian border. Most of these studios work almost exclusively with international clients flying in from elsewhere, couples who want Monaco's prestige without necessarily getting married in the principality itself. Increasingly, that clientele stretches well beyond Europe, into the Middle East and Asia. The planners' backgrounds range from luxury catering and yachting to corporate events and theatre. More than one of them only discovered weddings after spending years in an entirely different corner of the hospitality industry. Yet they all agree on one thing: true luxury isn't about excess; it's about invisible effort, restraint and total personalisation. Here are five planners shaping some of the Riviera's most talked-about celebrations.
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Blooming Eventi
Mariane Vitoria founded Blooming Eventi in 2015, building an eleven-year career around destination weddings for an international clientele, which is now increasingly drawn from the Middle East and Asia. "The most exceptional weddings are not simply beautiful," she says. "They should feel effortless, deeply personal and completely tailored to the people experiencing them."
She deliberately limits herself to just eight weddings a year, viewing restraint as the key: "we don't want to create more weddings, we want to create exceptional ones." Her definition of luxury has nothing to do with spending: "true luxury is not about excess, it is about access, time, discretion, and having someone understand what you need before you even have to ask." Her advice to couples planning their wedding is straightforward: "your wedding should be a reflection of you, not of what you think a wedding is supposed to look like."
Wanderlust Wedding
After years in the yachting industry, Lisa Boncristiano founded Wanderlust Wedding in her hometown of Monaco, eventually joined by her husband, who brought his own background in event production to the business. Fourteen years later, the studio has grown into what Lisa calls "a true family business," working across Monaco, France and Italy.
"We believe that every wedding should feel like a true reflection of the couple," she says. "We never want to create something that simply follows trends or looks beautiful for the sake of it." One of her most memorable projects came together at the Monaco Yacht Club with barely a month's notice: "we had to create the entire event from scratch in a very short amount of time... it was intense, but incredibly exciting." Her advice to couples starting out is simple: "enjoy the process and not get too caught up in what you think a wedding is supposed to look like."
White Eden Weddings
Almost a decade ago, Mylène and Geoffrey Clair moved from corporate event planning into weddings, founding White Eden Weddings to focus on something more personal. "We create understated luxurious experiences," they say, describing the celebrations they have organised for couples living abroad who want to marry in the south of France or elsewhere in Europe.
One of their most memorable projects took place at the iconic Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, where a couple granted them complete creative freedom: "our couple gave us full carte blanche and asked us to design and produce a wedding that would be a never-seen-before visual experience." Their process remains refreshingly free of ego: "we are not divas, and strongly believe that a wedding is about the couple." Their advice to couples currently planning their wedding is simple: "trust your team, and don't follow trends."
The Wedding Planners Monaco by Imène Hanafi
Imène Hanafi came to wedding planning from a background spanning theatre, visual arts, hospitality and haute cuisine, founding The Wedding Planners Monaco by Imène Hanafi in 2015 after spending a decade working as a luxury catering project manager. "My artistic roots taught me that a wedding is, above all, a story to be told in the most beautiful way," she says, "a narrative woven through every significant detail to create emotion and meaning."
She begins every project by establishing what she calls the couple's "wedding identity," which is developed before a single decorative detail is chosen. Her preferred venues span Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild on the French Riviera, Lake Como's Villa Balbiano, and the Amalfi Coast, and she is now extending this same approach worldwide. Her advice to couples choosing a planner is straightforward: "choose a planner who sees your wedding as a unique world, and not as a template."
Lavender and Rose
Based in Cannes, Jennifer Rocher and Kerry Bracken have built up over a decade and a half of experience working with international couples across the French Riviera and Provence. Kerry moved to France in 2007 and started the business alone with a blog, taking on her first weddings in the summer of 2010; Jennifer joined soon after, bringing her own local French expertise, and together they grew Lavender and Rose into one of the region's established names. The Franco-British duo is recognised as being among the leaders and tastemakers of the European wedding industry, working with a carefully curated network of venues and vendors rather than a fixed roster.
The studio's reputation is built on refined aesthetics and flawless execution, blending floral design with large-scale production across some of the region's most exclusive properties. Their work has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Style Me Pretty, and Grey Likes Weddings, and has carried them beyond the French Riviera and Provence into Lake Como and other select destinations across France and Italy.
From lavender fields in Provence to Lake Como's marble villas and superyachts docked in Monaco's harbour, the Riviera provides these five planners with an extraordinary range of backdrops, each of which they have used to develop a unique business. Some deliberately keep their calendars small, taking on just a few weddings a year to ensure they can be personally involved in every detail, while others have grown into full family businesses spanning multiple countries. Some came to weddings almost by accident, having arrived from backgrounds in yachting, catering or corporate events, before realising that this was the work they actually wanted to do. What unites them is a shared belief that true luxury is invisible, experienced through the effortlessness of the day rather than its cost. Explore Wezoree to discover wedding planners working across the Riviera, and get in touch directly to start planning your celebration.
