About KissMe Como: The Team Behind Your Lake Como Wedding
Most Lake Como wedding agencies start their About page by talking about the lake. I’d rather start by talking about a problem.
Every year, thousands of international couples fall in love with Lake Como on Instagram, contact a planner, and immediately hit a wall. Venue pricing hidden behind “request a quote” forms. Vendors who stop responding after the first email. Planners who charge €500 for a consultation before sharing a single number. I watched this happen for years before I decided to build something different.
KissMe Como is a luxury Lake Como wedding planning agency built on a simple principle: couples who are spending €30,000–€300,000+ on their wedding day deserve transparency, expertise, and a team that actually picks up the phone. We are four specialists, not one overworked freelancer. We share real numbers in our first conversation, not after three meetings. And we communicate on WhatsApp because your wedding shouldn’t be planned through email threads with 72-hour response times.
Over 20+ years, our team has coordinated more than 200 luxury weddings across Italy — from 8-person elopements on the terrace at Villa del Balbianello to 180-guest celebrations with three-day weekend itineraries spanning four Lake Como towns. Here’s who makes that happen.
Alessandra Ferretti — Wedding Planner & Founder
I started planning weddings in Italy over 20 years ago, long before Lake Como became the global destination it is today. In that time, I’ve coordinated more than 200 celebrations for couples from 28 countries — and I still read every single WhatsApp message personally.
My role is the one you’d expect from a lead planner: I’m your primary point of contact from the first message through the last dance. I build your vendor team, manage contracts, create your day-of timeline, and handle anything unexpected. But what I think sets me apart from other planners on the lake is something harder to quantify: I’ve seen enough weddings go right and wrong to know exactly which decisions matter and which ones don’t.
I’ll tell you when a venue is overcharging. I’ll push back on a florist who’s cutting corners. And I’ll be honest when your vision needs adjusting — not because I don’t believe in it, but because 20 years of experience has taught me what actually works on Lake Como’s terrain, in Lake Como’s weather, with Lake Como’s vendors.
I read every message personally and reply within 24 hours. During your wedding week, I’m available around the clock.
Claudia Scortegagna — Wedding Designer & Floral Artist
Claudia is KissMe Como’s Wedding Designer and founder of the Lunezia floral brand. She personally cultivates the rare flowers that make every Lake Como wedding visually unrepeatable.
What makes Claudia different from other wedding designers is her process. She doesn’t start with a Pinterest board or a color palette. She starts with the venue’s architecture, the season’s natural palette, and the quality of light at your specific location during your specific ceremony hour. From there, she builds every visual element — florals, table design, ceremony arch, lighting — as a coherent composition, not a collection of pretty things.
Claudia’s Lunezia brand grows rare flower varieties that you won’t find in any wholesale catalog or typical florist’s inventory. When she designs your wedding, she’s drawing on botanical expertise that takes years to develop. Her work has been featured in Italian editorial publications, and couples who’ve worked with her consistently say the same thing: “our wedding looked like nothing else I’ve ever seen.”
For details on how venue design shapes your wedding experience, explore our Lake Como wedding venues guide through Claudia’s eyes.
Danilo Leo Lazzarini — Location Expert
Danilo Leo Lazzarini is KissMe Como’s Location Expert. A historian and actor, he knows every hidden corner of Lake Como including why it became the backdrop for Star Wars and Casino Royale.
Danilo has lived on Lake Como his entire life, and his knowledge of the region goes beyond venues into the stories, logistics, and secrets that only a local historian would know. He can tell you which staircase in Varenna catches the best afternoon light for portraits, why Villa del Balbianello was built on the site of a Franciscan monastery in 1787, and which restaurant in Bellagio the tourists never find because the entrance looks like a residential doorway.
His background as an actor gives him a narrative instinct that shapes how he designs wedding day flows. He thinks about your celebration as a story with acts, transitions, and reveals — the boat arrival, the first view of the ceremony space, the moment guests step onto the reception terrace and see the lake at sunset for the first time. It’s an approach that transforms logistics into theater, and it’s something no amount of Pinterest research can replicate.
Discover Danilo’s perspective on Lake Como’s cinematic heritage in our guide to famous film locations.
Maximilian Figel — Communication Manager
Maximilian Figel is KissMe Como’s Communication Manager and founder of Orosfera digital agency. He guides international couples through every logistical and legal step of planning a wedding in Italy.
Max handles the details that most planners call “administrative” but that I call “the difference between a smooth wedding and a stressful one.” He manages vendor contracts, payment schedules, timeline coordination, and — critically — the legal document process for couples who choose a civil ceremony at Lake Como. If you need a Nulla Osta from your embassy, interpreter arrangements for the registrar, or witness coordination for the ceremony, Max is tracking every step.
His Orosfera agency background means he approaches wedding logistics with the same project management rigor that most people reserve for professional campaigns. Nothing falls through the cracks because Max builds systems that don’t allow it. For international couples managing a destination wedding from 5,000+ miles away, that level of organization isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity.
For the complete guide to legal requirements for foreigners marrying at Lake Como, start with Max’s documentation framework.
Why Choose KissMe Como: 5 Things We Do Differently
1. Four specialists, not one overwhelmed planner. When you hire KissMe Como, you’re getting dedicated expertise in planning, design, locations, and logistics — not one person trying to do everything. This means better decisions, faster responses, and zero blind spots.
2. Real numbers from the first conversation. We share transparent cost breakdowns before you commit to anything. Not “starting from” ranges. Actual numbers based on your guest count, date, and venue preferences.
3. WhatsApp-first communication. Your wedding planning shouldn’t happen through email chains with multi-day response gaps. We communicate on WhatsApp, typically responding within 24 hours, and during your wedding week we’re available around the clock.
4. 20+ years of local vendor relationships. Over 200 weddings, we’ve built a curated network of photographers, caterers, musicians, officiants, and florists that consistently deliver excellence. We don’t work with a vendor unless we’ve seen their work under pressure, in bad weather, and at midnight.
5. No hidden fees, no surprise invoices. We provide a comprehensive budget document at the start of planning with every line item visible. If something changes, we flag it immediately, explain why, and propose alternatives. Our clients are never blindsided by costs.
Ready to meet us? The first step is a WhatsApp message to Alessandra. Tell us your names, your approximate date, and what matters most to you. We’ll respond personally within 24 hours.