How to build a wedding for 80 guests

Photo: Colin Ross

Mid-size weddings give you more freedom to create a seamless flow across your various events, but remember this is still a large number of people to coordinate!

Take your time considering the right venue and the accommodation nearby, as this will feed into your transport plan. Please factor all of this in before you whack down a deposit on your venue. Small misjudgements can lead to increases in cost, so download our Budget Tracker to stay in control.


Everyone loves a caveat……the prices included are here to guide you based on real prices from real weddings planned by our sister company Wiskow & White. Please bear in mind each budget line can easily be a lot more, or a little less but these are 100% realistic.

Area: Sicily

Venue: Borgo del Carato / Dimora delle Balze

Venue budget: 24,000-30,000 euro

Low – high budget: 82,000 – 116,000 euro

Photo: Colin Ross


Top tips for mid-sized weddings:

  • Invest in fewer things, but do them really well

  • Consider your guests, with mid-size weddings you can

  • Design a clear guest comms plan to avoid individual queries - 80 people is still a hefty number to be personally responding to!


Working out a budget is complicated and often overwhelming! But you have some options thanks to our lovely La Lista team…..

  1. Download the Budget Tracker to keep your finances in check

  2. Download the Italian Wedding Tracker - this baby has everything from budgets to timings!

  3. If the panic is real, book a Wedding Clinic Call with esteemed wedding planner, Lucy White and get sorted from the start or at any point of struggle through planning.

  4. Or make THE BEST decision since you said ‘yes’ and let top planner, Lucy White show you how to work with these budgets in our planning membership, The Club! Access her big Black Book of vendors and get the best prices from your vendors.


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