Victoria A. Donkina Carpe Diem Events - Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence

Irina Bushueva

If you are looking for a wedding planner and came across Victoria’s profile – search no further. She organized our wedding in September 2015 and our guests are still talking about how much they enjoyed it and that it was the most amazing wedding they had ever been to. They talk about it so much and so often that we began to think that it is not them just being nice, but they indeed had a great time. It is important to note that we had a budget and Victoria worked within those constraints. The outcome was just beyond words, it looked and felt like a million-dollar wedding. The ceremony and reception took place on a villa overlooking the hills of Tuscany with 80 plus guests coming from all over the world (USA, Argentina, Russia, Europe). Victoria works with top-notch professionals and we are beyond happy with our photographs, video, make-up artist, flowers, DJ and catering services. Being on a budget while having very high standards and style expectations I spent considerable amount of time looking for quotes and options just to find out her options were very competitively priced and reliable. Therefore, do yourself a favor - trust her recommendations entirely – and spend your precious time doing something more fun. The wedding day went smoothly, I did not have to worry about anything and just enjoyed the best time of my life. I am beyond grateful for her work and it was a true pleasure to work with Victoria.

Hasan Çopur

We had a beautiful wedding in Florence with all aspects thanks to Victoria for making this special time of our lives an amazing time to remember. She will be with you at all times all throughout the preparations until the very last minute of your wedding in the early morning. She will also be with you in the following months whenever you need her. She loves what she does and passionate about it. She has a very good taste and a never-ending patience and energy. For couples wanting a chic and simply beautiful wedding, Victoria is highly recommended!

Elina K

Victoria helped me plan my wedding in May 2017 and we couldn't be happier with her work! She did an incredible job helping me select the vendors, communicate with them, organize our schedule for the wedding and all related events, keep track of my guests and overall make sure that everything run smoothly. I was truly impressed with her work ethic - she never missed a phone call or text message and was very quick to communicate and take care of all possible requests starting from DJ selection to getting us band-aids on the day of my wedding. A lot of the times she made me feel like I was her #1 priority client. My family couldn't say enough great things about her. Victoria is a true professional portraying excellence in everything she does. I never saw the venue or met Victoria until the weekend of my wedding, but I really felt like she was a family member during the 6 months of the planning as she was always there helping answer ALL of my million questions and anticipating & answering a million more before I even expressed them.

My husband and I are so grateful for the opportunity to work with Victoria. She went above and beyond the call of duty to ensure our celebration was perfect. If you ever find yourself looking for a wedding/birthday celebration planner in Italy, Victoria should be your number one and only option! She will make your dream event come true and even find a way to make it better with her helpful suggestions along the way. A huge THANK YOU to Victoria and her team for all of the hard work they do - we will certainly be recommending their services to our family and friends. Bravo!

Elizabeth M

Victoria is absolutely amazing . She was very professional , organised and I felt was part of the whole process when organising our beautiful wedding at Villa Cora, Florence. Victoria became part of the family during our week stay & I can never thank her enough for all the support in the run up and organising of ‘our day’ but also the day itself into the evening. Victoria listened to every detail we envisaged for our special day & helped us make that happen from where we got married , to florists, catering, to musicians and even Italian legal information to do with the wedding . Everything was bespoke. We were planned to be on the roof top, but suddenly a thunderstorm was due . Very calmly Victoria took things into hand and relocated us to another room. It was seamless on my behalf.
I highly recommend Victoria for any event .Thank you again for making things happen so perfect & smoothly

jayne tan

We wanted to do a simple wedding ceremony in Florence but we had not visited Italy before.We contacted a few wedding planners there and chose Victoria without any doubt as she is very professional, friendly and meticulous. She helped us to check what are the procedures required for foreigners to wed in Italy and replied very quickly. Getting married in a foreign land can be daunting but after a few emails with Victoria, we were rest assured that things would turn out well. She is very transparent--sent us the portfolios and openly discussed with us what kind of ceremony we want, budget, what kind of flowers, make up artist, photographers etc. Although its a small event, she cares about every single detail too.
With her help, the paper works became much easier. On the day of the event, things turn out well (in fact better than what we expected!). Although it's only two of us, we felt truly blessed throughout the whole event. Very grateful to have Victoria as our wedding planner 🙂

Grazie Millie!

Arabella Normand

Victoria helped us plan the MOST AMAZING wedding.
from start to finish the day was a fairy tale. she helped us cover every aspect of the wedding to make sure it was planned to perfection!
She will be there though every aspect of planning and on the day of the wedding keeping you calm!
Thank you so much Victoria for making our day so memorable!
Love of love
Bella and Damir!

Zoe Wareing

Where do we begin to write about the amazing and remarkable Victoria Donkina.

Some 18 months ago after our engagement, we contacted 3 wedding planners to enquire on their services to get married in Italy, and it was only Victoria that stood out with a personalised response which filled us with both reassurance and excitement.

From this point forward, Victoria has helped and organised what we would deem as a simply dream come true. We have still not come back down to earth from our amazing day!

Victoria has always been available for a call, email or WhatsApp for help and expertise. She met us for our pre-wedding trip which included a photo shoot in the centre of Beautiful Florence with the very talented Iuri Niccola
and menu tasting for our wedding day.

We came back to Florence before our wedding where we were met again by Victoria to finalise plans and to see our wedding venue at Borgo Petrognano and run through the entire day.

Victoria then appeared again with her assistant on the wedding morning with a beautiful personalised silver ring box and a bottle of prosecco on ice to share with my bridesmaids.

Victoria was with us the whole day and night and kept everything running so smoothly so we could forget about everything and just relax.

Words cannot describe how eternally grateful we both are, not to mention how impressed our friends and family were!

Victoria Donkina is very highly recommended for her services and we wish we could do it all over again!

Grazie Millie!

Christopher and Zoe

Diana Zhen

Our wedding took place on Como Lake in August in small and lovely town of Mandello del Lario. From the very beginning we felt that Victoria is a right person because she truly knew what do we want and how it should be done. And I think a is number one task is to find a right person who speaks on "common language" with you and who will be listening attentively to all your wishes for several months to make your dream wedding become truth. With each and every step that we took through together she was giving useful advices based on her long and successful professional experience and she really did her best to create our truly Italian dream wedding!❤️
Victoria is a true professional of her business!