5,005 observations · gathered 2026-08-06

What things cost · region

What a wedding supplier costs in Lombardia

In Lombardia we can publish median advertised prices for 9 of the 15 supplier categories we track, from 5,005 advertised price bands and 5,005 businesses, gathered 2026-08-06. The other 6 hold fewer than 40 observations each and are listed below with their counts. These are advertised starting prices, not transacted fees, and they are not added into a total.

What we can publish

SupplierMedianTypical rangeSpreadBandsBusinesses
photographer€1 000€700€1 4000.7010581058
band€420€300€6000.71938938
hair and makeup artist€250€160€3000.56884884
florist€700€450€1 0000.79504504
coordinator€800€400€1 5001.38504504
car hire€300€250€4000.50373373
entertainer€300€200€5001.00356356
videographer€900€700€1 2000.56335335
cake maker€180€110€2000.505353

Median is the middle advertised band. The typical range is the middle half, a quarter of businesses below and a quarter above. Spread is that range divided by the median, so it is comparable across categories that cost very different amounts: 0.33 is a tight market, 1.40 is one where the entry price means very little. Every figure has its own page with the distribution behind it.

What we cannot publish here

SupplierObservations heldWhy not published
caterer22 is below the 40 this site requires of a median.
DJ22 is below the 40 this site requires of a median.
stationer44 is below the 40 this site requires of a median.
furniture hire firm2121 is below the 40 this site requires of a median.
marquee supplier2424 is below the 40 this site requires of a median.
lighting supplier0No advertised band in Lombardia for this category in the corpus.

6 of 15 categories are withheld in Lombardia. They are printed rather than dropped because a page that lists only what it can say reads as a claim that nothing else exists. A count below 40 is a fact about our corpus, not about the market in Lombardia.

The one figure this page will not give you

There is no total here, and there is not going to be.

Adding the medians above together would produce a number, and the number would be meaningless in three separate ways. The categories are in different units — a caterer advertises a per-head cover, a photographer a whole engagement, a car hire firm a day — so the sum has no dimension. Each figure rests on a different sample of different businesses, none of whom have ever worked together. And a sum of medians is not the median of sums: half the couples are below the median on one line and above it on the next, so the arithmetic does not describe anybody.

A total for a real wedding needs a date, a guest count and a property. Compose one and every line carries the basis it came from, including the lines where we say we hold no figure.

How crowded Lombardia is

Venues per comune
1the middle comune in Lombardia
Comuni with one
58%373 of 638 hold exactly one
Busiest comune
216Milano
Venues counted
1,464across 638 comuni

373 of the 638 comuni in Lombardia that hold a wedding venue at all hold exactly one, and the busiest, Milano, holds 216. That gap is the whole argument for looking past the places everyone has already photographed. Wedding venues listed on four public Italian directories, deduplicated into one catalogue and counted by comune. It is a count of what those directories list, not a census of Italy: a comune with one venue here may have five that nobody has listed. No property is named on this page. The national distribution puts Lombardia in context.

Lombardia against another region

How this was gathered

5,005 bands from 5,005 businesses.

Advertised price bands published by suppliers on matrimonio.com, a public Italian wedding directory, read on 2026-08-06. These are starting prices a business chose to advertise, not fees anybody was charged, and no individual listing is reproduced here.

No supplier and no venue is named on this page. Every figure is an aggregate over a category and a region, and the counts beside them are what makes each one checkable without reproducing anybody else's listing.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/regions. Method: how we price. Gathered 2026-08-06.