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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
| Supplier | Median | Typical range | Spread | Bands | Businesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| photographer | €1 000 | €700 – €1 400 | 0.70 | 1058 | 1058 |
| band | €420 | €300 – €600 | 0.71 | 938 | 938 |
| hair and makeup artist | €250 | €160 – €300 | 0.56 | 884 | 884 |
| florist | €700 | €450 – €1 000 | 0.79 | 504 | 504 |
| coordinator | €800 | €400 – €1 500 | 1.38 | 504 | 504 |
| car hire | €300 | €250 – €400 | 0.50 | 373 | 373 |
| entertainer | €300 | €200 – €500 | 1.00 | 356 | 356 |
| videographer | €900 | €700 – €1 200 | 0.56 | 335 | 335 |
| cake maker | €180 | €110 – €200 | 0.50 | 53 | 53 |
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
| Supplier | Observations held | Why not published |
|---|---|---|
| caterer | 2 | 2 is below the 40 this site requires of a median. |
| DJ | 2 | 2 is below the 40 this site requires of a median. |
| stationer | 4 | 4 is below the 40 this site requires of a median. |
| furniture hire firm | 21 | 21 is below the 40 this site requires of a median. |
| marquee supplier | 24 | 24 is below the 40 this site requires of a median. |
| lighting supplier | 0 | No 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
- photographers: vs Campania€1 000 / €1 5001058 vs 774 observations
- photographers: vs Emilia-Romagna€1 000 / €1 0001058 vs 643 observations
- photographers: vs Piemonte€1 000 / €1 0001058 vs 550 observations
- photographers: vs Puglia€1 000 / €1 7001058 vs 547 observations
- photographers: vs Sicilia€1 000 / €1 7001058 vs 695 observations
- photographers: vs Toscana€1 000 / €1 0001058 vs 666 observations
- photographers: vs Veneto€1 000 / €1 0001058 vs 630 observations
- bands: vs Campania€420 / €350938 vs 534 observations
- bands: vs Emilia-Romagna€420 / €450938 vs 691 observations
- bands: vs Piemonte€420 / €400938 vs 475 observations
- bands: vs Puglia€420 / €500938 vs 454 observations
- bands: vs Sicilia€420 / €500938 vs 735 observations
- bands: vs Toscana€420 / €400938 vs 640 observations
- bands: vs Veneto€420 / €400938 vs 543 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Campania€250 / €300884 vs 687 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Emilia-Romagna€250 / €250884 vs 431 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Piemonte€250 / €250884 vs 370 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Puglia€250 / €260884 vs 515 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Sicilia€250 / €250884 vs 645 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Toscana€250 / €250884 vs 502 observations
- hair and makeup artists: vs Veneto€250 / €200884 vs 396 observations
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.