# Tuscany > Cypress-lined hills, vineyards and stone villages around Florence and Siena — villas and wine estates for long summer evenings. - URL: https://lensandvows.com/italy/tuscany - Italy: https://lensandvows.com/italy - Português: https://lensandvows.com/pt/italy/tuscany.md - Español: https://lensandvows.com/es/italy/tuscany.md - Italiano: https://lensandvows.com/it/italy/tuscany.md - Lens & Vows: https://lensandvows.com/ Tuscany is the Italy of postcards: rolling hills with lines of cypresses, vineyards and olive groves, stone farmhouses and medieval towns on the hilltops. Florence, whose historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage site, lies in the north; the Chianti hills run south towards Siena, and beyond them the Val d’Orcia, another UNESCO landscape. Weddings here tend to last a weekend: a villa or a wine estate with rooms for the guests, a ceremony in the garden or in a village church, and dinner at a long table outside as the hills turn gold. Some couples take a whole restored hamlet, a borgo, for everyone. ## When to marry in Tuscany - **Best:** May, June, September, October - **Good with planning:** April, July, August May, June, September and October are the classic months: warm days and cooler evenings in the hills. July and August are hot, above all in Florence and the valleys, so ceremonies move to the end of the day. Autumn rain builds through October; November is the wettest month of the year. - **Spring:** The hills at their greenest, poppies in the fields by May and fresh, clear light. April still has showers — keep a covered plan in mind. - **Summer:** Long, hot days, sunflowers and golden wheat, and warm nights made for dinner outside. Around mid-August, at Ferragosto, much of Italy is on holiday. - **Harvest and autumn:** The grape harvest runs through September into October, then come the olives. Mist lies in the valleys in the morning and the vines turn red and gold. ## Where couples marry here The kinds of places — ask your photographer which ones they know well. - **Villas and their gardens:** Renaissance and country villas with lawns, lemon trees in pots and long views — the ceremony, the dinner and the rooms in one place. - **Wine estates:** Estates in the Chianti and around Montalcino and Montepulciano: a ceremony between the vines and wine from the same hills at dinner. - **Hill towns and borghi:** Medieval towns and small restored hamlets: a ceremony in the church or the town hall, then portraits in lanes of stone. - **Florence itself:** Palaces, cloisters and gardens above the city, and the river at dusk for portraits. ## How the light falls Low, rolling hills catch the late sun from every side, so the golden hour is long and the cypresses throw long shadows. In spring and autumn the mornings often begin with mist in the valleys. Summer middays are bright and hazy — the light everyone comes for is early and late. ## Getting there Fly into Florence or Pisa, or into Bologna or Rome and take the fast train. In the countryside a car — or a driver for the guests — is all but essential. ## Photographers in Tuscany https://lensandvows.com/photographers?region=tuscany https://lensandvows.com/photographers?region=tuscany&sort=rating (highest rated first, by verified reviews) ## Read before you plan - [Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece or France? Choosing the country for a destination wedding](https://lensandvows.com/journal/portugal-vs-italy-spain-greece-france-destination-wedding): The legal route for couples who don’t live there, season and crowds, price levels, light, flights, venues and permits for photographs — five countries compared with official figures, as of October 2026. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/portugal-vs-italy-spain-greece-france-destination-wedding.md) - [A wedding-day timeline built around the light](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-day-timeline): Sunset decides more of your photos than you might think. Approximate sunset times by month, where golden hour fits, and two example timelines — one for June, one for October. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-day-timeline.md) - [How to choose a wedding photographer: the steps, and the questions to ask](https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer): The decision in order — whole weddings, style, availability, the package, the contract and deposit, cancellation, delivery and a conversation — then a checklist of questions, with why each one matters. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer.md) - [How deposits and payment protection work on Lens & Vows](https://lensandvows.com/journal/deposits-and-payment-protection): A 30% deposit holds your date; the balance goes straight to the photographer, or through us with payment protection. Every step, what each choice costs, and what happens if plans change. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/deposits-and-payment-protection.md) - [Wedding venues in Italy: villas, castles and masserie in Tuscany, Lake Como, the Amalfi Coast and Puglia](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-venues-italy): Twenty-seven places that host weddings today — Medici villas and Chianti castles, lakeside villas and gardens, cliff-top hotels above the sea, fortified farmhouses among the olives — with where they are, what they look like, rough capacity from their own sites, whether a legal civil ceremony can happen there, and what each means for your photos. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-venues-italy.md) - [Where to elope in Italy: 15 places, from Dolomite lakes to a Greek theatre in Sicily](https://lensandvows.com/journal/where-to-elope-in-italy): Fifteen named spots in the Dolomites, on Lake Como and the Amalfi Coast, in Tuscany, Venice, Rome, Sicily and Puglia — what each looks like, how you reach it in 2026, when it is quiet, and the fees, permits and drone rules that apply before you say your vows there. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/where-to-elope-in-italy.md)