Andrea Naar Alba is the Founder of Italian weddings & Events, a premier events agency founded in 2008 to create luxurious celebrations for world-class clientele. With over a decade of experience in the event industry, she has developed a reputation of excellence in Italy, as a wedding destination expert. Her wedding expert status among the industry was emerged speak at leading international conferences, such as: Engage! The luxury wedding summit, Karen Tran – The Floral Experience, TTG Tourism Show and Wedding Fest in South America.
She is the Founder of Italy Inspires, a wedding tourism B2B brand which promotes Italy as the quintessential destination to the industries leading wedding professionals from around the world. Skilled in marketing and communications and fluent in three languages, Andrea has built an expansive international network through her travels and multicultural background. Having lived in different countries, it is ultimately Italy that inspires her unique, bespoke concepts and creation of truly unforgettable experiences.

CEO e Founder of White Emotion - Alessia has, over the years, built, shaped and developed her creativity, her love for the beautiful, and chosen as a common thread and motto for her work the realization of her clients’ dreams, making the impossible, Possible.
With a Degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and a Marketing and Communication Master, Alessia Santa – who speaks 3 languages – boasts a business background in large companies such as the Walt Disney Company, where, in the Parks & Hotels Division, she managed the Travel sector, supervising events at the park in Paris. She then moved to the high-class hospitality sector, where she worked for the Hilton Hotels Group, first in Milan and then in Venice. Among her experiences, she boasts consultancy and project with Grand Hotel et de Milan, Principe di Savoia and Villa Palagina to name a few. Alessia leads a team of intuitive, passionate, thoughtful people who support her and to give you a service beyond your expectations.

Based in South of France, Nicolas Barelier is a floral designer who learned most of his knowledge from the school of life, with a talent and passion passed down from generation to generation. Nicolas started his carrier with manual works who leads him to work alongside his two brothers and sister in the family affair.

The story started in 1887 with Constantin Barelier, the great-grandfather. As a rose gardener he was granted the title of “Meilleur Ouvrier de France”. This distinction award sealed the fate of the family.

The siblings are complementary, they together developed the business by opening boutiques in Antibes, Cannes, Courchevel and Monaco and they also created the company event part. They all have an important role and always work in a family spirit with complicity.

For Nicolas, to be the general floral designer was natural as he has always been really creative and talented to draw. He is capable to design incredible and unexpected décor for weddings and events, always creating a stunning effect.

Roni has now a great place in the floral design world in South of France, working for wealthy families and personalities. Also growing up worldwide, they spread the scents of flowers with their French savoir- faire through different countries: England, Italy, Spain, Germany and several countries in Africa.

Nicolas created tailor-made designs for private receptions for fashion designers (Philipp Plein…) and international personalities (Leonardo Di Caprio, Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum, Elton John, Magic Johnson…); exceptional evenings (AmfAR…); unusual weddings; luxurious hotels.

For Nicolas the most important is that each event has its own personality with elegance and originality. Flowers are ephemeral but unique, so for him each event has to be unique to stay unforgettable.

FOUNDER, THE WEDDING DESIGN COMPANY
Vandana Mohan has been conceptualizing and managing events for three decades. Her flagship company, Backstage Productions Pvt Ltd completed30 years in the industry in September2019. Luxury and Lifestyle events are what Backstage Productions is known for. She founded The Wedding Design Company in 2005 and WDC began where Backstage left off. It took luxury to another level with its weddings. The Big Fat Indian Wedding’ was a term coined at one of the weddings that WDC had designed and executed. Theatre, Dance and Documentaries is what kept Vandana busy in college and after. Event management was a culmination of all her experiences in any visual medium; Weddings are an extension of that. “WDC is known for its glamorous, timeless, iconic and classic weddings,” says Mohan. Known for destination weddings, she and her team have envisioned and designed some of the most unforgettable weddings across cities like Como, Vienna, Florence and Ibiza and in India in Udaipur, Jodhpur, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi, to name a few. WDC’s signature style of weddings being personalized has made them trendsetters in the wedding industry. The fusion of fabric, flowers and different crafts and technology gives weddings by The Wedding Design Company a multi-dimensional vibe. Today, The Wedding Design Company can boast of a clientele of 500+, which includes celebrities, HNI families and many more. WDC is known not only for what it brings to a wedding in design and décor but the fact that it’s the only wedding company that gives you everything under one roof; from the beginning to the end. From concept and design to hospitality and logistics, rituals and those champagne and caviar moments –team WDC manages it all!

Award-winning designer Karen Cinnamon built a name for herself through her London digital and branding studio, which she founded and ran for over 10 years. Her passion for all things creative led to her putting her own truly imaginative spin on her Jewish wedding – while at the same time spotting a gap in the market for an online hub that brought together individual, inventive and original ideas for stylish Jewish (and Jew-ish!) soon-to-be brides and grooms.

In June 2013 her Jewish wedding blog, Smashing The Glass was born – and has since been featured in The New York Times, The Times, Mail Online, Elle Decor, Brides Magazine and live on BBC World News.

FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, CAROUSEL EVENTS FZ-LLC
Gifted with a natural sense of grace, and a passion for creating and celebrating beauty all around her, Zainab is the founder and creative force behind the Dubai based luxury weddings boutique, Carousel.
One of the most respected authorities in the Middle East on all things related
to weddings, Zainab has been covered and quoted in numerous regional and international programs and publications, in various languages, on radio & television, in print, and online. She is also recognized as one of Dubai’s leading female entrepreneurs.
Through Zainab’s vision and her passion, through her love of people and her compassion, and through her attention to detail and personal grace, Carousel has become one of the most highly sought-after luxury wedding design and planning agencies in the Middle East, and a true inspiration for Middle Eastern women of her generation, and the generations that follow.

Having planned hundreds of weddings in Hong Kong and across Asia over the past 17 years, Michele Li, founder of The Wedding Company has experienced every conceivable situation and challenge relating to matrimonial-day management. With a pragmatic and organised approach to day to day minutiae, Michele and her experienced team ensures that each and every wedding she plans is a paragon of romance and perfection. Her highly discreet client list is a veritable who’s who of Hong Kong and Asia. She has two daughters, Alana and Téa and an adorable miniature labradoodle named Lulu.