Twelve questions, asked before you decide.

The mistake is to fall in love with one venue and then look for reasons. Visit two or three, ask each of them the same twelve questions, and write the answers down the same day, while they are still comparable.

A venue that answers quickly and precisely is telling you something. So is one that answers with adjectives.

A quote should let you see three things: what is per guest and what is a fixed cost, what is included and what is explicitly excluded, and what moves the number — the date, the count, the menu, the extras.

Read the exclusions first. Flowers, music, photographs and shows usually sit outside the venue rate; if a quote has no exclusions written down, ask for them before comparing it with another.

A per-guest rate also tells you how the count works: here it is 120–150 € per guest with a 20-guest minimum, so the arithmetic can be done before the visit and checked after it.

Astragalo is a restaurant, club and wedding venue on the Bay of Quercetano: four terraces, a main hall, a summer garden, two club rooms, a piano bar and an in-house kitchen. The civil ceremony has been licensed on the terrace since 2018, and we host one wedding per day.

So the twelve answers are short: the hall is the indoor backup, the kitchen is ours, the date is yours alone, the parking is in the village and the station is a few minutes away. Flowers, music, photographs and shows come from your suppliers or from the people who work on the bay — they are additions, agreed and written down.