SYMBOLIC CEREMONIES
TuscanPledges specializes in symbolic ceremonies to celebrate your wedding, vow renewals, and other major events. We take pride in highlighting the milestones and commitments of your lives, at the time same acknowledging and honoring important transitions and events.
In celebrating with you, we will help you create a personalized script to meet your needs. Not only weddings and vow renewals, but also commitment ceremonies, baby welcoming, adoption ceremonies, survivor tributes, with the help of the rituals we suggest in our relevant section.
Please ask for our advice on readings to include in the ceremony, writing your own vows both for your wedding and your vow renewal, music, and tips and details to make your celebration a great success.
JO BERTOLINO
Jo Bertolino and her team have been holding symbolic ceremonies for years, in Italian, English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish.Â
Jo, founder and owner of Tuscanpledges, is bilingual, she has lived in the US, where her mother is from. She is also a translator and interpreter by trade.
Her father is a Valdensian pastor emeritus.
She feels she owes her creativity to her mother, and her love of communication to her father.
She has lived in Florence for several years, by now considering herself a local.
She loves to meditate, an activity which has strongly contributed to her ability to listen and to create rituals that meet the ideas and needs of her couples.
THE TEAM
OUR COUPLES SAY
We received wonderful comments from our guests…
Hi Jo, I hope you are well. We just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you very much for the beautiful ceremony you performed for our wedding.… Leggi tutto “We received wonderful comments from our guests…”
Thank you so much for helping to make our wedding both magnificent…
Thank you so much for helping to make our wedding both magnificent and intimate. From the moment we started exchanging emails, to our initial meeting in Florence, I was certain… Leggi tutto “Thank you so much for helping to make our wedding both magnificent…”
We are so thankful to have met you and sincerely…
Ciao Jo! Let me take this moment to express our sincere gratitude. We are so thankful to have met you and sincerely appreciate how special you helped to make our… Leggi tutto “We are so thankful to have met you and sincerely…”
Our ceremony was extraordinary.
Thanks to Irene, our ceremony was extraordinary. Irene is sweet and understanding, but professional at the same time. She contributed in making our day unforgettable. Without her, it wouldn’t have… Leggi tutto “Our ceremony was extraordinary.”
We honestly could not have asked for a better celebrant.
We hired Sofia to officiate our elopement in Tuscany, and we honestly could not have asked for a better celebrant. Our ceremony was so personalized and touching, that my husband… Leggi tutto “We honestly could not have asked for a better celebrant.”