Wedding planners

Finding the right wedding planner is the key to a memorable wedding. In Center of Portugal there are absolutely top professionals who put all their passion and commitment in organising absolutely unique weddings, driven by the love for detail. And the urge to create soul-touching memories.

Guida Weddings

Founded in 2012 by Lúcia Simões and Sónia Augusto, a winning team who puts into motion the most unforgettable multicultural weddings, Guida Weddings is a trusted brand that can be defined in just one word: refinement.

Fluent in French, English and Spanish, the Portuguese Wedding Planners and CEOs of the brand, work hand in hand with couples of all origins and nationalities, focusing on authenticity, joy, unique and unforgettable group experiences and attention to detail.

The training and experience of these top professionals in Event Production, Marketing and Human Resources Management were the perfect fit to create the brand that combines the best of both. A match made in heaven!

The team has organised over 400 hundred weddings, most of them international weddings. The common denominator being the uniqueness of each event.

With vast experience and an extensive network of high-end service providers, they organize demanding weddings as well more relaxed ones, but always curated with elegance and exclusivity.

Guida Weddings provides the following services: wedding planning, coordination and styling & design.

Wedding planning

The company offers complete wedding planning service: pre- and post-wedding events, prospecting for all necessary suppliers, including catering, entertainment, accommodation, transport of guests and whatever is necessary.

Over the past few years the brand has established a network of the best local and international suppliers to make your dream wedding a reality.

Coordination

The coordination process embraces several levels: supervising the different tasks and suppliers committed to the big event; fulfilling schedules; anticipating need and managing unforeseen events, a true gift of the Portuguese soul.

Guida Weddings checks everything on the day from assembly to final act. In coordinating the day, monitoring and supervision follows a protocol created together with the bride and groom.

Styling & Design

Passionate about flower décor and graphic design, these talented wedding planners conceive the whole visual identity of the event.

Each wedding has its own colour palette, inspired by the flowers of the season. All wedding-related elements, namely: save the date; invitations; place-cards; menus; napkins and tablecloths, will depict the mood of the season.

From Center of Portugal with love, designing the most refined weddings at the heart of dreamlike settings!

Excelência de Portugal - Finest Hotels and Experiences

Founded by Susanna Tocca, Excelência de Portugal features the best selection of luxury hotels and refined experiences in Portugal, working in close partnership with high-end providers. This prestigious brand focuses on several segments, such as: golf, wine tourism, corporate events and weddings.

The wedding-related industry is booming worldwide. This is why Excelência de Portugal has established a fruitful partnership with communication and wedding guru, the Brazilian Manoela César. Together they organise the event Weding Destination Lab, gathering all wedding suppliers in one exclusive event, namely: wedding planners, photographers, locations, hotels, catering, décor companies, florists and so on. The 2025 edition was hosted in Center of Portugal, in the stunning Montebelo Mosteiro de Alcobaça Historic Hotel.

Manoela César

With a degree in Cinema and Journalism, communicator and consultant Manoela Cesar worked for 10 years as a reporter for major media references, such as Jornal do Brasil and O Globo. In 2012, she resigned to dedicate herself exclusively to the Colher de Chá Noivas portal, the first wedding blog in Rio de Janeiro and one of the top 3 in Brazil. Colher de Chá Noivas was created during the journalist's engagement in 2009 and, in a very short time, has become one of the main references in the wedding market in Brazil and Portugal.

In 2012, she created Wedding Lab, a networking event to connect brides, wedding suppliers and wedding planners. In 2016, she was invited to represent Brazil at Portugal's first international conference focusing on romance tourism.

In 2017, she expanded Wedding Lab to Portugal, creating Destination Wedding Lab and thus pioneering an immersion and networking experience for Brazilian professionals outside Brazil. With the aim of connecting the Destination Wedding market in Brazil with Portugal, the WDL congress is now in its fifth edition.

Certified by the British School of Etiquette, Manoela Cesar is a speaker, master of ceremonies, mentor and consultant who is constantly invited to share her expertise throughout Brazil. Influencer Manoela Cesar's events and initiatives are always on the agenda of magazines and news outlets in Brazil and Portugal, having been featured in vehicles such as Vogue, SBT, Band, Globo, Caras magazine, O Globo, Público magazine, among others. Manoela has worked as a contributor/columnist for the main magazines in the segment, such as Vogue Noiva, Harpers Bazaar, Ela magazine, Inesquecível Casamento, Noivas Rio de Janeiro, among others. She is currently the official partner of Portugal's I Love Brides magazine.

Manoela César has 230K followers on Facebook, 74K on Instagram and over 2 million page-views on the website.