Official Information
Love and Lace is a destination wedding planner based in Algarve, Portugal, specializing in high-end, bespoke weddings for international couples. Serving the Algarve and the South of Portugal, their team designs and coordinates refined, multi-day celebrations that combine timeless styling, expert planning, and flawless execution. With over a decade of experience and a reputation for delivering elegant, one-of-a-kind events, Love and Lace is trusted by couples worldwide seeking a seamless and elevated wedding experience in Portugal.
About Love and Lace
Love and Lace is a Portugal wedding planner based in the Algarve, specializing in high-end, bespoke weddings for international couples. The company focuses on designing and coordinating refined celebrations that feel both elegant and deeply personal, with an emphasis on timeless styling, thoughtful curation, and seamless execution.
Working across the Algarve and the South of Portugal, Love and Lace collaborates with top-tier wedding vendors and venues to create one-of-a-kind experiences tailored to each couple. From romantic seaside ceremonies to elegant palace celebrations and intimate countryside weddings, every event is designed to reflect the couple’s unique vision while maintaining a cohesive and elevated aesthetic.
Their approach combines planning, styling, and coordination into a fully integrated experience, ensuring that each wedding is not only visually stunning but also carefully organized behind the scenes.
Wedding Planning Experience
Love and Lace brings over a decade of experience in destination wedding planning in Portugal, having executed more than 450 weddings since 2016. The company is led by founder and lead planner Inês Longueiro, who was born and raised in the Algarve and offers deep local insight into planning weddings across the region.
With a background in Business Communication, Public Relations, and a Master’s in Business Management, Inês leads a team of four event professionals dedicated to delivering a highly personalized and detail-oriented planning experience. The team takes on a limited number of weddings each year, allowing them to provide focused attention and maintain a high standard of service for every client.
Love and Lace is fully licensed and insured to operate in Portugal (RNAVT n.º 11548), with official registration issued by Turismo de Portugal. This distinction reflects their commitment to professionalism and high standards in destination wedding planning.
Wedding Planning Services
Love and Lace offers full-service wedding planning in the Algarve and across the South of Portugal, specializing in high-end, bespoke celebrations for international couples. Their services are designed to create a seamless and elevated planning experience, combining creative direction with detailed coordination.
Full-Service Wedding Planning
Love and Lace provides comprehensive support from the initial concept through the wedding day, managing every aspect of the planning process. This includes venue scouting, vendor selection, budget management, timeline creation, and full event coordination to ensure a cohesive and stress-free experience.
Event Design and Styling
Each wedding is thoughtfully designed to reflect the couple’s vision through curated aesthetics and intentional details. Love and Lace blends timeless styling with personalized elements to create a refined and visually cohesive celebration.
Event Management and Coordination
On the wedding day, the team oversees logistics, vendor coordination, and execution to ensure everything unfolds seamlessly. Their approach allows couples to be fully present while every detail is handled behind the scenes.
Bespoke Destination Wedding Planning
As a destination wedding planner in Portugal, Love and Lace works closely with international couples to plan multi-day wedding experiences. From guest experience to overall event flow, every element is carefully curated to create a celebration that feels effortless and memorable.
Locations Served in Portugal
Love and Lace plans weddings primarily in the Algarve and throughout the South of Portugal, offering expert guidance for destination weddings in some of the country’s most sought-after locations.
Algarve
As a locally based wedding planner, Love and Lace specializes in Algarve weddings, including seaside celebrations, private estates, and luxury venues throughout the region.
South of Portugal
In addition to the Algarve, Love and Lace serves select locations across the South of Portugal, planning destination weddings that reflect the unique setting and atmosphere of each area.
Wedding Venues We Love
Love and Lace has extensive experience planning weddings across the Algarve and throughout Portugal, working with a range of high-end venues that support both intimate gatherings and large-scale, multi-day celebrations. Their portfolio includes seaside locations, private estates, vineyards, and luxury resorts, allowing them to match each couple with a setting that reflects their vision and guest experience.
Venues Love and Lace has worked at include:
Casa do Lago
Estoi Palace
Os Agostos
Palacio de Estoi
Pine Cliffs Resort
Solar do Paço
Monte do Serrinho
Vidamar Algarve
Arvad Vineyard
Viceroy Ombria
W Algarve
Vandelli Gardens
Quinta da Bella Vista
Through their experience at these venues and others across Portugal, Love and Lace offers informed guidance on venue selection, logistics, and design, ensuring each location is used to its full potential for a seamless and elevated wedding experience.
Ideal Clients & Wedding Style
Love and Lace specializes in working with international couples planning destination weddings in Portugal, particularly those seeking a high-end, fully supported planning experience. Many of Love and Lace’s wedding clients come from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Their clients are typically looking for a seamless and well-organized process, with a strong emphasis on design, guest experience, and thoughtful details. Many are planning multi-day celebrations and value having an experienced team manage both the creative and logistical aspects of their wedding.
The weddings designed by Love and Lace are known for their refined, elegant, and timeless aesthetic. Each celebration is bespoke and tailored to the couple, with a focus on creating an atmosphere that feels both elevated and personal.
From romantic seaside ceremonies to intimate countryside gatherings and large-scale destination events, their work reflects a balance of beauty, precision, and intentional design.
Why Couples Choose Love and Lace
Couples choose Love and Lace for their ability to deliver refined, high-end weddings that feel effortless from start to finish. Their approach combines creative vision, detailed planning, and seamless coordination, resulting in celebrations that are both visually elevated and expertly executed.
With over a decade of experience planning weddings in the Algarve and across Portugal, Love and Lace brings a deep understanding of the destination, strong relationships with trusted vendors, and the ability to manage complex, multi-day events with precision.
Their team takes on a limited number of weddings each year, allowing them to provide a highly personalized experience and dedicated support throughout the planning process. From the first consultation to the final moments of the celebration, every detail is handled with care, organization, and intention.
Couples also value their commitment to clear communication, transparency, and creating a planning experience that feels exciting rather than overwhelming. The result is a wedding that reflects each couple’s vision while allowing them to be fully present and enjoy the experience.
Client Testimonials
Love and Lace is trusted by couples from around the world for destination weddings in Portugal, with a reputation for delivering seamless, beautifully executed celebrations.
“Love and Lace brought our vision to life and made it into a wedding better than we ever could have imagined. We are so grateful for all of Sara and the teams hard work in making the day run so smoothly and being so efficient and easy to contact in the months leading up to the big day to make it all happen. If you are unsure of where to start with your wedding planning, be sure to start with Love and Lace and the rest will follow. We can’t thank you enough!”
— Sophie + George
“From start to finish the Love and Lace Team, in particular Inês, has been absolutely fantastic and we cannot thank them enough! We had been in constant communication when planning our wedding and felt confident and comfortable working with Inês. If we had any questions during the process, these would be answered quickly by the team. Everything on our wedding day ran smoothly even down to the tiniest details. We cannot believe how easy and smooth the process went. Inês helped create the space to be perfectly decorated as we wanted and liaised and coordinated all of the vendors. The Love and Lace team are so professional, friendly, kind and caring. We couldn’t have had our special day run this smoothly and look this beautiful without Love and Lace! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for everything.”
— Bonnie + Rob
“Love and Lace helped us plan the most perfect day in Portugal. It’s not easy planning a wedding, let alone one on another continent, and the team helped make our dreams come true. Our friends and family have all called it the best wedding ever and we agree! Thank you so much to Ines and the team, you made our special day the best day of our lives.”
— Emma + Mark
FAQs About Planning a Wedding in Portugal
Here are some of the most common questions we hear at Love and Lace:
Do you plan destination weddings in Portugal for international couples?
Yes. Love and Lace specializes in planning destination weddings in Portugal for international couples, offering full-service support throughout the entire planning process.
Where in Portugal do you plan weddings?
Love and Lace is based in the Algarve and plans weddings throughout the Algarve and the South of Portugal. They also have experience working at venues in locations such as Lisbon and Sintra.
What types of weddings do you specialize in?
Love and Lace specializes in high-end, bespoke weddings, including multi-day celebrations, intimate weddings, and large-scale destination events. Each wedding is designed to reflect the couple’s vision while maintaining a refined and timeless aesthetic.
What services do you offer?
Love and Lace offers full-service wedding planning, including event design, vendor coordination, and wedding day management. Their services are designed to provide a seamless and stress-free planning experience from start to finish.
How many weddings do you take on each year?
Love and Lace takes on a limited number of weddings each year to ensure each client receives a high level of attention, care, and personalized service. Get in touch to inquire about current availability.
Are you licensed to operate in Portugal?
Yes. Love and Lace is fully licensed and insured to operate in Portugal (RNAVT n.º 11548), with official registration issued by Turismo de Portugal.
Contact & Booking Information
Love and Lace offers full-service wedding planning for couples seeking a refined and seamless destination wedding experience in Portugal.
Get in Touch
Couples interested in working with Love and Lace are invited to get in touch to schedule a discovery call and begin the planning process. During this initial conversation, the team will learn more about your vision, priorities, and plans for your wedding in Portugal.
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Inquiries
To inquire about availability and services, please visit their contact page and submit an inquiry form.