Kristina & Luka's June Celebration
Venue: Villa Infinity, above Sutomore, Montenegro
Guests: 98, across two terraces
Date: 06 June 2026
Couple from: Belgrade, Serbia
Ceremony & reception: religious church ceremony followed by a symbolic ceremony and celebration in the private villa
Our role: full wedding planning · design, décor and florals · furniture and equipment from our own warehouses · custom fabrication and lighting · vendor sourcing and coordination · on-the-day management
Opening
At five in the afternoon on the first Saturday in June, guests walked through the gate of a private villa above Sutomore and found a wedding waiting for them: white and gold along two terraces, candlelight down the length of the tables, a pool ringed in soft light, the sea below.
It had taken three days and a lot of what we own to put it there.
Kristina & Luka
Kristina and Luka came to us from Belgrade in the autumn of 2025 — family in Bar, a small son at home, and nine months to plan a wedding in a country they'd be standing in perhaps four times before the day itself.
That's the part of destination planning nobody photographs. Decisions made across three cities, over messages, between naps. Kristina sent us measured drawings of the villa: every railing, every span, every stretch where there was no railing at all. We sent back visualisations of the décor on that exact house, so nothing had to be taken on faith. By the time they arrived, they had already seen their wedding.
They wanted something specific and, in our experience, harder than it sounds: elegant but warm, and unmistakably a family celebration rather than a production. White, gold, candles, roses, eucalyptus and hydrangea. Nothing that crowded the house.
The thing about beautiful private villas
Vila Infinity sits above Sutomore on two levels — an upper terrace with the sea in front of it, and a lower plateau around the pool, joined by stone steps that run through the house.
It's a house, not a hotel, and that difference is the entire job. There is no banqueting store. No back-of-house. No stack of chairs in a basement, no service lift, no kitchen built for ninety-eight covers. Every chair, every plate, every metre of cable and every light arrives on a truck and leaves on one.
This is precisely the kind of venue most couples fall in love with and most planners quietly steer them away from. We don't, because we're not assembling a wedding from other people's suppliers. We're carrying our own inventory up a hill with our own team, and we know exactly what that costs in hours.
Three days of build
4 June. Our inventory arrived in two separate loads, and lighting went in across both terraces.
5 June. Our decorators installed the floral work — along the railings, up the interior staircase, across the gate, around the ceremony space.
6 June. Final setting of every zone from nine in the morning: tables, seating chart, guests' names into their plates, welcome zone, bars, buffet stations, lighting check, inventory count. Our sound, lighting and pyrotechnics partner rigged from eleven. The band set up and sound-checked at two.
Everything — including the couple — had to be finished by four. Guests arrived at five. That deadline isn't a nice-to-have; it's the difference between a wedding and a setup people watched happen.
What we designed and made
The ceremony. A white altar dressed in fabric and florals, with the approach to it lined in arrangements, heavy pillar candles and white lanterns. The symbolic ceremony itself was led by a member of our own team — one fewer supplier to brief, one fewer unknown on the day.
The tables. Long white-linen runs down the upper terrace, florals and candles the length of every centre, wax-filled cylinders and glass hurricanes. Ninety-eight wooden chairs, each tied in satin. Per guest: a glass charger with a gold rim, a white plate, gold cutlery, wine and water glass, dessert plate, and a linen napkin in a gold ring. Four round tables and eight buffet stations for the lower terrace and the kitchen team. All of it ours, from our warehouses.
The screens. Two neighbouring houses were mid-construction, directly in the sightline from the terrace. There is no supplier you can call for this. In our workshop we built three freestanding screens, 2.3 by 3 metres, and cut fabric panels to close the two remaining gaps — 5.3 metres and 7.1 metres wide. On the day, nobody knew there had been anything there. It is the least glamorous thing we made for this wedding and the one every photograph depends on.
The rest of it. Bar counters and a dressed DJ station. Mirrored seating chart and printed board. Fabric, candelabra and florals down the staircase. Fans laid out for guests. A Cheers sign, a polaroid table, a card box. Balloons floated on the pool. Battery candles ringed around the water. Two cars dressed with arrangements and tulle, three more with ribbons. Lighting on both levels, curtaining on one side, and the railings dressed the full way round.
Two terraces, one wedding
The layered part wasn't the décor. It was running two rooms at once and making them feel like one party.
Sixty-eight younger guests upstairs with a bar, a buffet and the DJ. Thirty older guests below by the pool with their own bar, their own buffet and a tamburaši ensemble. Two sound systems, deliberately separated so neither bled into the other — which is a real engineering problem in a house where one terrace sits directly above the other.
Guests were met at three points as they arrived: the gate, the approach to the upper terrace, and the bar tables. Luka's father gave the opening speech at ten to six. The symbolic ceremony began at six, the first dance followed, and our coordinators walked guests to their seats while the kitchen finished the buffet.
At ten, the two systems were bridged into one so the same music played on both levels, the couple came down to the cake, and fireworks and sparklers ran off the lower zone. Then everyone came together upstairs, and the five-piece band carried it to one in the morning.
The team
Photography: Ivana Weddings
Live music: Nemanja and band + Tamburaši
DJ: Mandozica
Cake: Sweet Melodies
Sound and pyrotechnics: Miranović Lighting & Effects
Planning, design, décor, florals, furniture, lighting, ceremony and day-of coordination: ESBI Weddings & Events
Closing
If you're looking at a private villa in Montenegro, the real question isn't which suppliers you like. It's who turns an empty house into a wedding, runs it, and takes it all away again — and how much of that is one team.
For us it's all of it.
