Ressa Design Collective, Wedding Planner (Washington DC)

Ressa Design Collective is an architect-led planning and design studio that works across weddings, events and interiors. It describes its own method as "a dialogue between architecture and interior design", and puts the point plainly on its home page: "We think deeply about how a space works and how it feels, not just how it looks."

In practice that means the studio starts with spatial planning and works out how the day will function inside a given building or landscape before it gets to palettes and flowers. It uses renderings through the process, so a couple can see how the evening will unfold rather than imagine it.

They list Greece among the places they work

The studio's own locations page names four regions: Italy, Portugal, Greece and the United States. Under Greece it names Santorini, Mykonos, Athens and Crete. Its Instagram bio carries the same short list, "Portugal, Italy, Greece, US".

That is worth knowing if you are marrying in Greece and want one studio holding the concept, the drawings and the production, rather than assembling those three jobs separately.

Where the studio is based

The studio is rooted in the United States, in its own words, and works from there outwards. It publishes no street address and presents itself as a travelling practice, so treat Greece as a destination it serves rather than a place it sits. Ask early about site visits, who handles local coordination, and how the civil paperwork gets done.

• Full planning and design, the complete engagement: concept development, vendor sourcing, budget guidance, timeline management and on-site coordination.
• Design-led planning, for couples who want the design held tightly: concept development, vendor direction, design documentation and production oversight.
• Design only, when the logistics are already in place. The deliverable is the concept and the visual narrative, handed over as vendor-ready design decks.
• Floral design, developed inside the wider scheme so the arrangements answer the scale and the palette of the room rather than sitting on top of it.
• Installation design, covering structural pieces and the fabrication and placement that gets them built on site.
• Production and on-site execution, meaning the timeline, the vendor coordination and the running of the day itself, through to teardown.
• Interior design, offered as a separate service including a remote consultation option, with spatial planning and material selection.

A planner who does not live in the country is a real trade off, and it is worth asking about directly rather than hoping. The useful questions are narrow: how many site visits are included and who pays for them, which parts of the day a local coordinator runs, and who is standing in the room when a delivery is late.

The studio's published services include vendor sourcing and vendor direction, so assembling the local team is work it expects to do rather than something left to you. That is the normal shape for a practice that travels. Ask who the Greek coordinator would be, and whether they are already known to the studio or would be hired for you.

The paperwork is separate from the design. A civil ceremony in Greece has its own document requirements and its own timetable, and a foreign couple usually needs a local lawyer or the municipality involved months ahead. Confirm early whose job that is.

The published process runs in five steps, and it is unusually explicit about what each one produces.

• Discovery and direction sets priorities and scale before any decisions are made.
• Concept development covers spatial flow, guest experience and how each element sits inside the venue.
• Strategic planning and vendors handles logistics, timelines, budgets and who gets hired.
• Design refinement and production turns the concept into final layouts and a production plan.
• On-site execution and delivery is the studio running the schedule on the day.

If you only want part of that, say so at the enquiry stage. The design only tier exists precisely for couples who have a venue coordinator and need the drawings rather than the management.