Naido Wedding
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Naido Wedding

An Athens-based destination wedding planning company led by founder Konstantinos Tsoukalas, built as a single point of contact for a couple marrying in Greece from abroad, with a genuine specialism in multicultural celebrations.

By The LWD Edit · 7 September 2026 · 5 min
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Naido Wedding is a destination wedding planning company based in Athens, Greece, founded by Konstantinos Tsoukalas. The company exists to solve one recurring problem for couples marrying abroad: too many separate suppliers, too many disconnected conversations, and no single person accountable for how it all fits together. Konstantinos and his team now act as that single point of contact instead, covering venue sourcing, vendor negotiation, budgeting, design and on-the-day coordination, across the Athenian Riviera, Santorini, Mykonos, Crete and the wider Greek islands. The company describes itself as originally built on a marketplace idea, a broader choice of venues and vendors than a single planner's black book, without the cost of a traditional agency. In practice, every client review this listing could find describes something closer to full-service planning: Konstantinos personally negotiating, attending site visits and standing beside the couple on the day itself, not a passive listings platform.

A villa wedding in Mykonos
One Team, Ten Destinations
Naido's own destinations list, taken from the company's site, runs to ten places: Santorini, Mykonos, Crete, Athens and the Athenian Riviera, Spetses, Chalkidiki, Monemvasia, Ios, Paros and Sifnos. It is not a bare directory entry. A completed Sifnos wedding is independently dated by a client testimonial from September 2022, and the portfolio includes real, documented weddings across most of the list. Two services sit behind that coverage: Full Planning, which runs from destination and venue recommendations through vendor sourcing, budgeting, guest accommodation and transport, a pre-wedding meeting, and complete coordination on the day itself, and Exclusive Planning, the same team applied to a higher-end brief, quoted individually for couples managing more demanding logistics or a larger, multi-day celebration. Neither is priced on the company's site. Both Full Planning and Exclusive Planning are quoted after an initial conversation about guest count, destination and the scale of the celebration, a decision the company is direct about rather than publishing a package that would not hold up once a couple's actual brief is on the table.
A wedding at Elounda Beach Hotel and Villas, Crete
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Elounda Beach Hotel and Villas, Crete
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Who Actually Runs the Wedding
Konstantinos Tsoukalas founded Naido in Athens, and he is named directly in nearly every client review this listing could verify, not as a company signature but as a specific person: the one who answered the first enquiry, negotiated with a venue, and stood with the couple through the ceremony itself. One review credits him and a colleague, Anna, by name for running the wedding day together. LinkedIn lists the company at 2 to 10 employees, a small enough team that the same people a couple meets during planning are the ones present on the day, rather than a larger agency handing a finished brief to an unfamiliar on-the-day crew.
A Genuine Multicultural Specialism
One claim in Naido's own marketing is easy to write and hard to actually deliver: that Indian, Hindu, Lebanese and LGBTQ+ weddings are among the company's strongest suits. The portfolio backs it up. A two-day Hindu wedding at Island Art and Taste on the Athenian Riviera brought a full mandap, hanging glass tea lights and a rose-and-eucalyptus arch to a coastal Greek venue, guests and family in traditional dress moving between two full days of ceremony rather than a single condensed afternoon. A separate Hindu ceremony was planned on Santorini itself, the bride and groom photographed in traditional dress with the Aegean behind them. Neither is an occasional booking dressed up for a portfolio page. Both sit alongside the classic Greek island weddings that make up the rest of Naido's client list, planned by the same team, to the same standard, and the company names Lebanese celebrations and LGBTQ+ weddings alongside them as areas of real, repeated experience rather than a single one-off.
Naido Wedding
Beyond Santorini
Santorini draws the obvious attention, but two of Naido's other settings do real work in the portfolio. Elounda Beach Hotel and Villas, on Crete's north-east coast, places its ceremony and reception space on a private stone peninsula reached by a causeway, the water on three sides and the hills of the Gulf of Mirabello behind it. On Mykonos, Naido has planned both town weddings, with the whitewashed rooftops and the sea below the ceremony space, and villa weddings set back from the crowds of Mykonos Town itself. Between the four islands and the Athenian Riviera, the company covers most of what a couple actually means when they say they want a Greek island wedding, without limiting the brief to Santorini alone. The remaining names on Naido's destinations list, Spetses, Chalkidiki, Monemvasia, Ios, Paros and Sifnos, extend that same reach further, into settings with genuinely different characters: a car-free Saronic island, the northern mainland coast, and the quieter Cyclades beyond the two islands that dominate every Greek wedding search.
Naido Wedding
Naido Wedding

"A destination wedding is not one supplier, it is a dozen of them, in a country the couple does not live in. The job is making that feel like one conversation instead of twelve."

, Konstantinos Tsoukalas, Founder
Client reviews consistently name Konstantinos personally, not just as the person who answered the first enquiry but as the person standing beside the couple on the day itself. Steph and Ash, married in Mykonos in September 2024, put it directly: “We couldn't have found a better partner to help create our special day. Konstantinos was brilliant from the moment we started talking. He helped bring our vision to life, lined us up with the most perfect vendors and was there every step of the way, with his calming nature and supportive words.” The same wedding appears independently on both the company's own site and the 5 Star Wedding Directory, dated and rated, rather than existing as a single unverifiable quote.
Planning a Wedding From Another Country
Naido's own guidance for couples starting from abroad is direct rather than vague. Choose a date 9 to 12 months out, to leave enough runway for venue and vendor availability, especially in peak season when accommodation for a full guest list has to be secured alongside the venue itself. Plan to arrive in Greece at least a week before the ceremony, both to settle in and, for some nationalities, to complete the legal paperwork required to marry abroad. There is no fixed cap on guest numbers; a larger wedding party simply needs more lead time, not a different company. The practical span of the wedding season runs from late April to late October, and where exactly within that window suits a couple best depends on budget, weather preference and which of the ten destinations they choose.
Weddings Across Greece
The portfolio itself is the best evidence for what a couple can expect: reception tables dressed in dusty blue and blush on the Athenian Riviera, a private peninsula reception on Crete lit by string light over the water, and a Venetsanos Winery celebration on Santorini, guests lifting the newly married couple into the air with the caldera behind them. None of it reads as a single house style repeated at different addresses. A Hindu wedding, a caldera party and a peninsula dinner by the water make three different briefs, executed by the same small team rather than outsourced separately for each.
Naido Wedding
Naido Wedding
After the Wedding
Naido's scope does not stop at the reception. The company also plans honeymoons and pre- and post-wedding events, welcome dinners and after-parties among them, which show up repeatedly in the multi-day celebrations across the portfolio, particularly the Hindu and Lebanese weddings that already run over more than one day of programming. For a couple flying an entire guest list into Greece, that continuity, the same team planning the welcome dinner, the ceremony, the reception and the honeymoon that follows, removes another set of handoffs a couple would otherwise have to manage themselves. It is a small addition on paper, but it is the kind of detail that only gets built once a company has already planned enough multi-day weddings to know where the gaps usually sit.
For a couple planning a Greek wedding from another country, the appeal of Naido's model is straightforward: one team accountable for the whole day, rather than a venue coordinator, a florist, a caterer and a planner who have never worked together before. Konstantinos Tsoukalas built the company around that single idea, and the range of weddings it has produced, from a two-day Hindu ceremony on the Athenian Riviera to a caldera-side celebration on Santorini, suggests it holds up in practice as well as it reads on the company's own site.
Frequently Asked Questions
How far in advance should we choose our wedding date?+
Naido's own guidance is 9 to 12 months ahead, to allow time for planning and travel arrangements and to secure availability at the preferred location and venue.
Which parts of Greece does Naido Wedding cover?+
Santorini, Mykonos, Crete, Athens and the Athenian Riviera, Spetses, Chalkidiki, Monemvasia, Ios, Paros and Sifnos, per the company's own destinations list.
How many days before the wedding should we arrive in Greece?+
At least a week, to allow time to settle in and, for some nationalities, to complete legal paperwork for marrying abroad.
What is the best time of year to marry in Greece?+
Weddings typically run from late April to late October. The right month within that window depends on budget, weather preference and venue availability.
How is the planning fee structured?+
Not published. Full Planning and Exclusive Planning are both quoted after an initial conversation about guest count, destination and scale. Contact the team directly for a proposal.
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Naido Wedding, Athens, Greece
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