Four selective days inside Italy’s luxury wedding market, with Sam Sacramento, named top 5 wedding photographer in the world, and his team of mentors.
We’ve welcomed dozens of photographers from around the globe. We’re not just mentors. We’re active professionals in the wedding market, always learning, always growing. Every edition brings something new.
It’s not just about traveling to Italy. It’s not just about joining an immersion. It’s about coming back with a portfolio that opens doors in one of the most profitable niches in the photography and creative market: luxury weddings. Every shot, every frame, every scene will be guided, crafted, and designed to transform your work into magazine-worthy content that captivates even the most demanding brides and grooms.
Local luxury couples and international planners recognize the Italian aesthetic instantly. Having editorial work from Italy in your portfolio elevates your perceived value at home, even with the couples marrying around the corner. Italy is the credential. The local market is where it pays back.
Photographers, videographers and content creators all in the same villa, working with the people who shape Italian luxury weddings. While Sam and Rayana guide you, Kellen Lauxen runs the parallel IWE Wedding Planner edition with the planners and floral decorators. Same villa. Same dinners. Same shoots.
This is the network being built in front of you. The planners watch you work. They see your eye, your speed, your taste. You’re in the room with the people who decide which photographers, videographers and content creators get the call for the next Italian luxury wedding.
We are Sam, Rayana, and Angelina, a family that lives, travels, and creates together. What began 22 years ago as a love story has since become an inseparable bond between life, family, and a shared passion for photography. There is no Sam without Rayana, no Rayana without Sam, and no IWE without Angelina, who now creates with us.
From Brazil to England, Italy, and now the United States, each place we have called home has shaped our art and our way of seeing life. Together we have documented more than 500 weddings across 31 countries, always with the commitment to creating images that embody love, truth, and eternity.
What began as a personal dream is now The Sacramentos, recognized worldwide as a reference in luxury wedding photography, and the family behind the IWE experience.
Named top 5 wedding photographer in the world. WPC Team Gold 2020, SWPP #2 Photographer of the Year 2022, BIFA Gold, multiple WPI Golds.
The strategic mind behind IWE. Built the business model and the network with European luxury planners over two decades in Europe.
Renowned wedding planner based in Italy. Designed celebrity weddings featured in Vogue, Caras, Bride and Tonic, Carats and Cake.
Beyond the wedding day, you shoot two complete editorials with professional models, full styling, designer dresses and curated production. Two distinct portfolios from one Italian week.
The sea and the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast as your studio. A boat shoot at golden hour. Models, designer dresses, stationery, editorial styling. The aesthetic that makes Italian destination weddings instantly recognizable.
A timeless Italian editorial. Sophisticated styling, models in designer dresses, refined stationery, intentional production. The classic luxury vocabulary that high-end clients recognize and pay premium for.
Across the week you’ll create two complete editorial shoots (coastal and classic) and on Day 4 you photograph and film a complete Italian wedding inside Hotel Mediterraneo Sorrento. A 5-star luxury hotel on the Sorrento Coast with panoramic terraces over the Gulf of Naples. Getting ready, ceremony, portraits, reception, cake, toast, from beginning to end. Real florals, professional models, full production. The full Italian wedding experience.
A choreographed journey through the Amalfi Coast: from international market positioning to a complete destination wedding day at Hotel Mediterraneo Sorrento.
Arrival at our private Italian villa. Welcome cocktail so everyone gets to know each other: mentors, photographers, videographers, content creators, planners and the team.
Morning: emerging lighting techniques for luxury wedding photography and video, plus editorial styling that defines the international aesthetic. Afternoon: Editorial 1 along the coast and on a boat, with the Amalfi cliffs as your backdrop. Models, designer dresses, full styling. Apply everything you learned in the morning.
Morning: the business side. How to price, how the international luxury market actually works, how to attract high-end clients, how to build a positioning that makes planners and brides choose you. Real strategies, not theory. Afternoon: Editorial 2, a refined classic editorial in a sophisticated setting.
The full flow of an Italian luxury wedding at Hotel Mediterraneo Sorrento. Getting ready, ceremony with cliffs as backdrop, portraits, reception, cake, champagne tower. Professional models, makeup, real Italian venue, full production. We also walk you through our entire client process, from first contact to final delivery, so you sign the next wedding as the photographer, videographer or content creator.
A final breakfast together at the villa. Connection. Reflection. And then home, with a new portfolio, a new network, and a new chapter in your international career.
Land in Naples, leave the rest to us. You focus on shooting and learning.
Shared rooms in our private Italian villa.
All transfers between venues during the program.
Daily breakfast, welcome aperitivo, closing dinner.
Professional models, designer dresses, stationery, full styling. Two complete editorials. Florals included on the wedding day.
Complete wedding flow with florals and full production, repeated so every participant captures every scene.
Daily mentorship with Sam, Rayana and Kellen. Direct introductions to the planners present during the week.
Every photo tells a story. These are some of the stories we have helped to tell.
Hear from photographers who lived the immersion.
“An experience that transformed our work.”
“I truly believe that everyone living this experience leaves entirely different, with so much growth, than when we arrived.”
Selection-based admission. Not for total beginners. We review your portfolio and your career stage to ensure the experience is right for you.
3-minute form. Your portfolio, Instagram, where you are in your career.
Our team reviews within 48 hours. If your profile fits, you’ll receive an invitation.
Once accepted, confirm with the deposit and choose the option that fits you best.
