Actress Mena Suvari flew to Italy on Thursday to plan her 2010 wedding to Simone Sestito - after deciding her fiancé's homeland is the perfect place to walk down the aisle.

The American Beauty star accepted the music producer/promoter's proposal during a Jamaican vacation last summer. And Suvari confesses she knew she wanted "a nice, big traditional Italian wedding" as soon as Sestito whisked her off to Italy for a romantic break early on in their relationship.

She tells People.com: "We want to marry in Italy. There is a lot of planning we want to do. We were there in August, and everything was closed in August, so we want to look at a lot of cathedrals and find a place."

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