Destination wedding photographer in Tenerife

A destination wedding on Tenerife is shaped by logistics before light. Guests arrive through two airports, the northern one in La Laguna and the southern one near the resorts, and most will sleep in the south whatever the venue. The island has two climates forty minutes apart, so a ceremony in a northern garden and a dinner on a south-coast terrace are in different weather on the same afternoon. And for couples who live abroad, the ceremony here is often symbolic, because a civil wedding in Spain generally needs one partner to be Spanish or resident, which only changes the paperwork and none of the photographs. A destination wedding photographer covers the welcome dinner on the eve, when everyone has just arrived and nobody is in a suit yet, and the whole of the next day, with the light of each side planned in advance.

When to book in Tenerife

With around 21 degrees in January, 28 in August and sea water that never drops below 19, a Tenerife wedding has no off-season, so the date can follow flights and guests rather than the forecast. What changes through the year is the cloud. From May to September the north is often overcast while the south stays clear, which favours a southern venue in summer. Winter gives clearer skies across the island and sometimes snow on Teide, visible from the coast, but it also brings the occasional Atlantic front, so the ceremony keeps an indoor plan. The ceremony time is set backwards from sunset, so that the couple portraits fall in the last of the sun after the family groups, and the welcome dinner on the eve is covered from the first arrivals.