Elopement photographer in Marbella

An elopement on this coast is usually the opposite of the Marbella wedding people imagine: no hotel ballroom, no list of two hundred, just the two of you and a handful of people around a table. That opens up places a large wedding cannot use. A villa terrace in the hills behind the town gives privacy and a view to the sea. The white villages of Ojén and Benahavís, a short drive inland, have squares and lanes small enough to feel like your own for an afternoon. For couples from abroad the ceremony here is generally symbolic, with the legal part done at home, so it can be held wherever and whenever suits. As your elopement photographer we see the place the day before, at the same hour, and cover the four hours as one continuous afternoon, from the vows through to the end of the meal.

When to book in Marbella

Weekdays in May, June, September and October give the best of everything: warm evenings, empty viewpoints and restaurants that can give a small group their full attention. A ceremony in the last two hours of light, followed by dinner, lets the portraits fall in the best light. In July and August it pays to move the whole thing later, and to remember that in the hills the sun drops behind the Sierra Blanca earlier than on the beach. Winter is underrated for an elopement on this coast: cool, clear afternoons and almost nobody about.