Wedding photographer in Barcelona

A wedding in Barcelona usually spreads across more than one place: a flat or a hotel for the preparations, a church, the Ajuntament or a venue for the ceremony, and a banquet that may be in the city, in a masía in the Vallès or on the coast towards Sitges. Ten hours of coverage go furthest when the travel between them is mapped before the day. The other thing to plan is the couple portraits. In July and August a ceremony in the late afternoon puts them into the hardest light and the heaviest humidity of the day, so we take them either in the shade of the old town on the way to the banquet or in the last half hour of sun at the venue. The aperitif is when the groups are done, before anyone has sat down.

When to book in Barcelona

Barcelona’s wedding season runs from May to October, and the shoulder months are kinder than high summer: in June the sun sets around half past nine, which allows a ceremony at seven and portraits in the last hour, while in July and August the humidity makes an outdoor afternoon ceremony hard on guests in suits. October is warm, quieter and, for photographs, often the best month, though it is also the wettest, so an indoor plan for the aperitif is worth having. Winter weddings are rarer and the light ends by six, which moves the couple portraits to the early afternoon.