Wedding photographer in Bilbao

Every other wedding in this catalogue is a negotiation with a hard sun. Bilbao is the opposite problem and the easier one: permanent Atlantic cloud gives soft, even, directionless light from nine in the morning to seven at night, with no blown highlights, no closed-up shadows and no hour to schedule around. What replaces the heat question is the rain question, and the honest answer is that we almost never move the date — sirimiri is a fine continuous drizzle that doubles every light in the city on wet pavement, and the new date would have a similar forecast anyway.

When to book in Bilbao

May, June and September are the months couples ask for first, because they are the driest and the warmest, and Saturdays in them go earliest. The week to avoid is Aste Nagusia in the second half of August, when the city, its hotels and its restaurants are full and guests struggle for rooms. October to March is wet but rarely stormy, and a winter wedding is more workable here than in most of Spain: the light under cloud is as good in February as in June. What winter takes away is daylight, so the portraits move to before the banquet rather than after it. In any month the hour of the ceremony matters less than elsewhere, with no midday glare to escape. The timetable is built around the drive from church to venue and a covered alternative for each outdoor moment, not around the sun.