Wedding photographer in Madrid

Most Madrid weddings happen in two places, and the drive between them shapes the day more than either one. The ceremony is often in the city and the celebration at a finca out towards the sierra or south towards Aranjuez, which puts thirty minutes to an hour of motorway in the middle of the afternoon. A wedding photographer who knows that arrives at the finca ahead of the couple, so the guests stepping off the coach are photographed rather than missed. The season does the rest. In June and July the sun sets between half past nine and ten to ten and the last hour before it is still hard, so the couple portraits sit in the twenty minutes around sunset and the group photographs come just after. In spring and early autumn the light is kinder and earlier. A winter wedding is less common here and well lit: a midday ceremony, and sunset before half past six.

When to book in Madrid

The Madrid wedding season runs from May to October, and the timetable inside it moves with the sunset. In May the sun goes down between ten past nine and twenty to ten; in late June it holds until almost ten to ten; by mid-August it is ten past nine, and by the end of September eight. A ceremony at seven in July leaves the hardest hour of light over the cocktail, so the couple portraits wait for the last twenty minutes of sun and the families are photographed just after it. September is still hot until its final week and is often the better summer month for a wedding, with the same late light and fewer guests away on holiday. In late October the clocks go back and sunset falls to around twenty past six, which brings the portraits forward to the end of the afternoon.