The Andalusia of the imagination turns out to be real: white towns spilling down the hillsides, orange trees in tiled courtyards, and the deep Moorish architecture that gives southern Spain its drama. You don't so much decorate an Andalusian wedding as let the place set the tone and keep the party going well past dawn.
Spain has had full marriage equality since 2005, so a wedding in Andalusia is legally binding for every couple, with no asterisk. The practical catch is residency. A Spanish civil marriage usually requires one partner to have lived in Spain for about two years, so most foreign couples, whatever their orientation, marry legally at home and hold their ceremony here. A Catholic wedding is the exception and skips the residency rule.
It runs on southern time, which means it starts late and ends later. Couples take a hacienda or a cortijo, often for several days, and the wedding becomes the heart of a longer gathering: a ceremony as the worst of the heat lifts, a long dinner under the stars, and a fiesta of flamenco and sherry that rarely winds down before sunrise. The architecture and the light do most of the decorating, so the budget stretches further than you would expect.
Three corners of the region pull in slightly different directions. None is more correct than another; they are simply moods. The three below are the ones worth knowing first.
We are mapping Andalusia sub-area by sub-area, from Seville to Granada to the white towns. Be first as each one opens, with the honest legal notes that come with it.
The quiz reads your taste and points you to the regions, and the kind of ceremony, that fit you.