Few countries wear a wedding as easily as Spain. The light is long, the dinners run late, and the settings shift from Moorish courtyards in the south to green Atlantic coast in the north, with islands and wine country in between. Choose your corner of it.
Spain has had full marriage equality since 2005, so a wedding here 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 in Spain. A Catholic wedding is the exception and skips the residency rule. The equality is the same in every region below; the character is not.
Spain is far more varied than its sun-soaked reputation suggests. The Moorish south gives you white hill-towns and palm-shaded courtyards, the Atlantic north is green and cool and wild, the Balearic islands run from rustic Mallorcan fincas to the cliffs of Ibiza, and the wine country of Rioja and Penedès sits somewhere refined in between. What ties them together is a culture built around the long table, where a wedding becomes an unhurried night of food, wine, and dancing that rarely ends before sunrise.
That variety is the practical point, because the same budget buys a cortijo in the hills, an island finca, or a city palace depending only on which region you choose. The nine below are Spain's most marriable. Pick by feeling, with help from the vibe quiz, and then go deep.
Moorish courtyards and white hill-towns, from Seville and Granada to the cliffs of Ronda, all under a sun that stays for dinner.
Rustic stone fincas sit beneath the Tramuntana mountains, and the coves below them turn the sea every shade of blue.
Whitewashed villas, cliff-edge sunsets, and a barefoot, free-spirited glamour that has its own gravity.
Barcelona's design, the Costa Brava's coves, and the Penedès vineyards behind them make one region do the work of three.
Spain's great wine country meets the world's most serious kitchens, for a wedding built around the table and the bottle.
Grand city palaces and the walled towns of Segovia and Toledo, where the romance comes with centuries of stone behind it.
Orange groves, long Mediterranean beaches, and a warm, easygoing coast that runs well into the autumn.
The green Atlantic north, with misty rías, Celtic stone, and a wilder, cooler romance far from the postcard south.
Volcanic islands with year-round warmth, black-sand beaches, and landscapes that look like nowhere else in Spain.
We're mapping Spain one region at a time. Be first when Andalusia, Mallorca, and Ibiza open.
The quiz reads your taste and points you to the region, and the kind of ceremony, that fits you.