Elopement in Spain
10 Places to elope in Spain
¿Thinking about getting married but looking for something different? Escape together with your partner for a Elopement that you’ll never forget.
If you always dreamed about getting married in a heavenly place, just with the love of your life and far from a typical big noisy wedding, let me tell you that you’re not alone. Nowadays, it is more and more common for the partners to escape from the traditional fancy wedding and celebrate a ceremony alone, in the middle of a piece of paradise, like a secret intimate and romantic celebration without having to break your bank, or dealing with all that stress that comes with the wedding ceremony preparation. This is the reason why today we propose you 10 places to elopement in Spain.
The beauty of an elopement is there are endless options and the bride and groom, are the only persons that need to agree with it, in other words, you don’t need to impress anybody or consider the desires of nobody else or think if your families will agree with you. Elopement in Spain means that you can celebrate the wedding in the middle of the beautiful landscape, like standing at the beach, surrounded by the beauty of a national park nature, lost in an island cliff, using the square of a small Spanish town, or just in the top of the Teide volcano. Your happiness is what only matters.
10 – The mythical “Es vedrá” in Ibiza
Ibiza is a beautiful island with much more to offer than a crazy nightlife and great electronic music festivals. It has spectacular spots like “Es Vedrá”, a tiny rocky island in front of the Ibiza shore with more than 400 meters high, that you can easily see from the “Cala d’Hort” beach. This minuscule place on the map, located 2 kilometers far from the main island, is the scenery of many legendary stories, and can be the perfect remote place to celebrate your intimate elopement wedding. Probably nobody will interrupt your ceremony in this breathtaking isolated place.
9 – Cape of Formentor Mallorca
This is another awesome place in the Balear Islands, a rocky cape in the northernmost point of Mallorca. The different views from the cliffs on the Cap of Formentor, will make you believe that you are looking into the end of the world, making it the perfect spot for an intimate Spain elopement. The principal attraction here is the lovely lighthouse, creating an astonishing background for your elopement pictures. Getting married in Cape of Formentor will be one of the most romantic experiences that you’ll ever have.
8 – Son Marroig Mallorca
This is the most iconic wedding venue in all Mallorca, popular between Spanish couples of the island and other international lovers, who are looking for a magic place to celebrate a wedding. The sight is typical of a postcard image, with its little white chapel as a protagonist in front, and the seaside in the background. The scene will make you feel that you are starring a movie plot! This romantic set would be ideal for a Spain elopement, because it’s usually an empty location where only you and your partner will be the assistants, beside the photographer and the wedding officiant.
7 – Fincas in Mallorca
There’s also other alternatives, if the idea of being married in the wild doesn’t really convince you, like celebrating your Spain elopement in a nice rustic Finca in Mallorca. These cozy cottages are one of the most popular venues for a wedding here, and that brings you the opportunity of celebrating your marriage in a more conditioned place for the occasion. Here you can have all the intimacy that you need for that special moment and at the same the freedom of being in the middle of nature.
Mallorca wedding fincas
6 – Lanzarote Timanfaya National Park
Timanfaya is a place, with more than 25 volcanoes on it, will make you feel that you are having a wedding on Mars! The lack of vegetation, the volcanic solidifications, the colors of the ground and the rough rocks, will give you the sensation that you are getting married in a surreal place. Not everybody can say that they have been married on a top of a volcano! Elopement here is an opportunity to discover this awesome part of the Canary Islands and you will have a great experience while you pronounce the words “Yes, I do”.
5 – Tenerife Teide National Park
The Teide is the tallest mountain in Spain, and the 3rd biggest volcano in the world, making this place a truly wonder of Europe. So why not get married in this national park? Bring the love of your life to the top of the world, and sing your holy union here with an eternal kiss. The visual splendor of the landscape at Tide’s National Park, will be the perfect background for the ceremony, offering panoramic views of the “Chahorra Caldera” and the Montaña Blanca. This is really a 100% Spain elopement in the middle of nature!
4 – Torcal de Antequera Natural Park
Torcal de Antequera is located in the south of Spain not far from the city of Malaga, there is this national park known for its unusual limestone rock formations, and declared by the UNESCO, one of the most impressive rocky landscapes in Europe. This is an excellent location for the couples that want their elopement in Spain in total privacy, only surrounded by the beauty of nature and the spectacular scenery. Feel the warm sun shines of the Spanish south weather on your skin, or watch a sunset here while you put the rings to each other.
3 – Finisterre cape
You can avoid getting hypnotized the first time that you look at this cape, in the northern province of La Coruña. During many centuries, Romans thought this was the most western point in the world, believing that there was nothing else beyond that place. This rocky peninsula was the end of the world until Cristobal Colon tried to prove that the world was round. What a wonderful place full of history for elope here! The blue of the sea, the green of the valleys and the white sand of the beach, creates a colorful stage for your union ceremony.
2 – Ordesa National Park
This time we travel to the heart of the Pyrenees in the north-east of the nation, to one of the most popular national parks in Spain, and I can assure you that here you will have the most spectacular wedding photo album ever. The views of this place will leave you speechless, with the eyes looking towards the horizon. Escape from civilization and walk through your path straight to happiness, getting an intimate Elope ceremony surrounded only by nature.
1 – Beach elopement
Spain is a peninsula, surrounded by the seaside and a huge array of beaches. Since the cold but stunning beaches on the north and north-west, to the hot sand of the south, thought the east coast and the awesome islands. That gives you a large variety of places to choose, so it is impossible not to find an idyllic place for an elopement in Spain. Avoid the typical wedding in your hometown and escape here to get married with your partner, while you feel the water of the Mediterranean Sea making your feet wet.
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