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Wedding photographers in Greece
Whitewashed villages on Cycladic cliffs, Athens beneath the Acropolis, the green Ionian islands, Crete, medieval Rhodes and the olive groves of the Peloponnese.
Greece is a mountainous mainland and a scatter of islands across the Aegean and Ionian seas, and its wedding season follows the dry summer: May to October almost everywhere, lasting longest in the south — Crete and Rhodes stay warm well into October — and ending soonest in the greener, wetter Ionian west.
Couples from abroad can marry here legally: at a town hall or, if one of you is Orthodox, in a Greek Orthodox church — either is binding on its own. Others sign the papers at home and celebrate here with a symbolic ceremony, on a terrace above the sea, on a beach or among the olive trees.
8 places
Where in Greece
City, islands or mainland coast: each has its own light, landscape and best months. Start with the one that feels like you.
- Athens & the RivieraThe Acropolis above the city’s rooftops, then a coast road south past beaches, coves and marinas to the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounion.Best: May · Jun · SepPhotographers joining
SantoriniWhite villages on the rim of a drowned volcano, blue domes over the caldera, black-sand beaches and sunsets straight into the Aegean.Best: May · Jun · SepPhotographers joining
MykonosA white town of lanes and chapels, windmills on the ridge, Little Venice’s balconies over the water and sandy coves along the south coast.Best: May · Jun · SepPhotographers joining
Paros, Naxos & MilosWhite villages around fishing harbours, small chapels by the sea, long sandy beaches and the pale volcanic coves of Milos — the quieter side of the Cyclades.Best: May · Jun · SepPhotographers joining
CreteGreece’s largest island: a Venetian harbour in Chania, turquoise lagoons, gorges and mountain villages, and warm days into late October.Best: May · Jun · Sep · Oct1 photographer
Corfu & the Ionian IslandsA Venetian old town, green hills of olive and cypress over clear coves, and the islands of the Ionian Sea to the south.Best: May · Jun · SepPhotographers joining
Rhodes & the DodecaneseA walled medieval town built by the Knights, white Lindos below its acropolis, and small islands a boat ride away.Best: May · Jun · Sep · OctPhotographers joining
The PeloponneseNafplio on its bay, Monemvasia on its rock in the sea, the stone towers of the Mani and Messinia’s long beaches — the south of mainland Greece, a few hours’ drive from Athens.Best: May · Jun · SepPhotographers joining
Through the year
When to marry, region by region
Dark: the easiest months. Outlined: they work with some planning. Grey: the quieter, wetter or hotter part of the year there.
- Athens & the Riviera
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Good with planning
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Good with planning
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- Santorini
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Good with planning
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Good with planning
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- Mykonos
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Quieter
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Good with planning
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- Paros, Naxos & Milos
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Quieter
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Good with planning
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- Crete
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Good with planning
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Best
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- Corfu & the Ionian Islands
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Quieter
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Good with planning
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- Rhodes & the Dodecanese
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Good with planning
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Best
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
- The Peloponnese
- January: Quieter
- February: Quieter
- March: Quieter
- April: Quieter
- May: Best
- June: Best
- July: Good with planning
- August: Good with planning
- September: Best
- October: Good with planning
- November: Quieter
- December: Quieter
The seasons
What each season brings
- March – MaySpringWild flowers on green hillsides, soft light, a sea still cool. Orthodox Easter, in April or early May, is the year’s great feast; in Lent, the seven weeks before it, churches hold no weddings.
- June – AugustSummerLong, hot, dry days, hottest in Athens and inland; in the Aegean, the meltemi, a dry north wind, blows from about mid-May to mid-September. July and August are the busiest months, and Orthodox churches hold no weddings from 1 to 15 August.
- September – OctoberAutumnA sea still at its warmest, thinner crowds and golden light: for many couples, the best time of the year. October stays warm in the south; rain returns first to the green Ionian west.
- November – FebruaryWinterMild by the sea, with short days, rain, and snow in the mountains. On many islands, hotels and venues close until spring; Athens and the mainland stay open.
The legal basics
Three ways to say yes
What makes a wedding legally binding in Greece, in short. Couples from abroad can marry here legally — with some paperwork first.
- CivilThe mayor or a deputy marries you before two adult witnesses, at the town hall (the dimarchio) or in another place the town sets aside for weddings. You don’t have to live in Greece to marry this way. Since February 2024, same-sex couples can marry too, at the town hall.
- ReligiousA Greek Orthodox wedding is legally binding on its own, as is one before a minister of another faith known in Greece. The Orthodox Church needs one of you Orthodox, both baptised Christians and the bishop’s licence — and, as a rule, a parish church, not a hotel or private chapel.
- SymbolicAny place, any words, any celebrant — but no legal weight. Many couples sign the papers at home and celebrate here, to skip the paperwork.
Before any legal wedding
For a civil wedding, a couple who live abroad apply in person for a licence at the town hall where they will marry. Each of you brings a passport, a birth certificate, a certificate of no impediment from your own country — often its embassy or consulate in Greece — and any divorce decree, with an apostille or legalisation where required and an official Greek translation. The licence usually comes about a week later and lasts six months; if one of you is Greek or lives in Greece, the wedding is announced publicly first. Afterwards it is registered at the town’s registry office (lixiarcheio) within 40 days.
Rules and documents change, depend on your nationality and vary from town to town: always check with the town hall — or, for a church wedding, the parish — where you will marry, and with your own country’s embassy or consulate in Greece, before you set a date.
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Guides
- Getting married in Greece as foreigners: civil, Orthodox or symbolicHow couples who don’t live in Greece marry there legally: documents and licence, Santorini, Mykonos and Crete, Orthodox and same-sex weddings, symbolic ceremonies and the photographer.
- What a wedding photographer costs in Greece, from Athens to the islandsPublished prices for a wedding photographer in Greece run from €500 for two hours to €9,000 for a full day. The figures with sources and dates, by length of day and island by island, what moves the price — ferries, the meltemi, ΦΠΑ — and how paying works on Lens & Vows.
- The best time to get married in Greece: month by month, region by regionOfficial climate normals, the meltemi, the dates Orthodox churches hold no weddings in 2027, the public holidays, and 2027’s sunset and golden hour from Corfu to Rhodes.
- Wedding venues in Greece: caldera terraces, chapels, beach clubs and olive estatesWhat couples marry in across Greece — cliff-top terraces and wineries, whitewashed chapels, beach clubs, olive estates, island villas, resorts and old towns — with seventeen places that say on their own sites they host weddings, which of them can hold the legal ceremony, and the rules for chapels, beaches and ancient sites.
- Where to elope in Greece: 13 places, from Santorini’s caldera to the ManiThirteen named places across the Cyclades, Athens, Crete, the Ionian, Rhodes and the Peloponnese — what each looks like, how you reach it, when the light is right, and which tickets, permits, protected-beach rules and winds to plan around.
- Which country for a destination wedding? The law, prices, crowds and light, comparedThe legal route for couples who don’t live there, season and crowds, price levels, light, flights, venues and permits for photographs — Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece, France and Austria compared with official figures, as of October 2026.
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