Wedding photographers in Chania

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   On the Venetian harbour

   The mayor’s decision of May 2018 lists three places on the Akti Tompazi quay: the pier opposite the Grand Arsenal, now the Center of Mediterranean Architecture; the pier opposite the Yali mosque; and the site of the old port-police kiosk at Sourmeli street. Weddings there were set for Saturday and Sunday evenings, 18:00 to 20:00, from June to October. Since 2024 the town also offers weddings outside the town hall at other times, any day of the year, for a higher fee — the civil weddings office sets the schedule.

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   The town hall

   At 29 Kydonias Street: the council chamber, or the courtyard in front of it. A civil wedding there is free on weekdays during office hours; the town charges a fee for weekend slots and for every place outside the building.

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   Two parks and the Sabbionara gate

   The other places on the list: the park of Villa Koundourou, the park at Nea Chora near the municipal pool, and the Sabbionara — the “gate of the sand”, the only gate of the Venetian walls still standing, with the lion of St Mark above it, on the eastern seafront at Koum Kapi.

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   The old town’s churches

   The cathedral of the Presentation of the Virgin, the Trimartyri, already on a map of 1625, was a soap works under Ottoman rule and was rebuilt between 1856 and 1864; its feast, 21 November, is the town’s. In Splantzia, Agios Nikolaos was a Dominican church rebuilt in 1320, a mosque from 1645 and an Orthodox parish since 1918 — a church with both a minaret and a bell tower. The Church of Crete is semi-autonomous under the Ecumenical Patriarchate: ask the parish for its rules. The Catholic cathedral of the Assumption, on Halidon Street, dates from 1879.

May, June, September and October are the months to aim for. At Chania airport, in the Greek weather service’s 1971–2000 normals, average highs are 24.5 °C in May, 29.0 °C in June, 30.5 °C in July, 30.0 °C in August, 27.5 °C in September and 23.4 °C in October; July and August are nearly rainless (1.4 mm each), while October has rain on about ten days. The meltemi blows from the north-west here, strongest in the afternoon. The crowds follow the flights: Chania airport handled 4.15 million passengers in 2025, with July (749,000) and August (730,000) the busiest months and January the quietest (64,000). In late May the town marks the anniversary of the Battle of Crete with ceremonies and, some years, displays over the harbour.