Wedding photographers in Alicante

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   The Salón Azul of the town hall

   The town hall is an 18th-century Baroque palace, begun from a project of 1699 and finished around 1780. Its blue room was Isabel II’s chamber on her visit of 1858 and holds a side chapel with an Immaculate Conception by Lucas Espinós. Civil ceremonies are held here on Saturdays: mornings at 11:30, 12:00, 12:30 and 13:00, and afternoon turns the city has listed at 18:00 to 19:30. A turn lasts at most 30 minutes, photographs included. The room takes 56 people, the Galería de los Alcaldes next door 34 and the first-floor landing 50.

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   The Castle of Santa Bárbara

   The city lets the Salón Felipe II and the Patio de Armas for private events through its tourism board, on a request at least 45 days ahead. Its page warns of important limits from the opening hours and the kinds of event allowed: the example it gives is a congress’s gala dinner, and celebrations that could harm the monument are refused. We found nothing that says weddings are or aren’t accepted, so ask before you plan on it.

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   A church in the old town

   Two churches in the old town: the Basilica of Santa María, the oldest in the city, raised on a mosque after the conquest, and the Co-cathedral of San Nicolás, from the 17th and 18th centuries, known for its Baroque Chapel of the Communion. Neither publishes wedding rules, so write to the parish first. A Catholic wedding is the route that doesn’t need one of you to live in Spain; our legal guide has the paperwork.

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   A symbolic ceremony on a terrace or in a garden

   Couples who both live abroad usually marry legally at home and hold the ceremony here, at a hotel, on a terrace or at a house out of town. A set-up on the sand is different: every beach is public coast, permits come from the State’s Costas office in Alicante, on Plaza de la Montañeta, and the city is consulted too.

AEMET’s Alicante station (8025, 1981–2010 normals) records 311 mm of rain a year. May averages highs of 24.1 °C and rain on about four days; June 27.8 °C and about two days. July and August reach 30–31 °C. September is warm at 28.5 °C but has the most rain of the year, 56 mm on about three days, and the most thunderstorm days: rain here comes in short, heavy bursts, so keep a covered plan into October. On 15 June 2027 the sun sets at 21:27, with golden light from 20:48 to 21:47 (NOAA’s solar equations); on 15 September at 20:11. The city’s great festival, the Hogueras de San Juan, runs from 20 to 24 June, with daily firecrackers at 14:00 in Plaza de los Luceros and the bonfires burned on the night of the 24th: the town hall holds no weddings then and the castle closes on the 24th.