# Wedding photographers in Dénia

> A harbour town under its castle and the Montgó, with a town hall that will marry you on the castle’s esplanade, in a hotel or in its council chamber, and a rocky shore that takes the dawn.

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Dénia lies on the sea between a castle on a hill in the middle of town and the Montgó, the massif of its natural park. Its castle goes back to the 11th and 12th centuries, when it belonged to the Taifa kingdom of Dénia, and was rebuilt several times up to the 17th. North of the harbour run almost 17 km of beaches, mostly sand; to the south the coast turns to rock at Les Rotes, inside the Cap de Sant Antoni marine reserve. UNESCO named Dénia a Creative City of Gastronomy in 2015, and the dinner is rarely an afterthought here.

Its council sets itself up openly for weddings: a protocol office with its own rule sheet, a flat fee that follows you to a hotel or a restaurant, and the castle’s open-air esplanade for civil or symbolic ceremonies. The day tends to run from the old town and the harbour to a table by the water, with Baix la Mar’s painted houses in between and the ferry to Ibiza and Formentera going out behind you.

## Wedding photographers in Dénia

They shoot everywhere in Valencia & on the Costa Blanca — in Dénia too. Their whole weddings are on their pages.

- [Adolf B.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/adolf-boluda) — Based in: Valencia - Alicante · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona & Catalonia, Andalusia, Basque Country & the North, Mallorca & the Balearics, Madrid · from €2,500 · Speaks: English, Spanish, German, Catalan · Style: Documentary (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/adolf-boluda.md)
- [Andrea T.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/andrea-tran) — Based in: Verona · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Tuscany, Lake Como & the Italian Lakes, Venice & the Veneto, Sicily, Sardinia, The Dolomites, Liguria, Puglia, Amalfi Coast & Capri, Piedmont, Calabria, Rome & Lazio, Umbria, Barcelona & Catalonia, Madrid, Andalusia, Mallorca & the Balearics · from €4,200 · Speaks: English, Italian · Style: Editorial, Film · Verified (We’ve verified their identity) (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/andrea-tran.md)
- [Antoine P.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/antoine-pihen) — Based in: Paris · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Paris, Burgundy & Champagne, Provence, Normandy & Brittany, London, Tuscany, Umbria, Amalfi Coast & Capri, Lake Como & the Italian Lakes, Piedmont, Liguria, Rome & Lazio, Venice & the Veneto, Puglia, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia, The Dolomites, Barcelona & Catalonia, Madrid, Andalusia, Mallorca & the Balearics, Canary Islands, Basque Country & the North · from €2,500 · Speaks: English, French · Style: Documentary, Editorial, Film, Romantic · Verified (We’ve verified their identity) (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/antoine-pihen.md)
- [Edgar Z.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/edgar-zubarev) — Based in: Tenerife, Canary Island · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Canary Islands, Barcelona & Catalonia, Madrid, Andalusia, Mallorca & the Balearics, Basque Country & the North · from €1,200 · Speaks: English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian · Style: Documentary, Editorial, Film, Romantic · Verified (We’ve verified their identity) (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/edgar-zubarev.md)
- [Luigi O.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/luigi-orru) — Based in: Roma · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Rome & Lazio, Umbria, Tuscany, Vienna, Salzburg, Hallstatt & the Salzkammergut, Tyrol & Innsbruck, Carinthia & Lake Wörthersee, The Wachau Valley, Paris, Provence, Occitanie & Languedoc, French Riviera, Loire Valley, Bordeaux & the South West, Normandy & Brittany, The French Alps, Burgundy & Champagne, Reykjavík & Reykjanes, The Golden Circle, The South Coast & Vík, Jökulsárlón & the East, Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Akureyri & the North, Barcelona & Catalonia, Madrid, Andalusia, Mallorca & the Balearics, Canary Islands, Basque Country & the North · from €1,500 · Speaks: Italian, English, French, German · Style: Documentary, Fine art, Editorial, Romantic · Verified (We’ve verified their identity) (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/luigi-orru.md)
- [Petra M.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/petra-majerova) — Based in: Madrid · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Madrid, Andalusia, Barcelona & Catalonia, Basque Country & the North, Mallorca & the Balearics, Canary Islands · from €1,800 · Speaks: English, Spanish, French, Czech, Chinese · Style: Documentary, Fine art, Editorial, Film, Romantic, Dark & moody · Verified (We’ve verified their identity) (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/petra-majerova.md)
- [Roger F.](https://lensandvows.com/photographers/roger-fonts) — Based in: Barcelona · Shoots in: Valencia & the Costa Blanca, Barcelona & Catalonia, Madrid, Basque Country & the North, Andalusia, Mallorca & the Balearics, Canary Islands · from €2,200 · Speaks: English, Spanish, French, Catalan · Style: Romantic · Verified (We’ve verified their identity) (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/photographers/roger-fonts.md)

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## Where couples marry in Dénia

- **The Explanada del Governador, at the castle:** The tourist board offers the castle’s open-air esplanade for civil or symbolic ceremonies, with the town and the sea below; you book it with the town’s protocol office. The castle’s public access is on foot by stairs and a ramp, or uphill along Carrer Sant Francesc without steps; a car may reach the esplanade only for people with reduced mobility, with prior authorisation. Ask the office what the castle costs and how many it holds: we found no current figure.
- **The council chamber:** Civil ceremonies at Plaça de la Constitució 10 cost €100 from Monday to Friday morning and €175 on Friday afternoons and at weekends (protocol sheet, 2025). Set-up is included but not flowers: tell the office a week ahead if you want them, and no candles or torches. Inside the buildings and on the steps no rice or petals are allowed; rice only in the square. Fireworks need a separate permit and may be fired only from Carrer Loreto.
- **A hotel, a restaurant or the Club Náutico:** At the €175 rate the town’s councillor will also marry you in a hall, hotel or restaurant anywhere in the municipality; there the set-up is your own. The tourist board lists the Real Club Náutico de Dénia, whose halls and terraces look over the marina and the bay and take both the ceremony and the banquet, and hotels with gardens or terraces.
- **On a boat:** The tourist board also lists a ceremony on a catamaran, and a sailing at sunset before the wedding. Ask the operator and the protocol office whether a ceremony at sea can be the legal one or only a symbolic one.
- **A parish or a hermitage:** The tourist board names three parishes for religious ceremonies — Our Lady of the Assumption, San Antonio de Padua and San Miguel Arcángel — and hermitages run by the parishes for small ones. None publishes its own rules: write to the parish well ahead.

## Where to take your portraits

- **Inside the castle:** Medieval gates, the 15th-century Torre del Consell, Renaissance bastions and the ruins of the Governor’s Palace, with the town, the sea and the Montgó around you. Check the hours against the sunset: in June it closes at 20:00, before the sun goes down at 21:27 (15 June 2027), but from 1 July to 15 September it stays open to midnight, so the 20:09 sunset of 15 September is inside it. Entry stops half an hour before closing.
- **Baix la Mar and the harbour:** The old seafarers’ quarter between the port and the castle walls: mostly pedestrian streets, low houses painted in bright colours, and a row of terraces. A short walk from Carrer Loreto and the town hall, so it fits straight after a ceremony in the chamber.
- **Les Rotes at dawn:** South of the harbour the sand gives way to rocky coves — El Trampolí, Punta Negra, Arenetes — along a path of 4–5 km, facing the sunrise: 06:34 on 15 June 2027, 07:41 on 15 September. This is a marine reserve. The end of the path brings the Torre del Gerro, a 16th-century watchtower of 13.5 metres looking over the cape, reached by a steep last stretch (you can’t go inside).
- **The Cova Tallada:** A sea cave cut into the cliffs of the Montgó, for couples happy to walk or come by boat. In 2026 a free online permit was needed from 28 March to 13 April, from 28 April to 5 May and from 15 June to 15 October: booked only ten days ahead and good for 90 minutes. There’s no phone signal or lifeguard, and it isn’t a place for a long dress.

## When to marry in Dénia

AEMET publishes no normals for Dénia, which lies between its Valencia and Alicante stations (8416 and 8025, 1981–2010): both average highs of 23–24 °C in May, 27–28 °C in June and about 28 °C in September, and 30–31 °C in August. Autumn rain is the thing to plan for. October averages 77 mm at Valencia and 47 mm at Alicante, September 70 and 56 mm, with more thunderstorm days than any other month, so keep a covered plan until November. The sun sets inland: 21:27 on 15 June 2027, with golden light from 20:47 to 21:46 (NOAA’s solar equations), and 20:09 on 15 September. In high season the last stretch of Les Rotes is closed to cars.

Valencia & the Costa Blanca, month by month:
- **Best:** May, June, September, October
- **Good with planning:** March, April, July, August, November

## Good to know before the day

- **Getting there:** Alicante airport is about 100 km away and Valencia’s about 113 km, each 1 to 1.5 hours by road along the AP-7. ALSA buses from both cities take 1.5–2 hours; TRAM line 9 runs to Benidorm in 82 minutes (17 departures a day), with line 1 on to Alicante. From Valencia there’s no direct train: the C-1 to Gandía, then the bus. Baleària’s fast ferry from Ibiza takes about 2 h 15 min.
- **Cars on the day:** For a weekend wedding in the square, ask the protocol office at least a week ahead for a permit to park two cars nearby, giving their models and plates. For Les Rotes in high season, leave the car at Ctra. Barranc del Monyo 96 and take the free tourist train (9:00–14:00 and 16:00–20:00) or the bus.
- **Shoots and drones:** Photographs are allowed in the council chamber during and after the ceremony as long as they don’t hold up the next one. Shoots in the Montgó park go through its visitor centre in Dénia (parque_montgo@gva.es), and on the coast through the Costas office in Alicante. Under Real Decreto 517/2024 the town and its beaches with facilities count as urban for drones: five days’ notice to the Interior Ministry.
- **The legal route:** The town hall marries you only after a judge or notary has authorised it. The file opens with a notary or at the Civil Registry where one of you is registered as a resident, with a certificate showing your address for the last two years; a file from another town’s registry passes through Dénia’s, while a notary’s doesn’t. Certificates in another language need an apostille and a sworn translation. You can reserve the date before any of this.
- [How to marry legally in Spain](https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-spain)

## Questions about marrying in Dénia

### Can we get married at Dénia Castle?

Yes: the town’s tourist board offers the Explanada del Governador, in the open air, for civil or symbolic ceremonies, and you book it with the protocol office (96 643 17 39, protocol@ayto-denia.es). Ask there for the fee and the number of guests.

### How much does a civil wedding cost in Dénia?

The town’s fee is €100 on a weekday morning at the town hall and €175 on a Friday afternoon or at a weekend, at the town hall or in a hall, hotel or restaurant in the municipality (2025). If you cancel at least 48 hours ahead in writing, half is refunded (2024 ordinance).

### Can we get married in Dénia if we live abroad?

A civil wedding needs a file opened where one of you is registered as a resident in Spain. Couples who both live abroad usually marry legally at home and hold a symbolic ceremony here, which the castle’s esplanade also takes.

### Can guests throw rice or petals?

At the town hall, rice only out in the square and never on the stairs: the town holds you responsible if someone falls. Petals and similar aren’t allowed inside or outside the building, and fireworks need a permit and may only go off in Carrer Loreto.

### What’s the best time of day for photographs in Dénia?

Dawn on the rocks at Les Rotes, where the sun comes up from the sea, and the last hour of light from the castle in high summer, when it stays open past sunset. In June it closes at 20:00, well before the 21:27 sunset.

## Other places in Valencia & on the Costa Blanca

- [Valencia & the Costa Blanca](https://lensandvows.com/spain/valencia): The whole region: when to marry, the kinds of places, the light, getting there. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/spain/valencia.md)
- [Alicante](https://lensandvows.com/spain/valencia/alicante): A port city under a castle rock, where the town hall marries couples on Saturdays in a Baroque blue room and the portraits climb whitewashed lanes above the sea. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/spain/valencia/alicante.md)
- [Jávea](https://lensandvows.com/spain/valencia/javea): A bay between two capes at the easternmost point of the Valencian coast, with a small Gothic chapel for a civil wedding and fifteen viewpoints over the water for the photographs. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/spain/valencia/javea.md)

## Read before you plan

- [What a wedding photographer costs in Spain, and what changes the price](https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-spain): Published prices for a wedding day in Spain run from under €1,000 to €8,000 and more. The ranges with their sources and dates, region by region, what goes into a price, the Spanish extras (preboda, postboda, IVA) and how paying works on Lens & Vows. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/wedding-photographer-cost-spain.md)
- [Getting married in Spain: civil, Catholic or symbolic, and who can do which](https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-spain): Spain’s three routes for couples from abroad — what the law asks (Ley 20/2011), why a civil wedding needs one of you to live there, how a Catholic wedding works without residence, the documents, the timings and where the photographer fits in. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/getting-married-in-spain.md)
- [A symbolic wedding in Spain: marry legally at home, celebrate in Spain](https://lensandvows.com/journal/symbolic-ceremony-spain): Why most couples from abroad sign the papers at home and hold the ceremony in Spain, what makes it symbolic, who can lead it and what it costs, where you may hold it — beaches under the Ley de Costas, parks, squares — and what it frees up for the light and the photographs. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/symbolic-ceremony-spain.md)
- [The best time to get married in Spain: month by month, region by region](https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-spain): AEMET’s climate normals for six places couples marry, how many couples marry in each month (INE), the best months for each region, and sunrise, sunset and golden hour for 2027 in Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Palma and Las Palmas. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/best-time-to-marry-in-spain.md)
- [How to choose a wedding photographer: the steps, and the questions to ask](https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer): The decision in order — whole weddings, style, availability, the package, the contract and deposit, cancellation, delivery and a conversation — then a checklist of questions, with why each one matters. (Markdown: https://lensandvows.com/journal/how-to-choose-a-wedding-photographer.md)

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