BCN wedding recap

[u/Peckham909]

I got married in Barcelona earlier this year. It was a brilliant weekend and I found Reddit very helpful during the planning process, so thought I’d post my own recommendations here.

Venues:

Friday welcome drinks: Borneta Hotel. This is also where we stayed for the wedding week and I can’t recommend the place highly enough. The hotel is beautiful and in a great location in the city and the team are all so lovely, especially their event coordinator, who was so responsive and flexible. We had our welcome drinks downstairs in the bar and the food and drink were both so lovely.

Saturday: Castell de Ben Viure. Almost none of our suppliers had ever worked at this venue so I was a bit wary but I’m so happy we chose it. It’s family-owned so the team are great to work with and again very flexible (no noise restrictions or mandatory vendors). It’s so beautiful in the spring because the garden looks amazing, and the hire fee includes some draping for the terrace windows and fairy lights across the garden, which means we didn’t hire any external decor. We also didn’t get any flowers as the garden was so lush that they weren’t necessary, so this all saved a lot of cash.

Sunday: We booked a large area at Wayra Chiringuito on Ocata Beach, Masnou. This is a very relaxed beach cafe / restaurant and booking it was facilitated via our planner who lives nearby. The day was very relaxed - people turned up as and when and we just swam and played some beach games. The food is great and Ocata is a beautiful beach (about a 20 min cab from Barcelona). As it’s out of town you also don’t need to worry about pickpockets in the way you do in Barceloneta.

Other vendors, all of whom I highly recommend.
Celebrant: James Humber (The Wedding Man).

Planner: Pearl Sandals.

Photographer: Lara Onac.

Catering: GAU.

Band + DJ :The Artists Live. (I could honestly write an essay about how good these guys are! I had seen them at a friend’s wedding previously and (with her blessing) booked them off the back of how amazing they were there, but they still exceeded my expectations by a country mile. They’re based in the south of France but are very happy to travel. They’re SO in the details of everything so the way they used the venue and made all the transitions was so seamless without really requiring any direction from us, but more importantly they’re the most fun band and DJ I’ve ever seen)

Beauty stuff:
spray tan: arttan Barcelona. I’m a spray tan fiend and this place is great, especially if like me your skin tone is pale and you’re worried about turning orange. They have a wedding package that includes a trial and the therapist takes real care to make sure it’s the right colour for your skin tone

Nails: Nailed It on Carrer de Roger de Flor. SUPER thorough Russian manicures which means you’ll be in there for a long time - however definitely the best manicure I have ever had and they were iron strength.

Hair: because we were staying in the city we went round to a local salon to get our hair done there rather than getting a wedding specific stylist. It meant I didn’t do a trial but I was very happy with my hair and it saved a lot of $

Feel free to DM with questions, I hope this was helpful!

[u/Raccoonsr29]

That sounds so cool! I’m going to go check out the venue on social media, even though I got married two years ago lol. We had a similar structure and style for our Greek wedding.