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Best Wedding Venues in Costa Brava
Four extraordinary places to experience the Mediterranean in a completely different way
For us, a destination wedding in Spain should be precisely the opposite.
It should be an opportunity for your guests to understand why you asked them to travel all those miles to be there with you.
For a few days, they should experience the Mediterranean. Its light, its food, its endless conversations around the table, the sea, the gardens, the architecture, the history and that very Spanish way of celebrating where nobody ever seems to be in too much of a hurry for the evening to end.
And if there is one particularly wonderful place to experience all of this, it is the Costa Brava.
Here, luxury is not simply about having a view of the Mediterranean. It is about being able to build an entire experience around it.
A welcome dinner by the sea. A ceremony surrounded by gardens. Cocktails as the sun begins to disappear. Dinner that lasts longer than planned because nobody is looking at the time. A party. And another day spent with the people you love.
Not simply designing a wedding, but designing everything that happens around it.
There are four Costa Brava wedding venues that we find particularly interesting, precisely because each one allows us to imagine a completely different kind of celebration.
Four of the Best Wedding Venues in Costa Brava
Jardins de Santa Clotilde: History Overlooking the Mediterranean
Jardins de Santa Clotilde, in Lloret de Mar, has something that is almost impossible to recreate through design: history.
And when a place has such an important historical and landscape value, we believe creative direction should begin by respecting it.
We would never try to transform a setting like this until it became unrecognisable. Quite the opposite.
What interests us is imagining a wedding capable of coexisting with its gardens, its architecture, its perspectives and the Mediterranean itself. Taking what is already there and using design to elevate it.
Because creative direction is not about adding endless elements.
It is about choosing exactly the right ones to enhance the setting, transform the way it is experienced and take the entire celebration somewhere else.
Santa Clotilde would be our choice for a couple looking for an elegant and sophisticated celebration that feels deeply connected to Mediterranean history and landscape.
A place where the setting becomes part of the experience from the very first moment.
You can see our visit to the gardens in this video.
El Convent de Blanes: One of Our Favourite Views on the Costa Brava
El Convent de Blanes offers something completely different.
Its location.
It is one of those places where finding a corner without an extraordinary view is surprisingly difficult.
The Mediterranean is constantly present, and that gives us something we particularly enjoy when designing a wedding: the possibility of making the guests’ journey through the venue part of the experience itself.
Not revealing everything at once.
Arriving. Discovering the ceremony. Moving somewhere else for cocktails. Finding the sea again. Sitting down for dinner just as the light begins to change.
The historical architecture and stone give the venue character, while the landscape keeps the atmosphere from ever feeling overly formal.
We could imagine anything here, from an incredibly romantic wedding to something much more contemporary, precisely because the venue has enough personality to embrace contrast.
And creatively, that gives us a lot to play with.
S’Arenella: The Privilege of Celebrating in Complete Privacy
Some couples talk about luxury without thinking about marble, grand ballrooms or hundreds of guests.
They are thinking about something considerably harder to find:
privacy.
And a private island changes the rules completely.
S’Arenella, just off Cadaqués, is particularly interesting for couples who want to experience the Costa Brava in a much more intimate way, surrounded only by the people who genuinely form part of their story, without giving up the extraordinary Mediterranean setting.
The simple act of arriving on an island already transforms the beginning of the celebration into an experience.
There is no need to wait for the ceremony.
The wedding has already begun.
And that is precisely one of the things we care most about when creating a luxury destination wedding in Spain: designing moments your guests were not expecting to experience.
Here, we imagine something more organic, intimate and free. Creative direction that enters into conversation with the landscape rather than competing with it, using that sense of isolation to create, for a few hours, an entirely private world.
Yours.
Hostal de La Gavina: Mediterranean Living with the Comfort of a Grand Hotel
And then there is a completely different possibility.
Hostal de La Gavina, in S’Agaró, combines something particularly valuable for a luxury destination wedding: the beauty of a Mediterranean setting with the comfort and services of a luxury hotel.
Its gardens, terraces and proximity to the sea allow different parts of the celebration to unfold within the same destination while guests continue to enjoy the convenience of the hotel.
And when people are travelling from different countries to attend your wedding, this matters.
A lot.
Because a destination wedding does not only have to look beautiful.
It has to work beautifully too.
Accommodation, transfers, timing, food, rest and the guest experience are just as much a part of the wedding as the flowers or the tables.
La Gavina gives us the possibility of creating something we particularly love: turning a wedding into several days of celebration.
A relaxed welcome gathering. A wedding day with an entirely different atmosphere. A morning by the Mediterranean. A farewell brunch.
And in between, carefully maintained gardens, architecture full of character and that feeling of being on a Mediterranean holiday that we want your guests to take home with them.
Choosing the Venue Is Only the Beginning
This is probably the most important part of the entire process of planning your wedding.
Because you can get married in the most spectacular venue on the Costa Brava and still create a wedding that says absolutely nothing about you.
An extraordinary venue does not automatically create an extraordinary wedding.
What makes the difference is what we do with it.
For us, the creative direction of a wedding begins by getting to know your story, understanding who you are and, above all, understanding how you want to experience and remember that day.
We do not begin with a trend.
We do not begin with a Pinterest image.
We begin with you.
And from there, everything else starts to take shape.
We find the right venue, develop the creative concept, select the professionals who genuinely understand the vision and consider how every guest will move through, experience and be surprised by the celebration.
From the first drink to the last song.
Because creating an immersive wedding is not about filling a venue with things.
It is about making sure everything belongs to the same story.
The location. The food. The music. The lighting. The flowers. The materials. The rhythm of the day. Even the things we deliberately decide not to include.
A Destination Wedding Should Make You Feel You Have Arrived Somewhere
Perhaps this is our favourite way of defining it.
If you are asking your family and friends to travel all the way to Spain to celebrate your wedding, we want them to remember that they were here.
That they discovered the Costa Brava.
That they had dinner overlooking the Mediterranean.
That they tasted things they had never tried before.
That they stayed around the table talking much longer than expected.
That things happened they had not anticipated.
And that, for a few days, they felt part of something that could hardly have happened in exactly the same way anywhere else.
That is what a destination wedding means to us.
Don’t just bring your wedding to Spain.
Let Spain become part of your wedding.
Planning a Luxury Destination Wedding in Spain?
At Clandestine, we create completely bespoke destination weddings in Spain, from finding the right venue to the creative direction and full production of the celebration.
We select the right professionals for each project and build every decision around your story, your way of celebrating and the way you want to remember those days with your family and friends.
We are not interested in creating another beautiful wedding that could belong to anyone.
We want to create one that could only belong to you.
Your story is the starting point. The Mediterranean can be the setting.
