If you are about to celebrate your wedding in the Donostia-San Sebastián area, you are surely already thinking and looking for ideas for dreamlike enclaves to make your photographic report. The place you choose to take your wedding photos will imprint a special character on the snapshots that will speak of the couple. In today’s article, we will take a tour of the 10 best places in Donostia and its surroundings that are ideal for a wedding report. Next, we will tell you which are our favorite scenarios in Gaizka Corta for a fairytale photo session:
1. Miramar Palace: Elegance Facing the Sea
Miramar Palace is a charming setting for your wedding photographs. This palace, in the neo-Gothic style, offers a panoramic view of the entire bay in its gardens full of flowers. You can play with the light of the sunset and the different scenarios of its exterior to capture photographs with a nostalgic touch from another era.
2. Monte Igueldo: Fun and Incredible Views
If you want to make an original photo session, then one of the best enclaves to do it is Monte Igueldo. From its 181-meter summit you can enjoy one of the best views of the Concha Bay, but also the vintage amusement park will add a playful touch to your photos. It is a perfect enclave to enjoy in the same place a natural environment, the blue of the sea and the best of an amusement park. If you want to enjoy a particularly beautiful light, you can do your session at dawn, when the sea is bathed by the first light of day.
3. La Concha Beach: Essential
If you have always dreamed of a wedding by the sea, then the ideal place to celebrate your photo session is La Concha Beach. If you choose a time when there are not too many tourists, you can get some beautiful photos facing the sea with its characteristic white railing.
4. Donostiarra Port: Marine Environment
If you like the marine environment, then the Donostiarra Port with its fishing nets, colorful boats and wooden docks will give your photographs a really special touch. You can take advantage of playing with elements of the environment and have a fun time as a couple while we immortalize all the illusion of the moment.
5. Peine Del Viento: the most Charming Place
This location offers a magical environment with a special symbolism for taking photographs. If you are art lovers, then it is your perfect setting. The combination of the sculpture with the seabed will leave you speechless when you see your wedding photos.
6. Coastal Villages: Zarautz and Getaria
Just 40 minutes by car from Donostia, the Flysch cliffs in Zumaia and the charming streets of Getaria offer a unique contrast that fills wedding photo sessions with a special charm. It is the ideal location to make plays of light contrasts and go beyond the typical wedding photo.
7. Santa María Parish: Color and Urban Vitality
In the heart of the old town of Donostia is the baroque facade of the parish of Santa María. It can be the ideal background if you want to show your love in a traditional environment, full of color and with an atmosphere of bustle and vitality that is transmitted naturally in the snapshots.
8. Hotel De Londres: like a Movie
The facade of this emblematic hotel in front of La Concha already gives us a clue of the game possibilities that it can offer us for a photo session. The high ceilings and huge windows of this hotel will make your photos look like they were taken from a movie. In addition, you can take advantage of capturing the preparations for the wedding and the moments before the ceremony, which are always full of emotion.
9. La Zurriola Beach: a Walk at Sunset
To close our itinerary of locations, we propose a walk at sunset along La Zurriola Beach, where you can take advantage of playing with the light, the waves and the drawings on the sand that will add a unique beauty to the moments you capture for your photo session.
10. Monte Igueldo: Fun and Incredible Views
If you want to make an original photo session, then one of the best enclaves to do it is Monte Igueldo. From its 181-meter summit you can enjoy one of the best views of the Concha Bay, but also the vintage amusement park will add a playful touch to your photos. It is a perfect enclave to enjoy in the same place a natural environment, the blue of the sea and the best of an amusement park. If you want to enjoy a particularly beautiful light, you can do your session at dawn, when the sea is bathed by the first light of day.
Gaizka Corta: your Wedding Photographer in Donostia
If you still do not decide on a location, you can contact an experienced professional who can advise you in a personalized way knowing you as a couple. In Gaizka Corta we can make a pre-wedding photo session to test locations, light, poses… everything you need to feel comfortable on the most important day of your lives. Do you want to enjoy a unique wedding report that allows you to always relive the magic of your day? You can contact us and we will help you with all the steps to design a photographic itinerary that reflects your essence as a couple and the reality of your love story. Each couple is unique and all wedding photographs are different, we will find yours.
