How much does a wedding in Andalusia cost?

What the eight estates publish

Starting prices across our Andalusian collection begin at €5,400 and reach €40,000. Before you read anything into that gap, know this: seven of the eight already contain nights on the estate inside the starting figure, and most of them include beds for a sizeable part of the wedding party. Only one is a straightforward fee for the property with everything else bought separately.

That one is Cortijo Los Agustinos, a contemporary farmhouse above Arcos de la Frontera with 68 hectares of gardens and olive grove around it. It opens at €5,400, takes a single night if that is all you want, and quotes catering separately at €80 per person. It is also the largest site we hold in the region, taking up to 500 guests.

Climbing from there: La Dehesa de Don Pedro starts at €9,500 in low season, which brings exclusive use of all 550 hectares plus two nights with breakfast for 37 guests in its 16-room hotel. Casa La Siesta near Vejer de la Frontera is €19,000 for a three-night takeover of the whole house with accommodation for 22. Hotel Fuente del Sol at Antequera is €22,000 for 50 wedding guests, including two nights for 38 with food and drink. Cortijo Roman and Finca La Gloria both open at €25,000. Finca La Donaira near Ronda is €37,000, covering a two-night stay for 20 with food and drink. And Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo above Bolonia beach is €40,000 for up to 70 guests, rising to €70,000 when the celebration spreads across both of its main areas for up to 100.

Two identical numbers, two different weddings

Cortijo Roman and Finca La Gloria both start at €25,000, and the resemblance ends there. Cortijo Roman quotes that figure for 120 wedding guests, and it carries two nights of exclusive use for 22 people with food and drink, full planning from the first conversation, the ceremony styling including flowers, arch, altar and seating, welcome drinks and canapés in the cloister, a three-course dinner in the meadow, a DJ, a three-hour open bar, the cake, late night snacks, bouquets and buttonholes, hair and make-up for the bride and two bridesmaids, and five hours of photography.

Finca La Gloria quotes its €25,000 for 50 wedding guests, and what sits inside is three nights of exclusive use of the entire finca with lodging for 14. Its venue fee is fixed at €7,500 for groups of up to 100, and the food is a separate line at €160 per person, cooked by the estate's own chef from the farm's organic produce.

Neither is better value than the other. They are answers to different questions — one hands you a finished wedding for a large guest list, the other hands you a working farm for three days and lets you build on top of it. The only way to compare southern quotes honestly is to make each venue list what its own number contains before you put them side by side.

The per-head line, where it exists

Four of the eight publish a catering figure per person. Cortijo Los Agustinos is €80. Hotel Fuente del Sol is €98, quoted as a cocktail reception followed by the banquet. Casa La Siesta is €125, cooked in house alongside locally sourced wines. Finca La Gloria is €160, seasonal and grown on site.

Drinks are quoted far less often. Hotel Fuente del Sol is the only one of the eight to publish a figure — from €9 per person for an hour of open bar — which at least lets you price the length of the night rather than guess at it. Elsewhere the bar is either folded into a package, as at Cortijo Roman with its three included hours, or handled on enquiry. At Finca La Donaira the distinction is stated plainly: the accommodation package covers breakfast, lunch, dinner and all drinks with meals across the stay, but the wedding dinner and the open bar are not inside it.

Beds are the line that decides the rest

Every one of the eight sleeps at least part of the wedding on site, which is unusual and is really the character of the region: these are estates, and the weekend is the product. The range runs from 11 to 52.

Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo has rooms for 11, with more accommodation in the area. Finca La Gloria sleeps 15 across seven individually designed bedrooms. Finca La Donaira sleeps 20 in nine rooms. Cortijo Roman sleeps 22 across five houses — 14 in bedrooms and a further eight on sofa beds. Casa La Siesta sleeps 25. La Dehesa de Don Pedro sleeps 37 within the wedding package and up to 48 with extra beds in its 16 rooms. Hotel Fuente del Sol sleeps 50 across 19 rooms. Cortijo Los Agustinos sleeps 52, in eight en-suite rooms in the main house and six Retiros out in the grounds.

Now hold that list against the capacities. Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo can hold up to 350 people and sleeps 11. Cortijo Roman prices for 120 wedding guests and sleeps 22. Wherever those two numbers are far apart, the difference is a hotel bill and a coach, paid for by somebody — usually your guests, and always worth naming out loud early rather than discovering in month nine.

Ceilings, and the floors underneath them

Maximum capacity runs from 80 at Finca La Donaira to 500 at Cortijo Los Agustinos. In between: Hotel Fuente del Sol takes 90, Finca La Gloria 100, Casa La Siesta 120, Cortijo Roman 180, La Dehesa de Don Pedro 300 and Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo 350.

Ceilings are the easy half. Finca La Donaira caps both the ceremony and the reception at 80, and that is a firm answer rather than a preference — if your list is 95, it is not your venue however much you like the farm. The floors matter just as much in the other direction. Three estates set a minimum of 40 guests: Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo, Hotel Fuente del Sol and La Dehesa de Don Pedro all begin their ceremony and reception numbers there. A wedding of 25 is welcome at Casa La Siesta or Cortijo Roman, whose records start at two, and is not a conversation that goes far at the three with a floor of 40.

The nights you are obliged to take

Only Cortijo Los Agustinos will sell you a single night. Five ask for two — Cortijo Roman, Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo, Finca La Donaira, Hotel Fuente del Sol and La Dehesa de Don Pedro. Casa La Siesta and Finca La Gloria both ask for three, and Casa La Siesta will run the same hire out to seven nights if you want a proper week of it.

A minimum stay reads like a penalty on a spreadsheet and rarely behaves like one. It is usually the reason these figures include beds and breakfasts at all. But it does mean the entry price of a three-night estate sits structurally above a one-night estate, and lining the two up as though they were the same purchase will send you towards the wrong shortlist.

How late the music runs

Three of the eight put this in writing. Cortijo Los Agustinos has no curfew and allows music until 6am. La Dehesa de Don Pedro carries no curfew and no music curfew, and its glass pavilion exists precisely so the late hours have somewhere to go. Hotel Fuente del Sol states no music curfew, which for a two-night takeover of a 19-room hotel is a meaningful thing to have in writing.

The remaining five say nothing either way in their records. That is not a no, it is an unanswered question, and it is a cheap one to ask early. A midnight stop does not delete the rest of the night; it relocates it, with transport and a second bar attached to the move.

Where these estates actually are

Most of this collection sits in the west, in the country behind Cádiz. Casa La Siesta is outside Vejer de la Frontera, a 15-minute drive from El Palmar beach. Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo is above Bolonia, looking across the Strait of Gibraltar towards Africa, an hour from Jerez and two from Málaga. Cortijo Roman is in the Alcornocales foothills at Jimena de la Frontera, around 40km from Gibraltar Airport. Finca La Gloria is inland at San Martín del Tesorillo, 45km from Gibraltar and 125km from Málaga, with the coast twenty minutes away. Cortijo Los Agustinos is 44km from Jerez, an hour from Seville and 40 minutes from Cádiz.

Two sit further out. Hotel Fuente del Sol is inland at Antequera, roughly 75km from Málaga Airport, with Granada, Córdoba and Seville each about an hour and a half away — genuinely the easiest of the eight for guests arriving from different directions. La Dehesa de Don Pedro is the outlier: a 550-hectare dehesa of holm oaks at Monesterio, over the regional boundary in Extremadura and 99km from Seville Airport. Couples who start out looking at Seville tend to end up considering it, which is why it belongs in this comparison.

Marrying legally on the estate

Three of the eight hold a marriage licence: Casa La Siesta, Cortijo Roman and Finca La Gloria. At Cortijo Roman the ceremony space is the cloister courtyard at the centre of the buildings, facing the village and its Moorish castle. Casa La Siesta offers its gardens, El Palmar beach 15 minutes away, or two churches nearby for a religious service.

At the others the records do not claim a licence, and the usual pattern applies — the legal paperwork is done separately and the ceremony your guests fly out for happens on the estate. It changes the admin, not the day, but it needs deciding before deposits move.

Three shapes an Andalusian wedding takes

Everyone in one house, 20 to 40 people

Finca La Donaira, an organic farm and equestrian retreat in 700 hectares near Ronda, caps weddings at 80 and sleeps 20 across nine rooms. Its €37,000 covers two nights for those 20 with food and drink, 24-hour use of the spring-fed outdoor pool and the indoor spa — lap pool, steam bath, wood-fired sauna and ice plunge — and vows under a 900-year-old oak. Casa La Siesta does the same job on the coast side: €19,000, three nights, two pools, sleeping 25, with in-house catering at €125 a head and breakfasts for the party included.

Around a hundred guests over a weekend

Finca La Gloria's fixed €7,500 venue fee holds for groups up to 100, with the rest of the cost falling on the three-night stay and the €160 menus. Hotel Fuente del Sol works between 40 and 90 across a central garden, an Andalusian courtyard and an event hall, with three outdoor ceremony sites including a lakeside clearing under a single holm oak and the old threshing floor above the Guadalhorce Valley. Cortijo Roman's package is written for 120. All three keep a wedding of that size on one site and one invoice.

A large celebration, or a long one

Cortijo Los Agustinos holds up to 500 across three combinable spaces, has no curfew, and comes with an equestrian centre stabling up to 20 horses and two riding arenas. La Dehesa de Don Pedro runs from 40 to 300 guests with private access to every space on 550 hectares, and star gazing, bike routes and riding on the estate for the days either side. Love Garden – Finca El Cañuelo can hold up to 350 within its megaliths and pine forest, though its published tiers stop at 100 guests across the Monolith and the main garden — beyond that the figure is quoted case by case, and its 5,000 square metre garden is the reason couples take it anyway.

Where the money moves furthest

The season. La Dehesa de Don Pedro's €9,500 is explicitly a low season rate, and it is the clearest evidence in our southern collection that the calendar is the largest lever you hold. Moving a wedding a few weeks costs the wedding nothing.

Matching beds to your inner circle. The estates that sleep 11 or 14 or 15 are not smaller weddings — they are weddings where a handful of people stay and everyone else travels in. If the whole party staying together is what you actually want, that narrows eight venues to three or four very quickly, and it is a better first filter than price.

Reading the scope, not the number. €5,400 buys an estate. €25,000 at Cortijo Roman buys a wedding with the photographer and the flowers already in it. Both are honest prices. Comparing them without reading what is inside each is how couples end up believing southern Spain is either much cheaper or much dearer than it is.

When you want to see them against each other, the full collection of Andalusian wedding venues holds every figure quoted here beside the property it belongs to, and the wider Spanish venue directory covers the rest of the country when you want a comparison further north.