Budget & Costs · 8 min
How much does a wedding at Can Riera de la Pineda cost?
Can Riera de la Pineda prices a wedding from €9,500, and the figure is a weekend rather than a day: two nights for 18 in a restored villa inside a natural park, use of the house for the wedding itself and a three-hour open bar. Food is not in it. This guide takes the record apart line by line, spreads the hire across different guest lists, and puts the villa beside four other Barcelona-region houses whose price also carries the nights.
Published 25 October 2026 · Every figure from the venues' own published records
What €9,500 buys
Can Riera de la Pineda is a restored stone villa standing on its own inside a natural park, 2km from the village of Arbúcies in the hills between Barcelona and Girona. The venue's published from-price is €9,500 for the 2027 to 2028 season, and the note attached to that figure says it includes a two-night stay for 18. The venue's own summary of the package goes further than the note: exclusive use of the villa for the two nights, use of the house and grounds for a wedding of up to 100 guests on the day itself, a three-hour open bar for those 100 guests, and an on-site team to run things. Read that way, the price is closer to a small all-inclusive weekend than to a bare venue hire, with the single large exception of the food.
Exclusivity here means what it says. There are no neighbours, no curfew and no music curfew, so the one restriction most Catalan estates put on a party, a cut-off hour for amplified music, does not apply. The house takes a Friday-to-Sunday booking by default, which is why the venue talks about the weekend rather than the Saturday as the thing you are buying.
What stays outside it
The record publishes no per-head catering figure and no per-head drinks figure. The venue lists recommended caterers among its features rather than an in-house kitchen, so the wedding breakfast is quoted by whichever caterer you choose and sits entirely outside the €9,500. The open bar covers three hours; whatever the bar pours beyond that window, and the wine on the tables through dinner, is a conversation with the venue and the caterer. Beds beyond 18 are also outside the price, as is any third night, and the venue keeps a hotel recommendation list for the guests who sleep in Arbúcies or further down the valley.
One line in the record needs an answer before you plan around it. The package wording covers up to 100 guests on the day, while the venue's stated capacity for both ceremony and reception runs from 10 to 350. If your list is above 100, ask how the venue prices the extra guests and the bar for them, because the published figure is written around a wedding of 100.
The hire spread across the guest list
With no catering figure to add, the useful calculation is simpler than usual: divide the hire by the number of people it is serving. The rows below do that for the 18 who sleep in the house, for a mid-sized list of 50, and for the 100 the package is written for. The food is not in any of them.
The per-head figure falls fast as the list fills, which is the usual pattern for a venue that charges one fixed sum for the weekend. At 18 guests you are paying for a private house and a pool as much as for a wedding; at 100 the hire has become a modest share of what each guest costs once a caterer's quote is added. A caterer's price per head in this region tends to be the bigger of the two lines at the larger counts, so get the quote before you settle the list.
Beds, nights and the shape of the weekend
The villa sleeps 18 and the minimum stay is two nights, so the booking the venue has in mind is arrival on Friday, the wedding on Saturday and departure on Sunday. The 18 beds go to the couple, parents and the people who need to be on site early, and the rest of the list stays in Arbúcies 2km down the road or in the towns towards Girona. The venue flags that local accommodation is nearby and keeps a hotel list to hand, so the overflow has been solved many times before.
Outside the house there is a large swimming pool with an outdoor shower, gardens and a barbecue area, which is what the Friday evening and the Sunday morning are for. The venue is child friendly and takes pets, and the on-site team can set up wine tasting, trekking, cooking classes and horse riding for guests who want the days either side filled. For couples weighing a longer celebration against a single evening, the guide to three-day wedding weekend venues in Spain compares the estates that are built around a stay.
The forest ceremony and the paperwork
The one ceremony setting the venue names is the forest, and its suggested timetable puts the vows at 11:30am with aperitifs in front of the house afterwards, which leaves a long afternoon before dinner. The record does not list the villa as licensed for marriage, so plan on a symbolic or celebrant-led ceremony under the trees with the legal paperwork done at home. That is the route most foreign couples take in Spain in any case, licence or no licence, and our guide to getting married in Spain sets out why and what the alternatives are.
Arbúcies, Girona and the drive
By straight line the nearest airport is Girona (GRO), about 21 km away. By road the venue puts Girona Airport at 38km and Barcelona at 75km, so the choice is between a smaller airport close by and a larger one with more routes a longer drive to the south. The village of Arbúcies is 2km from the gate. The house has car parking and disabled access, and because it stands alone inside the park the last stretch of the journey is quiet rather than complicated.
Four other houses near Barcelona that price the nights in
The villa's pricing model, a fixed sum that carries two nights and a set number of beds, is common across the region's masías and country houses. The four below use it at lower starting figures, and comparing them shows what Can Riera's €9,500 is paying for.
La Selva del Camp · Barcelona
Mas del Sordup to 100 guests · sleeps 30 · 2-night minimum · from €8,000
Capellades · Barcelona
Masia Font de la Reinaup to 300 guests · sleeps 25 · 2-night minimum · from €3,000 · catering €122 a head
Mas del Sord publishes €8,000 with two nights for 30, so more beds for less money, but its capacity stops at 100 guests. Mas Bosc is €6,500 with two nights for 20 and takes 180. Masia Can Ramonet, by the coast at Sitges, is €5,000 with two nights for 30, sleeps 40 across the estate and takes 200 on the day. Masia Font de la Reina is the lowest at €3,000 with two nights for 25, caters in-house from €122 a head and takes 300. None of the four publishes an open bar inside its hire, and none stands alone inside a natural park with no curfew of any kind, which is where the gap in price goes.
For the region as a whole, the Barcelona wedding cost guide works through every published figure near the city, and venues by budget sorts the collection into price bands. The budget calculator will add a caterer's quote, drinks and suppliers to the hire at your own guest count.
Who it suits
Can Riera de la Pineda suits a couple who want a weekend rather than a day, a list of around 100, and a party with no fixed end. The open bar inside the price, the no-curfew rule and the forest ceremony all point the same way: a relaxed, late, outdoor wedding with the house as the base for two nights. It suits a very small list less well, since 18 people would be carrying the full hire between them, and the intimate venues guide lists houses priced for that. If a bed for everyone matters more than the park, the guide to venues with accommodation covers the estates that sleep more. The full collection sets every published figure side by side, and sending an enquiry through us is free and carries no obligation.
Questions couples ask us
How much does a wedding at Can Riera de la Pineda cost?
The venue publishes a from-price of €9,500 for the 2027 to 2028 season. That figure covers two nights for 18 in the villa, use of the house for a wedding of up to 100 guests on the day, and a three-hour open bar. Catering is not included and is quoted by the caterer you choose.
Does the price include food?
No. The record lists recommended caterers rather than an in-house kitchen, and no per-head catering or drinks figure is published. Budget the wedding breakfast and any bar beyond the three hours in the package as separate lines on top of the €9,500.
How many guests can stay at the villa?
The house sleeps 18 and the minimum stay is two nights. The venue lists nearby local accommodation and keeps a hotel recommendation list for everyone else, with the village of Arbúcies 2km away.
Is there a curfew at Can Riera de la Pineda?
No. The venue states full exclusivity with no neighbours, no curfew and no music curfew, so the party is not cut off at a fixed hour.
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