How Much Does a Wedding in Spain Cost in 2027–2028?
A wedding budget becomes useful when you know exactly what it covers. Does the figure include your planner, taxes, transport, and a weather backup? Is it for the wedding day alone, or the whole weekend?
For bespoke celebrations in Barcelona, Costa Brava and Catalonia, Casamiga Weddings currently outlines indicative venue and supplier budgets of €40,000–€50,000 for carefully scoped celebrations, €50,000–€80,000 for greater flexibility, and €80,000+ for larger or more elaborate events. The planning fee and applicable VAT are additional.
These are starting points for a conversation, rather than national averages or fixed packages. Your guest count, venue, date, and priorities determine what your budget can realistically support.
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What Should Your Wedding Budget Include?
Build your budget around the complete celebration, rather than the venue price alone.
For one main wedding day, check:
Venue hire, any minimum spend and required accommodation commitments.
Catering, drinks, service staff and agreed bar hours.
Ceremony arrangements and any separate ceremony location.
Florals, furniture, tableware and other rentals.
Photography and videography.
Music, sound, lighting and technical requirements.
Guest transfers and supplier travel.
Professional planning and wedding-day management.
Applicable VAT and a contingency allowance.
Keep flights, accommodation, outfits, rings, honeymoon expenses and additional celebrations visible in separate lines. If you decide to pay for guests’ rooms or travel, add those commitments to your own budget.
This makes proposals easier to compare and helps you avoid allocating the same money twice.
Wedding in Spain Cost for 100 Guests: A Worked Example
Here is an illustrative way to allocate a €60,000 venue and supplier budget for one wedding day with 100 guests.
This is a budgeting exercise, not a supplier quotation, a venue package, or the recorded cost of a past Casamiga wedding. All amounts below exclude applicable VAT. Professional planning is additional.
Budget category | Illustrative allocation |
Venue hire | €10,000 |
Catering and drinks: 100 guests × €240 | €24,000 |
Florals, styling and additional rentals | €6,000 |
Photography and videography | €5,000 |
Music, sound and lighting | €4,000 |
Group transfers | €2,000 |
Stationery, beauty and smaller event items | €1,500 |
Unallocated contingency | €7,500 |
Venue and supplier budget, including contingency | €60,000 |
Casamiga’s Full Wedding Planning starts from €7,950 + VAT for the agreed scope of one main wedding day.
In this example, adding the starting planning fee produces a preliminary allocation of €67,950 before applicable VAT. A wider planning scope would change that amount.
The example excludes accommodation, flights, outfits, rings, honeymoon travel and welcome or farewell events. It also assumes that venue infrastructure and the weather backup can fit within the allocations shown. A venue requiring substantial additional production would need a revised budget.
The practical question is: can the venue, guest count and experience you want work together within your complete spending limit?
What changes between a €50,000 and an €80,000 wedding budget?
A larger budget gives you more choices, but the result depends on how you use it. More guests, a more expensive venue and an additional hosted event can absorb the difference before you upgrade the design.
Illustrative budget | A useful starting brief | Decisions to resolve first |
€50,000 | One main wedding day, a carefully managed guest list and focused styling | Venue inclusions, catering commitment, planning fee and essential logistics |
€60,000 | A 75-guest wedding-day model, illustrated below | Balance between venue, hospitality, design and production |
€80,000 | More flexibility for your chosen priorities | Decide whether the extra budget supports more guests, a particular venue, enhanced design or additional hospitality |
None of these figures automatically includes a private villa buyout, guest accommodation or a complete wedding weekend. Those commitments need their own scope and budget.
A €60,000 wedding budget example for 75 guests
Imagine a one-day celebration with a symbolic ceremony and reception at the same venue, dinner and drinks for 75 guests, including floral styling, photography and video, and professional planning.
Here is one way to allocate the budget:
Budget category including | Illustrative allocation |
Venue hire | €8,000 |
Catering, drinks and service for 75 guests | €18,000 |
Flowers, styling, furniture and additional rentals | €6,500 |
Photography and video | €5,500 |
Music, sound and lighting | €3,500 |
Wedding-day group transport | €1,800 |
Symbolic ceremony, hair and makeup allowance | €1,700 |
Professional planning and wedding-day management allowance | €10,000 |
Contingency | €5,000 |
Total working budget | €60,000 |
How to read this example: these are target spending allowances, intended to accommodate applicable taxes within the total. They are not supplier prices or a Casamiga package quotation. Every proposal must be checked for its tax treatment, inclusions, and suitability before the allocation can be confirmed.
The catering allowance equals €240 per guest in this model. The total celebration budget equals €800 per guest because it also includes shared costs such as the venue, creative suppliers, and planning. These two figures describe different things.
This example excludes international travel, accommodation, attire, rings, honeymoon, legal or religious ceremony costs, and additional hosted events. A major weather structure, substantial technical installation, or accommodation buyout could require a different budget.
How Guest Numbers Change the Budget
Some expenses rise with each guest: food, drinks, seating, table settings and transport capacity. Others, such as photography or a venue hire fee, may remain similar within the supplier’s agreed scope.
That is why reducing the guest list does not reduce every cost proportionally.
In the example above, 20 additional guests would add €4,800 to the catering allocation alone at the same illustrative €240 rate. Extra rentals, transfers, or staffing could increase the difference further.
If your budget is fixed, decide which matters most before booking: your guest count, a particular venue, the design, or an extended celebration.
Why Venue Hire Is Only Part of the Cost
Compare what each venue provides alongside its hire fee.
One location may include furniture, catering facilities and a suitable indoor alternative. Another may require separate rentals, technical equipment and a more substantial weather plan.
Before committing, establish:
Which spaces and hours are included.
Whether catering or other suppliers must come from an approved list.
What furniture, equipment and staffing are provided.
How the weather backup works and what it costs.
Whether minimum room bookings or food-and-beverage commitments apply.
What access, setup, music and collection restrictions affect the programme.
For a coastal ceremony followed by dinner elsewhere, include the second location and the movement of guests and suppliers between them.
Planning Fees and Wedding Packages: What Is the Difference?
A planning fee pays for the professional work involved in organising and managing your celebration. A wedding package includes a specified combination of services.
Casamiga’s Full Planning service covers the agreed planning, bespoke design, and management scope. Venue hire and supplier services are budgeted separately.
Signature Estate is a separate offer with a defined venue and service package. Its inclusions and exclusions should be compared directly with your plans.
What Changes for a Two- or Three-Day Wedding?
A welcome dinner, wedding day and farewell gathering need separate budgets, even when they form one celebration.
Additional events can involve further venue hire, food and drinks, transport, staffing, production and planning coverage. Accommodation commitments may also affect the overall investment.
Start with three figures:
Your main wedding-day budget.
Your additional-events budget.
Any accommodation or travel costs you will cover.
This helps protect the experience of each event without using money already allocated elsewhere.
Planning Your Wedding in Spain from the USA
Keep your working budget in euros so that it matches the Spanish proposals and payment commitments you receive. Maintain a separate dollar view for your own financial planning, allowing for exchange-rate changes and payment-provider charges.
Before paying a deposit, check the written scope, applicable taxes, payment schedule, and cancellation or postponement terms.
Casamiga’s English-speaking team brings the local planning work together while you take part in online meetings, approve decisions, and shape your celebration from abroad.
See the Experience Behind the Numbers
A budget table helps you understand the structure. Real wedding stories help you assess the team’s work.
Explore Casamiga’s portfolio for celebrations in Spain, then bring the settings, atmosphere, and guest experience you like to your Discovery Call.
Three Questions Before You Set Your Budget
Is a catering price per guest the total wedding cost?
No. It covers the services specified in that catering proposal. Venue hire, planning, photography, styling, entertainment, transport and other requirements may be separate.
Does a wedding budget include VAT?
Check each figure. In this guide, the worked example excludes applicable VAT. Ask for taxes to be clearly identified in every proposal before comparing totals.
Can we use one wedding-day budget for a whole weekend?
Only if every event and its associated costs have been included. Welcome and farewell celebrations require their own scope and allocation.
Let’s Discuss What Your Budget Can Create
Tell us your preferred date or season, estimated guest count, destination, and wedding-day budget. If you are considering additional events, include those plans too.
Choose an available Discovery Call time to discuss your priorities, the planning support you need, and the next steps towards a tailored proposal.
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