Wedding photographer
Barcelona & Costa Brava

Barcelona weddings pull three different crowds. There is the couple getting married in the city itself, at a rooftop venue or a Modernista palace. There is the couple heading up to a Costa Brava masía for a coastal Catalan wedding. And there is the couple flying in from abroad to a private villa somewhere between Sitges and Cadaqués.

All three end up looking at Víctor Lax. So do a fair number of couples getting married in London, Paris or New York, because he flies for weddings and books years in advance.

Barcelona city weddings

City weddings tend to be shorter. Ceremony at a Modernista venue, cocktails on a rooftop, dinner and dancing at a converted industrial space in Poblenou or 22@. The photographer has to move through the city with you, which sounds simple until you realise the transfer between two venues on a Saturday in June can eat forty minutes. Timeline discipline matters here more than in a single-venue wedding.

Costa Brava

The Costa Brava does not photograph like the Mediterranean coast further south. The light is greener and cooler, the pine trees change the colour palette, and the coves have a distinctive turquoise. Photographers who shoot down south can miss this. Víctor grew up shooting Catalan weddings and reads the light of the region without thinking about it.

Language

Ceremonies often mix Catalan, Spanish and English. That is not a problem for photography, but if you have international guests and no interpreter, plan for a printed programme so people know what is happening. This does not sound like a photographer detail, until you realise a confused guest is a guest not reacting on camera.

The people

Catalan weddings run late. Dinner at 22:00, dancing until 04:00 or 05:00. If you are booking a photographer for eight hours because your friend in London did, you will run out of coverage before the dance floor gets interesting. Ten to twelve hours is more honest for this region.