Persian Wedding at Convent de Blanes
A Persian wedding at El Convent de Blanes unfolds on a cliff above the sea, where a sixteenth-century monastery looks out over the bay of Blanes and the first light of the Costa Brava. Donna and Michael’s day opened quietly, with bridal makeup and a groom getting ready in separate wings of the old stone building, before a first look brought the two of them together for a few private minutes ahead of the ceremony.
Guests gathered on a stone staircase overlooking the venue’s historic main house for the ceremony itself, while just along the clifftop a sofreh aghd was laid beneath a floral arch facing open water: a traditional Persian spread of candles, sugar cones, and sweets, with bridesmaids in pale yellow holding a canopy of white lace over the couple as they shared their first kiss as a married couple. A live musician accompanied the vows, and the coastal light gave the whole scene a soft, unhurried warmth.
At the reception, a sweetheart table sat beneath the venue’s restored stone walls while a live fire grilling station brought both theatre and flavour to dinner, a detail guests kept talking about long after the plates were cleared. The night moved through a dessert table and cake cutting, a first dance under the open sky, and closed with a sparkler-lit exit that sent the couple off into the dark.
El Convent de Blanes: a clifftop monastery on the Costa Brava
Originally built as a Capuchin monastery in 1583, El Convent de Blanes sits on a cliff at the gateway to the Costa Brava, with gardens that open straight onto the Mediterranean and views across the harbour and the bays beyond. The chapel of Santa Anna offers an intimate setting for a religious ceremony, while the restored banquet hall, with its stone walls and wood-beamed roof, comfortably holds a celebration of up to two hundred guests.
Choosing El Convent de Blanes means choosing history and sea views in equal measure, a rare combination on this stretch of coast north of Barcelona, and flexible enough to hold a Persian ceremony alongside a Western reception without either one feeling like an afterthought.
As a Wedding Planner, Vanessa’s role for Donna and Michael was to let both traditions share the same setting comfortably: the sofreh aghd placed where the sea itself became its backdrop, and a reception that carried the same soft palette through to the last dance. This is exactly the kind of cross-cultural, destination-style celebration her destination weddings service is built for.
If you loved the cultural detail here, you might also enjoy this Persian wedding at Casa Fuster in Barcelona, another celebration that wove tradition into a very different setting.
To see how the ritual works, read our guide to Persian wedding traditions, or explore Persian weddings in Spain.
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And if you’re picturing your own wedding somewhere with this much history and this much sea, Vanessa would love to talk it through with you. Feel free to get in touch, and we can start planning at whatever pace feels right.
