Ever dream of getting married on a Spanish olive farm? (YOU WILL NOW!)

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Offbeat partners: Julie, she/her & Thomas, he/him

Date and location: 8/23/2025 at Maset Antonia, El Perelló, Tarragona, Spain

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Our colorful, experiential wedding on Spanish olive farm wedding at a glance:

We fulfilled a lifelong dream last year of buying an olive farm in Spain, and our wedding was about celebrating and sharing this beautiful life we're building and this special place with our friends. I'm an experience designer for weddings, so every single detail was designed for the guest experience.

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We wanted them to feel at ease, loved, rooted, present, and connected, so every detail supported this including unique ways that we engaged guests from magnetic poetry at the cocktail hour (which will be turned into a poetry book sent to guests as a thank you gift), Mad Libs-style wedding toasts, a song exchange where guests chose another guest secret-santa-style and had to dedicate a song to them by the end of the weekend based on getting to know them (the full playlist of songs was shared with all the guests as well), and guests were each “gifted” a tree on the olive farm to adopt and name.

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There were also tons of sensory details carried throughout like fig-scented candles sent to guests ahead of the wedding to build anticipation since the wedding was during the Catalonian fig season. We are also both neurodivergent and threw a very calm, intimate wedding that was super introvert- and sensory-friendly. It was honestly perfect.

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Tell us about the ceremony:

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Our ceremony was in front of a magical 1000-year-old olive tree. Our amazing celebrant Amanda O'Shea really helped us craft a ceremony that was super personal and meaningful.

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My daughters walked me down the aisle (and since I have ADHD of course I forgot my bouquet).

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We wrote our own vows, and my daughter did a reading that honestly acknowledged the challenges of long term love, and I wrote the following paragraph for our celebrant to read to our guests:

Our society tends to center romantic relationships, and while I don’t want to take away from the gravity and magic of the partnership and commitment we are celebrating today, it’s important to acknowledge all of the relationships that make up a life. There are no ceremonies to signify our commitment to our friendships, or publicly declared vows to our children, but over the course of a lifetime these relationships are no less meaningful or significant than this one.

While Julie and Thomas know for sure that they want to journey through life together, they are not the only person they want to do life with. And so while their commitment to one another is the catalyst for us all being here today, I want to take this opportunity to celebrate all love, and all of their companions on this journey. Their family, friends, and kids. Everyone here today is integral to their life, and of course there are some people who aren’t here as well who are equally important, which is a reminder that no matter how far spread your loved ones are across the globe, or even if they have passed on, that love and community transcend distance.

We did a community vow where we committed to always being a safe harbor for everyone in our lives, and a vow to my daughters to support their adventures and always be a safe place to return to. My husband's vows also included a promise to always be there for my daughters and that really touched me. It was all very moving, honest, and meaningful. It ended with olive leaf confetti as the sun began to set. There were lots of tears.

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Tell us about the colorful, experiential wedding on Spanish olive farm reception:

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We had a little sunset ritual where we gave a toast between some trees just as the sun was setting and as the music swelled at the most moving part, we created a little magic by secretly turning on remote controlled firefly lights in the trees. It created a little moment of collective awe.

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Then everyone chose a stone out of a bag with a number on it, and that was their olive tree on our farm that they got to adopt and name. They got little certificates and photos of their trees and they all had to find them on the map of the farm.

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Then we had slow dinner under the olive trees, paella prepared over a fire, and we had mad-libs style toasts so everyone got to give a funny toast, many which turned into genuine toasts. After dinner we returned to the cocktail area where we had an olive-shaped piñata filled with treats and little love notes and we finished the night drinking and laughing under the stars.

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I also made a photo scavenger hunt for my youngest daughter (7) so she had to get every guest to do something silly and that was a lot of fun. We also had gift bags with local treats. El Perelló is the honey capital of Catalonia, so lots of honey and of course olive oil.

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What was the most important lesson you learned from your wedding?

My biggest worries turned out the be the smallest issues. I was really worried about the August heat in Spain, though the weather was perfectly pleasant for summer, and I thought the mosquitoes would be terrible but we got a Thermacel and some incense and they really weren't an issue at all. We provided water mist, fans, and insect repellent in the gift bags, but barely needed them.

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But because I was so worried about the heat I pushed the timeline back as far into the evening as possible and that meant we were rushing against the sunset and we ran out of light early into the wedding, which I regret for photos. If I had it to do over I would've started it an hour and a half earlier so we had more daylight photo time, but I wanted guests to be comfortable.

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I also hadn't considered that it was a new moon, actually a rare black moon, and the farm is remote so it was DARK. We had lots of string lights and a lighted pathway, and in the end it was fine because the stars provided an incredible backdrop, but a full moon would've been perfect. I should have checked this when we picked the date.

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Also to save money I took a floral course to do my own flowers, and I loved them, but it added a lot of stress to the week of the wedding. One other regret is that I had the rsvp deadline too late to invite anyone else and we had a lot of last minute declines. I hadn't invited enough of a buffer initially because we were worried about it being to big. But we ended up happy it was so small.