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  • Spanish Weddings
    J jsantander

    No bullfight for a wedding. Although there might be a small chance of a "capea", certainly not in the wedding day, but in preceding days (e.g. a long weekend where people are joining for several days) or as a stag&hen outing. Never been to, but a "capea" is basically an outdoor party where the participants get bumped and trampled by a (fortunately) very much scaled down version of a real bull, being still painful enough.

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  • Spanish Weddings
    J jsantander

    really? Anyway, as Spaniard and married I can probably provide some details on what that means. 1.- Names: You know, we Spaniards have always two surnames (typically first surname is the father's first surname, second is the mother's first surname, legislation has changed recently allowing more freedom at the time of registration). There's a big article at the wikipedia: Spanish naming customs[^, but the above will probably suffice. Frequent surnames: García, Fernández, Sánchez, González, López, Rodríguez Frequent names for a woman: María (a safe bet) [note: beware of placing the acute accents at the correct place, also -ez termination in some surnames, no -es (that would be Portuguese or Hispanoamerican)] The Spanish National Statistics Institue provides access to the frequency of names and surnames at http://www.ine.es/en/daco/daco42/nombyapel/nombyapel_en.htm[^], so you can get a common enough name. 2.- Location: Feel free to go to google maps. Take a starting place, then look for a church. Marbella is the capital of Costa del Sol. If you want to have something less typical (far from foreigners), try somewhere in Castilla y León (León, Burgos, Segovia) or perhaps Asturias (Oviedo, Luarca) or you might want to get lost in busyness of Madrid. If your choice is Cataluña or Euskadi, surnames might change, but the INE page will allow to select statistics by province. I'd look for a small chapel. Not the cathedral or a famous church as it would be more difficult to book 3.- Date: Typically Saturday and typically mid afternoon. 4.- Other details: If it is a religious ceremony it will be in a church or a chapel (never at the celebration place). If it is a civil ceremony it will at the town council or (in some cases) at the celebration place. The bride is delivered by the marriage godfather, typically her father (or other man of her choice if the father is not alive). There are no maid-of-honors. The groom is delivered by his marriage godmother, typically his mother (or other woman of his choice). There's no bestman. The groom will wait for the bride. Everyone should wait for the bride inside and she should arrive slightly late (to

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