Santorini wedding day timeline
Hour by hour, from getting ready to the last toast — built backwards from sunset.
Guides · planning a Santorini wedding
Santorini Wedding Planning Guides
Twelve practical guides to planning a wedding, elopement or proposal in Santorini — when to come, where on the caldera to hold it, what the law requires, how the wind and the light behave, and how to get guests down to a venue near sea level. Written by the family that runs AION in Fira.
Planning the day
The best month to get married in Santorini
Month-by-month heat, wind, crowds, light and price, with the honest trade-offs.
Santorini sunset times, month by month
When the sun actually sets, and what time your ceremony has to start because of it.
Elopement or micro wedding?
What changes between just the two of you and thirty people who love you.
A Santorini wedding in winter
The off-season, honestly — quiet villages, soft light, early sunsets, same flat rates.
Choosing where
Oia vs Imerovigli vs Fira
The three caldera villages compared for weddings — crowds, access, light and cost.
Getting to your venue in Fira
Cable car, on foot, by donkey or by boat to the old port — with real timings.
Yacht and venue, on the same day
How a caldera cruise fits either side of a ceremony without rushing anyone.
Getting it right on the day
Legal requirements for marrying in Santorini
Civil paperwork, apostilles and timelines — and when a symbolic ceremony is simpler.
Is Santorini windy?
Yes. What the meltemi does to hair, veils, candles and sound — and how to plan for it.
Golden hour photography in Santorini
Why the light here is worth building the whole day around, and when it happens.
How to plan a surprise proposal
Keeping it secret from the airport onwards, step by step.
Still deciding on the venue itself?
These guides are deliberately about Santorini rather than about us. When you want the practical detail on the venue — what it costs, what is included and which evenings we have left — those live on the packages page and in the honest cost guide.