Raquel & Manu – Wedding at Finca Espanta Rodrigo, Jerez de la Frontera

Raquel and Manu married on a bright November day at Finca Espanta Rodrigo – Cortijo de Terry, an old cortijo in Jerez de la Frontera, with a coat of arms over a green door and a courtyard set with wooden chairs, pampas grass and dried flowers. A page boy came in first with a sign announcing the groom.

Manu walked in on his mother’s arm. Raquel arrived by car with her father, in a high-neck dress with a cape and a bouquet of deep red roses.

The ceremony was in the courtyard itself, led by their friends at a microphone. There were readings, a few tears and plenty of laughter, and the first kiss came under white drapes and lanterns. They left through the arch in a cloud of paper petals and went straight into a dance with their friends under the palm trees.

At sunset we took them out to the fields around the cortijo, to a wooden fence and a country lane, while the light turned gold. Before the wedding we had already photographed them among the white streets of Vejer de la Frontera, in their pre-wedding session.

The party had a live band, a “Better Together” neon sign and a packed dance floor. Later Raquel put on sunglasses and opened a pair of LED wings.