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jsantander1-Jul-15 4:03
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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 make sure everyone is inside).

In a catholic ceremony, the sacrament of marriage is in the middle of the mass, after the , the couple exchange the rings (that will be worn in the middle finger of the right hand) and the arras (thirteen coins, could be any coin or they could have some personal significance) in representation of the things they are going to share. (BTW, no-one asks if there's any impediment).

At the end of the ceremony, The couple, the godfather, godmother and some witnesses (e.g. some close friends to the couple) will sign the marriage document.

At end, the now married couple will go out together. Typically they are thrown rice (that represents fertility) (although this is being replaced in recent years with flower petals). If you set the wedding in Valencia there will be an enormous and very noisy amount of fireworks.

For the married couple is the time to go to be photographed, for the rest of the people to go to the place of celebration. If it is far or inconvenient to go, there might be buses hired to transport the guests.

The dinner will have three or four courses with previous cocktail while waiting for the couple to arrive. There will be wedding cake that the couple will cut (formally, cutting one piece is enough).

Usually there will be a central table where the married couple will sit, together with their parents (godmother/godfather)

Finally there will be a ball/disco, usually started with a waltz that the married couple will open and then followed by the godmother and godfather.
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