How to get to Castiello de Selorio: parking and photos of the estate

You get to Castiello de Selorio, in Asturias, by car, and the estate has its own car park. The estate lists the car park among its wedding spaces, alongside the garden area, the terrace, the marquee and the banqueting halls. The simplest way to see the estate before deciding is to look at photos of a real wedding held there. They show the gardens where the civil ceremony took place, surrounded by the greenery typical of the north, and the indoor hall where the banquet is served, decorated with plant motifs. One detail often goes unnoticed: the estate also offers a transport service. With weddings of between 120 and 240 guests, it is worth asking about it before assuming that each family will come in its own car. The questions that matter are how many cars fit, whether there are spaces reserved for the couple and whether the transport can pick guests up at a set point.

Confirm parking and transport

Arrivals are planned weeks in advance. The first step is to speak to the estate and confirm the parking. Knowing there is a car park is not enough: you need to know how many spaces it has and whether there are enough for the guest list. A wedding of 120 people and one of 240 do not need the same thing. If the spaces look tight, that is the time to ask about the transport the estate includes among its services, and to check whether it covers the journey there, the journey back or both. Many weddings run into trouble because nobody thought about the journey home: the open bar is included in the menu, and not everyone should be driving at the end of the night.

Tell guests in good time

Next comes the information for guests. You need a clear message, sent in good time, that tells them where to park, what time they should arrive and whether there is a coach or any other transport. If guests get it late or with vague details, many arrive in a rush, and it shows at the ceremony.

On the day: arrive with time to spare

Then comes the day itself. The civil ceremony can be held in the gardens, so guests should arrive with time to spare, so they can park without rushing and take their seats before it begins. What usually goes wrong here is the timing: if the journey is planned too tightly, the last cars arrive after the ceremony has already started.

Photos: talk through the spaces

The photos deserve a conversation of their own. The estate offers outdoor and indoor spaces for the different moments of the celebration: the drinks reception in the gardens and the banquet in the hall. Before the wedding, the photographer and the estate should talk about those spaces and the order of the day. If the photographer knows the venue, they know where to be at each moment without getting in anyone's way. If not, a visit beforehand or a conversation with the estate saves them from having to improvise.

See the estate at a real wedding

To see what the estate looks like at a real wedding, the most useful reference is the gallery from Paula and Rutger's wedding at Castiello de Selorio. Those photos show only part of the celebration, as it happened. Even so, they give an accurate idea of the gardens, the greenery around them and the atmosphere in the hall. For anyone who has never been there, they are more useful than any description.

Capacity, prices and next step

The estate takes weddings of 120 to 240 guests, and its menus cost between 148 and 250 euros per guest. With that information and the photos from a real wedding, a couple can already tell whether the venue suits them. The next step is to write to the estate to ask about parking and transport, and to arrange a visit. If you are also looking for a wedding photographer in Asturias who already knows Castiello de Selorio, Paula and Rutger's gallery shows how they work in those gardens and in that hall.