The city you fell for, at the hour it looks its best.
You choose the spot. We handle the light, the permits and everything in between.
A proposal in San Sebastián lives or dies on timing. The light on La Concha turns for about twenty minutes; the Ayuntamiento takes around three weeks to clear a public space; the good tables on the Zurriola side book out by Thursday in summer.
Because we plan weddings across Gipuzkoa all year, none of that is research for us. We know which terrace is empty on a Tuesday, which viewpoint faces the sunset in May, and which photographer can work in the old town without being noticed.
Plenty of places are beautiful. San Sebastián is beautiful, walkable and built for the evening after the question.
Palace gardens, a city beach, a medieval old town and a hilltop over the bay all sit inside one small city. The proposal, the photographs and the celebration can happen in three different places in a single evening without anyone looking at a watch.
San Sebastián is one of the most famous food cities in the world — Michelin-starred tasting menus, cider houses, pintxo bars that have been pouring for a century. We book the table that fits the two of you, so the first dinner as an engaged couple is as good as the moment.
Our studio has been in San Sebastián since 2011. Permits, supplier favours, which terrace is quiet on which day — it is the knowledge you cannot get from a guidebook, and it is what keeps a surprise a surprise.
Biarritz is forty-five minutes up the coast. Couples often fly into one and celebrate in the other — we plan both sides of the border as one trip, with one planner.
A starting point, not a menu — the setting is chosen after we know your story, not before.
Queen María Cristina’s summer palace, its gardens open to the bay. Private terraces, clipped hedges, the sea behind every photograph.
Moneo’s glass cubes and the open Zurriola beach — modern, graphic, and quiet early in the day before the surfers arrive.
Narrow stone streets, the fishing harbour, a balcony over the water. Intimate, lived-in, unmistakably Donostia.
Proposals is the private-moments studio of 20eventos, the wedding planning house Leire Ibáñez founded in San Sebastián in 2011. The same suppliers, the same standard — applied to ten minutes instead of a whole day.
You work with a planner who lives here, not a coordinator flown in for the date. That is the difference between a nice photo and a moment that feels like it belongs to the two of you.
A video call at a time that suits your time zone. You tell us your story, your dates and any place that already means something; we tell you honestly what the city looks like that week.
We visit the shortlisted settings at the hour you would propose and send you photos and video, so you choose from what is really there — not from a postcard.
On the day you only have to be there. We brief the photographer, set up and clear away unseen, and have the dinner booked for afterwards.
From a quiet moment above the bay to a fully designed evening in palace gardens — every package includes local scouting and a planned rain alternative.
For an intimate proposal, beautifully planned.
Our complete proposal experience, from concept to the moment itself.
A fully bespoke proposal experience, elevated in every detail.
For a simple proposal — just the two of you, nothing set up — no. The moment you bring in furniture, flowers, a musician or a photographer’s rig on municipal ground (the La Concha promenade, the old town, Monte Igueldo), the Ayuntamiento de Donostia requires an occupation permit. We apply for it and allow about three weeks. Miramar’s gardens and private venues have their own process, which we also handle.
There is no single answer — it depends on your story and the season. Miramar for something formal with the bay behind it; the old town for something intimate; La Concha for the classic postcard; Monte Igueldo for space and drama. On the discovery call we match the setting to you, not the other way round.
That is usually the best version. A bar in the Parte Vieja where you had your first pintxo, a bench on the paseo, a spot on Zurriola — tell us, and we build the proposal around it and make it look effortless.
May, June and September give you long light and mild weather without the August crowds. Winter proposals work beautifully indoors or at blue hour — the city is quiet and the light is soft. We tell you honestly what a given week is likely to look like.
Sunset on the La Concha side, sunrise on the Zurriola side — that is the short version. Sunrise also means an empty promenade and no crowd to manage, which some couples prefer. We plan the exact minute around the setting.
Every proposal we produce includes a fully planned indoor alternative that is designed to be as good as the original, not a fallback.
Tell us who you are, where you are dreaming of, and roughly when. We reply to every inquiry personally within two working days.
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