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The Best Season for a Buenos Aires Elopement

Southern Hemisphere seasons, with the purple jacaranda spring and the golden autumn as the two most beautiful windows in a temperate European-style city.

You plan Buenos Aires for your summer and arrive in its winter.

The Southern Hemisphere flips the calendar, and the two loveliest windows are the shoulders.

Buenos Aires is a temperate European city with four real seasons, and its spring and autumn are the ones worth planning around.

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Couple walking along a golden tree-lined avenue in autumn in Buenos Aires
Photograph — Buenos Aires · the picture moves
Readers are advised the subjects may wander out of frame.
Spring and autumn

Spring, October and November, brings the jacaranda bloom that turns whole avenues purple, the single most spectacular window in the city. Autumn, April and May, brings golden light and turning leaves in the parks and the leafy Recoleta streets, warm and mild.

Couple beneath purple jacaranda blossoms on a Buenos Aires avenue in spring
Spring, October and November, brings the jacaranda bloom that turns whole avenues purple, the most spectacular window in the city. Autumn brings golden light and turning leaves in the leafy Recoleta streets. — stationary
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Spring and autumn

Couple beneath purple jacaranda blossoms on a Buenos Aires avenue in spring
Spring, October and November, brings the jacaranda bloom that turns whole avenues purple, the most spectacular window in the city. Autumn brings golden light and turning leaves in the leafy Recoleta streets. — stationary

Spring, October and November, brings the jacaranda bloom that turns whole avenues purple, the single most spectacular window in the city. Autumn, April and May, brings golden light and turning leaves in the parks and the leafy Recoleta streets, warm and mild.

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Summer and winter

Summer, December to February, is hot and humid and quieter as locals leave for the coast. Winter, June to August, is mild and grey, rarely freezing, with atmospheric light and the fewest crowds, an underrated window for the European-feeling streets.

Pick the season for the frame you want, then hand me the date. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day around the light, coordinate the symbolic ceremony and vendors, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the jacaranda spring is the one I recommend most.

Let the Elopement Compass match your season to your day →

Couple on a golden autumn Buenos Aires boulevard with turning leaves
Autumn brings golden light and turning leaves to the parks and Recoleta. Winter is mild and grey with atmospheric light and the fewest crowds, underrated for the European-feeling streets. — stationary
Page twelve — Classified dispatches
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