A historical building, located in a car free historical city centre, only few meters from the sea, the open atrium, getting married under the blue sky... these are the ingredients for an elegant wedding ceremony in Dubrovnik.

Dubrovnik Sponza Palace wedding

The Atrium of the palace is divinely formed with an arched gallery spreading all around. This gallery has been incorporated in many weddings to for example have a private photoshooting or to throw the bouquet off down in the wedding crowd.
Today the Atrium of the Sponza palace is an art gallery always exhibiting some interesting works from international artists.


Location: Dubrovnik old town , Croatia
Setting: Seaside || View: none
Sleeps: none
Pricerange: rented per event per day

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This Palace can be used for wedding ceremonies and / or wedding dinners. When you combine the ceremony and the wedding dinner here, we organise the wedding day schedule in such a way that you have a seaside drinks reception, during which we can set up the palace for the evening.

We include the complete palace decoration in our prices, no need to worry about high flower or other unforseen costs. You know the exact cost of a sponza palace ceremony before booking.


This is one of the most attractive buildings in Dubrovnik with graceful arcades, intricate tracery on tall gothic windows on the floor above and square windows on the top storey. This was the Republic's custom house and later served as the mint. It was built in the period 1515-1522, in the transitional style from Gothic to Renaissance.


  • General Details


    Boat's dock: less than 2 min. walking
    Dinner capacity: max. 100 guests
    Ceremony capacity: min. 10 guests
    Drinks reception: possible

  • Ceremony set up


    Chairs with chaircovers
    Ceremony table with flowers
    Silk flowers for the pew ends
    Coloured or white organza and silk sashes
    Aisle runner: red or white
    Flowers and colours used depend on your choice
  • Dinner set up


    Round tables or one imperial table
    Chairs with chaircovers
    White table linen
    Silver candellabra's for 5 candles
    Coloured sashes optional

This Palace has an open atrium, so remember you will be planning for your wedding ceremony in an outdoors location.


The Wedding Ceremony
Set up in classic ceremony-style

This is a large rectangular building with an inner courtyard. As you can see in the images wedding ceremonies take place in the courtyard.



The Wedding Dinner
Set up possibility for wedding dinners

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sponza palace floor plan

Did you know?
Sponza palace has a unique role during the special opening ceremony of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival. Actors inpersonating the Rector and the members of the Council Minor sit on the upper porch of the Sponza palace and greet the actors that have come to the City to entertain and amuse the public with their music shows and theatre plays. After many skill demonstrations by the actors and a long discussion from the side of the council, the ceremony always ends as the Rector grants the actors free access to the City and gives them the keys of the City in order for them to put up their shows and entertain the public.

  • sponza palace location map

Wedding Details

Rental: per event
Catering: licensed caterer
Kitchen Facilities: none
Tables & Chairs, Linens, Silver, etc.: by caterer
Dance Area: yes
Bride’s Dressing Area: no
Outdoor Night Lighting: no
Outdoor Cooking Facilities: none
Cleanup: included
Music: amplified music until 2.00h
Restrictions: no rice, metallic balloons, streamers or confetti
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The moment of the "I do's" at Sponza Palace.

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Wedding groups picture taken from the first floor gallery.

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The monumental Sponza Palace was built in Gothic-Renaissance style, perfectly preserved until today.

Outdoors wedding ceremony in Dubrovnik, Croatia

At the time of the Dubrovnik Republic, the Sponza Palace housed the customs office and storehouses.

Sometimes the wedding officiant also belongs to the wedding party, like here, in this Orthodox ceremony.

Today the Sponza palace is home of the Dubrovnik Archives and many important cultural events take place here every year.

We gratefully "use" the first floor gallery of the Sponza Palace for all wedding photoshootings.



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