Wedding venues in Israel I have photographed

Choosing a venue usually comes before choosing a photographer, so here is the honest list: every place below is a real wedding we shot from the first look to the last dance — no stock photos, no paid listings. Each card opens the full story with the gallery.

Israel packs very different wedding settings into one small country: open-air beach venues in Caesarea and Ashkelon where the chuppah faces the sunset, Jerusalem restaurants with views over the hills, and wineries in the Binyamin mountains that look like Tuscany. The Hebrew name of every venue is in brackets, so you can show it to a taxi driver or search it in Waze.

We know where the light falls at each of these places at 7 pm in July and at 4:30 pm in December, where to take portraits when the hall is full, and how long the drive between ceremony and venue really takes. New venues appear at the top of this list as we photograph them.