The Best Wedding Venues in Paphos: A Photographer’s Guide

The venue is the biggest single decision in planning a Paphos wedding — it sets the look of the photographs, the flow of the day, and most of the budget. This guide covers seven venues we photograph regularly, what each one is actually like to get married at, and the kind of wedding each one suits.

These are not paid placements and the venues have not reviewed this guide. It is simply how each one works from behind the camera.

Liopetro — Kouklia

A stone wedding venue in the village of Kouklia, a short drive east of Paphos. Stone walls, timber, open courtyards, and Mediterranean views — with a stone reception barn for the evening and neighbouring ruins and a small chapel that come into their own for sunset portraits.

Liopetro is as well known for its food as its setting. It hosts only one wedding a day and puts serious weight behind the catering, with fine-dining wedding menus that make the sit-down dinner a real part of the day rather than an afterthought.

The stone holds light beautifully through the day, which is why so many Liopetro portraits are made in the last hour before dark. It suits couples who want a rustic, characterful day — and a proper dinner — in one place from morning prep through to the dance floor.

Ktima Alassos

An exclusive private wedding venue on the road between Paphos and Coral Bay, set right beside the sea. Alassos is built around its ceremony — a long grassy walkway edged with banana trees leads down to a ceremony area at the water’s edge, with the open Mediterranean directly behind you. It is one of the standout ceremony settings on this coast.

Booked for a single wedding a day and yours exclusively into the night, it suits couples who want a private, sea-facing ceremony with a genuine sense of arrival down that aisle.

Coral Residences — Coral Bay

A purpose-built events venue by the beach near Coral Bay, and one of the only private venues in Paphos with direct access to its own stretch of sandy beach. The ceremony can take place on the sand itself or on the elegant deck under the trees, and dinner moves into a contemporary clubhouse whose glass walls roll back to open the room onto uninterrupted sea views.

With one wedding a day and the beach right there for golden hour, it suits couples who want a genuine beach wedding in a polished, modern setting. The walk down to the sand at sunset is the highlight of the coverage almost every time.

Minthis — Tsada

A hillside resort in Tsada, in the hills above Paphos. Minthis pairs monastery stone with contemporary architectural lines, elevated views, and a polished reception setting — a quieter, more design-led alternative to the coastal resorts.

It suits elegant weddings where the couple cares about architecture and a refined evening. The elevation gives the portraits a spacious, editorial quality that is hard to find at sea level.

Aphrodite Hills — Kouklia

One of the largest and most-booked destination wedding resorts in Cyprus, set above the coast at Kouklia. There are multiple ceremony locations on one site — the Olive Tree, the Retreat lawn, Kamares Village, and the resort terrace — plus golf-course and sea-view portrait locations, and reception spaces that run from intimate dinners to ballroom scale.

It suits bigger guest lists and couples who want everything — accommodation, ceremony, reception, and photographs — handled on one site without transport between locations.

Anassa & Almyra — the luxury hotels

Anassa is a five-star resort on the coast at Polis, around 50 minutes from Paphos. It is built like a traditional Cypriot village rolling down to a private beach, with whitewashed walls, stone archways, chapel-style ceremony spaces, and the Akamas peninsula as the backdrop. Most couples and their guests stay on-site, and Latchi harbour is 15 minutes away for additional portrait locations.

Almyra is a contemporary boutique hotel in central Paphos. Its roof terrace ceremony spot is one of the most distinctive in Cyprus — ocean horizon, clean architectural lines, full sea breeze — with a seafront location for larger weddings. Being central also means Paphos harbour and the old town are within walking distance for portraits.

Both suit couples who want five-star polish. Anassa leans secluded and timeless; Almyra leans modern and central.

How to choose between them

Start with the kind of day you want rather than the venue itself. A beach or seafront ceremony points to Coral Residences, Alassos, or Anassa. Rustic stone, a standout dinner, and a barn reception points to Liopetro. A large guest list with everything on one site points to Aphrodite Hills. A design-led, architectural day points to Minthis or Almyra.

Whichever direction you take, two practical notes apply across all of them: the popular venues book out 12 to 18 months ahead for May, June, September, and October; and the ceremony time matters more to the photographs than the venue does — a 4pm or 5pm ceremony lets the day stretch naturally into golden hour, which is when every venue on this list looks its best.