Atzaro: Get married on a 13-hectare orange grove estate in Ibiza

Whitewashed Ibizan farmhouse, kept cool and plain. The ceilings are sabina and olive beams, the walls soft white plaster, the floors warm terracotta. Beds are solid teak four-posters draped in white cotton. Against all that white sits dark carved teak: pergolas, Balinese daybeds, pierced brass lanterns, Rajasthani screens with a little gold. Bougainvillea handles the color, pouring magenta over the porch of the main house. This was a farm long before it was a hotel, and it still looks like one.

The finca at the heart of the estate is more than 300 years old, and the orange farm around it is generations old. For most of that time nobody stayed here. The doors opened to guests in 2004, when this became one of the first agroturismos on Ibiza. The farming never stopped. An ancient well still waters the gardens, more wells were sunk later, and 3,000 orange trees still supply the kitchen and the farm shops down the road.

You're in the green middle of Ibiza's north, near the village of Sant Llorenç, and the switch from the coast is immediate. Santa Eulària is under 7 km away, Sant Joan de Labritja and Sant Carles both under 8. Ibiza Town and the walls of Dalt Vila are 18 km, the airport 25, so guests land and arrive inside the hour. Transfers can be arranged, and there's parking on site. For a Spanish destination wedding, this is the quiet half of the island.

This is a working orange farm of around 3,000 trees, and the fruit goes to farm shops nearby as well as into the kitchen. Past the groves it's pine woods and low wooded hills, rising straight up behind the buildings. There's no sea in sight from the gardens, but the coast is about 20 minutes by car. Aigües Blanques, Es Figueral and Cala Nova sit around 10 km out, Cala Benirràs 11. Those are natural coves rather than resort beaches.

The spa sits among the orange trees in a glass-walled pavilion with shingled treatment cabins of its own. Inside there's a sauna, a hammam and a gym. Outside, a garden sauna, a jacuzzi and a cold plunge under the trees. Yoga, pilates, sound sessions and workshops run daily and come with every room. Four communal pools are spread around the grounds, the famous one being the 43-meter freshwater channel under the palms. Five suites have pools to themselves.

Twenty-four bedrooms and suites, in five grades from double up to deluxe suite. Ten sit in the main house and fourteen on the villa side above the gardens. All have teak four-posters and white cotton, and many add a private garden, terrace or balcony. The five deluxe suites have pools of their own and go by name: Romero, Lavanda, Baladre, Diamante and Turquesa. Breakfast, the spa, the pools and the classes come with every room. Minimum stays apply and run longer in summer, and you can hire the events area without taking rooms at all.

Ceremonies here are symbolic. A legal wedding in Spain needs one of you to be resident, so couples do the paperwork at home and keep the day itself here. You then pick the setting, and the estate will build a ceremony in any of its event areas. Favorites are the Ceremony Garden's long stone aisle, the Olive Garden behind its tall hedges, and the spa pool garden on request. Setup is included: cushioned benches, the aisle carpet, the table, the lectern and the sound. You bring the celebrant, and our planner in Spain books them and holds the timings with the venue.

Drinks come first, in one of three spots: the large terrace garden, the Bubbles Bar among the orange groves, or the hotel pool. That last one asks you to book the fourteen villa bedrooms. Dinner then heads outdoors by default. The Palm Garden is the one built for it, a flagstone courtyard under enormous palms with a timber pergola, a cocktail bar and lights strung overhead. Indoors, the Glass Pavilion seats 225 across 250 square meters. Add the terrace and a second garden and you reach 450. At the other end, the White Temple seats 24 at one long table.

Every plate is Atzaró's own, and there are two kitchens behind it, including a big one built only for events. Produce comes from the estate's three-hectare organic garden or from close by, picked the same morning. A wedding menu runs to ten canapés, then a starter, a main and a dessert, chosen from a card rather than a set list. The canapés are served over an hour and a half. Everyone eats the same menu, with vegetarian mains on that same card and vegan and allergy plates cooked separately. The cava is organic.

Music outdoors runs to 23:00 and sits inside a decibel limit. In practice that means dinner and dancing under the stars rather than an open-air club night. At 23:00 the party moves to the Mini Club, a soundproofed disco beside the lounge, and carries on until 02:00. There's a dance floor outside by the bar as well. Live bands are possible, depending on the size of the rig, though a saxophone isn't allowed in the Mini Club. Fireworks aren't allowed anywhere, for the wildlife's sake. Our fixed-price wedding packages in Spain can fold in the DJ and the sound.

Children of any age are welcome, and this is an easy estate for them. There's a family pool with sun decks, and cots are free. The children's menu is a proper one: a burger, fish and chips or chicken with potatoes, then brownie or ice cream. Babysitters and entertainers can be arranged if you'd like the evening to yourselves. The gardens are big and enclosed, so there's room to run about with no road anywhere near.

Dogs are welcome, and the estate charges nothing for them. That matters more than it sounds for a garden wedding. Every ceremony spot is outdoors, the paths between them are wide, and there's shade almost everywhere. If your dog is coming down the aisle with you, tell us early and we'll sort out where they wait during dinner.

Very little of this is decorative. Two hundred solar panels power the estate, an ancient well supplies its water, and the kitchen's organic waste is composted back into the gardens. The three-hectare vegetable garden feeds both restaurants, and 3,000 orange trees supply the hotel and the farm shops nearby. The gardens grow without chemical pesticides, the cleaning products are biodegradable, and organic waste, paper and glass are all separated. Confetti is fine if it's biodegradable, though petals are what they'd rather you threw.

The season runs March to early November, and July and August are quoted on request. Peak summer is hot and dry, and the gardens are built for it. Pergolas cover most of the dining, palms and citrus give shade, and there are parasols on the lawns. Air conditioning handles the rooms. If the weather turns, the Glass Pavilion takes 225 under a solid roof, and the outdoor lounge has a full tent. Spring and autumn evenings cool off fast, which is when the bedroom fireplaces start to make sense.