Get married in Cape Town

Cape Town Wedding

Making your wed­ding ‘just per­fect’ entails a blend of factors, not least of which includes the dress ‘to die for’ and a great cape town wed­ding venue. With Cape Town as the city of choice for your big day, you won’t have far to look. Cape Town is the city of fair skies, gor­geous beaches, mag­ni­fi­cent gar­dens and an extens­ive list of Cape Town wed­ding and recep­tion ven­ues. Outdoor loc­a­tions for stun­ning wed­ding pho­to­graphs abound.

Picture the old­est and largest botan­ical gar­dens in South Africa, Kirstenbosch, with the east­ern slopes of Table Mountain as your back­drop. These gar­dens alone con­tain as many as 6 000 floral spe­cies and over 22 000 indi­gen­ous plants, so whatever your col­our scheme and whatever sea­son you choose, there will be blooms to aug­ment and com­ple­ment your style.

Early morn­ing shoots are prob­ably best for a wed­ding on one of Cape Town’s beaches as the Cape Doctor – another name for the spring and early sum­mer south-easterly wind that pre­vails in the city — tends to make its pres­ence felt in the after­noons, although with it comes Table Mountain’s legendary table cloth – provid­ing yet another per­fect photo setting.

Nevertheless, you are spoilt for choice as the Mother City, Cape Town, has some of the most pic­tur­esque beaches in the world with wide expanses of sand, spark­ling water and stra­tegic­ally placed boulders for those ‘photo’ moments.

Cape Town Wedding

From the fash­ion­able beaches of Cape Town’s ‘Riviera’ – the Atlantic Seaboard Beaches – includ­ing Camps Bay, Llandudno (def­in­itely one of the most beau­ti­ful) and Noordhoek with its miles of sand and dunes, to the beaches of False Bay offer­ing some real char­ac­ter beaches, such as St James or Boulders.

The Cape wine­lands estates in and around Cape Town all have a unique beauty of their own. Invariably wine estates lie tucked into pic­tur­esque val­leys, sur­roun­ded by majestic moun­tains and vine­yards heavy with grapes dur­ing the sum­mer months.

The Cape West Coast, until recently largely unex­plored and unex­ploited, is a region of unri­valled beauty and geo­graph­ical diversity. This area of the world is renowned for its spec­tac­u­lar dis­play of wild flowers dur­ing spring, its unspoilt beaches and beau­ti­ful moun­tain ranges and pic­tur­esque little towns like Darling, St Helena Bay and the fish­ing vil­lage of Paternoster.

And if that doesn’t tempt you then the Garden Route’s shad­owy forests, peace­ful lakes and wet­lands or the Overberg’s numer­ous quaint vil­lages and the dry Karoo with a sul­len beauty all of her own – flat, sandy plains, shim­mer­ing heat and dis­tant smoky-blue moun­tains – cer­tainly will. (see Garden Route wed­dings)

Related Links:
Cape Town Weddings
South Africa Wedding Guide
South Africa Wedding Photographers