Seeking after the perfect Portugal wedding destination to throw an unforgettable wedding? Our Portugal wedding planning and design services team will be there for you to manage and safe keep every single detail of your day, creating your statement wedding style and being part of your love story. From the smallest wedding day details, to the grandest wedding dress and wedding decor, you are in good capable hands! Today we are sharing some of our own favorite wedding venues in Portugal with you and you will see why Portugal is the most underrated wedding destination there is!

THE WEDDING INSIDER
Top 10 Wedding Venues in Portugal

PORTUGAL'S TOP WEDDING VENUES

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Luxurious Wedding Destinations

The National Palace of Queluz charms whether for its imposing nature or the sheer exuberance of its architectural details closely bound up with the lives of three generations of the Portuguese Royal Family and the scene of intense emotions. The Palace furthermore reflects the evolution in the tastes and styles over different periods, moving from the Baroque to the Rococo and onto Neoclassicism.
Its surrounding scenic gardens invite you for a “stroll” through a period in which the court organized sumptuous parties and that hold the memories of trips by gondola along the canal, theatre, hunting, musical and literary performances, masked balls, games, and open-air recitals. A dreamlike scenario, animated by the waterfalls and delicate water games.
Be it a Summer outdoor wedding reception or a formal gala dinner within the Throne Room, this Portugal royal palace is home to the most exquisite and unique weddings.

Palácio de Queluz

The Fronteira palace is one of the most beautiful seventeenth-century monuments in Lisbon and pretty well-known internationally as a Portuguese icon. It was built around 1670 and holds the largest collection of seventeenth-century “azulejos” (Portuguese tiles) preserved in situ. 
Palácio Fronteira is located in Monsanto protected area, less than 10 minutes away from the city center, and it remains near to all sorts of Lisbon boutique hotels that will provide you the most memorable guest experience.
Its Portuguese azulejos' filled balcony makes the most incredible of wedding receptions and parties under the stars on a summer evening filled with intimacy and charm of Portugal's own.

Palácio Marqueses da Fronteira

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Much more than a luxury hotel in Sintra, Tivoli Palacio de Seteais is a romantic palace with period architecture that will take you back to the elegance and atmosphere of the XVIII century. The rooms are decorated with ornate furnishings while the ballrooms are adorned with stunning tapestries and frescos of rare beauty, making this boutique hotel in Sintra - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - a unique setting to turn any event or stay into an unforgettable wedding experience.
Spend idle hours wandering the mazes of this palace made for romance, located on the mountainside of Sintra with privileged views of the Moorish Castle and Pena Palace. Host your wedding reception in one of the palace's ballrooms or next to the pool for an unforgettable experience that brings together the idyllic Portugal destination wedding experience with stylish flavors.

Be it an intimate welcome dinner, a wedding ceremony, or a laid-back farewell brunch & pool party, this luxury boutique hotel will allow you to accommodate all your guests and host your destination wedding weekend of dreams.

TIVOLI Palácio Seteais

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For connoisseurs of Port wine, Portugal’s Douro Valley, with its terraced vineyards of one of the world’s oldest wine-growing regions, is a place for comfort and cure, and this Six Senses hotel- housed in a 19th-century manor in a dip of the valley- is the ultimate escape from the grind of everyday life both for you and your wedding guests.
This marvelous destination wedding venue is set among the vineyards of the Douro Valley and River, creating the perfect scenario for your dream outdoor wedding reception. Its romantic rooms with their Portuguese oak floors, earthy tones, and textured walls, and the sublime wine tastings in the evening that you can follow with a candlelit dinner are just some of the reasons why this place is worth its while. To catch your breath, you could just as easily make a beeline for the resort’s wine cellar for a class on its 700-bottle list of ports or wines from the Douro region, crafted by the hotel’s wine directors. For a place to unwind without a whiff of the word detox, there is no place quite like the Six Senses Douro Valley.

Douro Six Senses

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Much has been written about Palácio and Quinta da Bacalhôa, but the conclusion is always the same: it's a Masterpiece.
The prosperity that the Portuguese enjoyed over the years of their fantastic adventures in uncharted waters, allowed these Men, who owned half the world, to safeguard, as never before, the arts in Portugal. There was a succession of them at Bacalhôa, inspired by their journeys across Europe, Africa, and the Far East, or simply in the spirit of Maecenas, surrounding themselves with artists who influenced the architecture of the palace, its decoration, and the gardens, helping it become the precious and inimitable place it is today.
This emblematic Portuguese wedding venue is the perfect backdrop either for a wedding ceremony and reception or a Brunch followed by a visit to the wineries (and by visit, we also mean tasting!) and the palace's museum throughout your very own destination wedding weekend.

Palácio da Bacalhôa

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The Pousada de Faro is a Monument Hotel, located in the village of Estoi in Algarve and close to Faro International Airport, features great architectural richness. The Pousada is a Small Luxury Hotel in Estoi located in a palace born of the restoration of an 18th-century palace and features various original elements. 

This Portuguese wedding venue is a unique Rococo-style palace with French-style gardens and offers various classically designed gardens where you can host your dream wedding ceremony and al-fresco wedding reception catered by this exquisite wedding venue's restaurant that takes its inspiration from local and Algarve's gastronomy.

Palácio de Estói

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Mateus Palace is a Solar built in the eighteenth century, one of the finest representatives of the Baroque in Portugal. Its construction has the signature of Nasoni, known as the construction of the Tower of the Clerics in Porto. 

This Portuguese wedding venue filled with history and charm consists of the idyllic main house, the mind-blowing gardens, a winery, and a chapel made perfect for the most charming and delightful Portugal destination wedding experiences in the North of Portugal.

Casa de Mateus

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This wonderful 19th-century palace is a hidden treasure worthy of contemplation. This is the one that most stands out (and also the most famous), built-in 1880 with neo-Gothic windows and conical roofs. You may have seen it in Roman Polanski’s film "The Ninth Gate," starring Johnny Depp, which had Sintra as part of the setting. Would you guess that this incredible place has a capacity for a wedding reception dinner of up to 350 people?
This venue is finally opening its doors for weddings & other events, and we couldn’t be more excited to get to design its launching campaign and can’t hide our excitement for the beautiful destination weddings to come in this epic mountain scenery.

Sintra Charming Palace

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Pousada de Santa Maria do Bouro, more commonly known as Pousada Mosteiro de Amares it is located in Amares has been classified as a National Heritage site. 
The Pousada is the result of the restoration of a Cistercian Monastery from the 12th century, a work of distinguished architect, Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize, the most important worldwide architecture prize. 

Its outdoor views and surroundings are simply breathtaking, especially if you love the idea of a ceremony with a view, and it is just the perfect escape for an intimate and unique destination wedding experience. The cloysters make an idyllic scenery for the most unique and memorable al-fresco and candle-lit wedding receptions.

Pousada de Amares

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Quinta da Penalva is located in the mystical region of Sintra and remains a house with cultural meaning. The story goes that the tennis court was built for Queen Dona Amelia for practicing her favorite sport, when she spent the summer months with her husband, King D. Carlos I, in the Pena Palace. It was already at the beginning of the 20th century that the architect Raul Lino (1879-1974) was called upon to intervene, making the loft, gazebo, and tea house next to the tennis court which brought so much charm into the different venue areas. In this house with a “very personal decoration with objects that are part of the family history, in a typical old Portuguese style”, have already spent the champions of Formula 1, Ayrton Senna and Emerson Fittipaldi and Tri-Champion Rolando Garros, Gustavo Kuerten.
This Portugal wedding venue surrounded by gardens is the perfect escape for your destination wedding weekend, ideal for a magical and nature-filled Wedding Day or an extra event such as a Welcome Party or Farewell Pool Party & BBQ.

Quinta da Penalva

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"PORTUGAL IS BY FAR THE MOST UNDERRATED WEDDING DESTINATION"

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