Not every wedding wants the ocean roaring in the background. Some want the green stretching out of sight, a mirror-still lake, and the calm of a resort where time slows down. That’s what the Onyria Quinta da Marinha offers, in the heart of Quinta da Marinha, in Cascais.
It’s a five-star golf resort inside the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, with an eighteen-hole course, a spa, hotel rooms and private houses, and restaurants that cook with vegetables from their own garden. At the centre of it all is the Lake House — the event space facing the lake and the green, made to measure for weddings of up to two hundred and fifty guests.
For couples who want a serene wedding, surrounded by nature and a few minutes from the sea, this is the spot. If you ask us, the Lake House is one of the most romantic settings on the Riviera.
The resort offers hotel rooms and private houses, plus golf, spa, and pool. Mary Me coordinates the allocation to keep the wedding party, immediate family, and VIPs on the resort, with curated overflow at Cascais hotels for remaining guests, and transfers handled.
Quinta da Marinha was, for decades, a byword for golf and for a certain idea of elegant leisure west of Lisbon — a vast expanse of pine and green between Cascais and the Sintra hills, inside the natural park. It was on that heritage that the Onyria was born: a resort that added to the golf a five-star hotel, private houses, a spa, and garden-to-table cooking.
The kitchen at the Rocca restaurant became one of its hallmarks — dishes prepared with organic vegetables grown on the resort itself — and the whole gradually established itself as one of the area’s reference addresses for events, today part of the Vignette Collection.
If you ask us, what sets the Onyria apart isn’t grandeur, it’s serenity: the feeling of being in the countryside, surrounded by green, without ever giving up the comfort of a five-star.
We’re at Quinta da Marinha, in Cascais, inside the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park — between the city and nature, the beach and the hills. The resort is wrapped in pine and green, with the Sintra hills on one side and the sea breeze on the other, a few minutes from Guincho.
The advantage for a destination wedding is the balance: Lisbon airport is about thirty minutes away, the town of Cascais a few, and Sintra just up the road. Guests have the best of the Riviera at hand — golf, beach, palaces — and return at night to the calm of the resort.
Anything they might want to do the day before or after is a short drive away. Arriving is easy. Leaving — we can’t quite guarantee that part.
The heart of a wedding at the Onyria is the Lake House. Surrounded by the green of the golf course and facing the lake, it hosts ceremony, dinner, and party for up to two hundred and fifty guests, with the versatility to combine indoors and out depending on the weather and the format. Civil and symbolic ceremonies take place by the water, and Catholic ones at the Cascais churches, a few minutes away.
The cocktail spreads across the lawns, with the sunset over the greens, and dinner settles in the Lake House or outdoors. The resort’s garden kitchen gives the meals a direct connection to the land — few places can say part of the menu was born metres from the dance floor.
And there’s the accommodation trump card: with the hotel rooms and the resort’s private houses, the couple and guests sleep on-site, with golf, spa, and pool, and the wedding stretches into a full weekend. The couple’s session moves by the lake, across the greens, and through the pine wood at golden hour. Pop the question. We handle the rest.
When we organise a wedding here, we handle everything that links this resort to the world your guests come from. We handle the transfers — taking advantage of the thirty minutes to Lisbon airport — and the management of the accommodation between the hotel rooms and the private houses, with the arrival sequencing of an international group and overflow in Cascais when the list is larger. And there’s the practical side: the permits for the ceremony and for fireworks in a natural park, the sound curfew, the civil-ceremony paperwork in Portuguese, the liaison with the Cascais churches, and a programme of golf, Sintra, Lisbon, and beaches for the guests who stay on. From the first call to the last dance.
The Lake House hosts weddings of up to around two hundred and fifty guests, combining indoors and out by the lake and the green. The exact capacity for your format is confirmed with the venue.
At Quinta da Marinha, in Cascais, inside the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, about thirty minutes from Lisbon airport and a few from the town of Cascais. Sintra is just up the road, with transfers handled by Mary Me.
As an operating resort, full exclusivity is arranged case by case; the norm is to book the Lake House and event areas with a room block. Mary Me handles locking down the exclusivity and the accommodation allocation.
Yes, with hotel rooms and private houses, plus golf, spa, and pool. The couple and guests sleep on-site; Mary Me coordinates the allocation and overflow in Cascais when needed.
Late spring and early autumn are ideal for the ceremonies by the lake, with the green at its peak and long light. Summer is the Riviera’s high season; the indoor spaces guarantee comfort all year.
Civil and symbolic by the water, at the Lake House; Catholic at the Cascais churches, a few minutes away. We coordinate every variant, with transfers handled.
It’s a five-star golf resort inside the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, with the Lake House facing the lake, its own garden kitchen, and the calm of the countryside minutes from the sea. Nature and comfort in one place.
