DOMA Portugal is a forest estate in Gradil, in the municipality of Mafra, half an hour from Lisbon — a place you come to stay, gather, and slow down. Picture a retreat surrounded by forest, with rooms and glamping, a pool, a spa with a sauna, its own Bakery & Bistro, and trails through the woods. It’s eco, it’s wellness, it’s calm.
For weddings, it’s a different canvas from the usual: no gilded halls, but nature, contemporary design, and a slow rhythm. There’s even a Steam Center, with sensory rituals to slow down — the kind of extra that turns a wedding into a memorable stay.
For couples who want a wedding in nature, with well-being and design, far from the formal, this is the spot. If you ask us, it’s the most original forest retreat near Lisbon.
The estate offers rooms and glamping tents on-site, plus a spa, sauna, and pool, so guests are immersed in the experience and the wedding becomes a wellness stay. Mary Me manages the allocation between the wedding party, family, and guests, with transfers handled.
DOMA Portugal began as a forest-estate project in Gradil, in the municipality of Mafra — a rural property designed to welcome those seeking nature, rest, and creativity. Rather than a traditional estate, it’s a contemporary concept: stay, food, well-being, and events in one place, surrounded by forest.
The spirit is clearly eco and wellness: trails through the woods, a Steam Center with sensory rituals, a spa, a pool, and a Bakery & Bistro that feeds the house. The property hosts retreats, offsites, and, naturally, weddings — always with the forest as the backdrop.
If you ask us, there are venues that inherit the past and venues that invent something new. DOMA is clearly the second kind.
We’re in Gradil, in the municipality of Mafra, surrounded by forest, about thirty-five minutes from Lisbon airport. It’s serious countryside — nature, trails, and silence — but with the convenience of being close to the city, the Tapada Nacional de Mafra, and the coast.
The advantage for a destination wedding is immersion in nature with access: guests feel they’ve stepped away from the world, but Lisbon, Sintra, and Ericeira are a short distance off.
Anything the guests might want to do — forest trails, a day in Lisbon, Sintra, the Ericeira beach — is at hand. Arriving is easy. Leaving — we can’t quite guarantee that part.
DOMA is a forest wedding. The civil or symbolic ceremony takes place among the trees or by the pool; the cocktail spreads across the outdoor spaces; dinner settles in the flexible event spaces, with the Bakery & Bistro handling the table, and the party runs at the pace of the nature around it.
With rooms and glamping on-site, a spa, a sauna, and a pool, guests are all immersed in the experience — which makes the celebration a wellness stay, not a one-day event. The Steam Center and the trails give a weekend programme few venues can offer.
It’s a venue that favours nature, well-being, and design over spectacle — ideal for couples who want forest, rest, and something off-script. And this is exactly where our experience comes in. The couple’s session winds through the forest trails, the poolside, and the eco-design spaces of a Mafra forest estate. Pop the question. We handle the rest.
An eco-wellness forest estate is exactly the kind of space where our coordination turns a nature retreat into a seamless wedding for international guests, without losing the slow rhythm that is the charm of the house. We handle the design of the day in coordination with the DOMA team and the Bakery & Bistro, the management of the rooms and glamping for the group, and the transfers from Lisbon airport, thirty-five minutes away. And there’s the practical side: the civil-ceremony paperwork in Portuguese, the sound permits in the forest zone, and a programme of nature, spa, Lisbon, and Ericeira for the guests. From the first call to the last dance.
A forest wedding, with well-being and design — ceremony among the trees, dinner from the Bakery & Bistro, and a slow rhythm, with a spa, a sauna, and trails. Eco and original, far from the formal hall wedding.
It’s a setting of intimate to medium scale, spread across the flexible spaces and the forest. The exact capacity for your format is confirmed with the venue.
Yes — rooms and glamping (tents), plus a spa, a sauna, and a pool. Guests are all immersed in the experience, which turns the wedding into a wellness stay. Mary Me manages the allocation.
DOMA has its own Bakery & Bistro, which handles the wedding table. Mary Me coordinates the menu and the details with the kitchen.
In Gradil, in the municipality of Mafra, surrounded by forest, about thirty-five minutes from Lisbon airport. Transfers handled by Mary Me. DOMA Portugal is the property itself, distinct from planning agencies with a similar name.
From late spring to early autumn, to enjoy the forest, the pool, and the outdoor spaces. We recommend booking in advance.
It’s an eco-wellness forest estate in Gradil, with rooms, glamping, a spa, a Steam Center, a Bakery & Bistro, and trails — a wedding in nature that’s also a wellness stay. Originality like few venues.
