My wife and I rented all six villas of the CMC Collection in April 2023 to host our wedding and we could not be happier!! Beyond a beautiful location and incredible accommodations, the CMC team did such a great job to make our big day so special. Victoria was the perfect wedding planner and host! As a destination wedding for us and our guests, Victoria helped us every stop of the way in the lead up planning our events and selecting vendors, as well as during the weekend to ensure everything was running smoothly and that all guests were comfortable. Steve is an extremely talented chef who cooked incredible food for each of the four days of our wedding weekend- welcome pizza night, rehearsal dinner, wedding barbecue, and brunch. Each bite was better than the last and he was extremely accommodating of allergies and dietary restrictions. I seriously can't speak highly enough of Victoria, Steve, and the entire CMC team, they were such a pleasure to work with!! If you are on the fence about having your wedding at CMC, feel free to send me an email and with your concerns, and I will happily discuss: danielssager@gmail.com

We first came across the Casa Monte Cristo Collection about 18 months ago when looking for wedding venues in the Algarve. Straight away Victoria was easy to communicate with and gave us all the information we needed about the venue without any pressure or sales pitch! We went out to view the venue (alongside others) and were absolutely blown away. Due to numbers in our party we opted to have our ceremony at CMC Tres. Again there was no pressure to book from Victoria but we knew no other venue we had seen compared. Fast forward through the wedding planning and Victoria just made everything so easy and smooth! She made it so smooth that at one point I phoned her because I felt I needed to be more stressed! She made planning a Portuguese wedding from Scotland so easy and care-free, arranging stationary and flowers without a second thought and replying to my many many emails! No changes or issues were ever a bother for her - even down to the fact we increased our numbers about 3 days before the wedding!! Onto the venue itself, we stayed with our immediate family in Tres which is honestly just the most stunning, beautiful, perfect place. Everyone’s jaw dropped on arrival and it just had everything we could have possibly needed. Our ceremony was at Tres and again our guests were all just blown away with the location with our evening party being at Cinco and again wow!! No words do this place justice! Throughout the whole day Victoria was on hand - never overbearing or bothering but just a quiet calming presence sorting things we didn’t even know needed sorted! From getting me into my dress, printing our readings, collecting our cards, getting my flowers into water - the list could go on! Put it this way - she got a shout out in my dads speech!! The day itself was absolutely perfect! Every member of staff was beyond delightful and helpful and just the absolute best! The ceremony set up and location was dreamy, drinks were just beautiful and the evening bit was just perfect - this was all set up by Victoria and her team with legit about 3 Pinterest photos from me and it was everything I could have ever wanted! Now onto the bbq!!! You have never tasted food this good! I can guarantee this. I think a lot of my guests had images of burnt burgers and classic British bbq but if you haven’t had a Portuguese bbq then you have to and Steve’s is the one to start with! Every single guest was raving about the food! I am still dreaming about the food! It’s amazing! Hands down the best! Book it for this alone!!! We then had a lovely chilled day by the pool the day after our wedding and again our guests couldn’t stop raving at how beautiful it is! Our day felt like a dream and was absolutely perfect!! Honestly don’t hesitate and just book CMC now!!!

Pretty much everything about the wedding, was amazing. First of all, the venue(s) are perfect, there are staff available at all times to help out with any problems, replenish the bar, answer questions and generally keep everything tidy. Victoria was able to help with any last minute requests I had and made sure everything ran very smoothly on the actual wedding day. The communication was seamless and the wedding went exactly how we expected / wanted. The villas are beautiful and on the rare occasion there was an issue, e.g. the lights didn't work in the outdoor kitchen, Victoria was very quick to sort this out for us and called out an electrician immediately. It is the perfect venue for a villa wedding and I would recommend it in a heartbeat. The only slight and it is, very slight, "issue" is that the venue have a strict 11pm cut off time for the wedding, which we knew about and isn't a big problem, but, make sure your DJ knows the cut off time as ours claimed not to know and then didn't get to play a "last song" which made the night feel like it ended quite abruptly. Overall though, it was amazing!

rom beginning to end Victoria at Casa Monte Cristo has been fabulous. We didn't actually see the venue until a year after we booked, and it totally surpassed our already high expectations. No question was too much for her, and the entire team there are all fabulous. The villas are gorgeous, and the setting is perfect for the big day. As a control freak it takes a lot for me to trust someone with a task like this, but the entire time was amazing and ran so smoothly, that as the couple, you get to actually enjoy your day and relax!

We had our Wedding at Casa Monte Cristo on the 5th of May 2023, and it really was the wedding of our dreams! We booked four villas and all of the apartments for our 60 guests + 4 children. We loved that all of the villas were located near by each other which made it possible for us to walk between them. This is what made us choose Casa Monte Cristo for our wedding. The fact that all of our guests could stay at the same place. The villas were even more luxurious than they looked at the pictures. Everything was so clean and well maintained. My husband and I live in Sweden and had to book and plan the whole wedding from distance using only email. We booked the venue in November 2021 and have had contact with Victoria through email since then. She has been very professional and we felt so secure with her organising everything and reminding us of details we wouldn’t have thought of ourselves. All of our guests have complimented us on the amazing villas, the location and especially the beautiful wedding day. The food was so good and we had the best DJ! Some of our guests had rented cars but most of them used Uber or Bolt if they wanted to go to town or order some food. It was never a problem with this! Victoria also arranged transfer to pick up19 of our guests from the airport on the same day. We are still chocked by how great everything turned out and that we got to have our absolute dream wedding. If you are dreaming of having a destination wedding instead of getting married in a cold country like Sweden, this is the place to book!