Feature Resort: Sandestin Resort

Feature Resort & Venue
 
Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort
A Place Where YOUR Wedding Dreams Come True
 
-Will Estell
 


Fulfilling the promises that lead to a perfect destination wedding come quite easily when you have the pristine beauty of seven miles of glistening sand, emerald green waters, perfectly manicured lawns, and the almost endless amenities that make up Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort. Presenting more venue locations, accommodations and meeting space than any other resort on the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast; Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort has long been known for its passion and experience in creating weddings to cherish for a lifetime.
 
Everything you need is located on this luxurious resort – an array of gorgeous venue options, extraordinary catering team, luxurious spa services, a vast selection of shopping boutiques, first class accommodations and more. Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort literally has every element a destination bride needs for making her dream wedding a reality. The only thing missing is you.  


 
Imagine sugary-white sands as your flooring and the sounds of  smooth crashing waves as your orchestra or a greener backdrop of graceful lawns located at the Grand Sandestin; lending to an inspiring and colorful garden wedding. You are free to create your own whimsical fairytale in one of this resort’s many elegant venues – ranging from seating thirty to several hundred guests. Maybe your style is to captivate your guests with an amazing sunset ceremony overlooking the bay or beach, or a grand indoor event for five hundred, spilling out from the sensational ballrooms to one of Sandestin’s outdoor patios. Whatever interpretation you may have for your personal dream day, Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort is an ideal canvas for bringing your picture perfect wedding to life.
 
Sandestin offers a vast selection of venue options for every event that you desire to host – ceremony, reception, rehearsal dinner. Even bridesmaid’s luncheons and departure breakfasts can be arranged on-site. With an almost endless array of options to choose from, it should be easy to create exactly what you want, where you want it, and without ever having to leave this fantastic resort property.
 
As a prime destination wedding resort, Sandestin is well esteemed not only for its great selection of venues, but as much so for the experience, professionalism and quality that the resort’s on-site wedding coordinators and catering staff are now renowned for. Perhaps Barbara Miller, Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort’s Wedding and Events Manager, said it best when she explained to me what really makes Sandestin so much different than hundreds of other venues all across the country.  “We’ve got it all!   From the beach to the bay, numerous dining and shopping establishments, indoor and outdoor events for everyone, beautiful views of a World class golf course and the Gulf, the ability to accommodate most any vision, and our guests can do anything they want activity wise and never have to leave the resort. We also have so many variations of venues to offer, that brides are amazed with the options they have
at Sandestin.”  Hearing all of this, as well as staying on and personally touring the resort over the course of three days, I can certainly appreciate where she is coming from...and why so many destination brides from all over the country, and abroad, choose Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort for their big day.
 


As if the resort itself does not entice one enough, the great care and attention to detail found behind the scenes with Sandestin’s culinary and pastry staff is above and beyond the highest expectations any couple could ask for. Barbara Miller is quick to point out that the entire purpose of her staff  is to service the bride, groom, and their guests in the very best way possible in order to insure that their wedding is the best one yet. With a well trained full service catering staff on-site Sandestin’s culinary professionals will create an exceptional experience that will please even the most critical of critics.

The menus are created with thoughtful passion and provide you and your guests with a delightful array of both well known favorites and custom creations. If you, as a bride, want to customize a menu that reflects your vision, Sandestin can do that too. From a special family recipe dish, to a whimsical cupcake tower, to an elegant seven-tiered spiraling bridal cake, Sandestin’s on site Pastry Chef, Yasha Becker, can create any masterpiece that you can dream of.
 
Once you’ve gone over all of the details of your big day, it’s time to relax and renew your mind. Sandestin Resort features an onsite day spa and salon that offers more than fifty different rejuvenating services in a sanctuary retreat, enabling you and your bridal party to rest and get pampered before your special day. The spa is home to some of the Destin area’s leading hairstylists and make-up artists who are also available to make you look and feel your best on your wedding day.
 
If you’re looking for a little retail therapy, hop onboard one of the resort’s trams to visit the many designer stores and specialty boutiques that make up the now famous, Village of Baytowne Wharf. The Village is located right on the Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort and offers you and your guests over twenty unique casual and fine dining experiences, glittering nightlife and tons of activities for adults and children. It’s the perfect location for everyone to eat, shop and play, as well as being an ideal location for some nightlife fun and bachelorette and bachelor parties…all without having to drive or leave the resort.


 
Looking for something to occupy your boys? Sandestin definitely has you covered here. With four championship golf courses and 72 chances to redeem yourself, Burnt Pine Golf Club, Raven Golf Club, Baytowne Golf Club and the Links Course are great places to spend some time swinging the sticks. Recognized by Golf Magazine as one of the “75 Best Golf Resorts in America,” Sandestin is a “must play” on the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast.  The resort also offers other outdoor activities such as: tennis on their championship courts, biking, jogging or walking their  nature trails, nineteen (YES, 19 pools on the resort property!)  sparkling swimming pools and various boating and water sports activities to partake in. All insuring that nobody can get bored in the days around your own big day.
 
As for accommodations Sandestin will provide you and your guests with everything you desire to make your stay the best it can be. With more than 1,600 available options –ranging from suites to entire houses- spread across the 2,400 acre resort, your guests will find something that is sure to suit each of them.
After all what could be better than your family and friends helping to celebrate your big day in paradise? Except maybe ensuring that they have the vacation of a lifetime while helping you celebrate the beginning of yours.
 
For more information or to book your upcoming destination wedding at  Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort, call Barbara Miller today at: (850) 267-6736 or visit them online at www.sandestin.com/weddings. Remember to mention that you read about them in Gulf Coast Bride.