I could rave about our experience at the Wilderness Reserve until I’m blue in the face. From start to finish, there was not one moment I felt concerned or stressed and that is all thanks to the wonderful Wilderness team.

My positive experience started right at the very beginning when we were researching wedding venues. On the website there is a WhatsApp number which links to someone on their sales team. IMMEDIATE brownie points - communicating over WhatsApp is my preferred way of working. Within 30 seconds of me sending a message, I received a response from Tom letting me know he was on annual leave but he still managed to send me information that would wet my appetite until he was back in the office. Huge win.

We didn’t end up viewing any other venues because as SOON as we turned up we fell totally in love. There’s 3 gorgeous estates at the wilderness reserve that you can choose from and we picked 2 to have exclusivity over for the weekend. The pickle at the time was that one of the estates wasn’t even built yet!! Throughout the entire build up to our wedding, the team kept us in the loop of building progress, easing any worries or concerns we had about it not being completed in time, and they kept to every single promise made to us.

Then comes the actual wedding. My husband and I are not ones to shy away from elaborate plans. We like to create events for our nearest and dearest that are, let’s just say, not logistically easy. We are also not the easiest people to work with. We want fast, easy communication, solutions to problems before we even see the problem and value for money. But this didn’t frighten off the Wilderness Team. Tori and her team were nothing short of epic. As a couple, we are very particular. We know how we wanted this weekend to go and any deviation from that plan wasn’t on the cards. Our wedding spanned across 3 days, with each day being an entire event in itself and every single day went the way we had imagined it to the LETTER. There was not a single flower out of place. I still don’t know how they did it - brought to life plans that lived entirely in our heads - but they did. It was worth every. Single. Penny.

It’s a year on from our wedding now and it’s still talk of the town amongst our family and friends. No experience will come close to what we had that weekend and we owe that to the Wilderness Reserve and the unreal team working there. My only regret is that we can’t do it all over again!!