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An outdoor ceremony with a white flower arch at the far end, two blocks of wooden chairs and a mirrored walkway reflecting the forest behind it.

Photographed on event days

Photos of real weddings and events in Rio de Janeiro

22 photographs of celebrations held here, at a 50,000 m² garden estate inside the city of Rio de Janeiro — ceremonies, receptions, the pool terrace and the getting-ready suites.

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The only open-air part of the estate

Ceremonies in the garden

The green wall behind every one of these ceremonies is not scenery and not a painted backdrop: it is preserved Atlantic Forest, and the estate borders it. The lawn takes more than one layout — a central aisle, a circle around the couple, or a clear-roofed structure built over the whole thing. If it rains, the same ceremony moves under cover.

  • An outdoor ceremony under a green pergola hung with white arches, pink flower arrangements and a carpet of white petals on the ground.
  • A wedding aisle running between rows of imperial palms, with guests seated on orange chairs and flowers lining both sides of the walkway.
  • A ceremony set in the round on the lawn, with wooden chairs in concentric rings and a wall of tall palms against a clear blue sky.
  • A ceremony under a clear-roofed marquee, with cane chairs in two blocks, a mirrored walkway and a curtain of red flowers hanging behind the couple.
  • An open-air ceremony with a mirrored walkway between two blocks of wooden chairs, a white flower arch at the end and dense forest all around.
  • A ceremony seen from the top of the stone staircase, guests seated in two blocks on the lawn between palms and unbroken green forest.

See how the three spaces work together

After the ceremony

Receptions in the covered hall

The covered hall is a room, not a marquee raised for the occasion: high ceilings, stone floor, permanent lighting. That matters more here than it would in Europe — it is both the reception space and the rain plan, and it is why a December date is not a gamble.

  • A bride in a long dress standing in the covered hall, under dozens of lit natural-fibre lanterns, on a floor of Portuguese stone.
  • A bride walking down the central aisle of the covered hall, between two blocks of wooden chairs and white flower arrangements.
  • A ceremony set under the thatched roof, a white aisle flanked by pale flower arrangements, fibre lanterns overhead and guests on wooden chairs.
  • A covered aisle with a white runner between two blocks of guests, hanging arrangements above and walls of flowers on either side.
  • A bride and groom holding each other in the covered walkway at night, under dozens of lit fibre lanterns, between a stone wall and planted urns.
  • Guests raising their glasses around the couple, in black and white, under strings of small lights in the covered hall.

The estate without an event on it

The pool terrace and the gardens

Worth seeing the place undecorated, because that is how it reaches you before any design work: the infinity-edge pool, the stone staircase climbing through the palms, the entrance gate, and the lift that links the levels of the ground. The hillside in the background is the edge of the city, not another town.

  • An infinity-edge pool with a pale concrete deck, a vertical garden of foliage behind it and a thatched lounge at the far end.
  • A set of white arches covered in pink and white flowers, a bench at the centre and a carpet of petals on the ground.
  • A ceremony set on the lawn seen from above, with palms, bamboo and the forested hillside of the surrounding valley behind it.
  • A wide stone staircase climbing between palms and bamboo towards the flower arch where the ceremony takes place.
  • The wrought-iron gate at the entrance to the estate, open onto a thatched walkway hung with lanterns.
  • The lift that connects the levels of the estate, built under a stone arch and surrounded by planting.

Where the estate is, and how guests reach it

Before anyone arrives

Getting ready

The bridal suite opens early in the morning and the groom apartment is released before the invitation time. These are preparation rooms for the day of the event — nobody stays overnight here, and that is worth knowing before you book hotels.

  • The lounge of the bridal suite, with lit mirror stations, armchairs, a patterned rug and windows open onto the garden.
  • A make-up artist in a red dress touching up the bride at the mirrored counter of the bridal suite.
  • Eight groomsmen in suits standing side by side in the groom apartment, adjusting their shirt cuffs.
  • Five bridesmaids in yellow dresses reacting with surprise as the bride turns away from them in the support area.

Where your guests actually sleep

The next best thing

Can't come in person?

Most couples planning from abroad choose the venue before they ever land. We run a live video call through the estate for exactly that: someone walks the route your guests will walk, in real time, and answers while walking. It is not a recorded film, and you can ask it to turn around.

Photographs do one thing badly, and it is the thing that decides most bookings: they flatten distance. The walk from the ceremony lawn to the covered hall, the height of the hall, how far the forest actually is — none of that survives a thumbnail.

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About these photographs

22 photographs, not three hundred, on purpose: most people reach this page on a phone, and a gallery that loads hundreds of images at once is a gallery nobody scrolls to the end of. Every photograph was taken at a real event on this estate.

The captions describe what each photograph shows, not the month it was taken: the files reached us without a date, and we would rather leave it out than guess. For what each season is like here, read the month-by-month guide.

International guests are not new here. In October 2025 a wedding on this estate printed its menu in Portuguese and Italian, for the Italian side of the family.

Written by Thatiane Pacobahyba, of the Além do Sonho Eventos team.Updated on .

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