Shalimar Estate — beachfront wedding venue in Munggu, Indonesia

The estate

A place to begin everything.

Black sand and open water front Shalimar Estate, which takes up a stretch of the Munggu coast in Bali. Munggu is one of the quieter parts of that shoreline, and the ground around the property keeps a rural calm. Shalimar is an estate rather than a single villa, with lawns running down to the sand and a footprint measured for large gatherings. Two hundred and fifty guests is the upper limit, and the size of the grounds is what makes that figure workable. A ceremony can be set where the lawn gives way to the shore, the reception laid out on open ground behind it, and quieter corners kept between the two, so a party that size is never compressed into one area. The whole estate and its beach frontage are given over to a single wedding for the day, which means the sand belongs to one group from morning until the night ends. The estate is listed from IDR 123,683,175, with 250 as the ceiling on numbers. Catering, styling, lighting, sound, furniture and staffing sit outside that figure and are quoted separately. What couples settle first is the date, the final headcount, and how the lawns and the shore divide between ceremony and dinner at full scale.