Tamanu on the Beach is located approximately 20 minutes from Port Vila. The resort features five lovely accommodation cottages (making it easy for you to book out the entire resort exclusively for yourself and selected guests), bar and secluded beachfront restaurant and reception facilities. It is a favourite Vanuatu wedding location for overseas visitors, as well as for many local expats.

The pavillion styled restuarant at Tamanu on the Beach offers some of the finest dining available in all of Vanuatu. The open-air dining patio overlooks the beach and is renowned for fresh, distinctive cuisine featuring the excellent local seafood, beef, and exotic fruits.

Meals are complimented by an extensive wine selection to tantalize your palate (especially the French wines that dominate the list). Like all of Tamanu on the Beach, the restaurant offers a relaxed, sophisticated ambience.

You can even enjoy a private dinner near the waves at your leisure! As a guest at Tamanu, you will be encouraged to linger over lunches, sip sunset cocktails and recline on the resort's secluded beach.

Unspoiled, uncrowded and unsurpassed. It's a place to get away from it all in relaxed, sophisticated ambience. Tamanu is such an exquisitely romantic, relaxed setting, they say it's the place Adam & Eve used as their weekend island getaway!

Enjoy the intimacy of their pavillion-styled restaurant, with its open-air dining patio as you gaze out over the white sandy beach and rolling waves. Delight your palette and taste buds with their extensive wine selection and distinctive cuisine, featuring fresh local seafood (from its own reef), the best Vanuatu beef, exotic fruits and their exquisite selection of deserts.

If you are looking to limit wedding guest numbers to a maximum of say 100 people, then Tamanu is the perfect choice for both the wedding ceremony and the reception. Transport to and from Tamanu for the majority of guests (who will be staying in Port Vila), is easily arranged.

Simple yet luxurious planation cottages built in the French Colonial style, with shuttered windows and verandahs angled to face the sea. Lose yourself in understated elegance and easy luxury in the large, airy garden bathroom set in coral! From your door, you'll enjoy the clear blue, rolling waves of the South Pacific Ocean, plenty of private beach, and a true island paradise.

Accommodation

Tamanu is a boutigue resort. It is the perfect location for a Vanuatu wedding and reception, plus the accommodation is ideal for the bridal couple and/or bridal party. However, it only has five bungalows and so wedding guests generally stay elsewhere in Port Vila.

You'll find the garden bathrooms of these delightful cottages to be large, airy and set in coral, to impart a sense of understated, elegant and easy luxury to lose yourself in.

Weddings At Tamanu

Tamanu has been voted by Elle Magazine as one of the top 5 romantic destinations. Many couples have chosen Tamanu On The Beach because of the beautiful setting, private beach AND because of the tranquil seclusion it offers.

At Tamanu...on the beach you can choose between having your Vanuatu wedding ceremony on the beach overlooking the pristine tropical blue waters of the South Pacific (the first choice for most people) or set amongst the backdrop of their lush tropical gardens.

Their beach pavillion restaurant is the perfect venue for your island wedding, offering a relaxed, sophisticated ambience.

Depending on your budget, an individual program, which can be as simplistic or as elegant as you desire, will be customised for you. Events Vanuatu can organise your wedding celebrant, paperwork, wedding cake, bouquet and flower arrangements, custom warrior dancing, string band or other live music and even arrival by helicopter! Then when the weddings over and the wedding guests have all heaed back to Port Vila, discover the true meaning of the word romance, sip another cocktail, stroll along the beach, go for a swim or just retire to your gorgeous cottage for a special night of wedding bliss romance.

If your looking to Getting married at Tamanu, we recommend that you start with our Wedding Packages and simply choose this resort as your Location option.

Tamnau is superbly managed by Gerry Smelik. She is so professional, personable and down to earth, you'll be back to renew your vows at Tamanu Beach Club before you know it! This excellent venue has such a lovely, romantic "intimate" feel that it is often THE choice for local expats marrying in Vanuatu and that says it all.