Weddings in Sanur
Calm, charming beach weddings in Sanur, Bali. Gentle reef-protected water, sunrise light, and a relaxed pace, in the town we call home.
Featured wedding venues in Sanur
Anapuri Villas
Four beachfront villas with oceanfront pools on Pabean Beach, Ketewel.
Biara Villa
A five-bedroom beachfront villa on Saba Beach in Ketewel, river on one side.
Candani Villa
A six-bedroom beachfront estate on the black sand of Gumicik Beach, Ketewel.
The Diamond Bali
A diamond-shaped glass chapel on the sand at Sanur.
88 Estuary Saba Beach
A five-bedroom beachfront villa on Saba Beach, lawn to the black sand.
Griya Santrian
A long-standing beachfront resort on Sanur Beach, gardens to the sand.
Harsono Boutique Resort Bali
A riverside boutique resort in Gianyar with a chapel among bamboo and river.
Hyatt Regency Bali
A beachfront resort on nine hectares of Sanur gardens, with beach, garden, and ballroom venues.
Jeeva Saba
A private beachfront estate on Saba Beach, lawns running to the sand.
The Meru Sanur
An all-suite beachfront resort on Sanur Beach, with a beachfront lawn for up to 350 guests.
Villa Puri Nirwana
A six-bedroom beachfront villa on Ketewel's black-sand coast, lawns to the sea.
The Royal Purnama
An adults-only black sand beachfront resort at Ketewel, southeast Bali.
Rumah Luwih Beach Resort
A beachfront resort on Bali's Lebih coast with an ocean chapel and gardens, 30 minutes from Sanur.
The Samata
A ten-key wellness retreat among the rice fields near Sanur, with a lawn for up to 300 guests.
Villa Samudra
A three-bedroom beachfront villa on Pabean Beach, garden and ocean deck to the sea.
Segara Village Hotel
A village-style beachfront resort on five hectares of Sanur gardens, right on Segara Ayu Beach.
Villa Batujimbar
A beachfront estate on Sanur Beach with gardens for up to 180 guests.
Villa Casabama
A three-villa estate near Saba Beach, standing events up to 250 guests.
Sanur Residence
A garden villa complex with lotus ponds, rice-field views, and room for 100.
Villa Bayu Gita
A six-bedroom beachfront villa in Ketewel, with its own cinema, gym, and bar.
Villa Majapahit Maya
An absolute-beachfront Joglo house on Pabean Beach, with two sister villas to scale up the guest list.
Villa Majapahit Nataraja
A private beachfront villa with garden and pool, part of a three-villa estate near Sanur.
Villa Pushpapuri
A beachfront garden villa in Ketewel with a 20-metre infinity pool.
Villa Samadhana
A quiet garden villa in Ketewel, with rice-field views and a lawn built for a big reception.
Villa Ylang Ylang
A four-to-six-bedroom beachfront villa between rice fields and a deserted stretch of coast.
Sanur runs along Bali’s southeast coast, facing the water and the sunrise. It was the island’s first resort town and it has settled into something low-rise, green, and unhurried, with an offshore reef that keeps the sea flat and a paved boardwalk running for several kilometres behind the sand.
It is also home. Our team is based here, which means the local knowledge on this page is not researched, it is where we work.
Who Sanur suits
Couples bringing parents and grandparents. Couples with small children. Couples who want a beach wedding without the crowds, the traffic, or the noise that come with the west coast.
The area removes most of the friction from a tropical wedding: the ground is flat, the water is calm and shallow, the distances are short, and nothing is a fight to reach. That sounds unglamorous, and it is what makes the day easy for the people who find travel hard. A beach wedding here asks very little of your guests.
Sanur is also the answer for a beach wedding in the rainy months. Monsoon currents push marine debris onto the west-facing beaches from November to April, and Kuta, Legian, Seminyak and Jimbaran spend that season being cleared by the tonne. Facing east, Sanur is largely spared it. The best time to get married in Bali goes through the season month by month.
Where you can marry here
- Beachfront lawns at the older resorts along the sand
- Private villas set back in the quiet lanes behind the beach
- Beach settings on the sheltered water inside the reef
- Garden venues in the greener northern end towards Ketewel
Sunrise, not sunset
Sanur faces east. The sun comes up out of the sea here and goes down behind the town. There is no ocean sunset, and any planner who tells you otherwise has not stood on this beach.
What you get instead is a genuinely spectacular sunrise over the water and Nusa Penida on the horizon, plus soft indirect light on the beach through the late afternoon that photographs beautifully even without a sun to face. A small number of couples marry at first light here, and it is one of the more memorable things we plan.
A useful base
Fast boats to Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan leave from Sanur beach and take thirty to forty-five minutes. If you want island scenery for a portrait session or a day out with your guests, staying here removes an hour of driving from each end of it.
Sanur also sits close to Denpasar, which is where the civil registration offices are. For couples doing a legal wedding registration, being based here makes the paperwork runs short. The guide to marrying legally in Bali covers what those requirements actually are.
Good to know
This is where we are based
Our team is in Sanur. We know the venues, the banjar, and the vendors here better than anywhere else on the island, because we walk past most of them.
A reef takes the waves out
An offshore reef runs the length of the coast, so the water inside it is flat and shallow. It is calm enough for small children and for guests who want to swim rather than get knocked over.
Quiet, and deliberately so
Sanur is the oldest resort town in Bali and it has aged into something slow and green. No beach clubs with sound systems, no scooter swarms. Guests over sixty tend to prefer it immediately.
The boardwalk
A paved path runs several kilometres along the beachfront, flat the whole way, with cafés and warungs on it. It is the easiest beach walk in Bali and it makes the area genuinely accessible.
Good to know
Common questions
Does Sanur get the sunset?+
No. Sanur faces east, so the sun rises out of the water here and sets inland behind the town. What it does give you is an exceptional sunrise over the sea, and a handful of couples marry at first light for exactly that reason. For an ocean sunset you want the west coast.
Is Sanur boring?+
It is quiet, and whether that is a problem depends on your guest list. There is no club scene and the evening ends earlier than in Seminyak. There are good restaurants, a long walkable boardwalk, and a much calmer pace. Couples with families and older relatives usually find it a relief.
Why is Sanur good for older guests?+
Flat ground, a paved beachfront path, calm shallow water, short distances, and less traffic than the west coast. It removes most of the physical difficulty that makes a tropical wedding hard for people in their seventies.
Can we get to Nusa Penida from here?+
Sanur is the main departure point. Fast boats to Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan leave from the beach here and take thirty to forty-five minutes, which makes Sanur a sensible base if you want an island day trip or pre-wedding photographs on Penida.
What happens at low tide?+
The reef flat is exposed and the water pulls back a long way in places, leaving wet sand and rock rather than swimmable sea. It is not a problem for a ceremony, but it does change the photographs, so we check the tide for your date when we set the time.
