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The Riviera on Vaal Hotel is the ideal venue for High Teas with your lady friends. On Saturdays the Hotel offers you the chance to catch up on all the week’s happenings at only R120.00 per person.

With winter at our doorsteps the Riviera on Vaal Hotel amended the High Tea menu, adding items like their famous glüwein to the list of delectable treats. Bring your friends along from 14:00 on a Saturday afternoon and enjoy the Vaal River view from Matthews Restaurant’s cozy interior while sharing some quality time with special people. Indulge in menu items like delicious sandwiches, freshly baked quiche, the cake of the day, homemade biscuits, lemon meringue, mousse cake, brandy balls, mince pies, lamingtons, fruit skewers with coulis, cheese cake and glüwein as mentioned.

Please note that bookings are essential. Book a treat for you and the girls on 016 420 1300 or reservations@rivieraonvaal.co.za.

High Tea at the Riviera on Vaal

High Tea at the Riviera on Vaal

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Contrary to popular belief, winter weddings can be very romantic especially when you choose a good winter wedding flower arrangement to compliment the chilly season. Your choice of flowers for winter can display crisp festive reds which lend a very romantic feel to your wedding,  deep purples that give a regal effect, frosty silvers for a clean finish, rustic and natural colours for an authentic atmosphere as well as winter whites for that dreamy look and feel.

Add some extra flair to your winter wedding flowers by adding extra non-floral notes and touches to add your unique imprint to your wedding theme…things like pinecones, lemon leaves, ivy, carolina sapphire, holly, berries and so forth.

We have compiled the top 5 winter wedding flowers and themes for you to choose from feel free to use these ideas as you plan your winter wedding floral decorations.

Romantic Winter Wedding with Red Flowers

Romantic Winter Wedding with Red Flowers

Romantic Winter Wedding with Red Flowers

Nothing is as bold and passionate like the red rose, the symbol for romantic love universally and a great choice for winter weddings. Roses are classic and always in season…the bright red will complement a cream wedding gown effortlessly.

Deep Purples fit for Royalty

Deep purple

Deep purple

Say I do in a majestic setting with the use of deep purples to enhance the beauty of your winter wedding. You can reach this effect using various purple winter flowers like tulips, violas, cyclamen and hydrangeas.  Try mixing elements of gold in your setting as a round off to this look.

Frosty Silvers

Frosty flowers

Frosty flowers

Have an elegant winter wedding with a touch of silver using all that sparkles to imitate the frostiness of the season. This theme also reflects a fairytale feel to winter weddings with lots of glamour. For this effect you need silver flowers which are difficult to find but bring an unimaginable sparkle and glamour to your wedding day when found. You can also combine black with different shades of white and grey to make your bouquets appear silver. Try these silver flowers baby’s breath flower, dusty miller and silver-dollar eucalyptus. You can even go as far as giving your winter floral arrangement a taint of silver paint.

Rustic and Natural

Rustic wedding flowers

Rustic wedding flowers

The rustic and natural winter wedding flower theme gives brides room to play with a lot of options to create an authentic feel to their weddings. You can use elements such as twigs, dried pine cones, wheat, bark and branches as part of your floral arrangements. Go for an ombre colour palette Maccauvlei on Vaal with its abundant birdlife and oak forest is the ideal venue to pull of this winter wedding theme. Browse through Maccauvlei’s wedding packages here to see what your options are.

Winter whites

Winter white wedding

Winter white wedding

Perhaps the most classic winter wedding is your winter whites wedding. Our seasonal changes have made it possible for places like the Vaal to also experience snow so brides can very possibly have a truly white wedding. See the Riviera on Vaal Hotel & Country Club’s snow pictures from the year 2012. You can mix up your choice of white flowers to create a whimsical feel to your winter wedding. The Riviera on Vaal Hotel & Country Club has great winter wedding packages that will duly complement your chosen theme.

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Many of the Riviera on Vaal Resort’s visitors are very fond of the Hotel’s picnic offerings for family getaways and romantic picnic spots, which motivated the RiverBlogger to do some research on how to green your picnic.

Green picnic

Green picnic from Pinterest

With Earth Day on the way, the Riviera on Vaal Hotel and Country Club is on a mission to create awareness about the importance of environmental responsibility. How else than to share some tips and ideas on how to green your picnic, one of the many things to do outdoors with families and friends at the Riviera on Vaal while appreciating nature and what it has to offer. Create some additional family fun for your loved ones while visiting the Riviera on Vaal by enjoying a picnic on the banks of the Vaal River.

Some tips on how to green your picnic:

  • Go local. What better place to have a picnic than in your local parks or resorts like the Riviera on Vaal Hotel and Country Club?
  • Reuse when you can. Picnics are a great way to use things that are reusable, including utensils, drinking cups, glass food containers (packed very carefully) and blankets.
  • Learn about your surroundings. We tend to forget that nature has so much to offer. This is the ideal opportunity to teach your kids about certain insects or the local trees growing in your area. Bring along some binoculars or a magnifying glass and teach them more about the little things in life.

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This time of year is special at the Riviera on Vaal with its green gardens and beautiful surrounds at its peak. It is moments like these we must cherish and therefore RiverBlogger has taken a few scenic shots to look back on during the upcoming winter months.

The Riviera on Vaal's lovely view from the terrace

The Riviera on Vaal’s lovely view from the terrace

Beautiful River views at Riviera on Vaal

Beautiful River views at Riviera on Vaal

Another Vaal River view from Matthews Terrace Cafe

Another Vaal River view from Matthews Terrace Cafe

Matthews Terrace Cafe

Matthews Terrace Cafe

And just in case you are wondering what the Resort looks like in winter months – no need to worry – it can still be as beautiful as ever! Remember this in August last year?

Snow at Riviera on Vaal Hotel & Country Club

Snow at Riviera on Vaal Hotel & Country Club

Winter garden at Riviera on Vaal

Winter garden at Riviera on Vaal

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The Riviera on Vaal Hotel and Country Club has created a new board on Pinterest, called Riviera Real Weddings, which includes photos of real weddings that took place at the Resort.

Riviera Real Weddings

Riviera Real Weddings

It was noted that the Pinterest board on wedding ideas is the most popular board on the Riviera on Vaal’s Pinterest page and it was therefore decided to create another board to show pinners what the Riviera on Vaal has to offer as a wedding venue on Vaal. Not only does the Resort boast beautiful river views, it also has a number of reception venues to choose from, an on-site wedding chapel and depending on the wedding package chosen, the wedding couple also receives accommodation including bed and breakfast.

The Riviera on Vaal golf course offers great engagement and wedding photography opportunities, as does the Sir Herbert Baker designed Country Club.

Not only does this new Pinterest board promote the Riviera on Vaal’s undeniably great wedding options, it also promotes the relevant local wedding photographers, florists and other wedding professionals in the area who took part in making the weddings as memorable as possible. Therefore the Riviera on Vaal urges wedding professionals to send their contact details to press@pressonvaal.co.za to create link exchanges between themselves and the Riviera on Vaal Resort and in that way make every wedding at Riviera on Vaal Hotel and Country Club a perfect one!

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