Nemo123

I had my wedding at the Somerset a couple of weeks ago. We had about 35 guests. Our ceremony took place on the beach, cocktail hour around the pool and reception in O'Soleil/Zen Garden. I was also concerned about a ceremony on the beach at the Somerset- it looked very cluttered and tucked between 2 resorts when I went down for a site visit- but they cleared it up pretty well. Most of the ladies took their shoes off while the men left theirs on. There were a couple of onlookers at the wedding ceremony but I honestly did not even notice them. The Somerset resort is very quiet and therefore private so it almost feels as though you have it all to yourselves on your wedding day. The lawn would make a lovely venue for a large group. While we dont find the food on the island to be that fantastic overall, we do think the food at O Soleil is some of the best on the island. However, we were very disappointed in the service at the resort which put a big damper on our day. They were so behind in set up when we arrived that we didn't think the wedding would happen. The resort has been undergoing a management change (more than once) and things just seem to be disorganized at the moment. Hopefully this will change in the future. We had our beach barbeque rehearsal dinner at the Gansevoort resort which was amazing! The beach is a lot wider and more beautiful (in my opinion). The service was excellent and they went out of their way to make sure that everything was perfect and exactly the way we wanted. We can not say enough good things about this resort. We used Janardo Laporte as sax player for the ceremony, cocktail hour and dinner and he was fantastic! We had DJ William for reception and he was also fantastic! He had our guests on the dance floor the entire time. Flowers for both rehearsal dinner and wedding were done by Environment Arts and they did a really great job. Good luck on deciding! Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know.