Sea Trader

Glass sliding doors open onto the sea shell beach – providing space for a lovely wedding ceremony, with extensive views of the ocean. A beautiful wooden deck that acts as an extension of the restaurant and offers a comfortable area for wedding guests to take their seats and witness the couple exchanging wedding vows. Make your grand entrance through the large crafted, wooden doors into the venue/main hall for your ceremony and celebrations.

The Sea Trader offers endless possibilities to make your special day exquisite. Sea Trader goes beyond these four walls. Corrie van Zyl and his family settled in Stompneusbaai in 1968. Before they got involved in the fishing industry, the family were dairy farmers. They built a crayfish factory and a perlemoen farm which they later sold. The Van Zyl’s decided to develop their land into a private nature reserve, named Cape St Martin.

The name Cape St. Martin springs from the lighthouse situated on the peninsula where the development is situated and where wedding couples love to take pictures! Next to the original homestead they built a wedding venue, the Sea Trader, named after a cargo ship that ran aground at the most western point of Britannia Bay on 3 June 1971. The Sea Trader also has started offering intimate weddings and elopements in the old farmhouse, now more widely known as the Sea Trader Manor House.