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The 11 best wedding venues in Miami

Miami weddings concentrate in three bands: the Mediterranean estates strung along Biscayne Bay south of downtown, the ballrooms of Coral Gables and Miami Beach, and the bayfront itself. Vizcaya rents the East Terrace of a 1916 villa above the water, the Biltmore Hotel opens 1926 ballrooms beneath its Giralda-style tower, and the Deering Estate spreads across 450 acres of shoreline in Palmetto Bay. Couples who want a garden go to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables; downtown, the choice is between the 1939 banking hall of the Alfred I. DuPont Building and the bayfront terraces at Pérez Art Museum Miami.

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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens — wedding venue in Miami, Florida

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No. I

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Historic villa and gardensCoconut GroveUp to 300 on the East Terrace; 100 seated in the courtyard

James Deering built this between 1914 and 1922 as a subtropical reading of an eighteenth-century Veneto villa, working with architect F. Burrall Hoffman, designer Paul Chalfin and landscape architect Diego Suarez. Evening weddings take the East Terrace facing Biscayne Bay and the carved stone barge that sits offshore as a breakwater; the inner courtyard handles a hundred seated when the guest list is small. Anything over about ninety guests on the terrace has to be tented, and every caterer, planner and rental company must come off Vizcaya's approved list, which narrows the field before you start.

Terrace facing the carved stone barge

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The Biltmore Hotel — wedding venue in Miami, Florida

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No. II

The Biltmore Hotel

Historic hotelCoral GablesCountry Club Ballroom 500 at rounds, 700 for a reception; Co

Schultze and Weaver finished the Biltmore in 1926 and gave it a 315-foot tower copied from the Giralda in Seville, which held the record as Florida's tallest building for two years and became a National Historic Landmark in 1996. The Country Club Ballroom is the big room at 6,528 square feet, columns and chandeliers inside and its own terrace out; the Alhambra looks over the 23,000-square-foot pool under hand-painted ceilings. Outdoor ceremonies happen on the Back Lawn with the tower behind the couple, or in the Country Club Courtyard around its fountain, which alone seats 650.

Lawn ceremony under the Giralda tower

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Deering Estate — wedding venue in Miami, Florida

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No. III

Deering Estate

Waterfront historic estatePalmetto Bay, south Miami-DadeCourtyard seats 300; front lawn takes over 1,000

Charles Deering's 450-acre property on the National Register runs from a wooden entrance gate down an avenue of royal palms to open water. The courtyard, flanked by two of the estate's historic houses and roofed in string lights under old oaks, seats 300 for dinner; the front lawn on Biscayne Bay absorbs a guest list several times that size. Structures on the grounds date between 1896 and 1922, though the Stone House Museum is closed for restoration at present, so treat the buildings as backdrop rather than indoor space.

Oak courtyard between two historic houses

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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden — wedding venue in Miami, Florida

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No. IV

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Botanical gardenCoral GablesLakeside marquee tent 300 to 500; Bailey Palm Glade up to 37

Eighty-three acres of palms, cycads, orchids and native South Florida planting, laid out in 1938 and still run as a working botanic garden. There are more than a dozen bookable spots: the Bailey Palm Glade for a long ceremony aisle between palms, the Garden House and its lawn for a full reception, a lakeside marquee for the largest guest lists. Fairchild requires a month-of coordinator on every wedding and a million dollars of combined liability cover naming the garden, and it does not sell exclusivity — two weddings can run the same evening, so ask what else is on the calendar for your date.

Ceremony aisle through a palm glade

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No. VVilla Woodbine

No. V

Villa Woodbine

Mediterranean Revival mansionSouth Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove225 seated for dinner

An early-twentieth-century Mediterranean Revival house at 2167 South Bayshore Drive, set back behind oaks wrapped in lights. The private garden seats 220 on its own and a summer tent takes 200; loggias of Spanish arches open off a central courtyard, and upstairs there is a bridal suite for eight with its own terrace over the garden. Catering is in-house and exclusive to Bill Hansen, which removes one negotiation from the process and removes any way to shop the food line if the quote comes back high.

Spanish-arch loggias under Grove oaks

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No. VIAncient Spanish Monastery

No. VI

Ancient Spanish Monastery

Medieval cloisterNorth Miami BeachMain Chapel seats 150; gardens up to 300

The Cistercian monastery at Sacramenia in Segovia was built between 1133 and 1141; William Randolph Hearst bought it in 1926, had it taken apart into 11,000 hay-packed crates, and then went broke, leaving the stones in a Brooklyn warehouse until two Florida buyers reassembled them here in the 1950s and 60s. The Main Chapel seats 150 and the rental includes an organist on the pipe organ; the smaller Chapter House takes 80, and receptions run through the covered cloisters, the loggia and the gardens. It is an active Episcopal parish that closes on Mondays and Tuesdays, so dates are worked around the church calendar rather than the other way round.

Twelfth-century cloister rebuilt in Florida

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The Historic Alfred I. DuPont Building — wedding venue in Miami, Florida

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No. VII

The Historic Alfred I. DuPont Building

Art Deco banking hallFlagler Street, downtown MiamiSouth Ballroom seats 400, North Ballroom 200; 600 seated acr

Seventeen storeys of Wisconsin limestone and Alabama black granite finished in 1939, with the old banking floor now split into two event rooms over Tennessee marble. The ceiling thirty-six feet above that marble carries 124 hand-painted panels of Florida history, and the original Diebold vault doors and the 1930s hand-wrought teller windows are still in place. The South Ballroom is the larger room at 6,500 square feet under 30-foot vaulted ceilings and seats 400; the 4,500-square-foot North Ballroom adds 200, so the pair together hold 600 for dinner.

Bank vault doors behind the dance floor

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No. VIIIPérez Art Museum Miami

No. VIII

Pérez Art Museum Miami

Contemporary museumMuseum Park, downtown Miami250 across ceremony, cocktail hour and reception; museum buy

Herzog & de Meuron's museum sits on Biscayne Bay in Museum Park, and the East Portico under its deep canopy is the space couples come for, with the water on one side and the galleries on the other. The terraces handle cocktails over the skyline; the auditorium and boardroom cover smaller pieces of the night. PAMM sells weddings exactly one way — a museum buyout at $24,000 for five and a half hours, vendors off its own exclusive list, an hour of gallery access during the cocktail reception, and a ceiling of 250 guests. The night starts at 6:30pm once the public has gone and can run to 1am.

Bayfront portico with the galleries open

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No. IX1 Hotel South Beach

No. IX

1 Hotel South Beach

Oceanfront hotelCollins Avenue, Miami BeachTerra Ballroom up to 600; Ocean Terrace up to 500

An oceanfront hotel at 2341 Collins Avenue that builds its event rooms out of reclaimed timber and planting rather than the usual beach-hotel gilt. The Terra Ballroom runs 5,986 square feet behind a living wall of 1,200 plants and takes 600; the Ocean Terrace is 14,580 square feet outdoors for 500, Tala Beach holds the same number on sand, and the rooftop takes 100 for a smaller party. The argument for a hotel is logistical — a sand ceremony, dinner indoors and a guest list that sleeps upstairs, with no one moving a car all weekend.

Ballroom behind a wall of 1,200 plants

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The M Building — wedding venue in Miami, Florida

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No. X

The M Building

Gallery warehouseWynwood Arts DistrictUp to 150, seated or standing

A 1950s manufacturing warehouse at 194 NW 30th Street that Chad Oppenheim converted into five linked gallery rooms and a planted garden terrace, roughly 12,000 square feet over two floors, with Chahan Minassian behind the formal living space. It is the plainest room on this list in the best sense — white walls, concrete, no decorative scheme to fight, and a Wynwood address a block from the Rubell collection. Read the rules before committing: caterers come off an approval list, alcohol has to be poured by a licensed bartender or caterer, and amplified music is confined indoors and stops at 12:30am.

Five white gallery rooms and a garden

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No. XIThe Cooper Estate

No. XI

The Cooper Estate

Country estate and barnRedland, HomesteadListed at 100 seated — confirm the ceiling if your list runs

A nursery property in the Redland farming belt at 14201 SW 248th Street, about thirty miles south of downtown, built around a manor and barn of native oolite limestone that are both more than a century old. The grounds carry a sunken grotto with waterfalls, fish ponds and rare palms under live oak canopy, and the place still works as a native-plant nursery rather than a pure event box. Catering is in-house and arrives with the tables, chairs, china and floor-length linen, and valet parking is free; the trade-off is distance, with guests staying in Miami Beach looking at an hour in the car each way.

Limestone barn beside a sunken grotto

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Planning a wedding in Miami

The license comes from the Miami-Dade Clerk at $86, dropping to $61 if you take an approved premarital course, and cards are accepted alongside cash. Florida sets no residency test and the three-day wait applies only to its own residents, so a visiting couple can apply and marry the same day within a 60-day window. A ceremony on public Miami Beach sand is a different matter: the city's ceremony permit caps attendance at 150 and the event at four hours, has to be filed at least 14 days out, and through the spring-break stretch of March and early April the city stops accepting new applications for events on public property at all. Hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 and peaks in late summer, which is why event insurance and a tent order are both real line items on a summer date rather than contingencies.

When to marry — November through April is the working season, when humidity drops, afternoon storms stop and hurricane risk has passed, with March and early April the priciest and most crowded weeks because spring break fills every hotel on the beach.
What it costs — Reported Miami totals cluster between roughly $34,000 and $60,000, with catering commonly quoted near $150 to $300 a head. Rental is the variable: Vizcaya publishes $23,000 for an evening up to 100 guests before a single plate of food, Pérez Art Museum Miami sells only a $24,000 buyout, and a Wynwood gallery costs a fraction of either.

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Questions

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What does a Miami wedding actually cost?

Reported totals sit somewhere between about $34,000 and $60,000, and catering is the line that decides it — quotes of $150 to $300 a head are normal here. Venue rental is a smaller and more variable share, and the two published numbers worth anchoring on are Vizcaya at $23,000 for an evening up to 100 guests before any food, plus $25 a head beyond that and $8,500 for the tent it requires over 90, and Pérez Art Museum Miami at $24,000 for the buyout it insists on. A Wynwood gallery costs a fraction of either. Several of the historic properties also restrict you to an approved vendor list, which removes the cheapest half of the market from your options before you start negotiating.

Can a couple from outside the United States legally marry in Miami?

Yes. Florida sets no residency or citizenship requirement, and the three-day waiting period applies only to Florida residents, so a visiting couple can apply at the Miami-Dade Clerk and marry the same day. The license costs $86, or $61 if you complete an approved premarital preparation course, and must be used within 60 days. Unlike Italy, France or Greece, there is no requirement to hold a separate civil ceremony at home — the ceremony performed in Miami is the legal marriage. To have it recognized abroad, order a certified copy afterwards and get an apostille from the Florida Department of State, or consular authentication if your country is outside the Hague Convention.

When is the best time of year to marry in Miami?

November through April is the dry season: lower humidity, temperatures in the seventies, and no daily thunderstorm at four in the afternoon. Hurricane season officially runs June 1 to November 30 and is most active from August into October, which is why summer dates are cheaper and why almost every planner here will push you towards event insurance if you take one. March and the first half of April are technically fine weather but are spring break, when Miami Beach hotel rates spike and the city stops taking new applications for events on public property.

How far ahead should you book a Miami venue?

Twelve to eighteen months for a winter or early-spring Saturday at the best-known properties — Vizcaya, the Biltmore, the Deering Estate and PAMM all lose those dates first, and PAMM only sells weddings as a full buyout. Summer and weekday dates are far easier and noticeably cheaper. Size shapes the shortlist as much as timing does: past 300 guests you are looking at the DuPont Building, the Deering Estate lawn, a Fairchild marquee, the Biltmore or a beach hotel, while PAMM stops at 250, Villa Woodbine at 225 and the Cooper Estate is listed at 100.

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Planning a wedding in Miami

When to marry — November through April is the working season, when humidity drops, afternoon storms stop and hurricane risk has passed, with March and early April the priciest and most crowded weeks because spring break fills every hotel on the beach.

What it costs — Reported Miami totals cluster between roughly $34,000 and $60,000, with catering commonly quoted near $150 to $300 a head. Rental is the variable: Vizcaya publishes $23,000 for an evening up to 100 guests before a single plate of food, Pérez Art Museum Miami sells only a $24,000 buyout, and a Wynwood gallery costs a fraction of either.