Wedding and Travel Blog

Every dream wedding has a distinct style and every style must find its ideal location. California offers the advantage of great ambiance diversity, whether you're looking for intimate and elegant, grand and lavish, adventurous and unconventional, or romantic and free-spirited. Some venues allow little flexibility when it comes to size, options or price, but many of the best California locations will allow you to get creative, spend more on what's really important to you and save on non-essentials, while providing an unforgettable, storybook wedding experience.


Wayfarer's Chapel
Located overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California, the Wayfarer's Chapel was designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of the renowned Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a stunning, intimate sanctuary made almost entirely of glass set in the midst of a forest garden. The unique chapel will accommodate up to 100 guests and four attendants each for the bride and groom. It's open to all faiths and same-gender weddings. You can invite your own minister to participate, but the chapel's minister must conduct the majority of the ceremony. The Wayfarer's Chapel is for wedding ceremonies only; receptions aren't permitted.

Electra Cruises
Electra Cruises provides spectacular private yachts for elegant, open-sea wedding ceremonies and receptions. Its fleet of five ships range from The Electra, which can accommodate from 50 to 100 guests, to The Eternity, suitable for 150 to 330. Located in Newport Beach, it offers a full-service wedding planner and all services for both ceremonies and receptions. All details are first class: food servers are dressed in full tuxedos; settings are china, silver, crystal and linen (no paper, stainless steel or plastic anywhere); and menus are customized.

Kenwood Inn and Spa
The Kenwood Inn and Spa offers a romantic, rustic-yet-elegant wedding at a Mediterranean villa-vineyard in the Sonoma Valley. The garden setting includes fountains, ponds and garden landscaping surrounded by scenic vineyards. Kenwood allows the wedding party to take over the entire inn. It can accommodate the rehearsal dinner, bridal luncheon, 58 overnight guests, and wedding receptions up to 100, and it can even be the honeymoon destination. The Kenwood Inn and Spa is on Condé Nast's 2011 Gold List -- The World's Best Places to Stay.

Hotel Del Coronado
The Hotel Del Coronado, named the #2 Best Place in the World to Get Married by the Travel Channel and Readers Choice for Best Place to Get Married by Ranch & Coast, can provide an intimate or grand, festive or formal, traditional or trend-setting wedding inside the historic hotel, outside in the garden, or on one of its many private beach sites. Your options are virtually unlimited at this ultimate seaside resort. The historic Victorian landmark is spread over 28 oceanfront acres on Coronado Island, just over the Coronado Bay Bridge from San Diego.

For whatever place your dream destination wedding is held there are sure plenty of venues or places to hold it and make it a desirable place fitting for that memorable event even if you do have california wedding or Hawaii wedding nothing is impossible.