These are the properties that can sleep the wedding as well as host it, from the Rosewood Miramar directly on the Montecito sand to the Ritz-Carlton Bacara on its Goleta bluff. Ballrooms, house kitchens, and banquet teams that run weddings every weekend.
Every resort in this category caters in-house, usually down to the last bottle, so read the food and beverage minimum before you fall for the lawn. Expect fees from a $1,500 ceremony charge at Mar Monte to $30,000 peak date sites at San Ysidro Ranch, plus service charges of 24 to 25 percent. A full buyout is its own line of math.
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The resort sits directly on the sand: ceremonies for up to 300 on the 8,000 square foot Great Lawn or on Miramar Beach itself, receptions in the Chandelier Ballroom.
Five hundred acres in the Montecito foothills, 41 cottages, and an adobe standing since 1825; the rose gardens seat 100, site fees run $2,500 to $30,000, and every bottle is poured in-house.
Hilltop ceremonies at the Arbor and Lily Pond, receptions in the Riviera Ballroom with its covered patio, red tile roofs and ocean below; catering stays in-house, minimums quoted on request.
The Miro Lawn holds ceremonies on a bluff over the Pacific for 300 plus guests; receptions move to the Rotunda or Grand Ballroom, and the house kitchen even bakes the cake.
Court of Califia palm courtyard or Mirador rooftop ceremonies for up to 220 outdoors; rentals run $3,000 to $26,000, with in-house dinners from about $300 per person plus 25 percent service.
The rooftop terrace looks across red tile roofs to the mountains one way and the ocean the other, sized for roughly 100 to 150 guests and catered by the hotel.
Across Cabrillo Boulevard from East Beach, with the Pacific Ballroom and Seaview together seating 250, an Ocean Lawn, beach ceremonies from a $1,500 fee, and every couple hires their own coordinator.
Twenty four acres opposite East Beach: circular Plaza del Sol ceremonies, rooftop cocktails in the Rotunda, a Grand Ballroom scaling to 800 guests, and typical spends near $35,000.
Worth the drive into Ventura County: a historic Spanish colonial resort with Hacienda Courtyard and Farmhouse Lawn ceremonies under the Topatopas, events past 300 guests, all fed by the Farmhouse kitchen.
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