San Diego Botanic Garden is a stunning nonprofit botanical garden venue in Encinitas offering multiple outdoor ceremony and reception spaces surrounded by cultivated gardens, mature trees, tropical plants, and waterfalls. From the grand Victorian Gazebo Lawn accommodating up to 300 guests for ceremonies to the intimate Waterfall Deck overlooking a three-story waterfall, the gardens provide a variety of unique settings for daytime and evening weddings.
Pricing
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Day of week
Season
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$8,500
Saturday · Mar-Oct · Evening Wedding
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The property
A nonprofit botanical garden spanning multiple distinct outdoor garden spaces including the Victorian Gazebo Lawn, Walled Garden with historic Larabee House, Lawn House Garden surrounded by the Palm Canyon Rainforest, a Waterfall Deck, and the glass-enclosed Dickinson Family Education Conservatory.
The setting
The gardens feature lush tropical landscapes, flowering plants, mature trees, palm canyons, a three-story waterfall, exotic plant collections, and the Palm Canyon Rainforest.
The various garden spaces are surrounded by diverse botanical collections.
Numbers are the capacity the venue states for that part of the day.
Planning details
Vendor policies, timing and house rules to plan around.
Music curfew
Music until 9pm
Music volume may not exceed local noise ordinances. Electricity is available near the sites.
Rain plan
Backup plan in place
There are no facilities for inclement weather at the outdoor garden spaces. Tenting may be arranged by a rental company. The Dickinson Family Education Conservatory is a glass-enclosed indoor facility that may serve as an alternative.
If that's a dealbreaker
Amplified music ends at 9pm.
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