A 55-acre living museum with five current event areas, including the Celebration Garden, Moon Viewing Garden, Garden of Fragrance, and Redwood Grove, each with different access, scale, and time limits.
Planning and guest experience
Choose the rental by the event you are actually holding. Current options range from a one-hour micro-ceremony for up to 20 to a ten-hour Celebration Garden event; other spaces have earlier end times and different limits. Confirm privacy, public access, parking, accessibility, approved vendors, electricity, amplification, setup and cleanup, and the exact weather plan before building the timeline.
Light and photography
Do not try to tour the full garden. Pick one nearby portrait route that fits the contracted space and available light, complete important family groups before guests disperse, and protect the fixed rental window—especially when everyone must travel to a separate reception.
Questions to confirm
- Confirm the exact rooms, capacity, and contracted access window
- Walk the complete guest route before finalizing the timeline
- Resolve parking, accessibility, weather, sound, and the real end time
- Keep portrait travel shorter than the social time it replaces
