Top 15 Hollywood Wedding Venues: Capacity, Cost and How Each One Photographs
We photograph and film weddings across Los Angeles, and Hollywood is the part of the county where the gap between a venue's photographs and a venue's contract is widest. A rooftop that looks endless in a listing seats sixty. A ballroom that quotes $2,000 to get in the door quotes $180 a head to fill it. A garden with the best light in the neighborhood shuts the music off at nine. This guide gives you the numbers first. What each of these fifteen venues holds, how it charges, what it forbids, and what its rooms do to a camera at seven in the evening.
Quick Answer: Hollywood wedding venues run from about $2,000 for a hotel room rental to $50,000 for an all-inclusive creative campus, with most couples landing between $8,000 and $25,000 on the venue line alone. Capacity across the fifteen below spans 50 to 650 seated guests. The three numbers that decide your shortlist are guest count, catering policy and the hour your music has to stop. Los Angeles couples spent an average of $44,740 on the whole wedding in 2025, with $16,400 of that going to the venue.
In this article
- What counts as a Hollywood wedding venue
- The 15 Hollywood and West Hollywood wedding venues
- How much does a Hollywood wedding venue cost?
- Which Hollywood venue fits your guest count?
- Hollywood, the Strip and West Hollywood: what changes block by block
- What to ask a Hollywood venue before you sign
- How we photograph and film Hollywood weddings
- Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as a Hollywood wedding venue?
Four districts get sold under the word Hollywood, and they behave differently on a wedding day. Hollywood proper sits between Franklin and Melrose around Vine and Highland, and it holds the historic hotels and the banquet complexes. Hollywood Hills starts above Franklin and trades parking for views. West Hollywood is a separate city with its own noise code. The Sunset Strip is the mile and a half of Sunset Boulevard inside West Hollywood.
The practical difference is jurisdiction. West Hollywood writes its own rules on amplified sound and enforces them, Los Angeles writes its own, and Beverly Hills attaches conditions directly to the rental agreement at its city-owned properties. A venue two blocks from another venue can give you an extra hour of dancing or take one away. We have kept two properties on this list that sit just outside the district line, Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills and The Ebell in Hancock Park, because every Hollywood shortlist we have been sent in the past three years had at least one of them on it.
The 15 Hollywood and West Hollywood wedding venues
Each entry gives you the district, the capacity, the pricing model and what the room does with light. Rates are what the venue or its listing published at the time of writing. Every one of them sits before service charge and tax, and in Los Angeles that runs 21 to 25 percent on food and beverage.
1. The Hollywood Roosevelt
District: Hollywood proper, 7000 Hollywood Blvd Capacity: up to 650 seated across the property Pricing: from $2,000 for a room, in-house catering and bar On-site lodging: yes
The Roosevelt is the hotel across the street from the Chinese Theatre that hosted the first Academy Awards in the Blossom Ballroom in 1929, and it runs the widest range of rooms of anything on this list. The Blossom Ballroom is 4,500 square feet. The Oscar Room takes 200 seated, the Academy Room 110 to 150, the rooftop 24 to 200, and the Cinegrill Theatre 45. That spread is the reason the entry price looks low: $2,000 buys a small room on a weekday, and a Saturday in the ballroom with dinner for 200 is a different conversation entirely.
Best for: couples who want a Hollywood Boulevard address, with a guest count that could still move by fifty in either direction.
Photo and film note: the ballroom is dark and warm, and it wants lighting brought in. Pushed ISO will not save it. The rooftop faces the Hollywood sign side of the hill, so the ceremony backdrop and the sunset are on opposite ends of the deck. Pick one when you set the ceremony time, because you will not get both from the same position.
2. Yamashiro Hollywood
District: Hollywood Hills, 1999 N Sycamore Ave Capacity: up to 175 Pricing: room rental plus food and beverage minimum, published by space and by day Catering: in-house only
Yamashiro is the hilltop Japanese palace above Franklin with the city laid out below it, and it is one of the few venues in Los Angeles that publishes its full minimum structure. The Garden Courtyard runs $1,500 rental plus a $4,000 food and beverage minimum Monday through Thursday, $2,500 plus $5,000 Friday and Sunday, and $3,000 plus $6,000 on Saturday. The smaller Sky View Room starts at $900 plus $2,000. Buffet menus run $85 to $95 per person and bar packages $30 to $45. Valet is $9 per vehicle.
Best for: 100 to 150 guests who want the view to be the decor and would rather read a rate card than request a quote.
Photo and film note: the courtyard is the best ceremony light in the Hollywood Hills for about forty minutes before sunset, and the pagoda roofline throws hard geometric shade before that. The drive up Sycamore is single-lane and slow, so build fifteen extra minutes into any plan that moves the whole party up the hill.
3. Taglyan Cultural Complex
District: Hollywood proper, 1201 Vine St Capacity: 300 plus, up to 500 Pricing: all-inclusive through in-house Divine Catering Guest minimum: 150 Sunday through Friday, 250 on Saturday
Taglyan is the ballroom and formal garden complex a block off Sunset that most large Armenian, Persian and Indian weddings in Los Angeles pass through at some point. Catering, bar, rentals and staff come through the house. The number to read first is the minimum: a Saturday here starts at 250 guests whether or not you have 250 guests. That single line disqualifies more couples than the price does, and it is the reason we put it above everything else in this entry.
Best for: 250 and up, formal, with a full-service house that runs the whole floor.
Photo and film note: the garden holds even light late because the surrounding wall shades it before the sun is down, which is a gift for a ceremony at 5:30 in June. The ballroom is chandelier-lit and gold, so white balance drifts warm across the night and has to be set per room. One setting for the whole night will not hold.
4. Lombardi House
District: Hollywood proper, 1717 N Van Ness Ave Capacity: garden and house, up to 28 overnight guests Pricing: flat rental, published rate card Catering: outside catering allowed, $1,500 buyout
Lombardi House is the white Victorian farmhouse with a lawn behind it, sitting in the middle of Hollywood on a residential block. It is the most transparent rate card in this guide. Six hours runs $5,850 Monday through Thursday and $6,850 Friday through Sunday. Nine hours is $8,075 and $9,075. Twelve hours is $10,300 and $13,300, and a three-day weekend is $19,000. Extra hours are $950 plus $150 per venue manager. The 14 percent City of Los Angeles tax is already inside those numbers, which is unusual and worth knowing when you compare it against a quote that has not been grossed up yet.
Read the required extras before you build the budget: security at $45 per hour per guard with a four-hour minimum, restroom attendants at $250 each, mandatory valet, and a 4 percent card processing fee. The date is held with a 25 percent non-refundable deposit.
Best for: 100 to 150 guests on a raw-space budget, with the appetite to hire the caterer and the rentals themselves.
Photo and film note: the lawn faces west and goes fully golden about an hour before sunset, and the house porch stays in open shade the whole time, which gives you two usable light qualities twenty feet apart. Getting ready upstairs is small and north-facing, so the rooms hold soft even light all morning.
5. Serra on Vine
District: Hollywood proper, 1161 Vine St Capacity: 175 seated, 225 standing Pricing: from $7,000 for ceremony and reception Alcohol: outside alcohol permitted with licensed bartenders
Serra on Vine is a converted industrial space two blocks from the Capitol Records building, with two full bars, a commercial kitchen, a green room and an outdoor patio with water features. The alcohol policy is the money line. Bar is the second largest variable cost at a Los Angeles wedding after food, and a venue that lets you buy your own liquor and hire licensed bartenders moves several thousand dollars off the total at 150 guests.
Best for: 120 to 175 guests who want an urban room and control over the bar.
Photo and film note: high ceilings and hard surfaces mean bounce flash actually works here, which is rare in LA venues built out of stucco and dark wood. The patio water features are the only reliable outdoor element. They read best after dark with uplighting, and at sunset they disappear.
6. Casita Hollywood
District: Hollywood proper, 1323 N Highland Ave Capacity: up to 195 seated Pricing: from $5,500, raw space Parking: on-site for up to 27 cars
Casita is a walled indoor and outdoor property on Highland with a fountain, a fireplace patio and a commercial kitchen, rented as a raw space where you bring your own caterer and vendors. The walls do real work: Highland is a loud six-lane street, and the courtyard drops the traffic out of the audio almost completely.
Best for: 120 to 195 guests on a shorter budget who want an outdoor reception without leaving central Hollywood.
Photo and film note: the courtyard is the venue and it faces open sky, so midday ceremonies get hard overhead sun with nowhere to hide. Anything after 4:30 in summer is fine. Twenty-seven parking spaces against 195 guests means most people arrive by rideshare, and the drop-off on Highland is worth walking before the day.
7. NeueHouse Hollywood
District: Hollywood proper, 6121 W Sunset Blvd Capacity: 250 seated, 500 standing Pricing: from $50,000, all-inclusive Catering: in-house, food and beverage and rentals included
NeueHouse occupies CBS Columbia Square, the 1938 broadcast complex on Sunset where Orson Welles worked, now a members club and event campus. Six rooms run from Studio A at roughly 10,000 square feet down to a 1,000 square foot mezzanine, with outdoor terraces above Sunset. It is the most expensive entry on this list and the one that hands you the fewest decisions, because food, beverage and rentals all come through the house.
Best for: 200 to 250 guests, a design-led evening, a budget where the venue line alone clears $50,000.
Photo and film note: Studio A is a broadcast studio, which means black surfaces, controllable light and no windows fighting you. It is the closest thing in Hollywood to shooting on a stage. The terraces face south over Sunset and hold late warm light against the building's white facade.
8. Sunset Tower Hotel
District: Sunset Strip, 8358 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood Capacity: Terrace up to 250 seated and 500 standing, Duke's 150 seated Pricing: starting $30,000, reception $15,000, bar $20 per person Food and beverage minimum: none required
The Art Deco tower on Sunset with the pool terrace over the basin is the most photographed hotel exterior in West Hollywood, and the absence of a required food and beverage minimum is genuinely unusual at this level. The Knot lists the venue starting at $30,000 with couples typically spending $100,000. Zola lists the same property starting at $40,000 with capacity up to 500 seated. Both are accurate for what they measure, and the difference is a good illustration of why a starting price is a filter rather than a budget.
Best for: 150 to 250 guests, an evening built around the terrace, a budget that can absorb a six-figure total.
Photo and film note: the terrace faces south and west over the city, which puts the sunset behind your guests during a 6 pm ceremony and in your subjects' eyes at cocktail hour. We shoot portraits on the east side of the deck for the first half hour and move west as the sun drops. The lobby and the stairwell are the strongest interior black and white in the building.
9. The London West Hollywood
District: West Hollywood, 1020 N San Vicente Blvd Capacity: 201 to 250 Pricing: Knot Estimate $34,300 average On-site lodging: all-suite hotel
The London runs a rooftop with a pool and a skyline view, a ballroom, a garden and a tented option, which makes it one of the few West Hollywood properties that can move an entire wedding indoors on two hours' notice. Catering, bar, planning, rentals and staff come through the hotel. The Knot Estimate is modeled from real weddings at the property and is explicitly not a quote, so treat it as a market position instead of a number to budget against.
Best for: 180 to 250 guests. A hotel weekend where nobody gets in a car, and a June date where marine layer is a real possibility.
Photo and film note: the rooftop is high enough to clear the buildings west of San Vicente, so it holds direct light later than street-level venues in the same neighborhood. The ballroom is neutral and bright, which is easy to shoot and gives you nothing for free. Portraits belong on the roof.
10. Andaz West Hollywood
District: Sunset Strip, 8401 Sunset Blvd Capacity: up to 160 Pricing: starting $24,000, couples usually spend $50,000 On-site lodging: 219 rooms
The former Continental Hyatt House, the hotel Led Zeppelin got thrown out of, now runs a glass-walled Panorama Ballroom, a rooftop pool deck and a lounge for cocktail hour. Valet, glassware, linens, tables, setup and cleanup are quoted inside the package, which is worth checking line by line against a raw-space quote before you decide one is cheaper than the other.
Best for: 120 to 160 guests, a rooftop ceremony, a guest list that mostly needs rooms.
Photo and film note: the Panorama Ballroom is floor-to-ceiling glass on the west wall, so a 6 pm reception in summer gets blasted with direct sun and a 6 pm reception in December is already blue. The room changes character by month more than any other interior on this list, and the timeline should be built backward from that wall.
11. Sunset Marquis
District: West Hollywood, 1200 Alta Loma Rd Capacity: up to 50 guests Pricing: inquire, twelve event spaces on the property Peak season: April through October
The Sunset Marquis is a villa property on a residential street just below Sunset, and the number that matters is the capacity. Fifty guests, at a hotel that sounds like a large venue. This is a micro-wedding and rehearsal-dinner property with gardens, a restaurant and a recording studio in the basement, and reading it as a 200-person option wastes a site visit.
Best for: 30 to 50 guests and a garden dinner, for couples already looking at an intimate format.
Photo and film note: the gardens are mature and dense, which means dappled light through most of the afternoon and very little of it after 4 pm in winter. The villas give you private getting-ready space with real windows, which is rare at this size in West Hollywood.
12. Gracias Madre West Hollywood
District: West Hollywood Design District, 8905 Melrose Ave Capacity: full buyout 200 seated, 300 standing Pricing: starting $10,500 Catering: restaurant, in-house
A 5,000 square foot restaurant buyout with a garden patio, olive trees and a fireplace, bookable in sections: full buyout, dining room, full patio, private dining room, or a quarter of the patio for 30 seated. That granularity is the reason it belongs on a Hollywood shortlist. Very few venues here will sell you a piece of themselves for a 40-person dinner and the whole property for 200.
Best for: 40 to 200 guests who want a food-first evening in a room that already looks finished without a rental order.
Photo and film note: the patio is the shot, and it is shaded by the olive canopy, so it stays soft while the street outside is still harsh. Interiors are warm-toned and low-lit, which needs a light brought in for the reception and rewards it immediately.
13. Greystone Mansion and Gardens
District: Beverly Hills edge, 905 Loma Vista Dr Capacity: up to 250 outdoors, receptions capped at 150 Pricing: $5,000 to $15,000 for ceremony and reception, $2,000 to $3,200 for a one-hour ceremony only Sound cutoff: music must end by 9:00 PM Photography permit: city permit included in the rental
The Doheny estate is city-owned, which explains both the price and the rules. Outside catering is allowed from an approved list, alcohol has to be poured by a licensed bartender, a wedding coordinator is required, and the city has to approve decorations. The 9 pm music cutoff is the line that decides whether this venue works for you, because a ceremony at 5, dinner at 7 and a hard stop at 9 leaves roughly forty minutes of dancing.
Best for: couples whose priority is the property and the daylight, with the party moving somewhere else afterward.
Photo and film note: this is the strongest architectural portrait location within twenty minutes of Hollywood. The included city photography permit removes the most common friction at public estates. Shoot the formal terraces early, when the balustrade shadows are long and the limestone is not blown out. By 8 pm you are working entirely with practical and brought-in light.
14. The Ebell of Los Angeles
District: Hancock Park edge, 743 S Lucerne Blvd Capacity: up to 300 Pricing: $40,000 off-peak to $48,000 peak, ceremony $1,000 to $1,500, reception $10,000 to $12,000, bar $75 per person Peak season: May, October, November, December
The Ebell is a 1927 Italianate clubhouse with two ballrooms, an art salon, a courtyard garden and a 1,200-seat theatre, and its site fee is the most inclusive on this list: bridal suite, chairs, china, cleanup, event planning, flatware, glassware, lighting and sound, linens, parking, setup and tables. Catering is in-house. The peak and off-peak split is real money here, an $8,000 swing on the same room for a date in September against a date in October.
Best for: 200 to 300 guests who want a formal room with period architecture and would sooner buy one number than assemble twelve.
Photo and film note: the courtyard garden holds even shade nearly all day because the building wraps it, which makes it the most forgiving ceremony location on this list for a midday start. The theatre is a portrait set on its own, and it is worth asking for twenty minutes in it while the room is dark.
15. The Magic Castle
District: Hollywood proper, 7001 Franklin Ave Capacity: inquire, private events handled case by case Pricing: not published Access: entry only as the guest of a member present, or with a guest pass and photo ID, strict dress code, 21 and over except during weekend brunch hours
The Victorian mansion on Franklin that houses the Academy of Magical Arts is on almost every Hollywood venue list, and almost none of them mention the part that decides everything. It is a private club. Access runs through membership and sponsorship. There is a dress code enforced at the door, and it is a 21-plus room outside of weekend brunch. There is no published wedding rate. We are including it with those conditions stated because a couple should know them before they spend two weeks trying to book it
Best for: couples with an existing member connection, an adults-only guest list and a small evening.
Photo and film note: every room is dark wood, red walls and low tungsten, and the club has historically been protective of photography inside. Confirm in writing what you are permitted to shoot and where before you book anything, because the answer shapes the entire coverage plan.
| Venue | Capacity (seated) | Published starting rate | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hollywood Roosevelt | up to 650 | from $2,000 per room | flexible guest count on Hollywood Blvd |
| Yamashiro Hollywood | up to 175 | $900 to $3,000 rental plus $2,000 to $6,000 F&B | published rate card, city view |
| Taglyan Cultural Complex | up to 500 | inquire, 150 to 250 guest minimum | 250 plus, full-service house |
| Lombardi House | garden and house | $5,850 to $13,300 flat | raw space with a public rate card |
| Serra on Vine | 175 | from $7,000 | outside alcohol, urban room |
| Casita Hollywood | 195 | from $5,500 | walled courtyard, short budget |
| NeueHouse Hollywood | 250 | from $50,000 all-inclusive | design-led, decisions handled |
| Sunset Tower Hotel | 250 on the Terrace | from $30,000, no F&B minimum | Strip landmark, city view |
| The London West Hollywood | 201 to 250 | $34,300 Knot Estimate | hotel weekend with a rain plan |
| Andaz West Hollywood | 160 | from $24,000 | rooftop ceremony, 219 rooms |
| Sunset Marquis | 50 | inquire | micro weddings and rehearsal dinners |
| Gracias Madre WeHo | 200 | from $10,500 | food-first, bookable in sections |
| Greystone Mansion | 150 reception, 250 ceremony | $5,000 to $15,000 | daylight and architecture, 9 pm stop |
| The Ebell of Los Angeles | 300 | $40,000 to $48,000 inclusive | formal 1927 rooms, one number |
| The Magic Castle | inquire | not published | members, adults only, small |
How much does a Hollywood wedding venue cost?
Plan on $8,000 to $25,000 for the venue line at most Hollywood properties, with a floor near $2,000 for a small hotel room on a weekday and a ceiling past $50,000 for an all-inclusive campus. Los Angeles couples spent an average of $44,740 on the entire wedding in 2025 at an average of 108 guests, and $16,400 of that went to the venue. Hollywood sits at or slightly above that county average.
The published number is a filter, and the contract is a different document. Four things sit between them.
Service charge and tax. Los Angeles venues that handle food and beverage add a service charge in the 21 to 25 percent range on top of the food and bar subtotal, and sales tax on top of that. On a $30,000 food and beverage spend that is $6,300 to $7,500 before the tax line. The published starting price never contains it.
City tax. Los Angeles charges 14 percent on venue rental. Lombardi House builds it into the quoted rate, which is why its numbers look higher than comparable raw spaces and then turn out not to be.
Guest minimums. Taglyan requires 150 guests Sunday through Friday and 250 on Saturday. A couple with 140 people pays for 250 on a Saturday date. Minimums are the fastest way a reasonable per-head price becomes an unreasonable total, and they are almost never in the listing.
Required extras. Lombardi publishes what most venues leave for the contract: mandatory valet, security at $45 an hour per guard with a four-hour minimum, restroom attendants at $250 each, a $1,500 buyout to bring your own caterer, and 4 percent on card payments. Assume every raw space has a version of that list.
Three pricing models are in play across this list, and they are not comparable at face value. A flat rental like Lombardi or Casita buys you an empty building, and catering, rentals, staff and bar come on top. A rental-plus-minimum structure like Yamashiro sets a floor on what you spend inside the house. An all-inclusive like NeueHouse, Taglyan or The Ebell quotes a single number that already contains food, staff and rentals. A $6,850 raw space with $22,000 of catering, rentals and staffing behind it costs the same as a $29,000 all-inclusive, with more of your weekends spent building it.
Which Hollywood venue fits your guest count?
Guest count filters this list faster than budget does. Here is the map.
Under 50. Sunset Marquis caps at 50 and is built for it. The Roosevelt's Cinegrill Theatre seats 45. Gracias Madre will sell you a quarter of the patio for 30 seated. At this size you are looking at a dinner, and the venue question turns into a restaurant question. Our [INTERNAL LINK: /la/intimate-la-wedding-venues "guide to intimate LA venues"] covers the format properly.
50 to 150. The widest field. Yamashiro's Garden Courtyard, Lombardi House, Casita, Serra on Vine, Andaz and the Roosevelt's mid-size rooms all live here. This is also where raw space is most competitive, because the catering bill has not yet grown large enough to make an all-inclusive package look efficient.
150 to 250. Sunset Tower's Terrace, The London, NeueHouse, Gracias Madre at full buyout, Greystone for the ceremony with dinner elsewhere. Bar and staffing scale hard through this band, and the all-inclusive houses start winning on total cost even when their headline is higher.
250 and up. Taglyan, The Ebell, and the Roosevelt's ballroom. Three venues, and one of them requires 250 minimum on a Saturday anyway. Above 300 guests in Hollywood proper the field narrows to Taglyan and the Roosevelt.
Hollywood, the Strip and West Hollywood: what changes block by block
The districts differ in four ways that show up on the day: the sound cutoff, the parking, the traffic and the direction the light comes from.
Sound. West Hollywood prohibits amplified sound between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. under its municipal code, with permitted exceptions issued by the City Manager, and the standard is whether the sound is plainly audible at twenty-five feet. Los Angeles has its own code, and individual venues attach stricter conditions than the city requires. Greystone stops music at 9 pm by rental agreement. Ask for the cutoff in writing and build the timeline backward from it, because an hour of dancing removed from the end of the night is an hour removed from the film.
Parking. Valet is mandatory at most Hollywood properties and priced per car or per event. Casita has 27 on-site spaces against a 195-guest capacity. Yamashiro charges $9 a vehicle up a single-lane hill road. Neither is a problem once you know, and both become one at 5:40 pm when the ceremony was called for 5:30.
Traffic and distance. Twenty minutes on a map between Hollywood and Beverly Hills is forty-five on a Saturday at 4 pm, which is exactly when the light is worth the most. Any timeline that moves the couple between two locations in the last two hours before sunset is a timeline that spends its best light on Sunset Boulevard.
Light. Hollywood venues sit against a hillside that runs east to west, so properties above Franklin lose the sun earlier than the numbers suggest, and rooftops on the Strip hold it longer. The haze that residents complain about works as a diffuser on camera and is a large part of why LA evening light looks the way it does. The marine layer that sits over the basin from late May through July is a planned condition here, and even overcast light is often better for portraits than hard sun. What it does change is timing: a courtyard that reads golden at 6 pm in June sits in flat shade at 4 pm in November. We calculate the portrait window backward from sunset at your specific venue on your specific date.
What to ask a Hollywood venue before you sign
Seven questions. Each one has cost a couple money when it went unasked.
What is the guest minimum, by day of week? Saturday minimums are frequently double the weekday number.
What is the food and beverage minimum, and does the service charge count toward it? At many venues it does not, which raises the real floor by a quarter.
What time does amplified music have to stop, and is that the city rule or your rule? Venue rules are usually stricter than the code.
Is valet mandatory, and is it per car or a flat event fee?
If we bring an outside caterer, what is the buyout, and is there an approved list? Lombardi charges $1,500. Greystone requires an approved caterer and a licensed bartender.
What does the venue require from our photographer and videographer? A certificate of insurance is standard. The restrictions that surprise people are the ones on drones, on lighting stands, on where a camera may stand during the ceremony and on shooting in specific rooms. Get them in writing before the contract, and send them to us.
What is the load-in window and the hard end time? A four-hour load-in on a 12-hour rental is a different event from a one-hour load-in on the same rental.
How we photograph and film Hollywood weddings
We are a two-owner studio. Andrew is an award-winning film director, with Best Short Documentary at Venezia Shorts Italy, Best Editing at the New York Indie Shorts Awards, and a Grand Jury Winner at the FFTG Awards. Roma danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for ten years, then moved into film. He produced those same shorts, and he produces every wedding we shoot. Between us we have shot commercial work for Adidas, Nutella and Mercedes. The awards are for short films, and what they mean for a wedding is that the documentary eye and the edit are where the two of us actually live.
Photography and film run off one timeline in our studio. On a photography package the second photographer is the other owner of the studio. On a photo and film package Andrew photographs and Roma films, and on the eight and ten hour tiers a second photographer and second videographer join from a small group we have worked with for years. A six-hour photo and film wedding is the two of us and nobody else on the call sheet.
What that changes at a venue like the ones above is coordination. One team means the ceremony is covered from angles that were agreed in advance, and it means the person planning the portrait window is the same person who knows the ballroom goes warm at 8 pm.
A few specifics that matter in these rooms. Audio comes from two independent sources, a feed from the venue's sound board for the ceremony and the speeches, and a directional mic on camera, with lavalier mics available on request. Drone coverage is included in the packages, subject to what the property and the airspace allow, and central Hollywood has restrictions worth checking early. Where a portrait location needs a shoot permit, we file it in advance and the city or county fee is billed to you at cost. Finished galleries run 400 or more frames on six hours, 550 or more on eight, and 700 or more on ten. Photographs are delivered within 30 days and the film within six months. The gallery stays open for six months.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Budget $8,000 to $25,000 for the venue at most Hollywood properties, with a hard floor near $2,000 for a small hotel room on a weekday. Los Angeles couples spent an average of $44,740 on the whole wedding in 2025 at an average of 108 guests, with $16,400 of that on the venue. Service charge of 21 to 25 percent, sales tax and a 14 percent city tax on rental sit on top of most published figures.
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A public marriage license in Los Angeles County costs $91. The Board of Supervisors voted in September 2025 to raise it to $176 effective October 17, then delayed the increase after objections from the wedding industry, so $91 remains the current fee. A civil ceremony at a county office is $35 and a witness is $20. Several wedding sites already publish $176 as though it were in force. Confirm the current figure with the Registrar-Recorder before you budget.
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Twelve to eighteen months for a Saturday between May and October, and nine to twelve months for a weekday or a date in January through March. The constraint in Hollywood is rarely the room. Venues with guest minimums release Saturdays last, and hotel properties block wedding dates around award season and major convention weeks, which removes chunks of the calendar in a way that is not visible until you ask.
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Most of the fifteen above hold both, and the ones that do not are worth knowing early. Greystone Mansion caps receptions at 150 while allowing 250 for a ceremony and stops music at 9 pm, which is why many couples use it for the ceremony and move the party. Restaurant venues like Gracias Madre run the ceremony on the patio and dinner inside the same buyout.
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Some do and most do not. Casita Hollywood and Lombardi House are raw spaces where you bring a caterer, and Lombardi charges a $1,500 buyout for the privilege. Greystone allows approved outside caterers with a licensed bartender. Taglyan, NeueHouse, The Ebell and every hotel on this list run in-house catering with no outside option.
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West Hollywood's municipal code prohibits amplified sound between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., with exceptions available by permit from the City Manager. Individual venues often set an earlier cutoff in the rental agreement, and Greystone Mansion in neighboring Beverly Hills ends music at 9:00 p.m. Ask for the venue's own cutoff in writing, because it governs your timeline more than the city code does.
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It changes the schedule more than the results. Hillside properties above Franklin lose direct sun earlier because the ridge cuts it off, so the golden window arrives and ends sooner than a sunset time suggests. Access roads are narrow and slow, which affects when guests actually arrive. We calculate the portrait window backward from sunset at the specific property and build the timeline around it.
Talk to us
If you have two or three of these on a shortlist, send them over. We will tell you what each room does at your ceremony time, where the portrait window sits on your date, and what that venue is likely to ask of us before we walk in
