We had our wedding here on 7/9/23 and we couldn't have asked for a better experience and a more beautiful venue. We had our ceremony in the gazebo on the Event Lawn, and the reception at the Peacock Cafe. We were able to take beautiful photos all around the arboretum.

Carlos and Nicole who run the on-site Peacock Cafe also take care of weddings, and they were AMAZING! Carlos helped us set up all the logistics and made sure everything we wanted was able to happen. Nicole made us a completely vegan menu (dumpling-based buffet( that was DELICIOUS! She was lovely to work with and we couldn't believe this was her 2nd-ever vegan wedding. Everyone raved about the food!

Altogether we were so happy with our experience here. Carlos and Nicole are incredibly kind and are excellent at their jobs. They also helped us secure a wonderful DJ and helped us plan a beautiful wedding while staying in budget. The whole staff at the Arboretum made the night go amazingly smoothly. I couldn't recommend them enough!

I dreamed of a romantic outdoor wedding that is both accessible and close to nature, we surveyed many popular locations in SoCal, nothing came even close to what the LA Arboretum can offer! The grounds are meticulously well kept and there are endless beautiful spots for photos, as well as an assortment of locations to choose from for the event. For our July wedding of 150, we chose the Rose Garden for the ceremony and Aryes Hall for reception. The Arboretum foundation provides the venue, the on-site caterer The Fresh Gourmet provides the catering, rentals, and service. Carlos and the team at Fresh Gourmet are extremely capable and showed genuine care and dedication to make sure our special day was everything we had dreamed of. The food was delicious, our guests had a blast! We couldn't thank them enough. Highly recommend!

I am writing this review as a 20 year event planning professional. This is a note to other planners specifically and a caution for brides and grooms.

While a lovely facility with low venue fees, this is a horrible location for a wedding for several reasons. The customer service is non-existent (great when they want you to book and then they disappear), you have to use their rental company and her customer service was almost worse than the facility staff, they say they don't have power making you rent $365 generators but they have power and outlets everywhere, they have no facility engineer on site so if a toilet backs up or someone gets sick there is no one to deal with it, there are no marked fire exits, two of the generators caught on fire, the golf cart driver became hostile in front of the bride and continued to disparage the planner to all the guests on the way to the site, there is no path lighting so we had to send guests out the service entrance while the security guards held flashlights, the public is allowed into your wedding areas until 5pm so you can't secure your things, and because they had no one watching the gate where are guests were coming through, the public was sneaking into the park after hours while two weddings were going.

Lastly, planners and coordinators. DON'T DO IT! They warned the couple when they booked that they "don't like planners because they cause trouble." Thank goodness my couple had me. It would have been a disaster.

The people in charge of the place are taking advantage of so many couples and the rental company seems to be gouging. We spent close to $1,000 on generators. Two caught on fire and one we didn't even need.