We booked the gardens in mid May for our wedding and it was a gorgeous wedding venue! It offers a spacious, beautiful garden teeming with blooming roses, different garden areas to explore, a super cute gazebo ceremony space, a nice cocktail area near the reception room, and the reception room with large windows for plenty of natural light. The lot has ~50 free parking spaces.

The rental rate is fairly reasonable for the venue space and what's offered. In addition to the main spaces, there's a getting ready room downstairs available to add on, seating for the ceremony, circle/rectangular (not full width) tables for dinner, and a few cocktail tables for the bar area downstairs. Management allows for a fair amount of DIYing and independent vendor selections, with the only exceptions being a preferred catering list with good selection and off list caterers allowed with a fee and vetting. Professionals also must put up any hanging decorations in the reception room, and decor can't be hung directly off of the garden structures and reception room walls. We communicated with Jenna throughout the planning process. She was super responsive and helpful, answering every question we sent her way.

Overall, I loved the gardens for our wedding and would recommend it to others!

We got married in late July at The Gardens at Heather Farm Park, and it was truly the most perfect day. This venue holds such a special place in our hearts. My husband asked me to be his girlfriend under the gazebo years ago, and later proposed under the same gazebo. Choosing to get married where it all began was a complete no-brainer.

We had a ceremony-only wedding, and the gardens were absolutely breathtaking. Every flower was fully bloomed, the grounds were stunning, and the atmosphere felt magical. So many of our guests, especially those visiting from outside Walnut Creek and neighboring cities, could not stop complimenting the venue. Many even took time to wander the gardens and take their own photos because it was just that beautiful.

I cannot say enough good things about Cathleen and the entire GHF team. They were incredible to work with and made everything feel seamless and stress-free. The weather was perfect, the venue was perfect, and honestly, everything was perfect. It was truly the best day of my life, and I will forever be grateful that we were able to say I do in such a meaningful and beautiful place.

Highly recommend this venue! We had our wedding at The Gardens at Heather Farms in mid-September and it was such a beautiful day. I was originally worried about the construction work occurring at the community center next door leading up to our wedding day, however the venue put up fencing so that this wasn’t a distraction during the ceremony. We loved how romantic and intimate this venue felt and it was a perfect size for our 75 person wedding. The entire GHF team was very helpful in answering all our questions and recommended some great wedding vendors to work with.

My wife and I got married at Heather. Farms on November 1st 2025, and we couldn't have picked a better place. The venue was very affordable. Wheelchair accessible and well maintained not to mention a very beautiful place. We would recommend Heather farms to anyone getting married. Thank you, Heather farms.

Oh where do we even begin? The Gardens at Heather Farm is breathtakingly gorgeous and perfect for our Peonies and Poppies themed, outdoor, garden wedding (peonies and poppies are our favorite flowers). Our guests were singing praises about the beauty of the Gardens at Heather Farm. One guest even mused that her garden wedding venue wasn’t as vast and beautiful as the Gardens at Heather Farm. The sunset and golden hour lighting at this garden is oh so majestic and beautiful. Our wedding photos turned out stunning! The roses, the gazebo backdrop and the lush greenery of the gardens, you really don’t need to spend a lot on decor to decorate the place, it is already beautiful on its own. The gardens and the roses were regularly maintained by volunteers and workers so they are always in tip top shape!


We decided to go with the Gardens at Heather Farm for various, multiple reasons:

1. We loved that there is an indoor hall for us to host our reception. The Camellia Room is a white blank space, perfect for us to decorate to our hearts desire. You can customize it to any color and theme that you want and it will not clash with the interior. We decided to go with a muted orange and pink, disco balls, fun games themed wedding and it turned out amazing! There is a huge window that lets in plenty of natural lighting that looks good in pictures.

2. The Gardens at Heather Farm coordinator, Jenna was a dream to work with. She replies to our emails promptly and answers all of the questions we have, even the ridiculous ones like “are there any trash cans on site?” She is professional, easy to work with and amazing! She is constantly on top of everything and makes you and your wedding feel important.

3. We love that the venue allows outside catering options (with a $1,000 extra fee), we toured a bunch of venues and most require us to use their preferred catering options. We fell in love with an outside caterer and was able to have them for our wedding

4. The venue provides chairs for the ceremony area, high tables for the cocktail hour and chairs and tables for the reception which are convenient to have. Chair and table rentals can be expensive!

5. The gardens being a public place means that we have the option to come and visit whenever we want, especially on our anniversaries. We also didn’t have any problems with random strangers wandering into the wedding considering it’s a public space.

6. No loud music curfew, we wanted to party and dance!

7. Wheelchair accessible and friendly which was a necessity for my wife’s grandmother

8. Tons of parking spaces for our guests. It was also reserved for us when there was a festival held in Heather Farms Park. We unknowingly book our wedding date during the infamous annual Walnut Festival in the Heather Farms, where the gardens are located, usually on the weekend of Sept 20th-ish. You can hear the music played during the festival but it didn’t bother us because we were having the best day of our lives.

10. There is an option to book the Rose Room which works as a getting ready place for our outfits changes

All in all, the Gardens at Heather Farm was a great find and is a beautiful and amazing wedding venue. We highly recommend it for anyone who is planning their wedding!

I hosted a surprise birthday party for my husband at The Gardens in March 2025. The booking process was smooth and seamless and I had a great experience with several of their recommended vendors including Elisa's catering. The venue and event staff were extremely flexible and answered my questions quickly. My event was beautiful and the venue allowed our guests to enjoy the beautiful scenery as well as celebrate my husband's birthday. I highly recommend The Gardens at Heather Farm for any event you are hosting, large or small.

After looking at many potential venues for our wedding this October, we decided to go with The Gardens at Heather Farms, and boy are we glad we did! This venue has a beautiful garden backdrop and an elegant Gazebo for the ceremony, an upper patio area with additional garden beds for happy hour, several great private areas for personal vows, an additional room for the wedding party to hang out in as the guests start to arrive, and a building for the reception to be held in, all within a single property that is entirely accessible even for those with mobility issues. The fact that The Gardens is a non-profit also makes them one of the more reasonably priced options in the area for a medium sized wedding.

After a Zoom consultation with Jenna where we discussed their amenities and available and our approximate wedding plans at the time, we scheduled a time to have a guided venue tour, and somehow the pictures do not do it justice! The grounds were pristine, plants extremely well kept, and the Camellia Room was recently re-done giving it a brighter look.

The Gardens at Heather Farms had all of the chairs and tables we needed for our event, provided us with options for floor plans for the ceremony and reception, and they even recommended the wedding coordinator that we decided to hire. We were able to have the wedding rehearsal on-site the day before the wedding.

If you are in the area and are looking for something to do (even if that something is not “host or attend a wedding”), I would highly recommend stopping by. As long as there is not a private event going on, the gardens are free to tour, and there are tons of different flowers, plants, and fruit trees to experience. They even have painting classes, volunteer opportunities, and they sell plants!

We are so lucky to have had our event at The Gardens at Heather Farm! We got married here in April 2024 and could not have imagined a more perfect day. Jenna was so helpful and very responsive to our questions. Our vendors took great care of us and we would highly recommend this venue this to anyone!

We got married in August 2024 at the Gardens at Heather Farms and it was an amazingggg experience. I would highly recommend it!!!
Jenna is the point of contact and she answered any question or email we reached out within 30 minutes. The venue was very clear as to what was included/not included and what was required of us to make the day go smoothly. The venue is soooo beautiful!
They do have a list of approved caterers that you can choose from. We chose Elisa's catering - the food was delicious (Everyone raved about it!) and for a great price! Juan (the owner) is also very responsive and great to work with!

My daughter and her fiancé chose The Gardens at Heather Farm for their June wedding and it was everything our families could have wished for. The Venue is exceptional. The entire garden was privatized for the event. The ceremony at the Gazebo in the rose garden was picture-perfect. The location is unique and the lovely Gazebo surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of roses in full bloom was the perfect backdrop for their special moment.

Cocktail hour was at the patio Pavilion – a large “U” shaped bar with granite countertops and covered by a vine-covered wooden pergola. It sits next to a raised bed garden space filled with flowers which provided a pleasant place for our guests to mingle and enjoy the beautiful flowers while enjoying their cocktails.

Dinner was indoors in the Camellia Room. This room is stunning. Huge glass windows around the room provide views out to the garden and the lovely lake. The neutral colors in the room were perfect for our summer wildflower color theme. There is a large deck that runs around the outside of the space which was perfect for an outdoor bar, photo booth, and our audio guest book (phone).

The Gardens provided an amazing array of beautiful places for photography and spaces for our guests to stroll and enjoy the views. The indoor space was lovely, clean, and bright. Lots of space for seating, a DJ, a cake table, a Sweetheart Table, and dancing.

The Gardens staff were experienced, helpful, and responsive during the entire process.

We would choose this venue again in a heartbeat.