Maravilla Gardens Reviews
Reviews
4.8 out of 5 rating
4.8 out of 5 rating
57 Reviews
95% recommend it
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Erica L. Sent on 05/09/2023A unique and unforgettable wedding day
We just had our wedding at Maravilla Gardens and it was one of the most beautiful, magical, wonderful experiences of my LIFE. The venue itself is just so unique and beautiful. The planning team, Jenn, Mel, Keith, Robert, Gidget etc are just masters at wedding planning and so the entire process was so easy and helpful. All of our guests loved the California feel to the venue and how unique it was. Maravilla constantly updates their own rentals, decor and services so it's always building. We also rented the day of getting ready house which was a life saver and saved me so much stress and worry about transportation. Mel is a dream come true month of coordinator and was very responsive and professional. We were so happy to have met her. Jenn was with his most of the earlier planning process and her and Gidget helped with all of the set up to throw it over the Mel. Keith and Robert for Command Performance Catering were amazing and so informative and helpful when building our wedding menu. We had multiple guests asking if the catering had a restaurant as well! Everyone absolutely loved the food, the atmosphere, the venue and everything that made our day as unique and magical as I could have ever imagined. -
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Wendy J. Sent on 06/19/2022Beautiful venue, great experience!
Maravilla Gardens is not only breathtakingly beautiful, but also a well-organized, accessible, and comfortable venue both for the wedding party and the guests. We just celebrated our daughter and son-in-law’s wedding there and were very happy. Everyone commented on the beautiful setting – green and flowery, and shaded in all the right places. The ceremony, cocktail area and reception space are each right next to one another and the paths are wide and smooth – easy for everyone, even high heels and wheelchairs. The late-afternoon/evening event was warm and lovely. They put out the heat lamps at just the right time when it started to be chilly – perfectly placed and unobtrusive. There is a frame over the reception area that really adds to the ambiance and also provides support if it rains. The sound system is brand new and sounds great! The team at Maravilla is organized and personable and they know their stuff. Our outside planner and the Maravilla planners worked well together we felt confident and supported at every step. Jen, the venue owner, has an amazing barn full of beautiful and unique items she searches out to add to whatever ambiance you want to create. There are air-conditioned “getting ready” spaces for both halves of the wedding party. Bathrooms are spotless and plentiful. The caterer they use, Command Performance, is excellent and it was so nice to have the venue and caterer work together as an experienced team. We are so glad we got to celebrate at Maravilla and would choose them again in a heartbeat! -
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Jaimee K. Sent on 07/14/2022Like a Hidden Gem
I am a DJ so I work at a lot of venues in So Cal. When my wedding came around, I decided to use Maravilla because it is literally designed for weddings. They have a built in surround sound system for the DJ to patch into, the space is beautiful, the gardens are amazing, and it's perfect for larger weddings but also smaller more intimate weddings like mine. I will just let you see the photos for yourself.
Even my photographer was blown away with how many perfect places there are to get magazine quality shots there. -
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Nancy Sent on 07/18/2012Let me start my review of Maravilla Gardens by saying it is a visually stunning venue for a wedding! The grounds are beautiful, bursting with spectacular flowering blooms and greenery. Our weather was absolutely perfect – not too hot during the day, and just cool enough once the sun set. For our daughter and son-in-law who were married there in June, 2012, it was their perfect day and everything they had dreamed of, and all of our guests had a fantastic time! The Command Performance Catering manager, Robert, was a joy to work with, and the food was fantastic! The Maravilla staff, from owner Jo to her daughter Jen, to our day-of-coordinator Erin, were a pleasure to work with - very professional, helpful and accommodating. A simply perfect day!!
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Tiffeny H. Sent on 10/26/2019
Maravilla Gardens- The perfect venue!
We were just married at Maravilla Gardens on 10/19/19 and thanks to Jen, Erin, Rob and Command Performance the day was perfect. During the planning process, I must of visited the venue 20 times. Jen was so accommodating and made me feel right at home. The venue was beautiful and Jen & company provided vender recommendations and helped make the process seamless. Everything was perfect and my guests couldn't stop raving about the venue and the food.
There is also a beautiful house on the property that sleeps ten available to rent. Myself and my bridal party stayed in the house the night before which made getting ready a breeze. My husband and I stayed the night of our wedding. Very peaceful and quiet. -
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Karrie M. Sent on 09/04/2019Beautiful Venue
We had our wedding on 8/17/19 at Maravilla Gardens. The venue is quite amazing!! Jen was super helpful in arranging for us to have our wedding there and Mel, our coordinator, was sooo super helpful. One can not say too much on how beautiful the grounds are!! All the wonderful different flowers, trees, and lawn well kept. The views in all directions will not disappoint!! Everyone there was amazed and could not help but take many photos of their own. So happy we were able to have our wedding at Maravilla Gardens! We had a Perfect Day!! You will not go wrong with this venue. -
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Ali Sent on 11/18/2018Maravilla Gardens rescued our wedding and we are so grateful
Our booked wedding venue had to cancel on us the day before our wedding due to wild fires in Malibu Canyon. By the time we learned this news, however, our incredible wedding planner, Jessica Foster Planning, had already been in touch with Jenn at Maravilla Gardens! Maravilla had ended its wedding season a couple of weeks prior, but so sweetly reopened to rescue our wedding! The grounds are beautiful and everything worked out so well. Our guests’ agreed that they couldn’t imagine what our initial venue was like because Maravilla was such a perfect location! My family and I agreed that we would have booked Maravilla from the start had we known how lovely it was initially. Thank you SO MUCH Jenn & Maravilla Gardens! -
Jennifer Sent on 08/04/2018I had been searching for the perfect outdoor wedding venue in a garden location and one night I came across Maravilla Gardens through a Google search. After scrolling through their website I knew this location was everything that I was looking for and more. We quickly contacted them and booked a site tour. The in person visit was even more beautiful and I was constantly in awe of the location and the services that they offered. A few days after our visit we booked our date. Jen was great to work with and boy does she know her stuff! Each meeting was so productive and I left feeling more comfortable each time. So many people kept asking me if I was stressed out planning a wedding and working with Jen and her team helped make the planning process a lot easier. I loved how Maravilla Gardens provides almost everything you need. We loved working with their caterer, Command Performance Catering, our coordinator Mel was beyond amazing and we also ordered most of our rentals through MVG which was so convenient. All of our guest could not stop talking about how beautiful the location was and how seamless the day was. We truly had the best day ever and loved everything about our wedding day. We can’t thank Jen and her team enough for everything they did. Everything about Maravilla Gardens was truly perfect for our wedding.
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User2502553 Sent on 01/12/2016The venue is absolutely beautiful. The view of the cocktail area and reception is amazing, even at dark. I remember when entering the reception area for the first time, I got surprised myself. I hadn't seen the venue at night before and with the lights in the trees it looked so gorgeous. Jen is really helpful, she made sure that everything went as planned. I am really happy with our choice of venue. -
User2185943 Sent on 06/18/2015My wedding day was flawless and stressless! Everything turned out better than I even imagined. My dream wedding was made possible because of this venue, the staff, my coordinator and all the preferred vendors! -
User2391357 Sent on 10/26/2015I’m not sure where to even start with this AMAZING venue. Our wedding day was perfect, and the planning process was streamlined and simple from start to finish (said no bride ever, right?!!). The venue itself is incredibly well thought out and always manicured to a 10+ —each space provides guests with a unique and different “WOW” factor (ceremony, reception & cocktail), while remaining cohesive and consistent. I LOVE that you can customize things to your hearts content at Maravilla with the use of their rentals (or outside rentals); or have a simple wedding that focuses on the natural beauty of the venue-the space doesn’t need anything, but the option is there if that’s what you love. The staff is kind, courteous, timely and professional, and they don’t leave anything to guesswork (attention to detail is their thing). Maravilla is also a great value… without looking like it! Who wouldn’t want that! Their list of vendor references is on point if you need assistance in other aspects of planning, and their catering partner, Command Performance Catering, is outstanding. I was initially a bit hesitant about being “locked in” to a catering company as my husband and I are total foodies (as were many of our guests), but fear not, as CPC totally rocks and the options are basically limitless. We can’t thank Jen/Maravilla Gardens enough for such a positive experience…our guest were blown away the entire evening and everyone really felt like family from start to finish. If I could do it all over again…I would choose Maravilla and I wouldn’t change a thing! If that’s not a rave review I don’t know what is. A million THANK YOU’s for our favorite night ever. S+ S -
User2387516 Sent on 10/24/2015"My husband & I got married at Maravilla Gardens in April 2015. After months of searching for the ideal outside venue, we found everything we wanted at Maravilla. We loved that it was a family owned business and fell in love with its beauty both on site and with the backdrop of the mountains. We also thought it was neat that we could rent items (ie: barn door and LOVE sign were some of our favorites). In doing a travel theme for our wedding we came to Jen with the thought of having our small cake along with an airplane piñata displayed somewhere around a tree. She came up with a fantastic idea of hanging the cake and then had her husband make a cake swing for us!
During our wedding, we had the wonderfully talented Erin working with us. Her calm demeanor and genuine smile made the night run smoothly and put us at ease that everything was going to plan throughout the day/night. We also want to thank Rob with Command Performance Catering for the amazing food and dining experience. I would also highly suggest going with DJ’s and florists off Maravilla’s recommended list as it lowers the stress level because they know the venue and staff. We had Henry from VOX DJ’s and Janet from Greenwich Florist. We would give them both 5 stars!
Throughout the wedding and at the brunch the day after, we got many comments such as, “This is the best wedding I have ever been too!” I would like to take some of that credit, however, the majority of the credit goes to the Maravilla Gardens staff, their expertise and their love for weddings.
Maravilla Gardens, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for making our wedding day, the most MAGICAL day ever! We truly had the best time and thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
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