How Do I Pull Off a Public Park Evening Wedding??

My advice? A bride in a white, formal gown and a groom in great suit or a tux are taking a few risks with a public park wedding. I'd suggest you keep shopping around unless you want a really casual vibe. You live in San Diego. My family lives in San Diego. I've visited them several times during my life time (and it's never more attractive than when I'm visiting them in the cold, naked, frozen, and barren winter months in the northeast). I've been there in February, June, October, and other months. The weather is damn near perfect.

If you can afford an outdoor wedding at an established wedding venue, do that. Public park weddings (in any state of the US) have something that private venue weddings don't have -- the public. Treat yourself. Don't allow Doug the dog walker or Jane the jogger to stop, mop their brow, and stare at your wedding. Dogs barking, relieving themselves in the general vicinity, skate boarders, people with IBS running into the park bathroom your guests are using...I don't know...maybe I'm a snob.

If you can afford to do a private venue, you will be treated as royalty, if only for the day. If that isn't important to you, then do a park wedding. Like I said, maybe I'm a snob, but I'd rather host 20 people privately than 150 people publicly.

I'm with CP. While we do plenty of outside/public park weddings, they are almost always under 10 guests. Then everyone saunters off to a 'real' venue, sometimes with many more guests.

Do a venue; many of the ones I work at are gorgeous, with beautiful outside spaces, views of the NYC skyline, forests, waterfalls...you name it.

Yes, and cutting down the guest list isn't really an option for my fiance's big Persian family (which is fine), and we really want to have it at night for the dancing and party atmosphere. We've definitely decided against a public park at this point, thanks to all the replies!

The only way this works (as mentioned) is with a tiny wedding- not a full fledged guest list.

With that many people- you're better off finding an actual venue who can do all those things for you.

My sister just had her wedding at the grand tradition estate and it was gorgeous, probably the cheapest of all the 'venues' we've gone to look at, mt woodson is gorgeous too like she said^ and yes having a venue that can do a lot for you is great. We're having our wedding at a family friends ranch out in boulevard so Im doing the whole DIY thing....Ive heard of weddings done at flynn spring park (I know that sounds ghetto) but I recently went to a bday party there and when I pulled in to the parking the attendant asked if I was there for a wedding, I drove thru the entire parking lot and found the bday I was attending at the end of the park and the entire time I was there i saw no wedding Im assuming the park is so large that they'd be uninterrupted, its a gorgeous park!! oh summers past is also pretty and cheaper (not sure of the size or if it fits your style) GOOD LUCK!