Key Largo Lighthouse Beach Weddings

While this was not our choice for our wedding venue, we still had a great time touring this venue. The staff is very customer focused and treated us very well. The venue is beautiful and great for a destination wedding. I would recommend this venue to anyone wanting a beach wedding!

Key Largo Lighthouse is absolutely amazing. I would HIGHLY recommend this venue. We had a destination wedding and booked the property without visiting first. We held both our rehearsal dinner and our wedding here. The property and the house are absolutely beautiful! The house is large and very clean. The property is very well taken care of and the way everything is set up was perfect! Lynda, the property manager, was wonderful. She was there for everything that we needed and was so sweet and welcoming. Our guests and anyone who sees our photos mentions how beautiful it is and have all said it was the best wedding they have every been too. I cannot say enough good things about the Key Largo Lighthouse Beach, it was much more than we could have imagined it would be. We wanted a place to go where our entire family and friends could spend time together and we were able to stay at the house for a couple days before and after the wedding which made our wedding even more special. I would go back tomorrow!

I just returned from a wedding at the Key largo Lighthouse. The venue itself is beautiful. The outdoor areas are lovely and perfect for a beach wedding. The lights in the trees, the boardwalk aisle, the Palm trees, the pier… just gorgeous. This was the most beautiful wedding I have ever attended.
However, there were a few issues.
1– the grounds were always swarming with workers that we felt could have come at more appropriate times. (i.e. early morning). A prime example was the pool guy, who was there late morning, when we all wished to be in the pool, NOT waiting for him to test the water and then strip down to his trunks and get in to work on the pool. Awkward.
2– the air conditioning in the house worked really well on the bride’s side; not nearly as well on the groom’s side.
3– no working ice maker. Seriously? In the Keys? It’s hot as all get out and there are two 1970-​style ice cube trays.
It is 2015. Who uses ice cube trays?
4– we felt as if we were being yanked out of the house at check out time. There was literally a clean up crew standing at the door waiting to invade the house as we rolled out our luggage. Wow, don’t let the door hit us on the way out!
It gets worse. Before check out time, the grounds crew had already begun cleaning the outside of the house, including washing the windows. That was rather disarming to have window washers at the windows looking in as we are getting dressed to leave. Oh, and our goggles and snorkel equipment that they threw away at the pool? Not cool.
The house definitely lost its special charm when we realized that they were just shipping one bride out to get the next one in. So much for the personal touch.
Maybe don’t book so tightly, Key Largo Lighthouse. And PS) there is no lighthouse.

This review is just offered as a warning to those couples in the planning stages of their wedding and looking into Key Largo Lighthouse. My fiancé and I had found this beautiful venue online and reached out to the owner Mariana. A contract was provided by Mariana for us to sign but it included an $ 1800 non-​refundable deposit that we would have to make site unseen. We were reluctant to do that, as most couples should be, and asked Mariana if we could fly down from NY for a tour. Working with her to ensure we were not conflicting with onsite guests, she confirmed a Thursday appointment at 2:30 in three weeks from the day. Subsequent to her confirming this, we booked plane tickets from NY to Miami and hotels to coincide with this scheduled visit.
Two days prior to our scheduled tour, I emailed Mariana to reconfirm and she stated that the tour was cancelled. Essentially she said that because we asked if the price was negotiable, she decided to cancel the tour. I honestly thought she was just mistaken with her timeline so I resent her copies of our email correspondence with timestamps that first showed us asking about negotiable price, her saying no, and us stating that we were ok with price as discussed and would like to schedule the tour. Subsequent to that exchange, she finally granted us the tour when I told her all we wanted to do was ensure the venue looked as beautiful in person as it did online and would be willing to give the deposit on the spot during our tour if that was the case. Despite this, she still said the tour was cancelled and began responding with generic copy/​pasted responses not even addressing the issue. I requested a phone call with her but she would not speak via phone. I explained that we spent $ 1000 in flights and hotels and took Thursday/​Friday off of work specifically to visit her venue on those days because she confirmed the tour and all I received was generic responses and a refusal to speak with me by phone.
This review is mainly to make other couples wary of flying down there and this site-​unseen non refundable deposit if they are in a similar situation. I cant really comment on the venue itself other than to say it looks beautiful online but we never got the chance to see it in person. Thankfully, we were able to schedule last minute tours of other venues while we were down there and our 200 person wedding will take place at a much more gracious and professional venue.

A friend of ours got married here tonight and we were so impressed with the venue. It’s a beautiful house with a lighthouse in the back, right on the water facing the ocean. It was so quiet, elegant, and tranquil… and we didn’t even go inside the actual house! We absolutely loved it and and highly recommend couples looking for a wedding venue in the FL Keys to consider this place.