Florida's answer to the barn wedding is the botanical garden and the open waterfront lawn: Ann Norton's banyan-shaded sculpture gardens on the Intracoastal, Grandview's tropical courtyards, and oceanfront and lagoon-side terraces from Jupiter to Delray. The look is palms, coral rock, and water rather than weathered wood.
The variable is weather, not rustic charm. An outdoor Palm Beach date lives or dies on the humidity and the June-through-October storm calendar, so a real rain plan, tenting with sidewalls and cooling, and a hard call time for the ceremony are non-negotiable, and peak-season dates go first precisely because they dodge the afternoon downpours.
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A two-acre riverside garden of towering brick monoliths and rare palms on the Intracoastal, giving West Palm couples a sculptural, banyan-shaded ceremony setting.
A restored 1920s Mediterranean bed-and-breakfast near downtown West Palm whose brick courtyard and pool garden host intimate, get-ready-on-site weekends.
A historic lakeside chapel and garden on the island's Intracoastal shore, shaded by one of Florida's oldest kapok trees, a ceremony-only site couples pair with a nearby reception venue.
A restored 1899 Victorian home wrapped in the lush Taru botanical gardens, now part of Delray's Sundy Village district, where koi ponds and tropical plantings make a garden ceremony feel jungle-deep.
An after-hours tropical-garden setting in West Palm's Dreher Park, where lakeside lawns and fountain plazas suit couples wanting a lush, unconventional evening.
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