33.83° N, 116.55° W · Palm Springs to Twentynine Palms · 46 venues, two counties, prices checked
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All 46 wedding venues in this directory, from Palm Springs to Twentynine Palms, with the published numbers beside each one. Each cluster has its own page carrying the permit rules and field notes for that stretch of the valley.

12 venues

01
Palm Springs
The O'Donnell House at The Willows Historic Palm Springs Inn

Completed in January 1925 as Ojo del Desierto for the oilman Thomas O'Donnell, designed by William Charles Tanner and built by Alvah Hicks. It was the highest mountainside house in town until the 1960s, and it reached the National Register in 2011. Seats 125 outdoors. A widely copied listing dates it to 1972.

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02
Palm Springs
Colony Palms Hotel & Bungalows

Built in 1936 by Al Wertheimer of Detroit's Purple Gang. Weddings take all 55 rooms.

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03
Palm Springs
Parker Palm Springs

Gene Autry bought the property in 1961 and housed his Los Angeles Angels here at spring training. The Grand Ballroom, 3,700 square feet, seats 300 at banquet and holds 400 standing. Jonathan Adler did the current interiors.

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04
Palm Springs
Avalon Hotel & Bungalows Palm Springs

Opened in 1929 as the Estrella Motor Inn to a Frank Pershing design. Capacity is published by courtyard, 100 seated in the Presidio and 180 standing at its pool. No minimums appear anywhere.

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05
Palm Springs
Riviera Palm Springs

Closed since 1 June 2026 for a seven month renovation and due back in early 2027, though its own site still takes wedding enquiries with no notice posted. Homer Rissman's 1959 resort seats 800 indoors, the largest published reception figure in the city.

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06
Palm Springs
Korakia Pensione

Gordon Coutts built the Moorish villa in 1924 and called it Dar Marroc. Elopements run $4,500, weekdays only.

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07
Palm Springs
Casa Cody

The oldest continuously operating hotel in Palm Springs, with a 1910 Adobe House named a Class 1 Historic Site in 2008 and a cellar that once held a Metropolitan Opera baritone's summer piano. Thirty-one rooms. Peak weekends go to full buyout.

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08
Palm Springs
Ingleside Estate

George Washington Smith, the architect who defined California Spanish Colonial Revival, drew the house for the Pierce-Arrow heirs. The property dates it to 1922 and several third-party sources say 1925. Thirty adults-only rooms, and no capacity figure published anywhere.

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09
Palm Springs
Twin Palms, The Sinatra House

E. Stewart Williams's first residential commission, finished for Frank Sinatra in 1947, piano-shaped pool and all, and on the National Register since January 2017. The permit it advertises is a vacation rental number. Its event house permit could not be confirmed.

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10
Palm Springs
The Frederick Loewe Estate

Built 1956, bought in 1960 by the composer of My Fair Lady, who planted the rose garden himself and lived there until he died. Site fee starts at $21,500 for three days. Event permit unconfirmed.

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11
Palm Springs
Indian Canyons Golf Resort

Owned and operated by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, which puts its land use under tribal authority and the 1977 joint-review agreements as much as under city zoning. The 1961 clubhouse is by Donald Wexler and Richard Harrison, cost $1.5 million and went up in 73 days. It takes 300 guests and more.

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Palm Springs
Palm Springs Art Museum

E. Stewart Williams designed the building, which opened in January 1976 after construction began in February 1973. Outside caterers are permitted, which is rare here. The Atrium figure of 200 at dinner comes from a third-party venue profile; the museum publishes none.

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Palm Desert & Indian Wells

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7 venues

01
Palm Desert
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens

Trustees started this zoo and botanical garden in 1970. It holds roughly 1,200 acres today, with about 80 built out as zoo and garden. Three-hour rentals are $3,300 to $7,500, before a 23 percent service charge.

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Palm Desert
JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa

Gondolas ferry guests along an indoor waterway at this 450-acre resort, open since February 1987. Marriott publishes no banquet-seated figure and no price. The outdoor numbers it does give are 3,000 reception on the Tennis Lawn and 2,550 on the Driving Range.

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03
Palm Desert
Desert Willow Golf Resort

Palm Desert built it in 1997 and owns it outright. Lakeview Terrace seats 220 with a dance floor.

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04
Palm Desert
Classic Club

The H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation owns it, along with the ground under Acrisure Arena next door. Its 63,000-square-foot Tuscan clubhouse sits on an Arnold Palmer signature course, and the restaurant, Bellatrix, has taken the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence four years running. No capacity chart is published.

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Indian Wells
Indian Wells Golf Resort

Indian Wells owns this 36-hole resort. Its main event room is glassed on three sides for 400 seated and 700 at a reception. Ceremony and reception fees of $2,500 each are venue-supplied to a marketplace, and the resort's own brochure carries none.

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Indian Wells
Grand Hyatt Indian Wells Resort & Villas

Rebranded from Hyatt Regency in September 2024 after a $64 million renovation that added 43 villas.

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Indian Wells
Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort & Spa

Five event spaces, under a name the apparel brand attached to the old Miramonte. Reception pricing from $3,000 and bar at $31 a head are venue-supplied marketplace figures. Per-space capacities are not published at all.

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Rancho Mirage & Cathedral City

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5 venues

01
Rancho Mirage
The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage

Twenty-four acres on a 650-foot bluff, reopened in December 2014 as the 86th Ritz-Carlton worldwide.

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Rancho Mirage
Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa

Its 5th Fairway is rated for 3,000 at a reception, the largest figure in the corridor.

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03
Rancho Mirage
The Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort & Spa

Formerly the Westin Mission Hills, on 360 acres at 71333 Dinah Shore Drive, and still filed under the old name by several directories. Celebrity Ballroom: 17,325 square feet, 1,280 at dinner.

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Cathedral City
Cimarron Golf Resort

John Fought designed both courses, including the 6,782-yard Boulder. A marketplace listing puts ceremonies from $500 and receptions from $1,000, the lowest entry pricing in the corridor. There are no guest rooms, despite the word Resort.

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Cathedral City
DoubleTree Golf Resort Palm Springs

Palm Springs is in the name; Cathedral City is the address, 67967 Vista Chino. Site fees supplied to a marketplace run $1,000 to $1,500 for a ceremony and $2,000 to $2,500 for a reception.

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La Quinta & the East Valley

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12 venues

01
La Quinta
La Quinta Resort & Club, Curio Collection by Hilton

Gordon Kaufmann, who later handled the exterior treatment of the Hoover Dam, drew the original twenty casitas, each named for a saint. They opened at the end of December 1926 for a January season. Frank Capra worked on screenplays in casita San Anselmo, and a 5,952-square-foot ballroom now carries his name. Forty-five acres, 718 keys.

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La Quinta
La Quinta Country Club

Lawrence M. Hughes laid out the course in 1959 and Eisenhower dedicated it in 1960, with Crosby and Hope in the inaugural round. Venue-supplied directory figures give site rental at $5,000 to $7,500 and food from $65 a head.

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La Quinta
The Chateau at Lake La Quinta

A 24-room hotel on a man-made lake, with two bungalows kept as get-ready suites. No capacity figure exists.

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04
La Quinta
Merv Griffin Estate

Merv Griffin kept fifty horses in the stables from the mid-1980s until his death in 2007, and the orchard still carries oranges, grapefruit, guava and figs. Forty acres, on the market at $36 million since April 2024. Booking continuity past a sale is not guaranteed.

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Indio
Empire Polo Club

Polo ended here in 2021 when Goldenvoice took a 28-year lease, so nobody marries beside a live match. The Forum spans 48,000 square feet. April is unavailable, and the road closures run six weeks.

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Indio
Trilogy at The Polo Club

Every space caps at 140, from the 2Palms Event Center to Reflection Lake. Outside food is barred.

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07
Indio
Coachella Valley History Museum

Its Memorial Date Garden seats 300 under date palms. The Promenade lawn stands beneath a Whittier Ranch water tower the museum's own rental page dates to 1921, and projects art onto it after dark. The campus is built around a 1926 adobe house.

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Indio
The Ranch at 38

Directory figures put rental at $8,900 an event and lodging at $2,950 a night on a two-night minimum. The venue lists the city event permit as a separate cost. Capacity 400, entirely outdoors, with no indoor space at all.

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Bermuda Dunes
Bermuda Dunes by Wedgewood Weddings

Construction began on 14 February 1958. Arnold Palmer won his first Bob Hope Classic here in 1960 and his last PGA Tour title in 1973. Wedgewood packages run $100 to $165 per guest plus a 22 percent administrative fee.

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Coachella
Old Polo Estate

Booked as a whole-property weekend for up to 200 guests, with outside caterers expected and a bar the couple stocks. Sources put sleeping capacity at 28 by one count and 60 by another. A standing Coachella event entitlement is unconfirmed.

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Thermal
The Packhouse at Aziz Farms

Mark and Nicole Tadros converted a ten-acre date farm's packing shed into an event space in 2019.

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Thermal
Cavallo Ranch

Twenty private acres where La Quinta, Indio and Thermal meet, with a four-acre polo field and an 8,500-square-foot villa sleeping twenty. It supplies the polo backdrop Empire no longer can. Its standing as a permitted event site is unconfirmed.

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Joshua Tree & the High Desert

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10 venues

01
Pioneertown
Rimrock Ranch

Built in 1947 up Pipes Canyon. It sleeps twenty-two across seven accommodations and supplies tables for 180, chairs for fifty. The venue describes itself as a licensed motel and County-approved venue; ask for the permit number before treating that as settled.

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Pioneertown
Pioneertown Motel

Nineteen rooms beside Mane Street, the 1946 film set. Amphitheatre 200 outdoors, Speakeasy barn 100 indoors.

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03
Joshua Tree
The Bungalows by Homestead Modern

Fourteen suites sleeping twenty-eight inside a National Register historic district, restored in 2022, with events capped at sixty. The bed count sits below the event cap, so half the guest list stays in town.

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Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree Retreat Center

Lloyd Wright designed eleven buildings here, the largest collection of his work anywhere. Blogs routinely credit his father. The campus joined the National Register on 17 January 2023, and no wedding program appears on its own site.

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Twentynine Palms
Rasta Rita Cantina + Venue

Reception seating tops out at 150 outdoors. The bar runs on a full liquor license the family holds, from a rate card granular enough to price the rented flute at $1.00 and corkage at ninety-nine cents a guest.

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Twentynine Palms
29 Palms Inn

Dating to 1928, when Harry Johansing and David Faries bought the hotel and 480 acres. The restaurant is fed by a two-acre organic farm on the grounds. Lawn 150, courtyard 50. Its own marketing recommends early summer, which the Park Service data contradicts.

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Joshua Tree
Hicksville Trailer Palace

Eleven themed vintage trailers sleep thirty-one on seven acres. The published fee is $2,500 for a one-day event and $4,000 for two, covering up to fifty people, with $10 for each guest beyond that. Music stops at 10pm. The County permit behind that rule is unconfirmed.

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Joshua Tree
Sacred Sands

Straw-bale construction on five private acres a mile from the park's west entrance, operating since 2007 and booking into 2028. Up to 100 guests. Marketplace figures show $3,000 for a ceremony and $4,500 for a reception. No permit is cited publicly.

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09
Joshua Tree
The Desert Lily

Sixty guests maximum, twenty-five of them sleeping on site. The owners write their noise rule as an ordinance: music and outdoor sound move indoors at 10:00 pm. No permit number is published.

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10
Yucca Valley
Tumbleweed Sanctuary, Garden & Labyrinth

A 1,600-square-foot sanctuary with a stage and a walking labyrinth. One business listing marked it closed in August 2026; its own site did not. Unresolved.

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