The 12 Best Beachfront Wedding Venues in Florida

A beach wedding in Florida is its own category. The aesthetic is half the work — turquoise water, white sand, a sky that does the lighting for free — and the right venue makes the rest easy. The wrong one makes you fight for parking, fight the tide schedule, fight the mosquitos.

Here are the 12 we'd send a friend to. We've visited all of them; the notes below are honest, not paid placements.

1. Cheeca Lodge & Spa — Islamorada

Cheeca Lodge & Spa is the venue most Keys couples ask about first, for good reason. It's a 27-acre oceanfront resort with a 525-foot fishing pier, multiple ceremony locations (private beach, oceanfront lawn, garden gazebo), and an event team that's done thousands of weddings. Capacity ranges from intimate beach ceremonies (40 guests) to full-resort takeovers (250+). Cheeca's main draw beyond the setting: the on-site rooms make it a destination wedding without the destination headaches — your guests stay where the ceremony happens.

Best for: mid-size weddings (80–150 guests) where guest experience matters as much as the ceremony.

2. Casa Marina Key West — Key West

Casa Marina Key West is the largest private beach in Key West, attached to a 1920s Hilton Curio Collection hotel. The contrast between historic architecture and unobstructed Atlantic views is what makes it photograph so well — your wedding album gets variety without leaving the property. Capacity tops out around 250 with the beachfront pavilion plus indoor ballroom.

Best for: couples who want Key West character without the bar-crawl chaos of Duval Street.

3. Baker's Cay Resort Key Largo — Key Largo

Baker's Cay Resort is the closest "true Keys" beach venue if you're driving down from Miami — about 90 minutes door-to-door from MIA. The property opened in 2019 after a complete rebuild, so the rooms and event spaces feel new, but the setting (mangroves, private beach, sunset-facing lawn) is original Florida Keys. Wedding capacity ranges 50–200 with multiple ceremony spots.

Best for: Keys aesthetic with new-construction comfort, and couples whose guests are flying into Miami.

4. Diplomat Beach Resort — Hollywood

Diplomat Beach Resort is the largest beachfront wedding venue in Broward County — capacity up to 1,000+ guests across multiple ballrooms and outdoor spaces. The 39-story tower means even guests on lower floors get partial ocean views. Hollywood Beach itself is one of the longest sand stretches in South Florida, with the historic Boardwalk a five-minute walk away.

Best for: big weddings (200+) where you also need 100+ rooms blocked.

5. The Surfcomber Hotel — Miami Beach

The Surfcomber is Art Deco South Beach with the beach 30 yards from the ceremony. It's the venue we recommend most often for couples in the 60–120 guest range who want Miami Beach without the Fontainebleau price tag. Pool deck for ceremony, oceanfront lawn for cocktail hour, ballroom for rain plan.

Best for: South Beach character, mid-size, design-forward couples.

6. The Bath Club — Miami Beach

The Bath Club is a private oceanfront club on Collins Avenue — the kind of venue where you have to know it exists to find it. Mediterranean Revival architecture, manicured oceanfront pool deck, rooftop ceremony space. Capacity caps around 200 indoor + outdoor combined. Membership requirements have softened in the last few years to make weddings more accessible.

Best for: old-Miami-glamour aesthetic, cocktail-attire weddings, mid-size guest counts.

7. Hyatt Regency Coconut Point — Bonita Springs

A 26-acre Gulf-coast resort outside Naples with three pools, a private island ("Big Hickory") for ceremonies, and a wedding team that handles 100+ weddings annually. Sunset weddings here photograph differently than Atlantic-coast weddings — the gulf colors are softer, the breeze is warmer.

Best for: Naples-area couples who want an island ceremony without Keys logistics.

8. Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort — Marco Island

The Marriott Beach Resort runs the length of Marco Island's main beach with a dedicated wedding pavilion that holds up to 250. Marco's defining feature is the slow-paced atmosphere — older crowd, less traffic, no high-rise sprawl. Sunsets here are postcards.

Best for: couples whose guests skew 50+, multi-generational weddings, and anyone who wants Naples-area without Naples prices.

9. The Don CeSar — St. Pete Beach

The "Pink Palace" is technically Tampa-side, not South Florida, but couples ask about it constantly so it makes the list. It's a 1928 historic hotel painted Bermuda pink, on the Gulf, with multiple ballrooms and beach ceremony options. Capacity ranges 80–500.

Best for: any couple who's seen the Pink Palace and decided that's the look.

10. The Breakers Palm Beach — Palm Beach

The Breakers is the Palm Beach standard. 140 acres, two miles of private oceanfront, six restaurants, multiple ballrooms. Pricing is at the top end of Florida wedding venues, but you're paying for legacy, service, and a property that's been hosting weddings since 1896. Capacity up to 500+.

Best for: couples whose families fly in from out of state, when no expense is being spared.

11. PGA National Resort — Palm Beach Gardens

PGA National sits on 2,340 acres with five championship golf courses and a recently-renovated ballroom complex. It's not technically beachfront — the ocean is 15 minutes away — but the resort runs a beachfront ceremony shuttle to a private stretch of Singer Island for couples who want both the beach ceremony and the resort reception.

Best for: couples who want a golf-resort wedding weekend with beach ceremony bolted on.

12. Eden Roc Miami Beach — Miami Beach

A 1956 mid-century icon (the John Lautner-style architecture) recently renovated, sitting on Mid-Beach. Eden Roc's wedding spaces split between the oceanfront pool deck and the rooftop "Ocean Penthouse" with 360° views. Capacity 50–250.

Best for: design-conscious couples who want Miami Beach without the South Beach party scene.

How to choose between them

The 12 venues above span a 5x price range. Three useful filters:

1. Capacity-first: if you're firmly under 80 guests, Cheeca, Surfcomber, Bath Club, and Eden Roc give you space without paying for capacity you won't use. If you're over 200, focus on Diplomat, Casa Marina, The Breakers, and Baker's Cay.
2. Logistics-first: if half your guests are flying in, prioritize venues with on-site rooms (Cheeca, Casa Marina, Diplomat, Surfcomber, Eden Roc, The Breakers, PGA, Marriott Marco). Off-site lodging adds 15% more coordination than people expect.
3. Aesthetic-first: Keys = casual elegance, Miami Beach = design-forward, Palm Beach = legacy/traditional, Naples-area = quiet/Gulf-coast. Pick the aesthetic, then pick the venue.

What's not on this list (and why)

A few well-known beachfront venues are deliberately omitted:

• Hawks Cay Resort: terrific resort, but the wedding spaces are pool-adjacent rather than truly beachfront. Worth a look, just not "best beachfront."
• Loews Coral Gables: not beachfront — gets included on a lot of lists in error.
• Mandarin Oriental Miami: technically bayfront, not oceanfront. Different vibe (which we love), but if you want sand-aisle, this isn't it.

Get quotes from these venues

Pick three to five from the list above and use our multi-quote form — your wedding details (date, guest count, budget) get sent to all of them with one form. Most respond within 24–48 hours, and you'll have apples-to-apples pricing within the week.

Beach venues book the fastest of any Florida category, especially November–March Saturdays. If you have a date in mind, don't wait.