Lakeview Gardens

About Lakeview Gardens

Umatilla, Florida | Outdoor + Garden Weddings

Some couples walk through the gardens and can already picture their wedding here.

Lakeview Gardens is an outdoor wedding venue in Umatilla, Florida, surrounded by mature oak trees, gardens, open countryside, and lake views. Located about 20 minutes from Mount Dora and within easy reach of Orlando and Ocala, it feels removed from the city without being difficult for your guests to reach.

There are two distinct places to say “I do.”

Sunset Grove offers a lake-view ceremony for up to 150 guests, with open sky and honey-gold evening light as the sun begins to drop.

For an intimate ceremony of up to 70 guests, the Garden Gazebo is surrounded by the gardens for a completely different feel.

After the ceremony, guests can gather around the pool for cocktail hour before moving to the terrace for dinner and dancing under the market lights. Later in the evening, if your crowd wants to jump into the pool, they can.

Start with the experience we recommend

Our all-inclusive experience combines Enjoy Your Blooms with The Essentials, bringing together the venue and primary services needed to keep your wedding day running smoothly. Day-of coordination is included, and our team is there to help throughout the planning process.

You’ll also have two personalized design sessions where we work through your ceremony, guest experience, tables, linens, centerpieces, and reception details together.

You still have choices when it comes to the people helping bring your wedding together. Use our preferred vendors, bring vendors you already love, or combine the two. We don’t require an in-house-only vendor team.

And you don’t have to save all your questions for a scheduled planning call. Lakeview doesn’t meter communication, so when something comes up, you can reach out.

Get ready here, and stay a little longer

Private getting-ready spaces include an upstairs suite overlooking the lake and gardens and another suite with a kitchen, TVs, and pool table.

The Garden Cottage, located about two minutes from the venue, is also available exclusively to Lakeview Gardens couples and their guests, giving you the option to turn wedding day into more of a weekend together.

Because outdoor weddings in Florida also need a weather plan, Lakeview monitors the forecast and arranges tent coverage when established rain or extreme-heat thresholds are met. Coverage varies by package.

Why couples choose Lakeview Gardens:

Sunset Grove lake-view ceremonies for up to 150

Garden Gazebo ceremonies for up to 70

Pool-area cocktail hour and outdoor terrace receptions

All-inclusive options with room to personalize

Day-of coordination included

Personalized design sessions

Preferred vendors or the freedom to bring your own

No metered communication

Garden Cottage wedding-weekend option

Florida weather contingency planning

Lakeview Gardens is also part of a working pine farm, with roots in land that has been cared for long before weddings were celebrated here.

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