Na 'Āina Kai Botanical Gardens

About

Few wedding venues anywhere offer a menu of ceremony sites like this nonprofit garden on Kauai's north shore: Kaluakai Beach, the Lotus Meadow, a Seaside Meadow, Ka'ula Lagoon, Hula Island, a formal herb garden, a Japanese teahouse, an oceanfront residence overlooking the lagoon, and a 123-acre hardwood forest planted with 23 tree species whose cathedral-straight trunks have become the signature backdrop. Na 'Āina Kai states it can accommodate weddings 'for 2 or 150,' which puts everything from a witness-only elopement to a full destination celebration on the table, with the Seaside venue handling the largest groups. The 240-acre property at 4101 Wailapa Road in Kilauea operates primarily as a botanical garden and sculpture park — more than 90 bronze sculptures are scattered through the grounds — so wedding photography here ranges across formal gardens, beach frontage, and forest canopy without leaving the property. Because it is a working nonprofit garden with public tour days, event scheduling works around garden operations, and site fees are quoted through the events office rather than posted. For couples drawn to the hardwood forest in particular, it is one of the most distinctive ceremony settings in the state, repeatedly singled out by Kauai photographers and planners.

Specialties

• Elopements
• Micro Weddings

Areas served

Kauai · North Shore Kauai