Willow Woods Weddings
Everyone you love, under the same hundred-year-old pines
Willow Woods Park is a small wedding venue near Lake Arrowhead — five minutes away, thirty-five from Big Bear Lake, high in the San Bernardino Mountains where a logging camp stood a century ago. Thirty to eighty guests, cabins and forest that need no decorating, and a coordinator called Katie who runs the whole day for you.
A micro wedding fills this place rather than rattling around in it, and so does a full eighty — either way, nobody is spread across a room built for two hundred.
Vows under old growth trees, dinner under the lights, and one setting holding the whole thing together from the first look to the last toast.
Some afternoons the sun comes straight down through the trees and lands on the aisle.
Nobody arranges it. It is what this clearing does in the late afternoon, and it has been doing it since long before the cabins went up.
It is also why photographs taken here on somebody’s phone come out looking like a person was paid to light them.
The shape of the day
From vows beneath the pines to the last song at nine
You get ready in two of the 1920s cabins, a short walk from the aisle. Your guests park, come in under the trees, and sit down in the open air. You marry at the arch, with the waterfall behind you. Then drinks and photographs while we reset the space behind you, and dinner goes out at round tables as the lights come on. The last song is at nine, and Lake Arrowhead — where everyone is staying the night — is five minutes down the road.
Our couples say it best
“The night was beyond anything we could have imagined. Our photos look like they are straight out of a Pinterest board, and we will be dreaming about this day for the rest of our lives.”
“Willow Woods was all I could ever want as a bride because it felt like an enchanted forest from a storybook. I loved the rustic and whimsical aesthetic, the cute 1920s cabins, the woodsy outdoors, and the pizza!”
Sucely D.Verified · Yelp“We worked with Katie from first meeting all the way through, and she was a big part of what sold us on the location.”
Justine F.Verified · Yelp“Willow Woods Park is such a unique and special venue. It's perfect for anyone looking for an intimate outdoor experience.”
Skyleigh BreedenVerified · Google
Read every review on Google, Yelp, The Knot, and WeddingWire.
Why couples book it
What the photographs cannot tell you
- Small on purpose
- Thirty to eighty. Most venues on this mountain start at sixty and are built for a hundred and fifty, which is how a forty-person wedding ends up feeling under-attended in a room meant for three times the number.
- Nobody gets back in a car
- Vows, dinner, and dancing all happen within a few hundred feet of each other. No shuttle between the ceremony and the reception, and nobody misses the toast because they were looking for the next room.
- Nothing to decorate
- Hundred-year-old pines, 1920s log cabins, garden paths, and lights strung through the branches. Couples send us their Pinterest boards and then realize they have booked one.
- Everyone sleeps five minutes away
- Lake Arrowhead is a mile down the road and has the full range of it — hotels, inns, cabins, and rentals at every price. Your people pick what suits them rather than what a venue block leaves them with.
Choosing your date
May through October is this mountain at its finest
That is when the light comes down through the canopy, the evenings stay warm enough to dance in, and the forest does the thing everyone books it for — so those weekends are the ones that go first. Come to us with a date range inside it as early as you can, and we will tell you honestly what is still open.
The two packages
Two wedding packages, and the difference is dinner
Traditional is from $199 per person and covers the park for 5 hours — set up before you arrive, staffed, coordinated, and cleaned up after you leave. Catering is the one piece left to you. Premium is from $239 per person and hands you dinner as well, from one of two menus — the LouEddie's artisan pizza experience, or a secret menu of two hand-carved proteins and three sides — plus a sixth hour and a rehearsal. There is no separate venue rental fee and no service charge — sales tax is the only addition. Forty guests on Premium comes to roughly $9,600 before tax, against a starting point closer to $23,000 at comparable venues near Lake Arrowhead.
Already here
You will not be renting any of this
All of it comes with both packages, and none of it costs extra. Most of it shows up as a line item everywhere else on this mountain.
- The day
- At least five hours of event time, not counting setup or clean-up
- The whole property to yourselves, with the ceremony and reception set up before you arrive
- Two of the 1920s cabins as dressing rooms for the wedding party on the day
- Day-of coordination
- Everything cleared away and cleaned up after you leave
- Ceremony
- The ceremony arch, with the waterfall behind it
- A chair set out for every guest, in the open air
- A gift table and a guest book table
- Reception
- 60-inch round dining tables and banquet chairs
- Floor-length linens and napkins in white, ivory, or black
- A sweetheart table and a cake table
- An area set aside for dancing
- Buffet tables, plates, glasses, and flatware
- Non-alcoholic refreshments
- Cake cutting and serving
- Service staff throughout the event
Wedding FAQs
What couples ask about weddings
If yours is not here, ask us instead.
- Willow Woods Park address
- Willow Woods Park28561 State Hwy 18Skyforest, CA 92385
Planning guides
Practical guides for couples planning a wedding
- What is a micro wedding?A micro wedding is a full wedding for 50 guests or fewer. What changes at that size, what stays the same, and what it costs: about $7,200 before sales tax for 30 guests with dinner.Read the guide
- How to plan a small wedding: a 12-month timelinePlan a small wedding month by month, from guest list to final week, with a 3 to 6 month fast track.Read the guide
- Where do wedding guests stay near Lake Arrowhead?Where wedding guests stay near Lake Arrowhead: hotels, inns and lodges, vacation rentals, and how a room block works. All within 15 minutes of Willow Woods Park.Read the guide
Next step
Walk it once and you will know
Tours take about an hour and are by appointment. Bring whoever is helping you plan, and we will show you where the ceremony, the dinner, and the dancing would actually go.
