Castle Green — Attraction in Pasadena

My wife and I booked Castle Green for October 1, 2016 for our wedding. We went through several venues in the area, Lankham, Hilton, and other hotels/banquet halls, but they were either too plain or too expensive or restricted us to use THEIR catering company and vendors. We ended up with Castle Green because it just looks so rustic and beautiful, inside and out. It's over 100 years old and is a historical landmark. FYI, book it early as they do fill up fast and they pretty much are booked EVERY Saturday. Plus the venue is nice enough to do our bridal party pictures, ceremony, AND reception in one place.

Upstairs are apartments in which tenants live...so they do have some restrictions in loud music, how late you can stay, appointments to visit venue, etc...But good thing about them, you can have the ENTIRE first floor, including the lobby, ballroom, turkish/moorish room, sunroom, patios, foye, and large yard. This is great if you have a lot of people and kids (we had 200 adults and 30 kids).

We worked with Dior, the director, and Danielle, one of her assistants. They were so accommodating for us, as strict as the venue can sound. They worked with us continuously to help us move the wedding along. But be warned, they do have things due a month before, a week before, etc...which is a long checklist of things to do or show to the venue. So stay on top of things and do things EARLY. Both Dior and Danielle are super friendly and helpful and extremely approachable. THey let us visit the venue at our convenience when we needed to show vendors, our parents, etc. They even will allow us, after the wedding, to bring my wife's Grandma to come to the venue to see it as she was too sick to make it for our Oct 1 date.

Come wedding time, they provided a venue supervisor to make sure everything is being followed, including the timeline, and to make sure we don't break any of the venue's requirements. We were allowed in at 1:30pm and had to be out at 10:30pm (vendors at 11:30pm for cleanup), otherwise an $800 overtime charge per hour would have been charged. I wish they extended their hours but it makes sense cause of tenants living upstairs. Venue was gorgeous after the ceiling swags, the uplighting, and all the decorations. We all had a good time and I'm going to miss this venue. We're thinking of doing our 1 year anniversary here but it's quite a bit of money. The yearly tours may have to suffice for now :)

In summary, this is a GREAT place for a wedding or event. It's a hidden gem in old town Pasadena, close to everything, especially the bars and food! They treat you extremely well and walk you through everything. They do get behind in emails sometimes, so I recommend calling if you need something ASAP.

PS, I recommend you using their valet,...

My wife and I were married at Castle Green on 8/2/2025. We toured over a dozen venues, and we chose Castle Green for several reasons. 1) We wanted to have an outdoor ceremony; 2) We wanted to be somewhere that was easily accessible and welcoming for our many out-of-town guests; 3) We wanted a timeless aesthetic. We got all of these and much more at Castle Green!

Firstly, we loved working with Tatiana, the Director of Events at Castle Green. She was tremendously helpful and made us feel at home from our first meeting. She was very responsive throughout the course of our wedding planning and helped us book multiple tours for us to show our parents the venue when they came into town.

The outdoor space at Castle Green was excellent. We got married under the tree on the lawn. We decided to do a first look on the other side of the lawn on the benches. The hot August sun was blocked by the buildings during our 5:00pm ceremony, which was followed by going indoors for cocktail hour and dinner. The interior of Castle Green was beautiful and perfect for what we were looking for. We did the Hora which worked great in the dance space. The dining area fit our 120 person guest count perfectly.

Many of our guests came from the Midwest, the east coast, and Northern California. They found it easy getting to Pasadena from Burbank or LAX, and those visiting LA for the first time loved the vibe. We booked a room block at the Westin Pasadena, about a 3 minute drive or 15 minute walk from Castle Green.

We had an incredible and forever-memorable wedding day, and highly recommend Castle Green to anyone looking for a venue in Pasadena or the greater Los...

Because several of our friends were expecting, we had to plan our wedding on a three month timeline. While we were looking around for a venue we checked Castle Green, a historical building in Pasadena at that we had often walked by. The site coordinator Tatiana was absolutely wonderful to work with from the moment we set foot on the site all the way through the wedding day. She responded quickly to our emails, answered all of our questions clearly, and was happy to arrange site visits several times before the wedding. She was also very honest and transparent. When we asked her about the cake cutting fee, Tatiana immediately told us they don't do small, "hidden" fees at Castle Green, something we hugely appreciated. The bespoke catering provided by Little Lily Kitchen's was a unqiue proposition compared to catering at other venues and proved to be a real game-changer: everything from the hors d'ourves to the entrees were absolutely delicious. We similarly had great experiences with all of the other approved vendors we worked with from coordinator to photographer and everything in between. It was obvious all of them had formed a tight knit Castle Green family with the goal of making every event there successful. On the day-of we had Bella guiding us through the day. She was similarly a delight to work with even as whirlwind of a day as it was for us and helped to make sure we got everything we needed. Additionally, our guests unanimously expressed to us that the venue was amazing and several told us it was the best wedding they'd been to. Castle Green was the perfect venue or our wedding. We couldn't have...