Melissa and Alex married at the Cruz Building in Coral Gables, FL, across three floors of richly decorated space. Guests enjoyed a five-course meal on the second floor, dancing on the third, and a grand entrance descending to the first floor for the couple's first dance.
It's not every day you get to reunite with past clients, and at this Cruz Building wedding we ran into almost everyone we knew — a small world with all our clients together in one room celebrating Melissa and Alex. You might remember these two from their barn engagement session. They finally tied the knot, and they really are true sweethearts.
The party unfolded across three floors. Every guest gasped entering a venue like they'd never seen — a photographer's playground we couldn't stop shooting. The second floor held the dining room, where guests were pampered to a fine five-course meal, while the third floor offered another stunning space to dance, with up-lights lighting up the ambiance and a balcony where we captured the sunset right beside the dance floor.
Their grand entrance came down from the second floor to the first, where guests waited for the first dance. Capturing that from above freezes everything around the bride and groom. The father-daughter dance brought tears — staying composed while everyone cries and you see dad shed his first tear. And those stairs and brick walls? Stunning.
“Every single one of the guests gasped as they entered a wedding venue like they've never seen before — it was definitely a photographer's playground.”
Good to know
From the five-course dining room to the third-floor dance floor and that sunset balcony, the Cruz Building in Coral Gables gives every angle richness. If you're dreaming of a wedding with that kind of detail, we'd love to capture yours.
View our photographyThe Cruz Building is a historic landmark in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood, one of the city's oldest and most walkable districts on the shore of Biscayne Bay. Its multi-floor layout makes it an unusual wedding venue: a celebration can move vertically through the building, with a separate floor for dining, dancing, and quieter moments, plus balcony space that opens to the South Florida sky.
Couples searching for a Cruz Building wedding photographer should know the venue rewards a photographer who works the full height of the space — the staircases that connect the floors, the brick walls, and the third-floor balcony at sunset are among its strongest backdrops. Acromatico is a family-run photography and brand studio, founded in 2004, working across South Florida and New York City with a dark fine-art aesthetic well suited to interiors lit by colored up-lights and golden-hour balconies.
