Melissa and Jose married at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami's Coconut Grove, and Acromatico photographed it — our first wedding at a venue we'd long loved for engagement sessions. The two are college sweethearts whose story began with a shared school project.
Vizcaya has long been one of Acromatico's favorite places for engagement sessions, and Melissa and Jose's wedding made it our favorite wedding spot too — they were the first bride and groom we photographed there. You may remember the couple from their "bookstore" engagement session earlier that May.
Their love story is a familiar-but-unlikely one: college sweethearts who met through a simple school project they worked on together. About three years later, they tied the knot. We loved photographing these two, and their wedding was a blast.
“Vizcaya is one of our favorite places for engagement sessions — now it became our favorite wedding spot since we got to shoot our first bride and groom there.”
Good to know
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a National Historic Landmark in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood, set on Biscayne Bay along South Miami Avenue. Built in the 1910s as the winter estate of industrialist James Deering, the property pairs an Italian Renaissance-style villa with formal European gardens, a stone barge breakwater on the bay, and native hardwood hammock. It is owned by Miami-Dade County and open to the public as a museum, which is why couples plan around published visiting hours and permitted-event areas.
For photographers, Vizcaya is one of South Florida's most architecturally rich backdrops: limestone arches, fountains, statuary, the courtyard, and the bayfront terrace each give a distinct setting within a single venue. Because it's a protected historic site and an active museum, wedding access, ceremony locations, and photo permissions are arranged directly through Vizcaya's events team, and rules can differ from a private estate — confirm current event policies and hours with the venue before booking.
