Los Angeles Wedding Photo.com and Los Angeles Wedding Center have teamed for South Bay Beach Wedding packages, including wedding license, officiator and wedding photography. Wedding cake, flowers, cider and chairs for guests are optional extras.

Your wedding will be on the sands of Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach or Torrance beach, and your guests (less than 50) will stand by and watch you tie the knot by the sea.

los angeles beach weddings by graham and graham

Budget One-hour Beach Wedding, $999

Wedding license and officiator services, with wedding by the sea in Torrance beach.

Photography services, with JPGs on CDs for you to have printed anywhere, delivered within 3 weeks of the wedding.

Optional cider (no alcohol is allowed on beaches) for bride/groom toasts, small wedding cake (for bride and groom) and flowers can be added for an additional $199.

This is a small wedding, intended for a handful of people to stand by and watch you get married by the sea. If you want a larger, more traditional wedding with more guests and (gasp!) chairs for them to sit on, Los Angeles County has many rules and fees that need to be adhered to.

We can offer this to you to as well, but the costs greatly go up. Read on:

los angeles beach weddings by graham and graham

The Complete Beach Wedding, $4,999:

Wedding license and officiator services, with wedding on Torrance beach.

We provide the flowers, cider for bride and groom toasts, seats for up to 100 guests, permit for using the beach.

Photography services, with JPGs on CDs for you to have printed anywhere, delivered within 3 weeks of the wedding.

The county is not keen on amplified music on the beach; we can arrange acoustic music for an additional fee.

For receptions afterwards, we recommend having your affair at the Crowne Plaza in Redondo Beach across the street.

Redondo Beach Wedding Photography

Or, do it youself....

If you want to have more than 50 people to your beach wedding, here's what you need to know:

The Los Angeles County Dept. of Beaches and Harbors requires $150 permits to hold a wedding near a lifeguard station. An additional 15% of vendors fees (what you pay florists, chair rental companies and photographers such as ourselves) goes to the county as well.

You also need to arrange for a $1 million liability insurance policy (around $100), and if you have music coming through speakers, or being performed live, you need to contact the local police department for a sound permit. Permits for beach weddings are generally arranged by asking to be positioned near a specific lifeguard tower. For more info, go to the county website, http://labeaches.info and click the permit form. The phone contact is 310-574-6756.

The following beaches are available, through obtaining permits from the Los Angeles Dept. of Beaches and Harbor, for Los Angeles beach weddings:

Burton Chace, Marina del Rey

Cabrillo, San Pedro

Dan Blocker Beach, Malibu

Dockweiler, El Segundo

El Segundo Beach, El Segundo

Las Tunas, Malibu

Manhattan Beach, various

Mothers, Marina del Rey

Nicholas Canyon, Malibu

Penisula, Marina del Rey

Point Dume, Malibu

Redondo, various