Bali Hai Golf Club Weddings in Las Vegas

Bali Hai Golf Club is a golf course on the Strip itself, at 5160 South Las Vegas Boulevard, with its entrance beside the Welcome to Las Vegas sign and Mandalay Bay next door. The wedding venue inside it is called Cili at Bali Hai Golf Club. A wedding there usually runs as an outdoor ceremony on the course grounds, among tall palms and white sand, then a reception on a patio with glass walls. The venue takes weddings of 50 to 250 guests, according to its WeddingWire listing as of 2026, so a 50 to 200 guest wedding sits comfortably inside that range.

I’m McKenzie. I’ve photographed weddings every year since 2010, more than 300 of them, and one of those was at Bali Hai. Every photograph in this article is from that one day. The first thing I’d settle at this venue is your ceremony start time. There is no roof over any of it, so the time of day decides what your photographs look like. High afternoon sun is the hardest light there is to photograph a wedding in, and the last hour before sunset is when this property looks its best.

Who runs weddings at Bali Hai Golf Club?

The golf course and the wedding venue are one business, run by Walters Golf. The wedding side has its own name, Cili at Bali Hai Golf Club. That’s the name to use when you inquire, and it’s the name every wedding directory lists it under.

Searching that name turns up something confusing. Cili’s restaurant listing on Yelp is marked closed, updated June 2026, because it stopped serving regular walk in dining and now takes events booked in advance. Weddings are still running, and the venue keeps a live wedding inquiry form. The one thing it changes for you is how you see the space in person. You can’t drop in for dinner to look at the room, the way you could at a restaurant venue, so book an appointment.

How many guests fit at Bali Hai Golf Club?

The venue takes weddings of 50 to 250 guests, per the WeddingWire listing as of 2026. That is the only wedding capacity figure any listing publishes. No listing gives a separate seated count for each space, so the number for your own space has to come from the venue.

Here is what the spaces are and what each one does.

Space	Indoor or outdoor	What it’s used for
The outdoor ceremony site	Outdoor	Ceremony, out among the palms, white sand and greenery
The Waterfront Patio	Both	Ceremony, with floor to ceiling glass that slides wide open. Also the weather backup
The Island Patio	Both	Reception, with floor to ceiling windows and string lights overhead
The Bali Hai clubhouse	Indoor	The rental includes exclusive use of the clubhouse and the venue sites

The top of that range deserves a second look. A room holds fewer people once you add a dance floor, a DJ and a cake table, so the highest number on a listing is the most that space can hold in the best case, and the number of guests the venue seats at your wedding will usually be lower.

What does a wedding at Bali Hai Golf Club cost?

The venue quotes each date individually, so there’s no single number I can hand you. What is published is the site rental fee, the hours it covers, and the price of an extra hour. Those pieces are worth knowing before you inquire.

The site rental runs $3,500 to $5,000 depending on your total guest count, and it covers both the ceremony and the reception. That rental buys five hours of event time, not counting setup and cleanup, and each additional hour is $600. A food and beverage minimum applies to all events, on top of the rental fee. Those figures are from the Wedding Spot listing, with the same rental range and five hour figure on Zola, both seen in September 2026.

The food and beverage minimum is the number that changes the most from one wedding to the next, because it depends on your guest count and your date. The venue asks couples to inquire for exact minimums in its off peak months, which it lists as January through March, August, November and December. If you see a full wedding total on a directory listing, that is somebody’s estimate rather than a quote, so plan against the number the venue gives you for your own date. If you’re building the rest of your budget at the same time, I’ve written separately about what a wedding photographer costs in Las Vegas.

What’s included in the venue rental?

The rental is a buyout, so you get the property rather than a room inside a busy building. From what the venue and its listings publish, the rental covers:

• Exclusive use of the Bali Hai clubhouse and the venue sites
• Your choice of indoor and outdoor ceremony, cocktail hour and reception sites
• Complimentary valet parking
• Setup and cleanup
• Tables, chairs, china, flatware, glassware and a dance floor
• White garden ceremony chairs, gold Chiavari chairs with white pads, six foot round banquet tables, and floor length ivory linens and napkins
• Bottled water to welcome your guests
• A one hour wedding rehearsal, subject to availability
• Bridal lounge access starting two hours before the ceremony

Catering is in house. You pick from a plated dinner, chef attended stations or a full buffet, and the culinary team builds the menu around your dietary needs and your budget. Wedding packages include the option of a full beverage package with craft cocktails, wine, beer and non alcoholic selections, available for up to four hours of bar service.

There is one gap in those numbers, and no listing puts them side by side. The rental covers five hours of event time. The beverage package covers four. So a ceremony plus a five hour reception leaves an hour at the end of your night that the beverage package does not pay for, and nothing published says what an extra hour of bar service costs. It’s a small gap that changes your total, and it’s the kind of thing couples find out after they’ve signed.

Can you bring your own photographer to Bali Hai?

The venue doesn’t publish a vendor policy, so this one isn’t settled either way. The wedding directories describe all inclusive packages where couples don’t have to line up outside vendors, and the one exception those listings name is a photographer. Read one way, that means photography is the piece you hire yourself. But it’s one ambiguous line in a listing rather than a policy the venue states, and nothing published says whether there’s a preferred vendor list, an exclusive one, or no list at all.

So ask before you sign, because it’s much harder to fix afterward. If you’re still working out who you want, here’s how I’d go about choosing a Las Vegas wedding photographer.

Where does the ceremony happen, and how does it photograph?

The venue describes two ceremony settings. The first is outdoors on the course grounds, surrounded by palm trees, white sand and greenery. The second is the Waterfront Patio, where floor to ceiling glass slides wide open for an indoor and outdoor feel, and that same patio is the weather backup if your date turns bad.

The ceremony I photographed was the outdoor one, on grass in bright afternoon sun. White folding chairs in two blocks with an aisle down the middle, a floral arch at the front, palms standing behind it, and the clubhouse’s covered patio along one side. A unity candle table was set beside the water before guests arrived, and the couple lit the candle during the ceremony.

If you’re wondering whether your guest list fits out there, remember that the ceremony site is a lawn and not a room. There are no walls setting a limit, so how many people fit comes down to how the chairs are laid out. The setup I photographed was the standard one: two blocks of chairs facing the arch with the palms behind it, and a full aisle down the middle. Ask the venue for the seated number they’ll set on your date. The ground itself is not what would limit a wedding this size.

The background in those photographs is palm trees. There are no mountains behind you and no skyline. The property has tall thin palms spaced far apart over green grass and bright white sand, which is unusual for a course out here, where the desert landscaping is usually rock and gravel. There’s a lake in front of a low clubhouse with a green roof, and the palms reflect in the water.

The Strip shows up only if you go looking for it. From one spot in the palms, the gold Mandalay Bay and Delano towers and the tip of the Luxor pyramid stand up behind the trees. That’s the frame that makes it obvious you got married in Las Vegas, and it’s one spot on the property rather than the view from everywhere.

Nobody publishes which direction any of the ceremony sites face, and I can’t tell you either. So don’t try to work out your light from the photos on a listing. My frames from that ceremony are in high, bright afternoon sun, which is what an early start looks like out there.

What time should your ceremony start at Bali Hai?

Work backward from sunset. For an outdoor ceremony on an open course like this one, I ask for a start about two hours before the sun goes down. That puts your vows in softening light instead of hard overhead sun. It leaves room right afterward for family and wedding party photos while everyone is still in one place. And it protects the last hour before sunset for the two of you out on the course, which is the hour the property looks best.

Sunset in Las Vegas moves about three and a half hours across the year, so that start time moves with it.

Time of year	Sunset in Las Vegas	Ceremony start I’d ask for
Early December	Around 4:30 p.m., the earliest sunsets of the year	2:30 p.m.
Mid October	About 6:05 p.m.	4:05 p.m.
Late June	Just after 8:00 p.m., the latest sunsets of the year	6:00 p.m.

A December wedding here is an early afternoon ceremony. There’s no way around that if you want portraits out on the course in daylight, and it surprises couples every time.

Watch one date if you’re choosing between late fall weekends. Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026, and sunset drops by an hour overnight. An October 31 wedding and a November 1 wedding are two different timelines, so look up the sunset time for your exact date instead of for the month.

Summer changes the answer, and heat is the reason more than light. The normal average high in Las Vegas is around 99 degrees in June and around 104 degrees in July, which makes July the hottest month of the year, and the city averages 78 days a year at 100 degrees or hotter. Standing on an open lawn in that heat is hard on guests, and the photos on a listing never show you that. The late sunset helps summer couples here. With the sun going down just after eight in late June, a six o’clock ceremony gives you better light and a cooler hour at the same time. If your date is in summer, my summer wedding guide goes further into working around the heat, and if you’re still choosing a month, here’s how the seasons compare in Las Vegas.

Can you take photos out on the golf course?

Nobody publishes an answer. Neither the venue’s site nor any of the listings says whether a wedding party can go out onto the course for photographs, or whether carts are available for it. Almost nobody thinks to ask it on a tour, and the answer decides where your portraits can happen.

Here’s why it’s a separate question from your ceremony. The course books public tee times every day, so people are playing golf around your wedding. The lawn your ceremony sits on and the course itself are two different permissions, and getting one doesn’t get you the other.

A cart is the one worth insisting on. The best backdrops on this property are a long way from the clubhouse, and walking out and back in a wedding dress across grass and sand takes time your guests spend waiting at the reception. At the wedding I photographed, the portraits I like best all came from out there: on the fairway with the veil streaming sideways and the Mandalay Bay tower behind, among the palms with the veil trailing across the white sand, and a dip on the green with the lake and the clubhouse behind. If you want more Las Vegas in your photos than the course gives you, that’s a separate stop, and I’ve written about where to take wedding photos on the Strip.

The honest tradeoffs at Bali Hai

Two things about this property are worth knowing before you fall for the palm trees.

You will hear airplanes. The course sits directly across the highway from Harry Reid International, with the airport forming one boundary of the property and Mandalay Bay the other. Golf writers treat planes overhead as an ordinary part of playing there, and they disagree about how much it intrudes: one golf magazine calls the planes “not a distraction,” while a reviewer says the course is a little noisy with the runway right next to it, “not horrible, but quite noticeable.” Both of those are honest reactions, and which one you’d have depends on the day and on you. The practical fix is a microphone on your officiant and on the two of you, so your guests can hear your vows and your video picks them up instead of a plane taking off.

There’s almost no shade out there. The palms on this property are tall and thin and spaced far apart, which is beautiful in a photograph and does very little for anybody standing under them at two in the afternoon in July. At the July temperatures above, your guests being uncomfortable is the bigger problem, and it shows up before the light does. The fixes are the ones you’d expect: start late in the day, and put water at the ceremony rather than only at the bar. If the weather turns on you, the Waterfront Patio is the backup.

A realistic photo timeline for a Bali Hai wedding

Every wedding runs a little differently, but this is the shape of a day here, based on the one I photographed and on what the rental actually gives you.

Getting ready starts at the bridal lounge, two hours before the ceremony. That’s what the rental includes, and it sets the earliest I can be on site with you. Two hours is enough for details and the end of hair and makeup. If you want the whole morning covered, get ready at your hotel and we’ll start there instead. That’s worth thinking about when you decide how many hours of coverage you need.

Details come first, then the two halves of the wedding party. At the wedding I shot, that meant the heels, the rings, a deep red and white floral arrangement, and an invitation suite printed to look like a newspaper front page, laid out on the veil. Then the bride with her five bridesmaids in burgundy, and the groom with his groomsmen and two small ring bearers.

The ceremony starts at the time the table above gives for your month.

Family and wedding party photos happen right after the ceremony, while everybody you need is still standing in one place and nobody has wandered off to the bar. Your guests go to cocktail hour and you two stay put for fifteen or twenty minutes.

We get out on the course for the last hour before sunset. That’s the hour the property looks best, and it’s the first thing that gets cut when a timeline runs late, so protect it when you build the schedule. If you’d rather not fit all your portraits into cocktail hour, a first look moves most of that work earlier in the day.

The reception is on the patio. The rental covers the dance floor, the tables and chairs, the linens and the place settings, and the food and drink come from the venue’s own kitchen and bar. This is also the part of the night where the difference between the five event hours and the four bar hours matters.

What to ask when you inquire

A fair amount about this venue is not published anywhere, which is normal for a place that quotes every date. Here is the whole list in one place, so it can go in one email instead of eight.

• Which space your date actually gets, and what the venue is calling that space right now.
• The seated number for that space once the dance floor, the DJ and the cake table are in the room, rather than the top of the published range.
• Whether you can bring your own photographer, and whether there is a list you have to choose from.
• Whether the bar can stay open for the fifth event hour and what that costs, since the rental covers five hours and the beverage package covers four.
• Whether your wedding party can go out onto the course for photographs, how far out you can go, whether you get a cart with someone to drive it, and at what time of day.
• Whether you can stand in the ceremony spot during your tour at the hour your ceremony would start, so you can see where the sun will be.
• What shade the venue can put over your ceremony seating, if your date falls in summer.
• How the call gets made to move indoors if the weather turns, and how late that call can happen.

Get the answers in writing before you sign anything. Every one of them is easier to settle now than after a contract exists.

If Bali Hai is your venue, I’d love to talk

Bali Hai Golf Club is at 5160 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV 89119, at the south end of the Strip, with the entrance right by the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. Mandalay Bay is immediately adjacent, and the golf club runs its own Stay ’n Play package with the resort, so guests flying in can stay across the street from your ceremony rather than driving to it. On timing, The Knot suggests booking a venue 12 to 18 months out, and popular Saturdays go first.

You can see the full set of photographs from the wedding I shot there on my Bali Hai Golf Club page. You’ll get a better sense of the light and the property there than any listing can give you.

A few practical things, so you’re not guessing. My rate is $300 an hour when you book two hours or more, and there’s no travel fee anywhere in Clark County. I’m the photographer at every wedding I book, so nobody gets sent in my place. And I can’t hold a date until your venue and date are confirmed, so once you sign with the venue, tell me and we’ll make it official.

Before any of that, reach out. Email me at mckenzie@msweddingimage.com or send me a message here and tell me the date you’re looking at. I’ll tell you what the sun is doing that time of year and what your day would actually look like out there.