Four Seasons Las Vegas Wedding

Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas sits at 3960 South Las Vegas Boulevard, at the south end of the Strip. It runs as its own hotel on floors 35 through 39 of the Mandalay Bay tower, with its own driveway, entrance, lobby and elevators. No casino, no smoking. The first thing most couples notice walking in off Las Vegas Boulevard is how quiet it is.

I’m McKenzie, and I’ve photographed weddings in Las Vegas since 2009, more than 300 of them. Two of those weddings happened at this hotel, and every photo on this page is from one of those two days.

They went completely differently, which is the useful part. One couple got married outside on the terrace at the waterfall, with a full aisle, bridesmaids in navy and a flower girl, then dinner in the ballroom and a bubble send off at the end of the night. The other had a five o’clock ceremony on the North Balcony upstairs, then a reception in the Mesquite Foyer and dinner in Mesquite, the whole evening inside a hundred feet of hallway. Same hotel, two wildly different days, and both of them worked.

Why this hotel photographs the way it does

Three things about the building decide what your photos look like.

The first is the arched colonnade along the garden level. It is a long covered walkway with clipped hedges on one side and repeating stone arches overhead, and the light in there is soft all day because it never hits anybody directly. That is where most of the portraits on this page come from, both weddings, years apart. If you look at the walking shots, the arches carry your eye all the way down the frame. Nothing else on this end of the Strip looks like it.

The second is the water. The ceremony terrace is built around a tiered waterfall with date palms standing over it, and the palms are tall enough to filter the afternoon sun instead of blocking it. An arch of greenery and white roses in front of that wall of moving water needs no help from me.

The third is the interior, which is pale marble, cream walls and gold chandeliers rather than dark wood. That matters more than it sounds like it should. My work is light and airy, and a bright room gives me that without fighting for it. The photo on this page of a couple on the marble landing under the chandelier was made with the light that was already in the room.

I should also say what this property is not. It sits at the south end of the Strip rather than in the middle of it, so the row of famous casinos is not right outside the front door. From the high floors you get that view through a window. At street level, the classic Strip backdrop means leaving the property, and that needs its own block of time in your schedule.

What it takes to get married and photographed here

The spaces

The hotel lists eight wedding venues across the property. Outdoors, the main one is the Fountain Terrace on the lobby level, the patio built around the waterfall with seasonal flowers and tropical greenery around it. Upstairs on the second floor, the North Balcony is a small outdoor ceremony spot above the pool gardens that the hotel lists for about 60 standing guests. The Mesquite Room opens onto that balcony through glass doors and holds around 120 seated, so a ceremony outside and a dinner inside can happen a few steps apart. The larger seated dinners go in the ballrooms, and the Palm Room with its marble bar suits a group that would rattle around in a ballroom. Those numbers are what the hotel published in 2026, and capacities do get revised, so get the seated number for your room in writing.

Bringing your own photographer

Outside photographers work at this hotel. What I would ask the hotel plainly is whether a fee attaches to an outside photographer on your date, and what certificate of insurance they want on file, because neither of those is published anywhere you can look up. Any working wedding photographer already carries the insurance. When you book me, you get me. I photograph every wedding I book myself, and you can see what a full day of wedding coverage covers on that page.

The marriage license

Nevada wants a valid marriage license in hand before your officiant can perform the ceremony, and it wants one witness at the ceremony, not two. If you are hiring me for photography and nobody else is coming, I can be your witness. You don’t have to find anybody. I went through the whole license and witness question in a separate article on what Nevada asks for.

Getting ready upstairs

The biggest time cost of a Las Vegas wedding is moving people from one place to another, and getting ready in the same building where you are getting married deletes that problem. Two things make a hotel room work for the morning: a window with real daylight in it, and floor space, because a room fills up fast once you add dresses, a hair and makeup setup and everybody’s family. Ask for a room on the daylight side and keep the curtains open. The elevators here are private to the Four Seasons, so the trip from your room down to your ceremony never crosses a casino floor. If you’re deciding whether to see each other first, I wrote about how a first look changes the shape of the day.

The best time of day for photos at the Four Seasons

Outdoors, your ceremony time is what decides how the photos look. Under direct overhead sun people squint, faces pick up hard shadows from their own brows, and a white dress loses its detail, and none of that comes back in editing. In the last two hours of daylight the sun comes in low and sideways, faces are lit evenly, and nobody has to squint. That is the window I aim for on the terrace.

The catch is that sunset here moves by about three and a half hours across the year. The latest sunsets land in late June, at close to 8 in the evening, and the earliest in early December, at about 4:30 in the afternoon, so a four o’clock ceremony is soft evening light in December and full hard daylight in June. Look up the sunset time for your actual date before you set a ceremony time. If you’re still picking a month, I go through the seasons in my guide to the best time of year to get married in Las Vegas.

Indoors, the hour stops mattering. A room lit by chandeliers looks the same at two in the afternoon as it does at nine at night, which gives you more freedom than you’d think: put the ceremony where it suits your guests, then steal twenty minutes outside at the best part of the day for portraits.

Summer is the one season to plan around out there. June through September runs hot, and the monsoon stretch from late June into September brings scattered afternoon and evening storms. Most days in that window have no storm at all, but a storm is possible on any of them, so an evening ceremony beats an afternoon one and your indoor backup room is worth naming in the contract rather than assuming.

Let’s talk about your wedding

If the Four Seasons is on your list, I’d love to hear what you’re planning. Tell me your date, which space you’re looking at and roughly how many people are coming, and I’ll tell you honestly what I think about the timing before you lock the ceremony hour in. Las Vegas and Henderson are home for me, so there’s no travel fee anywhere in Clark County. I hold dates only for couples whose venue and date are confirmed, so once that contract is signed, send me a message and we’ll find a time to talk.