Revere Golf Club Wedding Photos

The Revere Golf Club is a public club at 2600 Hampton Road, in the Anthem area of Henderson, about twenty minutes south of the Strip. It has 36 holes across two courses, the Lexington, which opened in 1999, and the Concord, which followed in 2002, both designed by the architect Greg Nash together with Billy Casper, who won 51 times on the PGA Tour. The courses are cut into desert canyons, which is the detail that matters for photographs. The fairway is watered green and the ground on either side of it is raw Mojave, and the two of them are about twenty steps apart. The land also sits high enough that the view north runs out over the valley toward the Strip.

I’m McKenzie, and I’ve photographed weddings in Las Vegas every year since 2010, more than 300 of them. One of those days ended here, and I want to tell you straight away what this page is. This couple got ready at the M Resort in the morning, married in a church across the valley in the afternoon, then drove out to the Revere for portraits and their whole reception. So every photo below is the back half of a wedding day: golden hour on the course, the desert just off it, and the evening inside the clubhouse.

That is a common shape for a wedding here, and it is worth knowing before you book. Plenty of couples marry somewhere else and use the Revere as the place everyone eats and dances. If you want to talk about your own date, send me a message and tell me what you have booked so far.

What the Revere looks like through a camera

You get two backdrops out here that could not be less alike, and you can shoot both without anyone getting into a car. That is unusual, and it is the whole argument for a course built into the desert.

The first is the grass. A fairway is a clean green field with nothing standing on it, which means two people walking across one have nothing behind them but color and light. Late in the day the sun comes low across it from the west, lights the edge of a veil and the loose ends of somebody’s hair, and turns the grass a warmer green than it looks at noon. The photo at the top of this page was made that way, walking, about half an hour before the sun went down.

The second is the desert. Because the courses were built into canyons rather than flattened onto them, the rough here is actual Mojave: pale sand, low green creosote, nothing planted or arranged. Walk twenty steps off the mowed edge and the golf course disappears from the frame entirely. Those portraits look like they were made an hour outside the city, and they were made in a wedding dress with the clubhouse still in sight. You get a desert session without handing any of your reception over to a drive.

The third thing is the sky. Sunset here happens behind the mountains on the far side of the valley, and once the sun is down behind them the color stays up high for another twenty minutes or so. A couple standing on open ground reads as two dark shapes against it. That frame is in the gallery below, and it was the last one made outdoors that night.

Inside, the reception rooms are warmer and more traditional than the desert outside suggests. Rough stone columns, tall windows down one wall, iron and glass lantern fixtures hanging low over a wooden dance floor. The windows are what I care about. Daylight keeps arriving in that room until the sun is actually gone, so an early entrance and a first dance can be photographed in real light instead of only by flash.

What it takes to photograph a wedding here

Build the drive into your timeline

The Revere is about twenty minutes south of the Strip. That is fine when everyone knows it. It goes wrong when your ceremony is somewhere else and nobody put the drive into the timeline.

The couple on this page married across the valley and drove out afterward, and that drive is the part of the day that eats your portrait time. If you are doing the same thing, add the real drive to your timeline in writing, at the hour you will actually be driving it, then add fifteen minutes on top for the people who cannot find their keys. Every minute you lose in the car comes out of the golden hour, and the golden hour is what you came to this venue for.

Ask which ceremony spot you are getting

The club’s own wedding page describes ceremony spots on a hillside, beside the pond and out on the fairway, along with an indoor option in the clubhouse. Wedding listing sites name these differently and do not agree with each other on the count, so do not plan around anything you read on one.

Ask the events team which space your date and your guest count get, and ask to stand in it during your tour, at roughly the hour your ceremony would start. Ten minutes standing in the real spot tells you more about where the sun will be than any listing photograph will.

The clubhouse holds 200 inside, the lawn holds more

Receptions happen in the clubhouse, which was renovated and holds up to 200 guests across three banquet rooms. The club also books the lawn for outdoor events of up to 350.

That covers most Las Vegas guest lists, but a fair number of them land right at the edge of it. A room fits fewer people once a dance floor, a DJ, a cake table and a sweetheart table are in it, so if you are at 180 or above, get the events team to lay your number onto the floor plan you actually want before you sign.

There are golfers on the course

This is a public course, not a private club, and it keeps selling tee times on your wedding day. That did not cost me a photograph at the wedding on this page, and it is still the first thing to ask about.

Going out for a walk on your own is not the plan here. Ask your events contact when the last tee times go out on your date, and ask how wedding parties get taken to the spots you want. Then treat the portrait window as something scheduled with the club rather than decided in the moment.

Say early if you are changing outfits

The couple I photographed here wore a gown and a tuxedo for their portraits and their entrance, then changed into ao dai for the second half of the night, and were draped in leis made of folded dollar bills during the money dance. It ran smoothly and nobody was scrambling.

If your reception has two outfits in it, or a tea ceremony, or a dance where guests come up to the couple one at a time, say so early. What that changes for me is where I stand and how long the room stays lit; what it changes for the venue is the running order they build for your night. Both are easy when they are known in advance.

The best time of day for photos at the Revere

Work backwards from sunset. The last hour of light is why anyone photographs a wedding on a golf course, and out here you get the grass, the desert and the mountains all lit at once during it. Everything else in the timeline exists to protect that hour.

For an outdoor ceremony, start two to two and a half hours before the sun goes down. Your vows land in soft light rather than hard overhead sun. Family photos happen straight after, while everyone is still standing in one place. And the two of you get the golden hour out on the course with nothing scheduled against it.

Summer and winter pull that start time hard in opposite directions. In late June the sun is up past eight in the evening, so a five thirty ceremony is still an early evening wedding. In late December it sets around four thirty, which turns the same math into a two o’clock ceremony and a reception that is fully dark by six. Neither is worse. They are very different days, and it is much easier to hear that before you sign a contract than after.

One more honest note about this specific property. Most of a desert golf course has no shade on it at all. Under a June sun at one in the afternoon I would not ask anybody to stand out on that fairway in a wedding dress, and squinting does not come back in editing. If your ceremony hour is fixed and it lands at midday, a first look is what rescues the photos. Portraits happen before the ceremony in the shade near the clubhouse, and the sunset hour stays free for a short second round out on the grass.

Talk to me about your date

The Revere rewards a photographer who has already walked it. The desert edge is a short walk from the clubhouse door, but it is a walk in a gown, and it happens while your guests are sitting down to dinner. I have made those photos here and I know how much of an evening that walk actually takes.

Every wedding I book, I photograph myself. The wedding photography page lays out how coverage and pricing work, and there is a plain breakdown of what a wedding photographer costs in Las Vegas if that is the question you are on. If you are still comparing courses, the Canyon Gate Country Club page covers a private club built around lagoons on the west side, and Bali Hai Golf Club covers a very different one sitting right on the Strip.

When you have your date, tell me about it and we’ll find a time to talk. I hold dates for couples whose venue is confirmed, so once the Revere has you on its calendar, reach out.