Your Wedding and the Seaweed Blobs The Main Point: Your wedding is not affected: The seaweed blobs do not affect Key Largo Lighthouse Weddings because we are on a north and west-facing shore. This seaweed comes to Florida yearly but never affects our Key Largo Lighthouse beaches, and you will not see, smell, or be…

Lawyer: Wedding venue ruling a victory for all (This article originally appeared in Florida Keys Free Press on November 20, 2019) By Theresa Java Free Press Staff November 20, 2019 KEY LARGO — Thurmond Street Partners’ recent win on its appeal, which recognizes the legality of the vacation rental property that advertises its use as…

Key Largo Lighthouse shut down and closing? Key Largo Lighthouse Weddings Declared Legal by Judge November 7, 2019 –  An appeals judge quashed a previous code enforcement order to shut down weddings on a vacation rental property in Key Largo. A surprise code enforcement action in February of 2018 and a ruling by a magistrate…

You either already have or you will be hearing about Red Tide on Florida beaches. If you are hosting a wedding on the Gulf Coast of Florida, you need to stay in touch with your venue to track developments. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, “Red tide is a naturally-occurring microscopic alga…

You either already have or you will be hearing about Blue-Green Algae in South Florida. Of course that will automatically cause concern about your wedding. There is no reason to believe it will harm our pristine Florida Keys waters. The problem is isolated to waters further North. This is a map of the affected areas….

Which tropical wedding locations are safe and which are unsafe? Choosing your wedding location includes this new “Zika” consideration. Key Largo Lighthouse, Wedding Destinations, and Zika. First and foremost, we should all realize that the United States is the safest location to plan your tropical wedding anywhere in the Americas or the Caribbean. The US…