King Gillette Ranch 26800 Mulholland Highway • Calabasas • CA 91302

Every King Gillette Ranch mansion package includes the location fee for your guest count and hours, uniformed MRCA staff monitors for the whole event, 96 guest parking spots, a one-hour rehearsal the day before and a one-hour load-in of personal items. The ranch doesn't provide rentals or catering, so you'll bring your own tables, chairs, linens, caterer and bar. Plan separately for event insurance, a dumpster and, over 125 guests, portable restrooms.

Yes. At King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas, you can say "I do" on the mansion lawns, then move to the Fountain Courtyard, framed by arched arcades and colorful tiled fountains, for dinner for up to 150. For a larger reception, tables can be set up in front of the mansion for up to 300, and the Premium package opens the full mansion, courtyard and lawns.

Yes. King Gillette Ranch doesn't require you to use its preferred vendors and welcomes new ones, including caterers and DJs or bands. A wedding coordinator who isn't on the vendor list needs the event manager's approval before you sign. Alcohol must be served as a hosted bar (no sales), and your main vendors attend a free technical walkthrough.

At King Gillette Ranch, the Basic Mansion package runs $8,000–$8,500 for 51–150 guests, the Half Mansion package $8,500–$10,000 for up to 175 guests, and the Premium Mansion package $9,500–$11,500 for up to 200 guests. Each adds a refundable security deposit of $2,000–$3,000. There's no food and beverage minimum, since you bring your own caterer.

The Premium Mansion package at King Gillette Ranch includes 12 hours, from 12pm to 12am, and the Basic package is a 10-hour permit that ends by midnight. Music and sound must stop by 11pm, and alcohol service ends at 10:30pm. A 1am exit can be added for $350.

Yes. King Gillette Ranch offers affordable overnight accommodations for guests and bridal parties at private events, in the Mansion Annex, the Dormitory and the Cook and Carriage Houses. It's an easy way to keep your wedding party close in the Santa Monica Mountains, between Malibu and Calabasas.

King Gillette Ranch centers on a Spanish Colonial Revival mansion built in 1928 for razor magnate King C. Gillette and designed by Wallace Neff, known as the Architect of California's Golden Age. It sits on 588 acres of parkland with rolling lawns and a pond with bridges and turtles, and it's run by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority.

At King Gillette Ranch, a refundable security deposit of at least $2,000 holds your date and is due within two weeks of the invoice. The rental fee is paid in non-refundable installments: 50% of the remaining fee six months before the wedding, and the final balance plus event insurance 6–8 weeks before. Credit cards aren't accepted.