Please Note, Permit Availability Is Limited Apply For Your Park Permit As Soon As You Know Your Wedding Date, Preferred Park Location And Time.  Also required on your application you will need a back-up second choice for location, ceremony time and date.

 

Allow a minimum of 15 Business Days For Your Special Use Permit To Process.  Special Use Permit Applications must be recieved at least 15 business days prior to your requested date and no more than 12 months prior to your requested date.

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Please note if a permit is not obtained for this activity, you are subject to a Federal Citation fine up to $500.

 

No permits will be issued on Federal Holidays and NPS free entrance days. No permits will be issued from December 20th to January 1st.

 

No permits will be issued for the following 2024 Federal Holidays

     January 1, 2             June 19                 October 14

     January 15               July 4, 5                November 10, 11

     February 19             August 25             November 27, 28, 29

     May 27                    September 2         December 24, 25, 26, 31

 

No Permits will be issued on NPS Free Entrance Days

     January 15           Birthday Of Martin Luther King

     April 20               First Day Of National Park Week

     June 19                Juneteenth National Independence Day

     August 4              Anniversary Of The Great American Outdoors Act

     September 28      National Public Lands Day

     November 11      Veterans Day

 

The Joshua Tree National Park ALLOWS

a small table for guestbook, cooler with water, and a free standing wedding arch with fresh flowers, live floral bouquets, battery-powered candles, small runner, small rug, cake and champagne, live fresh flowers, live floral bouquets, and fake flowers.

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DOES NOT ALLOW

dried flowers, the throwing of birdseed, rice, rose petals or confetti, NO pampas grass, No Dried flowers, NO smoke bombs, fireworks, sparklers, open flamed candles, rice, chalk, colored-water tablets, colored sand, directional signage, furniture, blowing of bubbles, unattended food items, hanging or attaching anything to a tree or bush, or in the ground, climbing on the endangered Joshua Trees, amplified music, speakers and microphones.

 

The gathering of branches, plants, or flowers, drones, does NOT permit balloons, the releasing of any live animal, butterflies, doves etc., or anything that would endanger The National Park.