Plan Your Own Event Or Private Garden Rental

Let Yume Japanese Gardens make the spirit and stage at your next special occasion truly extraordinary.

Inspiring, beautiful, memorable and unique define Yume. The very qualities you want in your wedding ceremony, professional photo shoot, or your other social event or private special engagement. You and your guests will enjoy a venue like no other in Tucson when you gather amid authentic Japanese landscapes and traditional Japanese architecture, a serene Zen garden and a pond carpeted with waterlilies and rippling with colorful koi. Yume’s settings are unmatched, as your celebration should be.

Private Social Events

Yume hosts private gatherings after 4:00 PM, for a minimum of two hours. For a fee schedule, to arrange a pre-event site visit and to book a date for your event, complete and submit the form at the bottom of this page.

We welcome: 

  • Anniversary Celebrations

  • Holiday Parties

  • Quinceañeras

  • Engagement Fetes

  • Bar and Bat Mitzvah

  • Charity Galas

  • Class Reunions

  • Business Dinners

  • Retirement Ceremonies

  • Memorial Services

We leave it to clients to provide for ceremony officiants and catering themselves, as they know their desires and budget best, and to arrange for wait service and event setup and cleanup. 

Have an idea for another or unusual event? Contact us, and let’s explore it!

Wedding Ceremonies And Receptions

Few events in life are as exceptional as celebrating your wedding, so we treat it as the unforgettable occasion that it is for you, your family and your friends. 

Entertain your guests at an outstanding reception at Yume, too. You arrange the catering and event setup and cleanup; we furnish garden backdrops as lovely as the bride and as elegant as the groom.

Venue availability: 7 days a week, after 4:00 PM

Minimum event time: 2 hours, including setup and cleanup

Fee: $1,500; $150 per additional or fractional hour

Fee for 10 people or less: $600; $150 per additional or fractional hour

Photo Fee: none for guests; $150 for wedding and professional photographers

Your wedding ceremony or reception reservation is confirmed and guaranteed upon receipt of a minimum non-refundable deposit of $250.

Gardens Rental For Professional Photography

Seeking distinctive backgrounds for your pleasure as an amateur photographer or as a backdrop for a fashion shoot or other professional photography such as portrait sessions? 

You’ll find them in the unusual perspectives offered by the authentic Japanese gardens and traditional Japanese architecture at Yume. Discover intriguing angles provided by carefully clipped shrubs, meticulously raked gravel, precisely positioned boulders, channeled watercourses, and trimmed trees revealing of every twist in trunk and twig. Evoke moods, dramatic or subtle, photographing among and in buildings carpentered in a tradition of design that invites nature inside. Seek out uncommon details and textures, from natural clay walls to pillars crafted of debarked, polished tree trunks and vintage shoji doors made of latticed wood and filtering soft light through translucent Japanese paper.

Bring your camera to Yume and be captivated by surroundings that will inspire your eye and lead you to create visual magic. We charge a flat photography fee of $250 and we do require a Facilities and Property Use Waiver and Liability Release.

For scheduling, copyright and photo use information, or to make a reservation, email us at yume.gardens@gmail.com.