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February 13, 2026
Allison & Peter
Venue
The Ancient Spanish Monastery
Built in 1141, the Ancient Spanish Monastery is one of the oldest buildings of the Western World!
Originally built in Spain back in the 12th century, this building is almost 800 years older than the Magic City itself. This Medieval gem now lies tucked away in a peaceful corner of North Miami Beach.
For nearly 700 hundred years the Ancient Spanish Monastery served as home to a small order of Cistercian monks. But in the 1830s a social revolution saw the Monastery’s cloisters seized and sold.
Then, in 1925, along came William Randolph Hearst, who purchased the monastery and shipped it overseas to this side of the world in more than 11,000 wooden crates. Hearst soon went bankrupt, however, so the crates containing the Monastery stones were auctioned off to two Ohio businessmen who finally decided to rebuild the structure in Miami.
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Besides Our Wedding Celebration.... Hollywood Films including Rock of Ages, Miami Vice and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective! were filmed here The Monastery has been used for network television shows, commercials and telenovelas. Rick Ross filmed "Ten Jesus Pieces" music video here. It took 19 months and $20 million dollars to put the Monastery back together- TIME magazine called it "the biggest jigsaw puzzle in history"
For all the days along the way