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All of the Massachusetts Wedding Venues for Every Style
Abundant wildflowers bloom in the spring, the coast is relaxed and breezy in the summer, gorgeous foliage lights up the trees in fall and winter is a beautiful mess of snow in Massachusetts. For weddings, this state has an abundance...
Abundant wildflowers bloom in the spring, the coast is relaxed and breezy in the summer, gorgeous foliage lights up the trees in fall and winter is a beautiful mess of snow in Massachusetts. For weddings, this state has an abundance of venues available for every time of year. There’s a family farm filled with flowers in the springtime, a beach club on the Cape where the summer breeze is simply the best, a Boston museum where you can dine with the art as your backdrop in winter and a mansion in the Berkshires that makes a primo spot for autumnal colors. Here, we’re sharing all the Massachusetts wedding venues for all kinds of wedding styles.
Reporter: Alyssa Brown
Reporter: Alyssa Brown
This classic Cape Cod boathouse and clubhouse overlook the Wellfleet Harbor and Cape Cod Bay. The clubhouse offers an open dining room and large deck that look right out to the waterfront, while the smaller boathouse offers a tented deck that’s great for cocktail hour or a rehearsal dinner party.
Wedding & Coordination: mStarr Event Design | Florist: Wild Folk Studio | Catering: Eat Your Heart Out | Rentals: Party Cape Cod
Wedding & Coordination: mStarr Event Design | Florist: Wild Folk Studio | Catering: Eat Your Heart Out | Rentals: Party Cape Cod
This industrial converted paper mill in Holyoke is a great spot for a green wedding, as it strives for its events to leave behind no carbon footprint. Mill 1 has beautiful maple floors, tons of sunlight streaming in from huge windows and exposed brick walls and ceiling beams. The space works well for weddings of up to 400 guests.
The Boston skyline steals the show at this 33rd-floor venue with floor-to-ceiling windows that display views of the harbor and city surrounds. With space for up to 900 guests, State Room is a sleek, modern venue that works as well for a formal black-tie wedding as it does for a more casual welcome cocktail party.
Set on acres of conservation land and forest, this farm estate overlooks Wenham Lake in far north Massachusetts, just near Salem. Smaller weddings here have the option to use the estate house, lawns and gardens while larger events are best suited to the property’s lovely open-air tent.
If taking over a beautiful 19th-century estate in Ashfield for your entire wedding weekend sounds like a dream, check out The Curtis House. The property sleeps nine guests and has big, old barn with an attached glass greenhouse that can accommodate events of up to 300 guests.
Fruit orchards and fields filled with flowers surround this large family farm. Here, weddings typically take place in the orchards or on the lawns while receptions take place in the 19th-century barn.
Boston’s colorful Fenway neighborhood sets the scene for this 93-room boutique hotel. The building is set around a pool deck, and while there’s no event space here, room blocks at The Verb are easy to coordinate if you’re planning a wedding nearby.
Planning a private estate wedding and want to add some glamping tents? Call Hive. Looking to add a cool Airstream cocktail bar to your wedding? Call Hive. This mobile cocktail catering and luxury tent rental company offer event elements that can quickly take your wedding style to the next level.
Set along the Nantucket Sound, Wychmere Beach Club offers cozy guest rooms, three modern indoor event spaces overlooking the waterfront and easy access to a private stretch of beach. The beach makes a gorgeous setting for ceremonies, or it can be used to pop up an open-air tent for an event that feels like you and your guests are in your own private beachfront oasis.
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For a wedding that’s steeped in Boston art history, the Museum of Fine Arts makes a stunning backdrop. You and your guests can dine in the rotunda under the John Singer Sargent murals and surrounded by paintings and sculptures, or you can opt to celebrate within the William I. Koch gallery or the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, which offers modern design and lots of natural light. The glass-enclosed courtyard also makes an unforgettable setting.
For weddings of up to 120 guests, the limestone building at the Loews Boston Hotel offers multiple event spaces that are flooded with natural light and open right up to the outdoors. The hotel’s restaurant, Precinct Kitchen + Bar, also doubles as a great rehearsal dinner or welcome party spot.
Set right in the heart of downtown Boston, this historic manor house dates back to 1925. From the hand-carved red oak fleur-de-lis ceiling to the Murano glass chandeliers in the modern club and Becara chandeliers in the vintage ballroom, Alden Castle feels like the kind of place where you could spend days taking in every last detail. For weddings of up to 350 guests, this venue is a timeless treasure.
Hop aboard a private ferry to access Thompson Island with all your wedding guests in tow. Two tents overlook the Boston city skyline and there’s an open-air wood pavilion too. Up to 162 guests can stay in the island’s accommodations, or if you have a larger crowd (the center can suit up to 2,500), they can always take the ferry back to the city.
Set in the quaint old town of Deerfield, this charming bed and breakfast offers a formal dining room, beautiful lawns and gardens and 23 colonial guest rooms. Weddings here can take over the terrace and patio for larger groups of up to 140, or opt for the indoor dining option if it’s a smaller group of 50 or so guests.
A classic East Coast manor in the Berkshires, this large inn overlooks a nicely sized lawn with forested hills as its backdrop. For weddings, you’ll want to take over the accommodations and have all your closest friends stay on the grounds. You can host your wedding reception in the house, on the terrace or in a tent on the grassy lawn with up to 175 guests.
The sprawling grounds of The Ranch Golf Club include a buttery yellow turn-of-the-century barn that’s been lovingly restored to suit weddings of up to 165 guests. Located in Southwick, this spot is particularly stunning when the leaves start to change color and brighten up any wedding ceremony backdrop.
