Philadelphia Wedding Venues // Philadelphia is a city where you can marry somewhere that has been standing for centuries without it feeling stuffy. There is a Quaker meeting house from 1804, an arboretum with a treetop walkway, a boathouse on the Schuylkill and a 1930s vocational school with a disco ball in the gym. Just outside the city, the Main Line, Bucks County and the Brandywine Valley add Gilded Age estates, gardens and a winery.
We checked every venue below on its own website for current weddings, capacities and, where they publish them, prices.
Written October 2026. Prices and capacities are the ones the venues published at the time; always confirm them when you inquire. Cover photo by Sabrina Guyton-Wright, a Philadelphia photographer in our community.
Wedding Venues in Philadelphia
Gardens, museums, a boathouse and a few rooms that have seen a lot of history.
Morris Arboretum & Gardens
Chestnut HillUp to 175 guestsIndoor & outdoor
Part of the University of Pennsylvania, Morris Arboretum covers 92 acres, and a full wedding gets the grounds to itself after hours, from April to October. You can say your vows on the Widener Lawn, in the Silktree Grove or at the circular brick Baxter Memorial above the Meadow Garden, take cocktails up to Out on a Limb, a treetop walkway about 50 feet above the ground, and dine in a tent with bistro lights next to a stone carriage house.
Its 2027 rental rates run from $5,100 to $7,100 on Saturdays (Fridays from $3,000, Sundays from $2,800), plus one of five approved caterers. Book early: all of June 2027 and the Saturdays from April to July 2027 were already sold out when we checked.
Bartram’s Garden
Southwest PhiladelphiaUp to 300 guestsIndoor & outdoor
Bartram’s Garden calls itself the oldest surviving botanic garden in North America, with nearly 50 acres along the Schuylkill. Ceremonies take place among the flowers and historic trees, receptions in the Eastwick Pavilion with its big covered porch over the river, and a stone barn with large windows is used for getting ready.
Catering is by its partner Jamie Hollander Gourmet. The garden stays open to the public during events, so your portraits may share the paths with visitors.
Penn Museum
University CityUp to 300 seatedIndoor & outdoor
The Penn Museum dates from the 1890s, with glass mosaics by the Tiffany studios on its walls. Its largest room, the Asia Gallery, seats 300 under a 90-foot dome, and the renovated Sphinx Gallery is built around the Sphinx of Ramses II.
Outside there are courtyards with Calder sculptures and a string-lit rooftop terrace for 60, and the museum offers short daytime weekday ceremonies for up to 70 guests.
Barnes Foundation
Benjamin Franklin ParkwayUp to 275 guestsIndoor & outdoor
Weddings at the Barnes Foundation center on the Annenberg Court, which opens onto one of the largest covered terraces in the city. Your guests get to see the collection and the special exhibitions, there is a fireplace tiled in lusterware for evening drinks, and the private gardens are lovely for photos.
It holds 275 for dinner and dancing, or 225 if the ceremony is on site too.
Arch Street Meeting House
Old CityUp to 300 guestsIndoor & outdoor
Quakers have gathered on this site since 1682, and the Arch Street Meeting House has been a National Historic Landmark since 2011. Its East Room was finished in 1804, and the house keeps a marriage bench and certificate table for Quaker-style ceremonies, which pairs beautifully with Pennsylvania’s self-uniting license (more below). All kinds of ceremonies are welcome.
Its packages are refreshingly simple: $2,000 for a ceremony, $2,500 with a cocktail hour and $4,000 with a reception, and you can bring your own caterer. The old meeting rooms have no air conditioning.
Crescent Boat Club
Boathouse RowUp to 140 guestsIndoor & outdoor
The rowers of Crescent Boat Club have been at number 5 Boathouse Row since 1867. Its second-floor club room opens onto a deck over the Schuylkill, looking along Boathouse Row toward the Water Works and the Art Museum.
Rentals start at $1,500 for eight hours, and you can bring any caterer or even a food truck. It is a true do-it-yourself venue with no staff, linens or sound, and it is only reached by stairs.
Glen Foerd
Torresdale, on the DelawareIndoor & outdoor
Glen Foerd, part of Fairmount Park, says it is the only estate on the Delaware River open to the public. The Italianate riverfront house from 1850 was enlarged by the Foerderer family after 1895 with Classical Revival wings, an art gallery and a pipe organ, and Caroline Foerderer planted the rose garden.
From 2027, Cescaphe is its exclusive catering and event partner.
The Rittenhouse
Rittenhouse SquareUp to 500 guestsIndoorLodging on site
For a classic hotel wedding, The Rittenhouse has a Grand Ballroom with glass chandeliers and 13-foot windows, the Park View Suite for up to 90 with views over the square, and the Mary Cassatt Tea Room with its own garden.
Rittenhouse Square is right outside for portraits or a first look, and the newlyweds get a complimentary suite.
Bok
South PhiladelphiaUp to 300 guestsIndoor & outdoor
Built in 1936 as a vocational high school for 3,000 students, Bok is now home to more than 250 makers and small businesses. Weddings start with the ceremony and cocktails on the seventh-floor terrace at sunset, then move into the West Gym, with its original hardwood floor, two-story windows and a giant disco ball.
The Franklin Institute
Logan SquareIndoor & outdoor
Science lovers can exchange vows under the dome of the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute, with cocktails among the exhibits and a rooftop deck over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The memorial hall, with its 20-foot statue of Franklin under an 82-foot dome, is hard to beat for an entrance.
Wedding Venues Near Philadelphia
Estates on the Main Line, Bucks County manors and Brandywine farmland, all within about an hour.
The Willows
Villanova, Main LineUp to 150 guestsIndoor & outdoor
The Willows is a Spanish Revival mansion from 1910, set inside a 49-acre public park, and part of every event fee goes to the park’s upkeep. Dinner is served in a white tent on the hillside and the dancing happens in the solarium, with its marble terrazzo floor and glass doors. About half an hour from Center City.
Cairnwood Estate
Bryn AthynUp to 250 guestsIndoor & outdoor
Built for industrialist John Pitcairn by Carrère and Hastings, Cairnwood Estate is a Gilded Age estate with six historic rooms on its first floor, a fountain garden and a long terrace that can be tented from April to November. It hosts only one reception a day.
Aldie Mansion
Doylestown, Bucks CountyUp to 220 seatedIndoor & outdoor
Aldie Mansion is a Tudor Revival manor from 1927 with a two-story wall of leaded-glass windows in its Great Hall, a hand-carved staircase and ten acres of gardens and old trees. It is owned by the Heritage Conservancy, and receptions take place in its ballroom.
The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm
Holicong, Bucks CountyUp to 225 guestsIndoor & outdoorLodging on site
Once the country retreat of playwright George S. Kaufman, The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm is a 30-acre estate that dates back to 1740. Receptions take place in its grand barn, and 16 suites in the manor house, a stone bank barn and cottages mean your guests can stay.
Packages start at $195 per person (plus service charge and tax), with one wedding at a time.
Grace Winery
Glen MillsUp to 130 guestsIndoor & outdoorLodging on site
On the 40-acre Sweetwater Farm, Grace Winery has history in every corner: British troops raided the farm the day after the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, and the grounds include a malting barn from the 1740s. The vineyard was planted from 2007, and guests can stay in a Quaker farmhouse and nine cottages. Weddings take place all year.
Tyler Arboretum
MediaUp to 200 guestsIndoor & outdoor
With 650 acres of woodland, wetland and meadow, Tyler Arboretum gives you a lot of room for portraits. Dinner is served in a tent for up to 200 or in the rustic upstairs loft of its barn for up to 140.
Good To Know Before You Book
- Marriage license: in Philadelphia it costs $90. You both apply in person at City Hall, Room 413, and the license becomes valid on the third day after you apply and lasts 60 days. It can be used anywhere in Pennsylvania.
- Self-uniting license: for $100 you can get a Quaker or self-uniting license and marry yourselves, with two witnesses signing. You return it within 10 days of the ceremony.
- Weddings and photos in city parks: ceremonies and wedding or engagement photos on Philadelphia Parks & Recreation property need a permit. Allow at least 14 days.
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