Hudson Valley Wedding Venues: Where to Start Your Search

Searching for a Hudson Valley wedding venue can get overwhelming quickly, because the region does not have one dominant wedding style. Within a fairly small stretch of river and mountains you can find historic estates, mountaintop resorts, farms, vineyards, industrial spaces, lakeside properties and full wedding-weekend retreats. The easiest way to narrow the list is to decide what you want the wedding to feel like before you start touring.

The whole weekend in one place

For a true destination wedding weekend, Cedar Lakes Estate in Port Jervis is designed around guests staying together on the property. Weddings there are full property buyouts, with cottages, houses and cabins, several ceremony spots, reception spaces and activities spread across the estate.

Gather Greene in Coxsackie follows a similar weekend model with a more modern architectural feel. Couples host welcome dinners, ceremonies, receptions and bonfires while guests sleep in cabins on the grounds, and the pavilion is built to hold a large reception.

Scenery, estates and the river

For classic Hudson Valley scenery, Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz is hard to confuse with anything else. The Victorian resort sits beside Lake Mohonk with gardens, mountain views, lodging and several ceremony settings, and its wedding packages are sized for a mid-sized celebration rather than a sprawling one.

Couples looking for a private estate should also look at Arrow Park in Monroe. The property includes a historic mansion, gardens, lakefront, forest, beach and banquet hall, so different pieces of the day can happen in completely different settings without anyone leaving the grounds.

Then there is the Hudson River itself. Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison pairs a historic mansion and formal gardens with wide river views, and its West Meadow pavilion is built for a big outdoor reception.

Couples wanting something more contemporary can look toward INNESS in Accord, where the Event Barn combines traditional pegged timber construction with a cleaner Scandinavian-influenced design and opens onto Catskill views. And Hudson itself points in yet another direction, with industrial and design-driven spaces alongside historic properties.

Start with the experience

The point is that there is no single "Hudson Valley wedding venue." Start with the experience.

Do you want everyone together for three days? Do you want the river? Do you want mountains? Do you want guests walking from their hotel to restaurants and bars? Do you want a completely private property?

Once you answer those questions, the Hudson Valley becomes much easier to navigate.

Browse every venue in the region on our venues page.

Photo: [Cedar Lakes Estate](https://hudsonvalleyhitched.com/vendor/cedar-lakes-estate-port-jervis).