Venues for Weddings in Boston

When I got married 3½ years ago, one of the most challenging decisions my then fiancé and I had to make was where to hold the wedding and the reception. We are both fairly non-traditional individuals with families that lean heavily toward the conservative, and therefore we found ourselves exploring a wide variety of venues as our inclinations flowed back and forth between wanting the perfect wedding that would express to the world who we are as a couple and wanting to make those mothers’ dreams of lace and tulle and hundreds and hundreds of pink and white roses come true.

So, at least it seems to me, I have seen it all. What follows is a list of some of the venues I researched and visited, and what I found to be positives and negatives about each.

The first thing to consider, in my opinion, is what kind of guest list you’re looking at. Do you need to seat fifty guests or five hundred? When Jeff and I were choosing our reception place, we actually used our choice of venue as a means to get our guest lists under control. When my mother started talking about inviting neighbors who had moved away from our neighborhood ten years previously, and who we were not particularly close with when they were there, we knew we had to take some sort of action. We found a place that could accommodate 120 people (I will tell you about it later), put down our guest list, and let the families divvy up the remaining spaces. It worked like a charm.

So, however you go about it, determine the size of the venue you need. From there, I recommend you check out a variety of places. Unless you’ve imagined your wedding down to the color of the candles and the style of the chairs since you were young, there are so many terrific ideas in this city.