Museum Wedding Photos

An Elegant Thai-Inspired Wedding at The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD

Suchada Sarintra and Kye Nam Park chose the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, for their elegant Thai-inspired wedding. The bride stunned in an A-line dress with soft striped details and a silver belt. She carried a colorful bouquet of peonies and and other blooms, which matched the ...

A Modern, Luxurious Wedding at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois

Mary Suen and Eric Chung wed in a modern, luxurious museum wedding that celebrated the bride’s Chinese culture and the groom's Korean culture. "The inspiration behind our wedding was very much nature-themed," Mary says "Due to Eric's love of science and museums, and both of our passions for natur...

St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum Wedding

Libby Koerbel (29 and works in marketing) and Ben Weissman (32 and works in equity research) welcomed wedding guests from 19 states and four countries with plenty of homemade goods. “We joked that Ben’s mom should open a bakery— everyone was asking where they could buy more banana and pumpkin bre...

Blacktie Museum Wedding in Boston

The Institute of Contemporary Art is one of Alexis Burbank’s (32 and a healthcare consultant) favorite places in Boston, so when she and Jamie Marino (32 and works in media content acquisition) decided to marry on its waterfront plaza, their day’s design took cues from the museum. “We focused on ...

Colorful, DIY Wedding With One-of-a-Kind Art at Goggleworks Center for the Arts in Reading, Pennsylvania

Mickayel always wanted a big wedding, but Benjamin thought they should elope. The solution? They made it official at city hall with a few witnesses, then threw a reception for 136 guests two days later. <br>A fan of polka dots, Mickayel thought they'd keep the cake from looking too serious — and ...

An Ultra-Personal, Rustic Wedding at Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah, Georgia

Designers Cassie Bray (28) and Eric Meckley (26) are self-proclaimed quiet types, happy to take a back seat and go along with the crowd. But for their wedding at Savannah’s Georgia State Railroad Museum, a block from where they met in architecture school, they wanted to let their personalities sh...

A Classic, Tradition-Rich Wedding at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan

Segi Ayeni and Gabe Thurin had two separate celebrations: a Western wedding at the Detroit Institute of Arts and a traditional Yoruba ceremony at the Sheraton Detroit Novi. The latter was a nod to Segi's Nigerian roots. "It was important that aspects of both our cultures were represented on our w...

A Classic Wedding at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado

This modern, eclectic celebration ended up being a destination wedding. Even though the bride, Leah Jacoby (30 and a doctor), and groom, Dan Groves (33 and a doctor), had lived in Denver, Colorado, for years before tying the knot, they moved to Washington, DC, for work two months before the weddi...

A Stylish, Fun-Filled Wedding at South Carolina State Museum in Columbia

Two years after Daniel Price (33 and a hair and makeup artist) proposed to Cameron Swofford (25 and a med school student) with caricature art at Disney World, the fun-loving pair threw an epic bash at Columbia's historic South Carolina State Museum. "The museum has always been our favorite landma...

A Luxe, Preppy Wedding at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri

A mere 10 months after their engagement and 12 years into their love story, Lisa Carpenter (30 and works in investor relations) and Kelly McKee (31 and a film producer) returned to their hometown of Kansas City for their vows. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was fitting for the event due to its d...

A Traditional Outdoor Wedding at McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas

Katherine Burkett (22 and a travel consultant) and Austin West (22 and a medical student) both play saxophone and met through a college band. They chose the McNay Art Museum, a Spanish Colonial-Revival mansion, as their venue because of its memories. The bride’s mother also took her wedding photo...

A Classic, Luxe Wedding at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida

“I always envisioned my wedding done in white and gold,” Evanne Kastrenakes (24 and a blogger) says of taking a timeless approach to her nuptials alongside Gordon Lucas (25 and an entrepreneur). The couple—who were first introduced by the groom’s sister—wed in a Greek Orthodox church surrounded b...

An Eclectic, Colorful Wedding at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Michigan

“How many couples can say they literally got married feet away from a Van Gogh?” Beatrice Tepel (25 and owner of Open Me When) asks. She married Eli Wolnerman (25 and a marketing brand manager) among the estee,ed artwork at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Gold-rimmed dinnerware and envy-inducing f...

A Colorful Modern Wedding at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut

Creatives Rory Gale (32 and owner of Hartford Prints!) and Pedro Bermudez (33 and owner of Revisionist Films) used a vibrant Sol LeWitt mural as the basis for their modern museum nuptials. “We both love art and the city of Hartford,” Rory explains of filling the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art w...

A Colorful, Pop-Culture-Themed Wedding in Seattle, Washington

As pop culture enthusiasts, Allyson Balansay and Stephen Culpepper drew wedding inspiration from the 2016 film La La Land. "Just as the movie opens with brightness and color," Allyson says, "I wanted our wedding to open similarly with light and color at the ceremony," which took place at Marion O...

A Preppy Wedding at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts

Boston was the basis for Caitlin O’Malley (28 and an MBA candidate) and Peter Maglathlin’s (32 and en entrepreneur) lavish museum wedding. “The city of Boston holds a special place in our hearts,” Peter says. “It’s where we met, fell in love and got engaged.” A sophisticated “secret garden” theme...

A Classic, Preppy Wedding at the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida

Although they now reside in Hawaii, Pamela Padilla (30 and a dermatologist) and Bryant Wilson (31 and a physician) returned to their home state of Florida to make their union official. Since they were organizing their celebration from afar, the couple enlisted the help of a planner to bring their...

A Vintage-Inspired Wedding at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

Pamela (Pam) Bosh (30 and a product operations analyst) and William (Will) Hubbard (30 and a general manager at Escape Campervans) exchanged vows at Saint Ignatius on the campus of the University of San Francisco, the bride’s alma mater. "We both knew we had to be married in San Francisco, a city...

A Book-Inspired Wedding at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey

Cheri Starr De Stefano (36 and a digital library cataloger) and Rachel Elisabeth Paulus (36 and a librarian) created more than 900 handmade flowers from book pages for their reception centerpieces and named their tables after tomes from Janet Evanovich’s numerically named Stephanie Plum series. “...

A Modern, Colorful Reception at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum in California

Katrina and Graham Fox wed in Australia, but many friends and family members were unable to attend because of the distance. So, the newlyweds threw a local reception in Santa Barbara, California, where Graham’s dad serves on the board of their venue: the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Katrina w...

A Modern Wedding at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia

Dustin Dove (left) and Andy Zalewski didn’t have a theme for their wedding at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (PAFA), but they drew inspiration from various traditions. “We did a Quaker self-affirming marriage and turned the certificate signing into a faux ketubah ceremo...

An Industrial Jewish Wedding at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah

For their industrial-chic wedding, Hana and Eddie Holecko drew inspiration from the Tim Burton movie Big Fish —“whimsical, romantic and a bit magical,” the bride says. Their historic venue, the Georgia State Railroad Museum,  also influenced the rustic aesthetic and color palette of oxblood, ivor...

A Formal Multicultural Wedding at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in Michigan

Wenqi Zhang and Mackie Woodruff had a multicultural wedding celebrating the groom’s western Michigan roots and the bride’s Chinese heritage. The ceremony, which took place outside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, was decorated with an arch of flowers and greenery. “Both my parents walked me down t...