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I hear that some people have held their receptions at aquariums or zoos. I think that's pretty neat! Imagine a shark in the background of your pictures. Or how the lighting reflects of the water in the tanks.
I have friends who got married on the pedistrian street bridge in Nashville. I is a beautiful bridge that overlooks the city skyline! Windy but really cool!
Oh and another cool place that is in my home town is Lost River Cave, you get married in a cave! Check it out... http://www.lostrivercave.com/cave_rental.htm
That would be gorgeous. Too bad there isn't an aquarium in my area or that would be an idea.
I always thought having the wedding on a boat would be neat.
What about a funeral home for a wedding on the Day of the Dead? Celebrate the death of singlehood!
<3 the summer camp idea
Here in Mpls, I REALLY wanted to go with the Varsity Theater -- it's a really really reallllllly cool music venue and they do private events as well. It's decked out in the coolest eclectic/vintage decor all the time, you wouldn't have to spend a DIME decorating it. It's so cool and has such a great vibe. Unfortunately I can find NO decent picture. My heart broke when it was out of our budget.
Also I really like the idea of art galleries -- we looked at quite a few around here but some of the ones that fit our size requirements aren't actually heated year round... and our wedding is in November. In Minnesota. So. But I think art galleries are a great idea too.
Some friends of friends got married on a ski slope in Squaw Valley (Tahoe). They wore ski clothes instead of traditional wedding clothes, and all the guests took the lift to the top of the mountain. After the ceremony, they all skied down to the lodge for the reception. I heard it was an awesome party, and I kinda wish I would've been there!
I like the aquarium idea. We thought about the ski venue since that's where we were engaged. We opted for a State Park Lodge, which i kind of think is different.
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haha thanks lattelove! :)
If we didn't have it at a summer camp, we'd probably have the wedding...
ON THE MOON!
...just kidding ;)
a cave would be pretty rad!
The summer camp idea is awesome! Just getting all of our family together in one place is one of the things I'm most looking forward to about the wedding. :o)
I think it might be fun to have a wedding at the California Academy of Sciences. We were there in December and it's AMAZING. I could totally see someone having a wedding in front of the penguin exhibit. (They are too cute!) Guests could spend the rest of the day exploring the place and learning new things.
I just asked a friend where she'd choose, and without hesitation, she squealed "Cedar Point!". It's an amusement park in Sandusky, OH... and her favorite place in the world. :o)
I would love to have my wedding at a Dude Ranch. (Let's pretend it's possible.) Horses, cows, sheep, the whole wrangler experience! Everyone would be on horseback for the ceremony, making the procession...well, special! And people learning to lasso at the reception! A BBQ buffet, and pies for dessert. *SWOON!* That would be my ultimate wedding/reception!
Library. like on SITC . lol very romantic , but diffect. NYC library is awesome
I was getting frustrated with trying to decide on a venue a while ago and was semi-seriously considering just having the whole wedding at McDonald's in the play pen. In the plastic ball pit. Then a better idea came up: IKEA! They have a better ball pit. Plus, the non-ball pit playing people always have fun walking around IKEA anyways! We'd serve hot dogs or whatever 
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we are getting married at the IL's backyard - not original I know. HOWEVER if weather doesnt permit (I hope I have a lot of fingers crossed on our day for wonderful weather) we will be having the ceremony in a theatre http://www.theatrecalgary.com/contact/theatre_rental/
Then our reception will take place at an art gallery - I know not that much of a unique idea but super cool! (there will be a dr. suess exhibit on when we have our wedding also! how neat is that!)
http://www.artevogalleries.com/virtualtour.html
However I agree with craftypants, I think at an amusement park would be AMAZING! I saw an old video (prpbably can find it at youtube) where they took couples on a rollercoaster with a priest at the front of the carts and and all these couples doing their wedding vows as they were on this rediculous rollercoaster ha ha ha
I would have to say Kennedy Space center in the rocket garden. I actually have seen photos from a friend of a friend who actually implemented this idea.
Second to that idea would be on the Apollo launch pad at KSC which also happens to be right along one of Florida's most pristine beaches! I am such a dork ;)
I think weddings inside museums is such a cute idea, if I could I would take it to the ultimate and have a wedding in the Louvre, that would be awesome!
Ours is basically summer camp too! The best part is that there are cabins, tents and a yurt on site. I think, however, that we're going to have a dust control issue... We'll see...
Here are some pictures of the yurt:
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I reallly wanted to get married at the old library in my hometown, but they wouldn't allow it. My FSIL is getting married at the zoo, however (right next to the bald eagles and the monkeys). We went to check it out the other day and they have a peacock they let run around loose in the zoo - I hope he comes to the wedding!
If I were coming up with my own unique spots:
the metropolitan museum of art, its filled with beautiful objects or the fricks in nyc
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I just finished reading the "green roofs" article in the current issue of National Geographic. I think that a rooftop wedding at Chicago's City Hall would be pretty awesome! :o)
Smarty votes for the towering trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. That's my California cutie! (I'm surprised he didn't pick Ohio Stadium or maybe something baseball related!)
Getting married in a public park with a gazebo and fountain that's a mile away from our house ... in Dallas the aquariums/museums cost at least $5k for venue rental before you even get started with ordering food.
Another fun idea; if you live near a lake, renting out a houseboat or a catamaran for an evening. kind of expensive but they usually allow you to cater however you like (including beverages).
In my home town they turned our Victorian train station into a venue spot. It's so beautiful! If I was getting married there, I'd be using it for sure.
I'm getting married on a farm and the reception will be held in a converted 19th century barn. It is absolutely beautiful and unique (www.chanteclairefarm.com) and unlike any other venue I've seen.
@MightySapphire- I'm getting married on a dude ranch! I'm way excited. We met there, so we have a ton of history there. Although we're not having it totally westerned themed. We'll have a big western ho-down for the rehearsal dinner and then include slight touches of western-ness for the wedding (cowboy boots under the dress -heck yes!) like having 200 horses stampede by as we become husband and wife!
Although my dude ranch is my ideal location, I think getting married somewhere high up would be awesome. Like a lighthouse would be KILLER.
@doctorgirl: I love your yurts!! We were thinking of getting married at a place called Doe Bay (they have yurts), but they ended up being super expensive. What's the name of your venue?
I'm gonna be all "ME ME ME" here but I think my venue is pretty "offbeat". www.thorpewood.org. Beautiful location, lots of ceremony sites to choose from, PING PONG at the reception, recycled, reused and composted stuff. Plus the "staff" is great and the money goes to a good cause (they have at risk female youth there in the summers to help them with self confidence and personal issues). Our guests can even wander around if they want to! OH and they've seen a bear at the pond! :D
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I may be biased since I work at one, but I vote for an Aquarium :)
We're getting married at a camp with a lake in the background, but I would love it if the lake had a T shaped dock that the bridal party would stand the on top of the T and then have the actual walkway be only a few (maybe 5-7) feet long and have the guests on the ground/beach.
the Botanical GArdens in Chicago rock! Or a House Museum there...the Glessner House, Clark House. the Field Museum, Mus of Sci and Industry---CHicago has a wealth of great musuems and historic places. After-hours events are how many smaller musuems make ends meet, and are often more lenient wiht what caterers you can choose etc. I am doing my wedding at the Villa Kathrine down-state and the rental for the nite is wonderfully inexpensive for an incredible setting! good luck...
My FH and I are having a City Hall ceremony and then having our reception at a speakeasy bar in SF: http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/
A history museum - not totally unique but not a hotel ballroom either... :)
Maybe not the most unique but certainly not the most common... my venue is a baseball park, CitiField to be exact. It was just finished in 2009 so all the decor is really modern and nice. The majority of our guests will probably have never been there before our wedding and i'd say 99% will not have been in the club we are using. What I'm looking forward to most is the reaction people have when they see it, looks nothing like what most people would expect at a ballpark.
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On top of a ski mountain during the summer! ...as long as you can get the mountain staff to turn one of the ski lifts on for you. Then you can take the lift up, have your ceremony, and then take the lift back down. ...which also makes for some amazing pictures! One of my friends did this.
Also, if you're more adventurous, you can have your wedding on top of a non-ski mountain, but it might involve some hiking for your guests. :-)
my avatar is my venue, it is a marble observatory in the columbia river gorge.
Ity is really small (44 feet across) and it will barely hold all of our guests but when I was little I used to want to live there.
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Chicago has so many fun venues if you can afford them -
Architectural artifacts, where your guests get the run of the whole place (they have rooms and rooms of cool, crazy artifacts: www.architecturalartifacts.com
The Lincoln Park Zoo offers weddings, both in the animal houses and in the beautiful Cafe Brauer.
We're leaning towards the Newberry Library for our ceremony, a gorgeous old privately owned library that still runs 6 days a week and has rare manuscripts and other books.
There are also a lot of art galleries around here that do intimate weddings, as well as a floral shop with a courtyard, and an old billboard-making factory.
Architectural Artifacts, as photographed by the divine Olivia Leigh:
A friend of mine is having their reception at an old mental asylum.
The Zoo in St Louis hots a ton of weddings, which I think is a ton of fun. There's some fab art galleries and breweries that have event space too. One of my fave's is Grant's Farm, where Anheuser Busch keeps their Clydesdales.
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Hi bees!
Just wondering--with all the anti-WIC (Wedding Industrial Complex), the economy, and general creativity of brides nowadays--I thought I was see what fun, non-traditional venue ideas you ladies can concoct.
You don't have to have been to a wedding, or even heard of a wedding held at a certain location--any idea goes! What are your ideas for a really unique venue to hold a reception (or ceremony)?
Here is one my favorite, unique venues--imagine a whole weekend away with close friends and family--where?
A summer camp!
http://lavenderandpoppies.blogspot.com/2009/04/quirky-venue-for-quirky-couple.html
via our very own Mrs. Rye Bread