General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 55
The Wall Education Wing features two high-tech classrooms with high-speed internet access and built-in video projection for presentations. The Teaching Garden Classroom and the Azalea Classroom are just steps away from Sweatt Terrace, a charming formal plaza featuring a rose garden surrounded by mixed beds of cool-colored perennials, such as clematis, iris, and rhododendron.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 40 People
Classroom - 30"
Capacity: 28 People
Conference
Capacity: 12 People
Hollow Square
Capacity: 22 People
Theater
Capacity: 55 People
U-Shape
Capacity: 18 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 20
The Carlson Dining Room located off of the Arboretum Cafe seats up to 20 people. Window views overlook gardens and terraces and includes fireplace. Great location for a small meeting or private dining.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 20 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 50
Classroom I Accommodates Up To 50 Guests
Classroom II Accommodates Up To 40 Guests
These large, airy, practical spaces are ideal for meetings, classes, and workshops. Each classroom is equipped with a wide blackboard, a pull-down screen, and blackout shades. Classroom I accommodates up to 50 with theater-style seating. Classroom II incorporates a double sink and counter for demonstrations, and accommodates up to 40 with theatre-style seating.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Classroom - 18"
Capacity: 40 People
Classroom - 30"
Capacity: 50 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 60
A popular meeting place, the Fireplace Room is located on the second-floor and features a cozy atmosphere complete with crackling fire during the cooler months, a bird's-eye view of surrounding gardens and grounds, attractive cabin-style furniture, a projection screen, and room-darkening shades. The Fireplace Room can accommodate up to 60. The indoor balcony area is an adjoining space often used for food service.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 50 People
Classroom - 30"
Capacity: 40 People
Hollow Square
Capacity: 25 People
Theater
Capacity: 60 People
U-Shape
Capacity: 20 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 50
The Francis de Vos Home Demonstration Garden is comprised of smaller gardens that include a garden featuring herbs, a rock garden and a garden for outdoor living. A patio garden features containerized trees and flowers. Other parts of the garden feature rotating seasonal displays. All are surrounded by fences, hedges, decks, walkways, walls, patios terraces and trellises to turn it into a private sight, just the right size for 50 standing or seating. Option to add garden chairs at $4 plus tax per chair.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Theater
Capacity: 50 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 25
The Knot Garden is a pattern garden comprised of Korean boxwood, Japanese barberry, lavender cotton and germander. Your pictures will be stunning with multiple camera angles within the garden and also from the overlooking Herb Garden & Wedding Tower. Tucked away in a quiet spot, yet close to the Visitor Center, this is the ideal garden for ceremonies of 25 people or less with bench seating for 6.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 25 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 375
Available Configurations and Capacities for entire room
Theater: 375
Classroom: 200
Banquet: 270
Available Configurations and Capacities for room divided in half
Theater: 200
Classroom: 90
Banquet: 100
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 270 People
Classroom - 30"
Capacity: 200 People
Theater
Capacity: 375 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 120
The Sarah Stevens MacMillan Terrace Garden is the perennial garden designed to be at its best throughout the summer. Hold your ceremony on the center lawn with your guests gathering around on the walkway. Garden is adjacent to the Morgan Terrace. This garden is located directly behind the Snyder Building and not far from the Visitor Center. It has standing capacity for 120 guests with seating for 9 with benches.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 120 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 30
The recently updated conservatory is a sunny, cozy space filled with tropical plants and a collection of bromeliads, orchids and seasonal plants. Say "I Do" or renew your vows in these lush surroundings. Now available for catered weddings October-April.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 30 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 20
The Prairie Garden has a trickling water feature and circular design. Have an intimate 'wedding in round' with guests surrounding you for the ceremony. Standing ceremony location with room for 20 people. Has own parking area.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 20 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 140
Located in Oswald Visitor Center, this dual space opened in 2005 and provides a wonderful dining and reception space with an attached landscaped patio for outdoor cocktails and mingling. Includes: 15'x18' Dance Floor, Newton Terrace, and Carlson Dining Room. *Food & Beverage minimum Saturdays only: $5,500.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 140 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 12
The Seisui-Tei Japanese Garden is the perfect site for small, intimate weddings with seating for 6 and standing room for 12 guests. The focal points of this particular garden are a waterfall and a gazebo. This garden contains a garden arbor built of wood, bamboo and stone.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 12 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 200
The Clotilde Irvine Sensory Garden is the garden of model displays of accessible containers and planting designs suitable for gardening styles, a miniature rock garden and a bird and butterfly garden. This garden engages the senses and refreshes the spirit. In the center of this garden there is a spacious lawn area where up to 200 white folding chairs will be set.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Theater
Capacity: 200 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 120
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Theater
Capacity: 120 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 180
This majestic space, featuring curved ceiling beams and wrought iron chandeliers, accommodates up to 180 for theater-style seating and 110 for banquet-style seating. The space includes a podium, a camouflaged blackboard, ceiling-mounted wireless LCD projector, a pull-down screen, room-darkening shades, and sound system. Double doors open onto the front terrace and a magnificent perennial garden.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 110 People
Classroom - 30"
Capacity: 80 People
Theater
Capacity: 180 People
U-Shape
Capacity: 50 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 40
This charming space is encircled with windows, features a wood-burning fireplace and massive wood beams, and a walkout stone terrace overlooking tranquil wetlands and woodlands. The space accommodates up to 40. The Tea Room Terrace connects with the more spacious Morgan Terrace and may be combined with the Snyder Building lobby.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 40 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 300
The Trex Deck features a leaf-shaped deck overlooking the Arboretum's Bog Area. The large Ordway Picnic Shelter overlooks the site, and a sloping hill leads down from the shelter to the deck area. Many weddings like to have their guests bring their own blankets to spread out on the hill and watch the ceremony take place. Includes 100 white folding chairs.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Theater
Capacity: 300 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 110
The Palma J. Wilson Rose Garden features varieties of hybrid garden roses attractively displayed on a hillside in beds connected by walkways and steps. Enhanced by a pool with small fountains and a wooden gazebo with inside seating. The magnificence of the rose garden makes it a popular site for summer weddings. This garden has standing capacity for 110 guests and seating for 17 with benches
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 110 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 80
Margot Picnic Shelter Area has three picnic shelters that are available for rent throughout the summer. The shelters are located next door to the Learning Center and close to the display gardens and Oswald Visitor Center.
All of the shelters have electrical outlets, serving areas along with seating for 80 people in an enclosed shelter, with additional picnic seating outside of the shelters.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 80 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 300
Take that ceremonial walk down the path along the majestic white firs to the Nelson Shrub Rose Garden. The garden displays its collection of hardy shrub roses. This garden is arranged in a circular pattern of bends around granite lines reflecting pool. Spacious lawn spans the area between the rose beds and the pool where up to 250 white folding chairs will be set. The garden backdrop is native sugar maple woodland. Complimentary transportation to and from site from the Oswald Visitor Center.
This garden can hold up to 300 guests. If you have more than 250 guests, you can add up to 50 chairs at $4.00 plus tax per chair
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 300 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 100
Oak & Nut Tree Collection is a tucked away area, a perfect place for couples who prefer a natural landscape backdrop for their wedding. Get married on a hillcrest overlooking a green grass valley with rolling hills and The Arboretum's iconic red barn in the background. Includes 100 white folding chairs. *Note: No electricity available and grass is sometimes uneven. Not easily accessible for guests who are less mobile.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Theater
Capacity: 100 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 80
The Ordway Picnic Shelter is available for rent throughout the summer. The shelter is location across Three-Mile Drive from the Sensory Garden and is close to the display gardens and Oswald Visitor Center.
All of the shelters have electrical outlets, serving areas along with seating for 80 people in an enclosed shelter, with additional picnic seating outside of the shelters.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 80 People
General Event Space
| Maximum Capacity: 50
The Wall Education Wing features two high-tech classrooms with high-speed internet access and built-in video projection for presentations. The Teaching Garden Classroom and the Azalea Classroom are just steps away from Sweatt Terrace, a charming formal plaza featuring a rose garden surrounded by mixed beds of cool-colored perennials, such as clematis, iris, and rhododendron.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Banquet - 10 per
Capacity: 32 People
Classroom - 30"
Capacity: 22 People
Conference
Capacity: 10 People
Hollow Square
Capacity: 18 People
Theater
Capacity: 50 People
U-Shape
Capacity: 12 People
Outdoor Venue
| Maximum Capacity: 25
The Waterfall Area features three different ceremony locations. It is close to the Snyder Building and can accommodate 25 people for a standing only ceremony.
Supported Layouts and Capacities
Reception
Capacity: 25 People