Wedding venues in the United States

Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago

Adrian Smith's 98-storey tower on the Chicago River rises 423 metres, second in the city only to Willis Tower, with the hotel on its lower floors.

339 rooms

San Ysidro Ranch

Vivien Leigh married Laurence Olivier here in 1940 and the Kennedys honeymooned here in 1953, on a citrus ranch that has taken guests since 1893.

38 rooms

Plaza Hotel

Henry Hardenbergh’s 1907 château on Fifth Avenue at Central Park, home of the Palm Court and of Eloise.

282 rooms

Bellagio

Opened in 1998 on an eight-acre lake whose fountains dance to music, with a Dale Chihuly glass ceiling of 2,000 flowers in the lobby.

3,933 rooms · Up to 130 guests

Caesars Palace

Opened on 5 August 1966 by Jay Sarno, the Roman resort where Evel Knievel jumped the fountains and Celine Dion filled the Colosseum.

Up to 4,100 guests

The Venetian Resort

Opened in 1999 on the site of the Sands with a Campanile, a Rialto Bridge and gondolas on an indoor canal; more than 7,000 suites with The Palazzo.

MGM Grand Las Vegas

6,852 rooms

The Broadmoor

Spencer Penrose built it with Cripple Creek gold in 1918, and Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, drew its pink facades.

Aman New York

Eighty-three suites in the 1921 Crown Building on Fifth Avenue, the first home of the Museum of Modern Art, opened by Aman in August 2022.

83 rooms

Palace Hotel

William Ralston's 1875 hotel, rebuilt after the 1906 fire, turned its carriage court into the glass-roofed Garden Court on Market Street.

Halekulani

A Waikiki beach house of 1907 that gave its name to a Charlie Chan novel and became a 453-room hotel with an orchid of 1.2 million tiles on its pool floor.

453 rooms

The Peninsula New York

The 1905 Gotham Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 55th Street, a Beaux-Arts tower that became The Peninsula New York in 1988.

235 rooms

The Drake Hotel

Opened on New Year's Eve 1920 at the head of the Magnificent Mile, the Drake looks across Lake Shore Drive to Oak Street Beach.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills

A garden hotel of 1991 on the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards, with 16 villas, a rooftop pool and check-in at any hour of the day.

195 rooms

Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown

A Four Seasons in Robert A.M. Stern's 30 Park Place tower, next to the Woolworth Building and a block from the World Trade Center.

The Cloister at Sea Island

Howard Coffin opened the first Cloister in 1928 to designs by Addison Mizner; the present building, rebuilt in the same Mediterranean idiom, dates from 2006.

The Roosevelt New Orleans

Louis Grunewald opened it in 1893; renamed for Theodore Roosevelt in 1923, it is home to the Sazerac Bar and its Ramos Gin Fizz.

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea

The 1990 Wailea Beach resort of 383 rooms where the first season of The White Lotus was filmed in 2020, with Spago and an adults-only Serenity Pool.

383 rooms

Post Ranch Inn

Thirty-nine rooms on a cliff 1,200 feet above the Pacific, with tree houses on stilts to protect the redwood roots beneath them.

39 rooms

Mauna Kea Beach Hotel

Laurance Rockefeller's 1965 hotel on Kaunaʻoa Bay, where lights shone into the sea off the point draw manta rays to feed after dark.

Four Seasons Resort Hualalai

A low-rise resort on the Kona-Kohala lava coast where guests swim with reef fish in King's Pond, a 1.8-million-gallon pool carved out of the rock.

Palmer House

Potter Palmer's first hotel burned 13 days after opening in 1871; the third Palmer House of 1925 keeps Louis Pierre Rigal's painted lobby ceiling.

The Mark

A 1927 Upper East Side hotel reborn in 2009 with Jacques Grange's black-and-white striped lobby and the largest hotel penthouse in the United States.

150 rooms

Fairmont Copley Plaza

Henry Hardenbergh, architect of The Plaza in New York, designed this 1912 hotel on the old Copley Square site of the Museum of Fine Arts.

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

Planned as condominiums, The Cosmopolitan opened on 15 December 2010 with terraces on most rooms and a three-storey bar wrapped in two million crystals.

3,027 rooms · Up to 3,200 guests

The Little Nell

Aspen's only ski-in, ski-out hotel, built by the Aspen Skiing Company at the foot of the Silver Queen Gondola with a cellar of some 20,000 bottles.

92 rooms

Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek

Cotton broker Sheppard King built the house in 1925; Caroline Rose Hunt turned it into the first Rosewood hotel in 1981.

Baccarat Hotel New York

The first hotel of the 1764 French crystal house, opened in 2015 across West 53rd Street from MoMA with 114 rooms lit by Baccarat chandeliers.

114 rooms

Wynn Las Vegas

Opened on 28 April 2005 behind a 614-foot curved bronze tower, the only resort on the Strip with its own 18-hole golf course.

2,716 rooms

Hotel Jerome

Jerome B. Wheeler, a partner in Macy's, opened this red-brick hotel on Aspen's Main Street in 1889, at the height of the silver boom.

Blackberry Farm

A 4,200-acre estate in the Smoky Mountain foothills where the Beall family turned a 1930s country house into one of America's best-known food destinations.

68 rooms

The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park

Park-view rooms come with telescopes in Emery Roth's 1930 St. Moritz building, converted for the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South.

Amangani

The first Aman in the United States, opened in 1998 on East Gros Ventre Butte with the Teton Range across the Snake River valley.

43 rooms

The Phoenician

Charles Keating Jr. opened it in 1988 on the southern slope of Camelback Mountain, with a swimming pool tiled in mother-of-pearl.

The Setai, Miami Beach

Behind a 1930s Art Deco front on Collins Avenue, Jean-Michel Gathy laid out three oceanfront pools, each kept at a different temperature.

Rosewood Miramar Beach

Trains on the coast line still pass between the lawns and the sand of a Montecito beach that has taken hotel guests since the 1880s.

Windsor Court Hotel

James Coleman Jr. opened it in 1984, the year of the New Orleans World's Fair, and filled its corridors with British paintings and antiques.

The Lowell

Seventy-four rooms on East 63rd Street, 33 of them with wood-burning fireplaces, in a 1927 Art Deco apartment hotel still run by one family.

74 rooms

Auberge du Soleil

A hillside restaurant opened in 1981 that grew into Napa Valley's first luxury inn, with 50 rooms among 33 acres of olive trees above the Silverado Trail.

50 rooms

ARIA Resort & Casino

Opened on 16 December 2009 as the centrepiece of CityCenter, two curved glass towers by César Pelli with a public art collection by Maya Lin and Jenny Holzer.

4,004 rooms

Ojai Valley Inn

Edward Libbey opened its Wallace Neff clubhouse in 1923, facing the Topatopa bluffs that glow pink at sunset in what the valley calls the Pink Moment.

El Encanto

Opened in 1918 on the Santa Barbara Riviera, closed for seven years and reopened by Orient-Express in 2013 with its Craftsman cottages and lily pond restored.

Vdara

Four Seasons Resort Lanai

Opened as the Manele Bay Hotel in 1991 above Hulopoʻe Bay, a marine preserve where spinner dolphins come in to rest close to the beach.

Faena Hotel Miami Beach

A gold-leafed mammoth skeleton by Damien Hirst stands by the pool of the 1948 Saxony, restyled for Alan Faena by Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin.

Mandarin Oriental, New York

The lobby is on the 35th floor, so the lounge, the rooms and the lap pool all look over Central Park and the Hudson from Columbus Circle.

Four Seasons Hotel Miami

Four Seasons Hotel Miami fills the lower floors of a 789-foot Brickell Avenue tower that was Florida's tallest building for 14 years after 2003.

Amangiri

Thirty-four suites of poured concrete, opened in 2009 around a sandstone escarpment on 600 acres of Utah desert beside the Arizona line.

34 rooms

Twin Farms

Sinclair Lewis's Vermont farm, bought as a wedding gift for Dorothy Thompson in 1928, now a 300-acre all-inclusive inn with twenty rooms and its own ski hill.

20 rooms

Cavallo Point Lodge

Army officers' houses of the early 1900s at Fort Baker, below the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, restored as rooms inside a national park.

The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort

Three glass towers rise where Morris Lapidus's 1956 Americana once stood, with the Bal Harbour Shops directly across Collins Avenue.

Fairmont Grand Del Mar

Doug Manchester's 2007 Mizner-style villa on the edge of Los Peñasquitos Canyon is home to Addison, Southern California's first three-star restaurant.

Mauna Lani

Beside the ancient fishponds of Kalāhuipuaʻa, where young green sea turtles kept in the ponds are released to the ocean every Fourth of July.

Beverly Wilshire

The 1928 Italian Renaissance hotel at the foot of Rodeo Drive, run by Four Seasons since 1992.

Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills

Built in 2017 beside the Beverly Hilton, its twelve storeys end in a rooftop pool looking over the Hollywood Hills and Century City.

Four Seasons Hotel Boston

Opened in 1985 on Boylston Street, with an eighth-floor pool and garden-side rooms looking straight down on the Public Garden lagoon.

Montage Deer Valley

A ski-in, ski-out lodge at Empire Pass near the top of Deer Valley, with a spa of about 35,000 square feet and bowling lanes in its pub.

Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC

At the eastern gate of Georgetown since 1979, beside Rock Creek and the start of the C&O Canal, home to Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak.

The Jefferson, Washington, DC

Documents signed by Thomas Jefferson are displayed in this 1923 Beaux-Arts house, four blocks north of the White House on 16th Street.

The Langham, Chicago

The hotel fills the lower floors of Mies van der Rohe's last American building, the former IBM tower on the Chicago River.

Hotel Emma

The hotel fills the Pearl Brewery's 1894 brewhouse, with the old ammonia compressors and tanks left in place in its public rooms.

146 rooms

Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole

Ski-in, ski-out at the foot of Rendezvous Mountain in Teton Village, beside the red cabins of the aerial tram that climbs 4,139 vertical feet.

Ventana Big Sur

Open since 1975 on a ridge above Highway 1, with glamping tents among the redwoods in the canyon below added when it became an Alila in 2017.

Delano Las Vegas

Dunton Hot Springs

A nineteenth-century mining camp in the San Juan Mountains, its log cabins restored, with the old saloon still pouring and hot springs in the bathhouse.

Fontainebleau Las Vegas

Begun in 2007 and left as a shell for 14 years, the 737-foot Fontainebleau tower opened on 13 December 2023 with 3,644 rooms as Nevada's tallest building.

3,644 rooms · Up to 3,800 guests

Stein Eriksen Lodge

Named after Stein Eriksen, the Norwegian who won Olympic giant slalom gold in Oslo in 1952 and later ran the skiing at Deer Valley for over thirty years.

The Carlyle

The 1930 Art Deco tower on Madison Avenue, home of Bemelmans Bar and the Café Carlyle.

Montage Palmetto Bluff

Set within 20,000 acres of Lowcountry forest and marsh on the May River, on the former winter estate of New York financier Richard T. Wilson Jr.

Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa

Forty-nine casita suites and a tennis club spread across a hillside of citrus and olive trees in the eucalyptus country of Rancho Santa Fe.

Hotel del Coronado

An 1888 wooden Victorian resort on the beach across the bay from San Diego, among the first hotels lit by electricity and the set of Some Like It Hot.

Montage Kapalua Bay

Built on the site of the 1978 Kapalua Bay Hotel above Namalu Bay, with every room a residence-sized suite of one to four bedrooms.

The Willard

Washington’s 1901 Beaux-Arts hotel two blocks from the White House, where Martin Luther King Jr. worked on his 1963 speech.

The Beverly Hills Hotel

The 1912 Pink Palace on Sunset Boulevard, with its bungalows, its Polo Lounge and its banana-leaf wallpaper.

Fairmont San Francisco

Opened on 18 April 1907, one year to the day after the earthquake, the Nob Hill house where the United Nations Charter was drafted in 1945.

606 rooms

The Royal Hawaiian

The Pink Palace of the Pacific, opened on Waikiki Beach in 1927 by the Matson steamship line and still painted coral pink.

The Greenbrier

A West Virginia springs resort receiving guests since 1778, redecorated by Dorothy Draper in 1948 and built over a secret Cold War bunker for Congress.

The Biltmore Hotel

A 1926 Coral Gables resort with a tower copied from Seville's Giralda and a 700,000-gallon pool, a military hospital for 26 years before its revival.

98 rooms

The Pierre

A Schultze & Weaver tower on Fifth Avenue facing Central Park, opened in 1930, bought by J. Paul Getty and the scene of the 1972 jewel robbery.

189 rooms

The Ahwahnee

Gilbert Stanley Underwood's 1927 hotel on the Yosemite Valley floor is built of steel and concrete stained to pass for redwood, with Half Dome in the Dining Room windows.

123 rooms

Omni Mount Washington Resort

In July 1944 delegates from 44 nations met in this 1902 hotel to design the post-war monetary order, and signed in what is now the Gold Room.

200 rooms

Williamsburg Inn

John D. Rockefeller Jr. opened the Williamsburg Inn on 3 April 1937 as the guest house of his restored colonial capital, and Queen Elizabeth II has stayed twice.

62 rooms

Hotel Bel-Air

Alphonzo Bell's 1922 estate office and stables in Stone Canyon became a 103-room hotel in 1946, with a swan lake at its gate and no sign on the road.

103 rooms · Up to 120 guests

The Omni Homestead Resort

Guests have taken the waters at this spot in the Allegheny Mountains since 1766, and the first tee of its Old Course, cut in 1892, is the oldest in continuous use in America.

483 rooms

Omni Shoreham Hotel

Every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 has held an inaugural ball in the 834-room Shoreham above Rock Creek Park.

834 rooms

Mohonk Mountain House

Albert Smiley paid $28,000 for a tavern on Lake Mohonk in 1869, and his family has run the Victorian castle that grew from it ever since.

Fairmont Olympic Hotel

Seattle residents bought bonds in 1922 to build the Olympic on the first University of Washington campus, whose owner still collects the rent.

450 rooms

Arizona Biltmore

Albert Chase McArthur built the Arizona Biltmore in 1929 from 250,000 concrete textile blocks, with Frank Lloyd Wright on site as consultant for four months.

500 rooms · Up to 1,000 guests

The Hermitage Hotel

In August 1920 both sides of the fight over women's suffrage ran their campaigns from this 1910 Beaux-Arts hotel while Tennessee cast the deciding vote.

122 rooms

The Hay-Adams

Built in 1928 on the site of John Hay's and Henry Adams's houses, with upper-floor windows looking across Lafayette Square at the White House.

145 rooms

The Union Station Nashville Yards

Nashville's 1900 railway terminal, with its 65-foot stained-glass barrel vault and a 220-foot clock tower, has been a 125-room hotel since 1986.

125 rooms

The Seelbach Hotel

F. Scott Fitzgerald drank at the Seelbach in 1918 and put Daisy's wedding in The Great Gatsby there; its Rathskeller is lined entirely in Rookwood pottery.

Grand Hotel Mackinac Island

Reached only by ferry and carriage, Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island has served dinner under a jacket-and-tie rule behind a 660-foot porch since 1887.

InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile

Built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club, with a 14th-floor swimming pool where Johnny Weissmuller trained and a gold dome over Michigan Avenue.

792 rooms

Hotel Andaluz Albuquerque, Curio Collection by Hilton

Conrad Hilton's first hotel in his native New Mexico, opened in 1939 as Albuquerque's tallest building with the state's first air conditioning.

107 rooms

Casa Monica Resort & Spa

Built in 1888 and sold to Henry Flagler within months, the Casa Monica served as the St. Johns County courthouse before reopening as a hotel in 1999.

137 rooms

The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa

Mobile's hotel since 1852, rebuilt in 1908 after a fire and reopened in 2007 after 33 years shut, with the RSA tower rising beside it.

238 rooms

The St. Regis Washington, D.C.

Harry Wardman's Carlton Hotel of 1926, an Italian Renaissance palazzo by Mihran Mesrobian two blocks from the White House, became the St. Regis in 1999.

Condado Vanderbilt Hotel

Frederick Vanderbilt's 1919 hotel on the Condado shore, by the architects of Grand Central Terminal, reopened in 2014 after years dark and a rebuilding from the structure up.

The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa

Open every day since 12 August 1892, the Brown Palace draws its water from a 720-foot artesian well beneath its eight-storey onyx atrium.

The US Grant

Ulysses S. Grant Jr. built The US Grant in his father's name in 1910; the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation has owned the Broadway hotel since 2003.

The Omni Grove Park Inn

Edwin Grove's granite hotel on Sunset Mountain went up in under a year and opened in July 1913; F. Scott Fitzgerald spent two summers in rooms 441 and 443.

513 rooms

Wentworth Mansion

A cotton merchant's 1886 Second Empire mansion with Tiffany glass and a rooftop cupola, 21 rooms since 1998 and Circa 1886 restaurant in its carriage house.

21 rooms

The Adolphus

Brewer Adolphus Busch built The Adolphus in 1912 as the tallest building in Texas, a 21-storey Beaux-Arts tower on Commerce Street.

407 rooms