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The Wedding-Weekend Map (2026)

Where can the wedding become the whole weekend? We mined the websites and couples' reviews of 2,699 US garden wedding venues for hard lodging evidence — a guesthouse that sleeps the wedding party, cabins on the property, a bridal suite — and found at least 527 venues with confirmed on-site lodging, 19.5% of the directory. Rolled up by state, a clear map appears. Updated 2026-07-24.

Wedding-weekend states, per resident

The headline: Vermont is the wedding-weekend capital of America per resident, with 5 venues confirmed to sleep guests on the property — 7.7 per million people. By raw count the leaders are California (68), Texas (34), Washington (28). Deepest bench relative to its venue count: Virginia, where 44.1% of all garden venues show lodging evidence.

#StateVenues with confirmed lodgingShare of state's venuesPer million residents
1 Vermont 5 45.5% 7.7
2 New Hampshire 8 50% 5.7
3 Washington 28 24.3% 3.5
4 Oregon 15 28.3% 3.5
5 Virginia 26 44.1% 3
6 Tennessee 21 38.9% 2.9
7 Maine 4 25% 2.8
8 Montana 3 75% 2.6
9 Missouri 15 26.8% 2.4
10 Connecticut 9 27.3% 2.4
11 Massachusetts 14 29.8% 2
12 Wisconsin 12 20% 2
13 Idaho 4 18.2% 2
14 Ohio 23 25.6% 1.9
15 Michigan 19 21.8% 1.9
16 Maryland 11 25% 1.8
17 South Carolina 10 21.3% 1.8
18 Rhode Island 2 20% 1.8
19 California 68 19.4% 1.7
20 Pennsylvania 22 18.6% 1.7
21 Alabama 9 20.9% 1.7
22 Georgia 18 18.2% 1.6
23 North Carolina 17 17% 1.5
24 Louisiana 7 18.4% 1.5
25 New York 27 20.8% 1.4
26 Mississippi 4 44.4% 1.4
27 Alaska 1 14.3% 1.4
28 District of Columbia 1 12.5% 1.4
29 Kansas 4 15.4% 1.3
30 Indiana 8 15.7% 1.2
31 Texas 34 15.4% 1.1
32 Kentucky 5 17.9% 1.1
33 West Virginia 2 25% 1.1
34 Illinois 13 13.3% 1
35 Colorado 6 18.2% 1
36 Arkansas 3 15.8% 1
37 Nebraska 2 15.4% 1
38 Delaware 1 20% 1
39 Florida 22 12.5% 0.9
40 Minnesota 5 12.8% 0.9
41 Iowa 3 13% 0.9
42 New Mexico 2 50% 0.9
43 Oklahoma 3 12% 0.7
44 New Jersey 6 10.5% 0.6
45 Utah 2 3.9% 0.6
46 Arizona 2 5% 0.3
47 Nevada 1 4.5% 0.3

Counts are floors, not ceilings: a venue only lands in the lodging column when its own website or its couples' reviews prove it. The real number is higher — the evidence just hasn't surfaced yet for every venue.

Planning a wedding weekend?

This page is the map; the venues with on-site lodging directory is the door-to-door list — every confirmed venue, grouped by state, with the evidence quoted on each listing. If you'd rather have everything handled in one booking, see the all-inclusive venues.

Cite this data

Suggested attribution: “The Wedding-Weekend Map” — GardenWeddingVenues.net, 2026, linked to https://www.gardenweddingvenues.net/garden-venue-stats/lodging-map/. The table is CC BY 4.0: chart it, quote it, publish it — just link back. Want a custom cut (by state or metro)? Email us. Data updated 2026-07-24.

Methodology: a venue counts as having confirmed on-site lodging when its website or couples' reviews contain concrete evidence — a guesthouse, cabins, cottages, or guest rooms on the property (mined and re-verified with each crawl of our 2,699-venue national directory). Because the flag requires proof, every number on this page is a floor ("at least N"). Population = US Census 2024 state estimates; per-million = confirmed venues ÷ state population × 1,000,000. Share = confirmed venues ÷ all directory venues in that state. More data: the state-by-state stats hub and America's garden wedding capitals.