Rochester Wedding Reception Venues

Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park | 151 Charlotte Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424 | 585-394-4922

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Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park


Your indoor OR outdoor event at Sonnenberg includes use of the grounds and gardens, parking, admission and tram service for all your guests and Sonnenberg staff to coordinate the details.

Find your dream setting

Seat up to 75 guests for a seated banquet with dancing or mingle with up to 99 guests for a cocktail-party style event in our historic Carriage House.

The Carriage House is equipped with spacious restrooms, air-conditioning/fans and heating.

Our traditional wedding ceremony site features manicured lawn, overhanging trees on three sides, and our Wedding Pergola -- a structure of six, white columns -- that creates a classical background for your wedding ceremony.

An alternate ceremony site featuring a natural grass "stage" graced with a giant Copper Beech Tree as a backdrop can comfortably seat extra-large wedding ceremonies of up to 400.

The Wedding Pergola and your rental chairs may be decorated by your family members or florist in the hour prior to your ceremony.

The Sub-Rosa Garden provides an intimate, yet elegant setting for your small ceremony for 40 or fewer guests.

For very small ceremonies, the Japanese Garden can provide a unique backdrop of landscaped lawn amidst bonsai trees, small bridges, water bodies, and our historic Tea House.

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Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park,Rochester Wedding Reception Venues

585-394-4922
151 Charlotte Street
Canandaigua, NY 14424

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Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park

Congratulations on your engagement!
Thank you for considering Sonnenberg for your wedding ceremony, wedding reception, or wedding photo shoot. Our Garden Season runs from mid-May through mid-October, providing a beautiful outdoor venue while our flowers are in bloom. Our unique gardens offer many varieties of annuals and picturesque landscaping, and our staff is ready to help you create treasured memories of your wedding day. We invite you to explore the many services Sonnenberg offers.

Garden Ceremonies
Sonnenberg offers ceremonies of varying sizes to accommodate as few as a dozen guests up to several hundred to witness you taking your vows.
All couples are welcome to choose our primary ceremony site with its formal, traditional ambience for ceremonies of any size. When planning a small ceremony, for 40 guests or fewer, some of our outlying gardens may be used as an alternate location in which to create an intimate, cozy feel.

Large ceremonies, accommodating 50 – 250+ guests, can be located at either the primary Pergola site for a ceremony with a traditional, formal style, or the Beech Tree Plateau site, where a simple grass plateau, with a large, red-leaf Copper Beech Tree stands behind and other trees grace the sides creating a natural “stage” with impressive views for up to 400 guests.

Receptions & Dinner Events
Sonnenberg offers two primary venues for wedding receptions and dinner events: an indoor facility (our Carriage House) that can seat approximately 75 or fewer guests when you plan to include dancing at your dinner event, or outdoor receptions staged under a beautiful white pole tent for larger groups with 70 - 250 or more guests. (Tent sizes and pricing varies depends on your guest count and event needs.) With Sonnenberg’s inclusive site/service packages, you are free from much of the stress of planning, so you can concentrate on enjoying every minute. All receptions include an optional evening (usually 5 p.m.) ceremony, allowing up to six hours before your reception concludes at 11 p.m. Sonnenberg reserves the evening time slot for ceremonies with receptions following in order to offer dedicated use of the park venues throughout the evening when the park is closed to public guests.

Photo Shoots at Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion
Capture the romantic images you’ve dreamed of on your special day with an independent wedding or engagement photo shoot. Select beautiful backdrops for up to 20 people with your advance reservation for a 1.5-hour photo session on the estate during Garden Season (mid-May to early October). Choose 3 of the following areas with your paid reservation: Japanese Garden, Rock Garden, Italian Garden, Old-Fashioned Garden, Rose Garden, Blue & White Garden, Sub-Rosa Garden, Pansy & Moonlight Gardens, or South Lawn (below Mansion). A Sonnenberg representative will meet you at the entrance nearest the gardens and escort your party to your chosen locales.