Top 10 Best Duluth Minnesota Wedding Venues
Nestled on the shores of Lake Superior, Duluth is known for its historic charm and breathtaking natural beauty. There is something for everyone looking to get married or elope in Duluth!
From elegant ballrooms to rustic barns, and from intimate lakeside locations to boutique hotels, Duluth has venues to cater to couples with varying tastes, preferences, and budgets.
As a Minnesota wedding photographer and filmmaker, I’ve had the privilege to visit and capture beautiful love stories in many of these venues.
So here is my list of the top 10 best Duluth Minnesota wedding venues, in no particular order! Grab a cup of coffee, get cozy, and find a venue that matches your vision!
Duluth Minnesota Wedding Venues
Here is the list in a nutshell, but scroll down to get a better look into each venue!
The Atrium, Solon Springs
The Atrium is a popular outdoor wedding venue in Duluth MN created by wedding photographers! After being in the industry for years, they know exactly what it takes to have a good wedding venue and how to take care of all the details!
Capacity: Up to 200 guests, no overnight accommodations.
On-Site Suites: The venue offers two spacious, well-lit, and beautifully decorated dressing areas for you and your wedding party to get ready at!
Ceremony Options: You can have your ceremony outside in their beautiful Woods Ceremony site. And there is a plan B option, if the weather turns sour, to have your ceremony in their gorgeous Greenhouse.
Reception: The main reception area is the Atrium itself. It is a big, beautiful converted greenhouse venue, which is surrounded by clear walls and high ceilings. It has plenty of room to host 200 people, the bar and catering, as well as dancing.
Between the Atrium and the ceremony Greenhouse, you will find a spacious outdoor Courtyard. You can use the Courtyard for setting up food trucks, having an outdoor cocktail hour, playing yard games, or planning your sparkler send-off! There’s nothing quite like being under the stars on your wedding day!
The owners of the venue are happy to support you in your timeline planning and provide you with vendor suggestions, as well as offer specific add-ons such as a photo booth, decor package, and a wagon ride for some extra wedding fun!
Clyde Iron Works & The Malting Building
Clyde Iron Works is a restaurant, bar, and event venue in Duluth, MN.
You can choose to host your wedding in one of the two venue options - Clyde Event Center or The Malting Building. Here are the deets on both!
Clyde Event Center
Clyde Event Center is an industrial building turned into a versatile and beautiful event space. The venue features exposed brick walls, large windows, high ceilings, and impressive ironwork, providing you with a customizable canvas for your big day. Decorate as much or as little as you want!
The Clyde Event Center will take care of your catering and bartending needs! You can hold your ceremony and reception here easily and it will all be well taken care of.
Capacity & Reception Areas: The venue has the overall capacity to hold up to 2000 people, however, there are different settings you can choose to rent for smaller weddings.
For a larger event, you can rent out the Event Center which can hold 600 guests seated or over 1000 guests for a standing reception. The space includes a main floor and two balconies for you to use as you wish.
And if you are not planning to have a massive wedding, you can choose to rent either the Mezzanine or the Upper Restaurant & Bar.
The Mezzanine is a semi-private space that could hold up to 130 guests seated or 300 standing.
The Upper Restaurant overlooking the Clyde Restaurant and Brewery is also a semi-private event space that could hold up to 80 guests seated or 150 standing.
On-Site Suites: They also offer spacious on-site rooms for you and your wedding party to get ready. No overnight accommodations are available in this venue.
The Malting Building
The Malting Building is Clyde’s second wedding and event center. It’s a bit smaller than the Clyde Event Center but still very spacious! This is an elegant industrial warehouse-type wedding venue with beautiful wooden walls and high ceilings.
Same as with the Clyde Event Center, this venue is a customizable canvas that you can decorate as much or as little as you’d like.
The Malting Building will take care of your catering and bartending needs! You can hold your ceremony and reception here easily and customize the floor plan depending on your needs.
Capacity & Reception Area: The space includes a main floor and a mezzanine area. The venue can hold 450 guests seated between both levels or 850 guests standing.
On-Site Suites: You get access to a spacious bridal suite to get ready before your big day. No overnight accommodations are available in this venue.
If you are interested in this venue, check out this wedding film I shot here a little while ago for some wedding day inspiration!
Park Point & Beach House
Park Point & Beach House is a beautiful beachfront venue that offers breathtaking views of Lake Superior. It’s also one of the more affordable Duluth MN wedding venues!
Capacity: Up to 200 guests, no overnight accommodations or on-site suites for getting ready.
Ceremony Options: You can have your ceremony at the beach or on the outside patio of the Beach House. However, you must note that this is a public space, so you can’t block it from public passing through the beach, so you might have a few extra witnesses for your big event.
Reception: You can hold your reception at the spacious and beautiful Beach House. The venue provides tables, chairs, and light decor, but you can have to set up everything else according to what you’d like it to be!
Permits: Since the venue is taken care of by the Duluth Parks & Recreation Division, you have to go through them for all the permits, special requests, and renting procedures. Different fees apply for clean-up and alcohol permits. All of those details are well explained here!
This venue offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to catering and alcohol, making it more affordable depending, of course, on your preferences.
Overall, Park Point Beach House is absolutely beautiful! Exchanging your vows with your partner overlooking the Lake is truly a one-of-a-kind experience!
Rose Garden
Rose Garden is a beautiful place in Duluth MN to hold your wedding or elopement ceremony. It’s a huge garden that features over 3000 rose bushes and other plants, as well as its iconic marble Gazebo, which is the crowd favorite for weddings, engagements, and other special events.
Lake Superior serves as an absolutely stunning backdrop for your ceremony as you exchange your vows in front of the people closest to you.
If you want to take full advantage of the beauty of the garden, I recommend having your ceremony from mid-June through September when all those beautiful plants are typically in bloom.
Capacity: 150 people for a ceremony.
Ceremony Options: The Rose Garden is a public space, so it will remain open throughout your ceremony there, however, when you get the permit, you have exclusive use of the Gazebo area.
Reception Options: No reception is allowed at that location, however, there are several park wedding venues around the area that you can take advantage of after the ceremony at the Rose Garden.
You also have the option to bring in a food truck to your event for an additional fee, but that must be kept either at the parking lot or the Park Point Pavilions.
Permits: For a detailed description of all applicable fees and permits, you can go through this guide here, which explains it in great detail!
Rose Garden is an absolutely incredible place for your wedding, being surrounded by all the beautiful flora and greenery, and it’s also one of the more affordable Duluth MN wedding venue options!
Kitchi Gammi Club
Kitchi Gammi Club is one of Minnesota’s oldest private clubs, as well as one of Duluth’s most historic landmarks. It’s an elegant and luxurious mansion wedding venue just across the street from Lake Superior.
Capacity: Up to 250 guests.
On-Site Suites: Kitchi Gammi Club has on-site rooms for you to use as bridal suites! They offer rooms for you to book for your guests or yourself for overnight stay.
Ceremony Options: The club has a beautiful Victorian-style ballroom to hold your ceremony at.
Reception Options: The venue has a separate gothic Victorian ballroom with gorgeous high ceilings to hold your reception. They have an in-house catering team, so you won’t need to worry about the food and drinks.
Greysolon Ballroom
Greysolon Ballroom is an absolutely gorgeous historic wedding venue in Downtown Duluth. With mahogany walls, hand-painted ceilings, and fancy detailing, this venue is elegant and luxurious, yet still keeps its price tag reasonable for what they offer.
There are two event spaces available at the venue - The Ballroom and The Moorish Room.
The Ballroom
Capacity: Up to 375 guests.
On-Site Suites: The venue offers beautiful private suites for the couple and their wedding party to be able to get ready on-site.
Ceremony Options: You can choose to have your ceremony on-site in the Ballroom.
Reception Options: The reception space is the luxurious Ballroom and it can accommodate a variety of arrangements for your wedding day. You can set up a stage, a dance floor, cocktail-style reception, or traditional sit-down dining.
The venue offers onsite catering and their wedding packages also include a level of table decor, which is great!
The Moorish Room
Capacity: From 10 to 200 guests.
On-Site Suites: The venue offers beautiful private suites for the couple and their wedding party to be able to get ready on-site.
Ceremony Options: You can choose to have your ceremony on-site in the Moorish Room.
Reception Options: The reception space is the romantic, elegant, and intimate Moorish Room that gets flipped from the ceremony space during the cocktail hour. It is a bit smaller than the Ballroom, however, it still has plenty of room to party!
Similarly to the Ballroom, the Moorish Room packages offer onsite catering and their wedding packages also include a level of table decor.
Merryweather Inn
Merryweather Inn is a charming and historic bed & breakfast perfect for micro weddings in Duluth MN. The Inn is a full-service wedding venue. The food, flowers, decor, cake, as well as planning, are taken care of by the kind and professional staff on site.
The venue has multiple rooms for you to house your wedding guests, as well as yourself with your new spouse.
Capacity: Up to 50 guests.
On-Site Suites: The Inn has beautiful boutique rooms for you and your wedding party to get ready at.
Ceremony Options: You can hold an intimate ceremony inside or head out into the garden for a beautiful outdoor ceremony space!
Reception Options: The venue has beautiful sitting rooms for you to hold an intimate wedding reception with your closest friends and family.
Ivy Black
Ivy Black is one of the newest wedding venues in the Duluth area. This upscale, modern barn wedding venue is only minutes away from Duluth.
This venue is nestled among pines and open fields, with many scenic trails nearby, making it the perfect location to capture some adventurous wedding photos.
Capacity: Up to 275 guests.
On-Site Suites: The venue has private suites for the wedding party to get ready. The bridal suite also offers a separate area for the bride to get ready alone. You can also walk out onto the deck and take in the beauty of the property from the bridal suite!
Ceremony Options: There are multiple locations outside for you to choose from for your ceremony!
Reception Options: You can head outside on the outdoor patio for a cocktail hour and yard games, and then head inside the barn for the main reception events.
The venue offers chairs and tables, as well as a prep kitchen for caterers. While they have their preferred vendors, they are happy for any vendor to come in, as long as they are licensed and insured!
Sitio
Sitio is a gorgeous event venue nestled in nature amongst gardens and woodlands. It is located in Esko, Minnesota, just about 10 minutes away from Duluth.
The venue offers a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces for your wedding - Vineyard View, The Greenhouse, and Utopia Borealis Concert Stage.
Sitio also features a beautifully renovated Farmhouse for on-site accommodations, including a wedding suite for couples to use on their big day. The Farmhouse also has large, gorgeous suites that are set up with plenty of mirrors for you and your wedding parties to be able to get ready freely and comfortably.
So here are some more details on the event spaces! They can be booked all together or individually!
Vineyard View
Capacity: Up to 250 guests for the ceremony.
Ceremony Options: A beautiful outdoor ceremony spot, surrounded by ponds and overlooking the lush vineyard.
Reception Options: Head over to the Greenhouse or the Utopia Borealis Stage area for your reception.
The Greenhouse
Capacity: It can hold 100 guests for a reception and 135 for a ceremony.
Ceremony Options: Head out in nature or have your ceremony right there in the Greenhouse.
Reception Options: After the ceremony, the Greenhouse gets flipped into a reception area, or you can go hang out at the Utopia Borealis Stage!
Utopia Borealis Concert Stage
Capacity: Seated dining for up to 80 guests.
Ceremony Options: The ceremony can be held outside at the Vineyard View or at the Greenhouse.
Reception Options: The Utopia Borealis Stage is perfect for the hip reception with a live band. The space can be configured to have enough room for a spacious dance floor, which is a great idea when you have a band!
Pier B Resort Hotel
Pier B is a beautiful waterfront wedding venue in Duluth MN. Exchange your vows with style while overlooking the harbor!
The indoor settings offer floor to ceiling windows providing the gorgeous natural light, as well as the perfect backdrop for your ceremony and reception!
Capacity: Up to 200 guests.
On-Site Suites: The venue offers complimentary bridal suite to get ready, as well as overnight accommodations.
Ceremony Options: You can have an outside ceremony by the water’s edge, or opt for an indoors ceremony at the venue.
Reception Options: You can have a smaller reception of up to 100 guests outside or a larger reception of up to 200 guests indoors. The venue offers a spacious dance floor for your evening festivities!
Asher James Creative | Duluth Minnesota Wedding Photographer and Videographer
Duluth is home to many beautiful wedding venues that can accommodate any couple’s unique vision for their special day! Whether you prefer a historic ballroom, a beachfront ceremony, or a luscious garden setting, Duluth has the perfect wedding venue for you!
I hope that this list of the best Duluth Minnesota wedding venues has helped you find something that matches your wishes for your big day!
And if you are still looking for your Minnesota wedding photographer, I’d love to meet you! You can get in touch with me here!
