The Garden at Elm Bank

the water fountain in the Italianate garden, we had our cake cutting in front of the adorable green house, and our reception followed in the beautiful Hunnewell building. I was looking for a venue that could give an ‘enchanted garden’ vibe and this location could not have been any more perfect! We had a fairly short engagement of under a year, and the team at Elm Bank was incredible- we worked with both Kayleigh and Chelsey and they were both amazing- very friendly, responsive, and receptive to all of our ideas. Chelsey met with us one several occasions before our wedding and was there for the walk through with our caterer to help provide her expertise and ensure that everything went smoothly. They helped turn our wedding vision into the wedding of our dreams and we couldn’t be more thankful. We would highly recommend Elm Bank to anyone searching for the perfect wedding venue!

ront of the fountain and reception at the Hunnewell building. Our photos came out amazing! Our wedding day was everything we had hoped for and more.

ss. We cannot recommend the Garden at Elm Bank enough!

ickly helped us secure our wedding date. We ultimately ended up working with Chelsey as our primary contact person. Chelsey is professional and very quick to respond! The rest of the Elm Bank staff (Nora and Asia) were extremely helpful on the day of our wedding. It unfortunately poured during our wedding, but Asia and Nora were quick to direct all of the vendors to set up inside and drove us around in a golf cart so we wouldn't get wet. My husband and I did not have to think about anything during our reception-- all details were taken care of. I highly recommend Elm Bank to anyone who is seeking out a garden wedding (even if it rains!).

here, I immediately knew this had to be the place! Besides the fact that the grounds are stunning, options here are so flexible and you can really tailor your vision with the support of the excellent team here. We did most of our work with Chelsey and she was so easy to get in touch with, great with recommendations, and so supportive during the walk-through and leading up to the wedding day. The on-site team day-of was super attentive, making sure everyone got where they needed to be, directing the guests, and offering support to me, my husband, and our families and wedding party. The day was seamless, and wouldn't have been possible without everyone involved at Elm Bank. We are so so thankful we chose them.

cess to the venue space a few weeks beforehand to practice our dance. The venue itself is stunning, the gardens are so well maintained and full of life. All of our guests commented on how beautiful the location was. There are so many difference spaces within the venue that you can utilize to create a dream wedding. We did first looks in front of the green house, family photos along the path, wedding party photos in the garden, sunset photos along the meadow, and our ceremony was in the Italianate garden. Every backdrop was more gorgeous than the last. 

remony at the Italianate Garden, cocktail hour through the Bressingham Garden, and our reception in the Hunnewell building and attached tent. Everything was breathtakingly gorgeous. Although Elm Bank doesn’t have a day of coordinator, Chelsey was so helpful during the planning process. She coordinated with our vendors during the weeks leading up to the wedding and answered questions when they came up. I do recommend hiring a day of coordinator to help with the flow of the event day. Elm Bank is a truly unique and perfect venue! We highly recommend it!

vent, from drawing up the (thankfully unused) rain plan, coordinating delivery and pickup with our vendors and answering all our questions, she was a pleasure to work with during the whole process. Thank you!

during the planning process that helped us stay ahead of the curve, and consider things we wouldn’t even known to think of. The grounds were stunning - I grew up near the venue and have visited many times, but it was somehow even more breathtaking for the wedding, and especially so at sunset and at night. Elm Bank has a variety of beautiful settings to hold a ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception, and provided golf cart shuttling to our family members would needed assistance getting around. They worked extremely smoothly with the caterer, coordinator, and DJ to make everything perfect. One final note and thank you: one of our guests had a small health incident after the ceremony and the Elm Bank staff was exceptional at helping her. We can’t thank them enough for reacting quickly, accommodating our guests, and going above and beyond to take care of her. Truly, Elm Bank was everything we wished for and more!!

d like to use. We had a private painter, a string quartet, cotton candy vendor, gelato vendor, and photo booth vendor. We also hired a day of coordinator and they worked very smoothly with them. Every time we talk to one of our wedding guests all they can do is rave about the evening and the venue. The days following our wedding we saw so many of our guests post their own little photos shoots they did before the ceremony and during cocktail hour. They loved taking photos in all of the gardens. We don’t blame them! They all looked great! The folks at Elm Bank made us feel like their #1 priority the entire way. They were very thorough with every vendor and every detail. They most certainly did not disappoint. The relationships they have with their preferred vendors are strong, and they work extremely well with each other. It was very impressive. We can’t say more nice things about Elm Bank. If you decide to have your wedding here you will not be disappointed!! Thank you! Pam & Brian

ome key details about how the day would look. Once we saw the pictures, we were hooked, and it was a great choice. Even through a staff transition when our original Venue Coordinator went on maternity leave, the Event staff at Elm Bank made things smooth and painless. At our walkthrough, Chelsey made sure we had planned for all the details, explained their beautiful and detailed rain plan, and asked questions about small things we hadn't even thought about. Leading up to the day, she was responsive and helpful when it came to our putting together a seating chart and finalizing other details. On our wedding day, the entire staff at Elm Bank worked to ensure our day went smoothly and that everyone was where they needed to be and had what they needed at any given time.

es, and the team was very supportive. I would seriously recommend this hidden gem to anyone!!!

ied and so many awesome spots for pics! The whole experience was amazing.

l the flowers were in bloom in the Italianate Garden and around the property. We had our ceremony in the Italianate Garden, cocktail hour in the Belvedere Garden, and our reception in a tent on the Maple Grove. So many of our guests remarked on how stunning the venue was, and how much they enjoyed walking in and around the grounds. Elm Bank was the first and only venue we toured before putting our deposit down. We worked with a full-service wedding planner, so my husband and I didn't liaison much with the coordinator staff at Elm Bank, but in what little interaction we had, they seemed very kind. The day of, they were very helpful and even let us pick up some things on Monday morning when they weren't officially open. Some things that we would've liked to have known while we were considering venues. These weren't deal-breakers, but just FYIs. - You have to source all your alcohol through a provider called Gordon's. They had good selection, and you're able to return any unopened cases of alcohol (this was great). - Because it is a nonprofit center, they're not open at all hours of the day, so we had to pay a bit extra for labor costs so install the tent/lighting/catering, etc. in a shorter amount of time. - For the ceremony, because of the way that gardens are laid out, we had to place the chairs around the flower beds and bushes, and some of them were farther away from the altar. I think it was difficult to see from some of the seats in the back.

stion. We would call, email, leave voicemails, and nothing for weeks. It wasn’t until I hired my own wedding planner/coordinator that the communication miraculously got better. The grounds are beautiful, but I would not recommend this venue to anyone unless you are ok with being treated like an after thought. The staff was condescending and rude. One of the staff members even ripped my moms dress in 3 places, 2 hours before my wedding b/c she didn’t tell her to lift it up before she started driving to the garden area. The woman laughed and told us a story about how another guests dress got ripped in half. She didn’t apologize or offer to help fix it or pay for a new one as compensation. Spend your hard earned money elsewhere on a venue that treats you like you matter and has more to offer.

ut also enabled us to choose whoever we wanted. It was such a relief to know that all of our vendors had done weddings at Elm Bank before and we could truly trust the experts and ENJOY the day! Lindsay helped us throughout the whole process and was always advocating on our behalf. The gardens are just stunning and we had the BEST TIME!!!

the way. We'd postponed twice due to covid, and she was so flexible, calm, and accommodating through the whole process. I'd highly recommend getting married here!

le and allowed us to customize many wedding details! I can't recommend this venue enough.

of a city wedding wasn’t looking promising. Jon reached out to multiple venues outside of Boston proper and to our luck, there was a last-minute opening on our date at the Gardens at Elm Bank. I was extremely hesitant to switch venues and re-plan our wedding in only 3 months, however, Jon convinced me to at least tour the Gardens at Elm Bank. Kayleigh and Lindsay were extremely accommodating and arranged for us to tour the property at a time that worked around our schedules. Our first visit to the Gardens at Elm Bank was on a cold, yucky, SNOWY April day. While the weather was terrible, the beauty of the property was still evident. And after meeting Kayleigh and Lindsay, there was no doubt that switching venues was the right decision. Kayleigh and Lindsay were extremely responsive, flexible and helpful. They accommodated our tight timeline and ensured that my parents, who live out of town, were involved with every step of the process. In addition to the impeccable service, is the property itself. It is wonderfully maintained and is absolutely breathtaking! With every visit, I fell more and more in love with the beauty of the gardens and the charm of the Hunnewell building. On the day of our wedding, the venue truly looked like a picture out of a magazine! The best part is, we didn’t have to spend a fortune on décor/add-ons because it is simply stunning as-is! The guests at the wedding could not stop raving about how beautiful the venue was! The space was a perfect mix of everything – from cocktail hour outside at the Italianate Garden, to dinner inside the Hunnewell building, and then dancing in the adjoined tent. Given the current state of the pandemic, our guests felt extremely comfortable because the space is large enough to comfortably spread out both in and outdoors. While we initially thought our dream wedding was in the city, Jon and I are now convinced, more than ever, that this was the luckiest thing that has ever happened to us (aside from meeting each other ) Thank you Kayleigh and Lindsay for giving us the wedding of our dreams! We could not recommend The Gardens at Elm Bank enough!

the reception at such a stunning indoor venue while being married in the garden was ideal. We had to reimagine our wedding for 115 people to a wedding of 40 and the staff at Elm Bank and their preferred vendors were amazing at supporting us to downsize. We never did get to use the Carriage House but instead had a cocktail hour in the Belvedere Garden. Our 36 guests loved milling about and our pictures are STUNNING. I can't recommend Elm Bank enough and feel grateful we were able to celebrate despite #2020.

dly, helpful staff (thanks to Kayleigh and Mary Kate). There are liquor laws and noise requirements in various MA counties, and Elm Bank allowed us the most flexibility so we could have the ceremony at 5pm and dance till 11pm. They book up a year in advance, so we chose a Friday evening, which saved us money over a weekend. They were very informative and flexible to tour from the beginning, and responsiveness picked up as we got closer to the date (I'm a project manager by trade, so I like to do everything early and have lots of questions -- a year out sometimes communication could lag, but a month or two before the event they were super quick to respond and full focus was on us!). They were very flexible whenever we needed to check on things for staging tables/chairs, lighting, music, photos, etc. and recommended vendors as well as coordinated directly with them for several requests; they even put us in touch with the other couples having Saturday and Sunday events to coordinate with their vendors for discounts (so they didn't have to take down/set up different things) -- since they had a relationship with our caterer, Tastings, who also did decor, this was clutch! They were accommodating for special requests and were very visible the day of so we could easily find them if we needed anything. In particular, they helped keep our secret reveal during the reception that I was 10 weeks pregnant! They helped conceal with sparkling cider instead of champagne for me, etc. They didn't rush us out at the end of the evening and conveniently pre-packed up decorations, gifts, etc. so there was minimal work to be done when we finally cut the music. The only snafu we had was the chair arrangement for the ceremony wasn't exactly how we requested it, which the groom noticed and helped rearrange before many guests had arrived (such a small thing though in comparison to all of the amazing things this venue has going for it). I'd definitely recommend and would love to use them again for future events!

. Everyone we worked with was knowledgeable, helpful and had excellent recommendations. If the weather was poor it may have damped our experience, but we ended up getting married on maybe the most beautiful fall day of the year. We wouldn't change a thing and are so happy to have gotten married here!