Baltimore & Annapolis, Maryland

Venue

In Baltimore & Annapolis: Thirteen venues are listed, and the regional complication is that the ground you marry on may not belong to whoever is showing it to you. The city rents its parks on a published schedule — roughly $400 for a two-hour elopement package, $750 for four hours, $300 for a ceremony on the waterfront promenade — with a $150 late fee if you apply inside sixty days, which makes sixty days the real planning floor. But the promenade runs eight miles across a mixture of public and private land, and each private owner's easement caps how many closures it may allow per year. You can hold a valid city permit and still be told the stretch in front of one building is spoken for. Several harbor parks are run by a separate waterfront partnership rather than the city at all. Establish who actually controls your patch before you pay anyone. Budget $5,000 to $16,000.

13 listings · checked August 2026

Bobby's Pottys — White Marsh · bobbyspottys.com · (410) 679-7108
Brampton 1860 — Chestertown · bramptoninn.com · (410) 778-1860
Chase Court – Baltimore Wedding Venue — Baltimore · chasecourt.com · (410) 727-1112
Historic Baldwin Hall — Millersville · baldwinhall.org · (410) 923-3438
Hotel Revival — Baltimore · hotelrevivalbaltimore.com · (410) 727-7101
IceLab — Glen Burnie · icelabusa.com · (410) 746-1595
Kent Island Resort — Stevensville · kentislandresort.com · (410) 643-5757
Kimpton Hotel Monaco Baltimore Inner Harbor — Baltimore · monaco-baltimore.com · (443) 692-6170
Patapsco Arena — Baltimore · patapscoarena.com · (410) 354-1338
The Cloisters Castle — Timonium · cloisterscastle.com · (410) 821-7448
The Hotel at Arundel Preserve — Elkridge · thehotelarundel.com · (410) 796-9830
Vandiver Inn — Havre de Grace · vandiverinn.com · (410) 939-5200
www.stoneridgehollow.com — Forest Hill · stoneridgehollow.com · (410) 937-6710

How to think about venue

The venue is the single largest decision on this list and usually the largest line in your budget — it sets your date, your capacity, your whole look, and often which other vendors you're even allowed to bring. Venues fall into two broad families. All-inclusive spaces bundle tables, chairs, a coordinator, and sometimes catering and bar in-house; they cost more up front but fold many line items into one. Blank-slate spaces — a barn, a field, a hall, a family home — are a beautiful empty canvas you build on; they look cheaper until you add the rentals, catering, and staffing they require. When you tour, ask what's truly included, the all-in cost with taxes and service fees, the real capacity, the rain-or-heat backup, noise curfews, parking, accessibility, and which vendors you must — or cannot — use.

Timing — Book by ~12–18 months out · maps to your Venue budget line

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