Connecticut's wedding venue landscape concentrates the best of New England character into a state you can cross in two hours. The Gold Coast corridor along the Long Island Sound — Greenwich, Westport, Darien, New Canaan — has a concentration of estate venues and historic properties that serves both the Manhattan export market and Connecticut's own affluent communities. These are venues of a particular kind: understated in the New England manner, but with grounds and architecture that reward careful filming.
The Litchfield Hills region in the northwestern corner has a preserved village character — white church steeples, town greens, autumn canopy roads — that reads as quintessentially New England and films that way. The Connecticut River Valley running through the center of the state has mill town architecture and river-view venues with their own historical character. And the eastern shoreline — Mystic, Stonington, Essex, Chester — has a maritime and colonial village identity distinct from the Gold Coast to the west.