Ohio's wedding venue geography is organized around three distinct cities that each produce a different film character. Cleveland, on the southern shore of Lake Erie, has the lake — a Great Lakes horizon that gives it a water dimension most Midwest cities lack — and a remarkable architectural inventory in the Gordon Square arts district, Playhouse Square theater cluster, and the Ohio City neighborhood's West Side Market and vine-covered commercial buildings. The Cuyahoga Valley National Park, directly south of the city, adds a waterfall-and-river-gorge landscape accessible to urban venues.
Columbus, the state capital and largest city, has reinvented its Short North arts district into one of the Midwest's most active venue clusters. The Brewery District's converted Victorian commercial buildings and the Arena District's proximity to the downtown financial core give Columbus venues a contemporary-urban character with historical depth. Cincinnati to the south has the Eden Park's Cincinnati Art Museum campus and the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood's 19th-century German immigrant commercial architecture — one of the largest intact 19th-century urban historic districts in the United States.