Pennsylvania's wedding venue landscape is as varied as the state's own geography. Philadelphia — the birthplace of American government — has a historical depth visible in its wedding venues that few American cities can match. The Society Hill brownstones and the Independence National Historical Park adjacency, the Fairmount Park Horticultural Center and Memorial Hall grounds, and the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood's estate and hotel venues all carry colonial and Federal-era architecture into contemporary wedding use. The Main Line — the historic Amtrak corridor west of the city through Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Radnor, and Wayne — has a concentration of estate and country club venues in the Gilded Age tradition.
Lancaster County, an hour west of Philadelphia, has the Amish country's agricultural landscape — rolling farmland, barn country, and the Lancaster central market character — alongside the vineyard and converted estate venues that have developed to serve the destination wedding market. The Pocono Mountains in the northeast add a lake-and-forest resort dimension. Pittsburgh in the west — with its three rivers and the Monongahela incline overlooks — has a topographically dramatic city character quite unlike Philadelphia.