Elite wedding locations in DC?

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Embassy.

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Anonymous wrote:Woodend, the estate home of Nature Forward (formerly the Audubon Naturalist Society). It can do 125 people. There's a nice grove where you can do the ceremony and bring in your priest/rabbi/other. It's lovely, it's not that expensive and guests will appreciate your commitment to nature and think that's why you chose it (and why not?).

The main reason not to is there’s no air conditioning. If you get a perfect night, yes, it’s lovely and not fussy. But I’ve seen a wedding there in May when it was 90 degrees and humid, and nobody was looking elegant. In Washington, you need at least a place people can retreat for a spell that is air conditioned.

The heat is a huge factor. No one wants to get married outdoors with an outdoor reception here June-September. Seriously, guests get heat exhaustion and your vendors get kidney damage. Don’t torture everyone. Pay the higher free for a venue with AC or for a cooler month.

You can do it imo, you just need to have indoor space as well. Decatur house works in summer, so does Meridian. Woodend unfortunately does not.

So Woodend does or does not have AC?

It does.

Woodend has AC inside but if your wedding is large and you’ll need a tent, you’ll have to get fans. When we married there, we got a discount on the tent because somebody had already had an event the previous night.

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Do they still have the Car Barn in Georgetown? I went to one there and it was fantastic.

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I don’t know if it’s elite but I went to a beautiful wedding reception at the St Regis in DC. They had a lovely outdoor courtyard space off the ballroom.

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Anonymous wrote:Embassy.

Embassy Suites? Which location?

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Anonymous wrote:Do they still have the Car Barn in Georgetown? I went to one there and it was fantastic.

I was wondering the same but then confused myself if it was the meridian.

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Dumbarton Oaks?

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Anderson House is lovely for a wedding

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Four Seasons or Park Hyatt

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Anonymous wrote:Carnegie Institute

This was my wedding venue and it was amazing! The building has sadly been sold to the government of Qatar and I have no idea if they’ll still rent it for weddings.

Sadly, they don't anymore. And when the sale happened, they canceled all of the bookings they had for that season as well as future clients. I work at a different venue, and all of the sudden we were getting calls left and right from canceled couples.

This makes me sad. I had my reception there in 2012 and to this day family and friends still comment on how special the venue was.

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Anonymous wrote:Elite would require membership. Like Chevy chase club or Cosmos Club. But there are hundreds of really expensive and lavishly decorated places to get married here. It’s easy to spend $300,000 on a wedding “elite” or not.

+1 We went to lovely weddings at the Cosmos Club and the Sulgrave Club. I don’t think they’re the most expensive ever but certainly qualify as “elite.”

Met Club is nicer.

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Anonymous wrote:Elite would require membership. Like Chevy chase club or Cosmos Club. But there are hundreds of really expensive and lavishly decorated places to get married here. It’s easy to spend $300,000 on a wedding “elite” or not.

Yes, indeed. "It seems you mean " expensive" not "elite". If you are not already a member of a country club and/or own a large estate, you are not elite-- you just have some extra money to throw around. Maybe join a club before planning the wedding.

I’m pretty sure you can just rent the Cosmos Club for weddings. It’s a nice venue, especially for bad weather. The staff is really nice.

Nope, unless you know a member who'll sponsor you.

This isn’t true. Seriously.

It is true for the Met Club and CCC.

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Anonymous wrote:I got married at the Washington international school. Kind of under the radar but it was beautiful and easy. But we pulled it off in 3 months or so, they used to not let you book more than that in advance I think? We had 90 ppl.

So did I! We booked 9 months out, ~70 people. Outdoor wedding and cocktail hour. Dinner and dancing inside. Cake on the terrace. No wedding planner, so not the "elite" OP was asking about. We used the caterer the school had, and hired a band, florist, and photographer ourselves. But it was exactly what we wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:Dumbarton Oaks?

I was thinking same thing

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I was thinking same thing

Also Glen Echo Park is magical rather elite but lovely for weddings.

Personally I like boat weddings. It must be possible charter yachts or fun boats on the Potomac for weddings.