Wedding Photographers & Videographers at Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland

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1 Wade Oval Dr, Cleveland, OH

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About Cleveland Museum of Natural History

A wedding at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History means dinner under a dinosaur. The museum's Visitor Hall, on Wade Oval in Cleveland, is a 14,000-square-foot room where you dine beneath Happy, the museum's Haplocanthosaurus, surrounded by specimens and floor-to-ceiling windows. For wedding photos and video that look like nowhere else in town, that skeleton over the head table is hard to beat, and the windows look out on the Smith Environmental Courtyard, which gives your photographer and videographer daylight and greenery to work with.

The courtyard is also the museum's signature setting for an outdoor wedding ceremony, with seating for 180. If the weather turns, or you'd simply rather be inside, the Corning Gallery seats 120 for an indoor ceremony and overlooks the same courtyard. When the gallery isn't used for the ceremony, it can host cocktail hour. Otherwise cocktails are in the Visitor Hall, with optional upgrades: drinks beneath the stars in the Planetarium and Gallery (up to 150 guests) or a stroll through the Perkins Wildlife Center among Ohio animals and native plants.

Your wedding reception seats up to 250 in the Visitor Hall. You can add a custom show under the planetarium's 40-foot dome, an animal encounter during cocktails, or open the exhibit galleries so guests can wander between courses (food and drinks stay out of the galleries). Evening weddings begin as early as 6 pm, after public hours, and run up to six hours. Levy Restaurants is the exclusive caterer, and after-hours parking in the museum's garage is included, along with tables, chairs, security and an event manager. Picture your videographer catching guests' faces as they walk into the hall and look up on your wedding day.

Tours are Monday through Friday, 10 am to 4:30 pm; contact the events team to set one up.
Plan your timeline around the 6 pm start and walk the courtyard and hall with your photographer.
Ask about photo and video guidelines, and note the liability insurance certificate due 60 days before the event.

A little about the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Incorporated on December 13, 1920, the museum welcomed its first visitors in 1922. In December 2024 it unveiled the most sweeping transformation in its history.

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