Wedding Photographers & Videographers at Skytop Lodge, Skytop

A wedding at Skytop Lodge begins at the end of a long, winding road through 5,500 acres of Pocono forest in Skytop. The big stone lodge sits above formal gardens, and that view of the building over the flowerbeds is what most couples picture first. For your photographer and videographer, the grounds give you room to move: garden arches, a sweeping outdoor staircase and a porch that looks down over the gardens.

There are three outdoor places for your wedding ceremony. The Evergreen Garden is the largest, with green lawns and garden arches and the lodge behind you, and it holds up to 350 guests. The Formal Garden is the one with the drama: you walk down Skytop's outdoor staircase onto a flagstone aisle with gardens on both sides, which makes a lovely processional for your wedding video. The South Porch, with its 1920s charm, seats up to 250 guests above the gardens.

Your wedding reception moves into the Evergreen Ballroom, which seats up to 300. Crystal chandeliers hang from a high ceiling, and a wall of French doors opens onto the Evergreen Gardens, so guests can drift outside between courses and your photographer can catch the last of the evening light. Packages include a set menu, a four-hour open bar, a wedding cake, a champagne toast and an overnight stay at the lodge for the two of you. The team can also plan a rehearsal dinner or a bridesmaids' luncheon, and arrange tents, flowers and wine tastings.

• Call the lodge to set up a site visit before you choose a ceremony spot.
• Walk from the ceremony site to the ballroom with your photographer, and plan your wedding photos around the gardens before the wedding day.
• Ask about photo and video guidelines and a backup plan for rain.

A little about Skytop Lodge

Skytop Lodge opened on June 16, 1928, with terraces and gardens laid out by a Boston landscape firm. Families have come back to it for generations, and today it has rooms in the lodge, the inn and cottages around the grounds.