Wedding Photographers & Videographers at The Nittany Lion Inn, State College

A wedding at The Nittany Lion Inn puts you on Penn State's main campus in State College, in a blue and white colonial-style inn that sits in an oak grove across from the White Golf Course. For your photographer and videographer, the inn and its walkable campus setting give you more to work with than a single ballroom, and it has long been a sentimental favorite of Penn State alumni.

You can keep your whole wedding day under one roof. The inn hosts the wedding ceremony, the cocktail hour and the wedding reception, and the Central Ballroom is set up for either a ceremony or a reception. Ask the wedding team which room fits your guest count and whether an outdoor ceremony is possible on your date, since the website doesn't spell that out.

For dinner you can choose the Grand Ballroom for a large reception, the Signature Ballroom for a mid-sized one, or the smaller Heritage Room for an intimate gathering or your rehearsal dinner. The inn says its main ballroom can seat 500 guests. Catering is handled by the inn's own kitchen, with plated dinners, buffets or cocktail-style receptions built around seasonal Central Pennsylvania food. Guests can stay in one of the inn's 240 rooms with a room block, and a post-wedding brunch is offered too. Talk with your wedding videographer about where the toasts and first dance will happen so the room layout works for sound and light.

• Ask about room blocks early, especially on Penn State football and graduation weekends.
• Walk the campus with your photographer before the day to choose spots for wedding photos.
• Ask the inn about its photo and video guidelines and about parking for guests.

A little about The Nittany Lion Inn

The Nittany Lion Inn has welcomed guests on campus since 1931, built in the years after the 1929 stock market crash. A former Penn State president called it "Penn State's living room," and the name stuck. Today it is owned and managed by Scholar Hotels.