Unique Southern California Wedding Venue: Heritage Square Museum
April 28, 2014
We’re beginning a new occasional blog series, highlighting Unique Southern California Wedding Venues, and you’ve hit the first installment!
We know that finding your wedding location is an important first step in the wedding planning process. Your location will set the tone for the whole event. After Russell and I got engaged in November, we’ve been searching high and low for the hidden gem that’s going to make our big day special. But it’s hard to know what kind of venues are out there. So, we’ve created this series as a way to help out other Los Angeles brides and grooms in search of the perfect local wedding venue.
Are you looking for a Los Angeles wedding venue that’s charming, vintage, and feels like you just walked into the world of Downton Abbey? Search no further than the Heritage Square Museum near South Pasadena.
The museum is an outdoor promenade of stunning Victorian-style mansions that have been moved here from various places in the city. Take a peek below at what the museum has to offer, and imagine how you could make it yours.
At this location you can get married on the lawn in front of the church, with it’s spectacular stained glass window. For you fellow Pasadena nerds, this church used to reside at the corner of Lincoln Ave. and Orange Grove Blvd. before it was moved here.
Your reception would be outdoors, surrounded by buildings that come in colors of pink, pistachio, and lemon chiffon! You’ll find these buildings in the movie Saving Mr. Banks, among others.
Blooming trees and roses make the location lush and vibrant for wedding portraits. We can imagine stealing a kiss on one of the painted porches, or taking a stroll beside the white-picket fence of the vegetable garden. Get creative with family portraits by holding onto the ladder of a vintage train.
Below, tour guide Natalie, in period-accurate clothing that she made herself, steps off the porch of the baby blue Valley Knudsen Garden Residence.
Heritage Square is a charming blast from the past, perfect for a storybook wedding. Plus, you can’t help but love the bevy of friendly animals that live on the premises, like the adorable ginger cat who demands you rub her belly, or the rooster (whose name is George the III, I learned from tour guide Kitty) that struts around like he owns the place.
Please contact the Heritage Square Museum directly for more details on renting this delightful space for your wedding.
Not sure this is the location? Don’t fret, we have plenty of of fun Los Angeles wedding venue suggestions:
Please contact us when you’re ready to look for a wedding photographer! We can’t wait to hear about what you have planned.
