The Elms Mansion is a beautiful venue that is perfect for a wedding. Jessica and the rest of the Elms team were great! They went above and beyond to make sure our wedding and reception were the best they could be. On the day of, no detail was missed and everything went off perfectly! All of the wait staff were polite and courteous, and the food was very delicious. We felt attended to the whole night and were left without a worry, so we could really have fun! Our wedding was more than we could have ever expected! Elms delivered on everything we wanted and more!

Photos by Matthew Foster Photography
Flowers by The Plant Gallery

To say our expectations for our May 2021 wedding at The Elms Mansion were exceeded would be a wild understatement. No words will ever be able adequately compliment the tremendously wonderful experience we had with the Elms Mansion. You will just have to your wedding there yourself… It was an absolute dream, better than a dream. Jessica Serrano with the Elms Mansion team were hands down nicest, most professional, and incredible team I could have imagined working with. They were beyond accommodating and truly cared about making our vision come to life. They made us feel so special and like part of the family. We held our ceremony on the back lawn and then second lined into the court yard for our reception. We then moved into the mansion for our after party. It was beautiful, exquisite and an amazing time. I cannot recommend the Elms enough.

Jessica was the best person to work with at The Elms. She did everything she could for us and helped us with everything. If we had questions or concerns she was right there to answer. I would definitely recommend this venue. The most beautiful place for my daughter’s wedding. It was everything she dreamed of and more.

As a Wedding Planner, I work with many Event Venues and there Management Staff. Jessica at the Elms Mansion is the most accommodating person I have ever worked with. She puts her full attention to your event. From the food, to the set up to the tear down - it is a magical night at the Elms Mansion! Great staff that will go the extra mile with a smile! Highly Recommend!!!

I cannot say enough to recommend The Elms Mansion! Their team, especially Judy and Faith, did a truly fantastic job with our garden ceremony and reception. My husband and I are still amazed at how fabulous our wedding there was. Throughout the entire planning process, for every random question (and there were many) I sent them, they responded immediately, all the while reassuring me that it was all going to be fantastic. And it was!! Our entire wedding and reception was flawless. The mansion and garden are just stunning. Our guests keep raving about it, saying it was the most beautiful location for a wedding. The food was exceptional, the servers so friendly and yet professional - everything was perfect. The value of their packages is absolutely amazing. There are other lovely venues around town, many of which are considerably more expensive and offer less, but The Elms' location on St. Charles Ave, centuries-old history, tasteful elegant decor and thorough events team are simply unmatched in my opinion. They quietly took care of every last detail and provided my husband and me with the most beautiful wedding imaginable.

The Elms mansion was the perfect setting for our dream New Orleans wedding and now that it's done I can't imagine getting married anywhere else. The setting was picture perfect, inside or out, and the service was truly excellent. I also think that for all that you get and shopping around other venues, it's a pretty good value. Everyone raved about how good the food was and they even ended up adding a lot of extra items to the menu beyond what we ordered, which was a nice surprise.
They run a tight ship and have a certain way of doing certain things, but there is of course room for individual brides to do things as they want or need. However, because they do tend to run weddings a certain way, they do it very well and seamlessly which makes it easy on the bride and couple. Working with Judy and Faith was generally very easy and I knew I was in good hands with the both of them.

The Elms Mansion was the absolute perfect place for a New Orleans wedding. It has it all - a historic gorgeous home, expansive side yard with a gazebo and paved area for dancing, situated directly on the streetcar line. We hosted 200+ guests there for a February wedding. We were married in the gazebo and then had a flawless indoor/outdoor reception. The band, Refried Confuzion, was setup to play mostly outside, but at one point, they changed to brass instruments and processed inside the home and played in the back bar area (another option for a small band setup). The food was amazing. We had heard great things about the chef and he definitely lived up to his reputation.

Judy, who worked with me throughout the whole process, was just great. I didn't have a wedding planner and definitely didn't need one. She had everything under control, kept me informed as we needed to make planning decisions, and was a pleasure to work with.

I'd recommend the Elms to any bride looking for a perfect wedding venue in the heart of New Orleans.

The Elms Mansion was a beautiful location for our ceremony and reception. The interior of the mansion is just stunning and the exterior grounds were breath taking as well. The staff is amazing and they worked very hard to make our day go over smoothly. It was a great location right off of St. Charles and it was very convenient for out-of-town guests. We highly recommend them!!!

Holy wow batman! What a gorgeous venue!! We had an intimate ceremony out in the courtyard under the stone peristyle- my photos are amazing! I'm so glad my sister found this gem!!

At first sight, the Elms seemed to be everything I was looking for in a wedding venue. Unfortunately, the experience of working with the Elms significantly detracted from its beauty and value, and made my fiancé and I ultimately question our decision to get married there. The problems really boiled down to the “wedding planner” that the Elms bills as being inclusive to having a wedding there. Working with her was stressful and left the impression that she did not care about us or our wedding. The biggest problem was the fact that she did not inform us that our wedding fell on the weekend of the French Quarter Festival. We had no idea that the city’s population doubles that weekend. We only found out about this when we began calling hotels to reserve room blocks. Despite the fact that we picked out our date a year and a half in advance, no one at the Elms, including our “planner,” bothered to alert us to our bad date. At best, this was negligence, at worst, a deliberate lack of information due to the fact that no one else would be ignorant enough to choose to get married then. As we feared, the festival did indeed wind up being a significant stumbling block for our wedding: several guests could not attend due to inflated cost. The biggest issue turned out to be the tent, however. The Elms says it can provide a tent in its contract, but when we saw a 90% chance of rain the week of our wedding, the planner couldn’t get a tent, due to the festival! The Elms’ indoor space cannot comfortably accommodate more than 75 people—less than half our guests count. They have no back-up plan for rain. Our guests were literally standing in the hallway during the ceremony. This is not at all how I envisioned my wedding, and it remains a major regret for what should have been a perfect day. The Elms' space was absolutely stunning and the staff very friendly; we heard the food was great, too. The Elms could be unrivaled in New Orleans, but that would require hiring a new planner.