Endicott Estate

The perfect venue for a winter wedding!! The Endicott is a charming historical venue, owned by the town of Dedham. It has quite a fascinating history if you look it up and several areas to photograph, inside and out! The location is convenient since it is 30 minutes from Boston. Plus there are several hotels to choose from if you go with this venue. We chose to do both the ceremony and reception there, making it easy for guests to stay in one location. This maximized the time for socializing and celebrating!

We had 70 guests total and this venue was the perfect size! It didn’t feel too cramped and all our guests were able to move freely around the estate. When you book this venue, it is yours for the entire duration of your contract. You aren’t sharing with other weddings! The Endicott also provided tables and chairs, which helped keep costs down. For seating we used 4, 48 inch tables plus 6, 60 inch tables. The 60 inch tables hold 8-10 people per table, while the 48 inch can have up to 6-8 people per table. You can fit a total of nine tables in the ballroom (Endicott’s largest room) plus a sweetheart table for two. This worked out well since we had the sweetheart table positioned in front of the fireplace and we were able to see and talk to all guests with ease after dinner.

The estate not only has a ballroom but also a library, music room, mirror room and dining room on the first floor. Upstairs there are two bridal sweets, which are beautiful to take portraits in. Our wedding ceremony started at 4:30pm, an hour before sunset and the estate glowed in the sunlight! For timing, this venue has a 5 hour contract. So from the time your ceremony starts, the clock begins and will end after 5 hours. Although, it is possible to extend your contract for a fee per hour up until midnight. Also keep in mind when serving alcohol there is a strict 4 hours and 30 minute clock right when your cocktail hour begins, so if you have the bar open at 5pm, it will close at 9:30pm.

Another thing to mention is that this venue allows “alcohol on consignment” through Gordon’s Liquors, which really helped us keep costs down. You essentially pay for what you use and can return full cases of beer and unopened bottles of wine and liquor. Not many venues allowed this type of contract and we were very grateful they allowed this! We had Tastings cater and bartend our wedding and would highly recommend this set up to others!

Finally, Erin and Kathleen were great to work with and answered several questions over the course of many months. They provided a list of approved vendors and worked with our DJ and Photographer who weren’t called out on their list. We didn’t have any issues and would highly recommend this venue since the staff is lovely, the pricing was the best among historic sites, and the charm of the estate is hard to beat!

We had our wedding here in August 2023 and it was absolutely perfect. Finding a venue (while living out of state) was the most stressful part of wedding planning - once we booked with Endicott, everything got SO much easier. We worked primarily with Erin, who is just so lovely! She gave us a bunch of recommendations - we booked almost all of our vendors from her (extensive) list. This made it super easy because most everyone knew the venue and were able to chat logistics months in advance.

I don’t need to tell you how stunning this place is, but it truly was magical. The whole property was ours for the day, so the wedding party came in early to get ready and relax. Plus, we had a space for my husband and I to take a private moment after the ceremony. The grounds have so many locations for photos. They also have space in the basement for you to drop off your stuff (we had lots of decorations and provided all of our own alcohol) a few days before the actual wedding - total lifesaver.

We ended up having about a hundred guests, which I think is probably the limit for an indoor reception. You could squeeze a few more tables, but it was pretty tight as it was. Any more than that and I’d say get a tent for the lawn.

The last thing to mention is the price. Endicott Estate is really affordable, especially since you get to choose your own vendors. We ended up saving SO much money by skipping the venues with in-home catering and just booking everything separately. And you get the whole property for the day without breaking the bank. It’s not as “convenient” to organize everything yourself, but Erin and Kathleen helped us through every step of the process. You can tell that the staff at Endicott really enjoys what they do. Everything was fabulous and I’d highly recommend booking this venue!

We just had our August 2023 wedding at Endicott and we can’t say enough wonderful things about the experience. Everyone who attended was in awe of the space - the staff was fantastic - and we were blown away by how beautiful the house looked. Would definitely recommend!

My husband and I cannot express how wonderful our wedding was here. The coordinator, Erin, was a delight to work with throughout the whole process, very accommodating, and very attentive. We loved that we had access to the entire estate for the ceremony, reception, and a few hours beforehand to get ready. There are so many different areas on the estate (inside and outside) to choose from to do photos as well. Our vision was more vintage (china, lace, and pearls), and the Endicott Estate was perfect for it. One guest told us they felt like they went back in time and that was amazing to hear. 
We also chose the Endicott because we were able to accommodate our large guest list by having our event indoors and outdoors. Cocktail hour was a mix of both, dinner underneath the tent, and then dancing indoors. We wanted our wedding to have more of a casual feel to it and doing it this way certainly helped.
Some things to note though are that you do need to bring vendors in from their preferred list and do all the coordinating yourselves. There were many great vendors to choose from and all the vendors we hired through the Estate were five stars. If you have an outdoor event, a tent rental will be needed. There is also a strict end time for the event as the estate is located in a residential neighborhood. 

The endicott estate was beautiful, reasonably priced, and felt homey. I loved having the two suites upstairs for the wedding party to store their things and get ready, and the willow tree made a beautiful natural arch over my husband and me during the ceremony. Also the staff were so responsive and available to help us with whatever we needed! Would recommend this venue for sure!

We had our fall themed wedding Endicott Estate and all of us were in awe. Our guests could not stop complimenting it. The set up and interior design fit the theme perfectly. Erin and her staffs were super easy to work with and they are all very experienced. It was perfect for us

The best decision we ever made when planning our wedding was selecting the Endicott Estate as our wedding venue. Once we made that decision, everything else fell into place and worked quite seamlessly. Additionally, their recommended vendors were fabulous and worked with our moderate budget. I cannot recommend this dreamy venue enough. We had 75 guests, and the house was the perfect size where there was plenty of room for everyone but the group didn't feel lost amongst a larger venue.

My thank you note to the Endicott Estate staff:
I wanted to send a HUGE thank you your way for all you and the other staff at the Endicott Estate did to facilitate our wedding and to address our special issues. Everyone was always so courteous and kind and understanding, it made things on our end much less stressful. Your ideas were always great and much appreciated. And all of the extra work you did to accommodate the allergy issues on our end was invaluable, from airing out the estate, storing and then putting out and running the air purifiers, to cleaning with vinegar. I know that was a lot of extra work on your end and it made a big difference. It appeared that no one had any problems with allergies during the wedding, and we are so grateful that those with unusual sensitivities could enjoy the wedding w/o feeling bad from allergies.
Once again, you and your staff did a superb job throughout and we are very grateful for everything.
mother of the bride

This is a beautiful place and I am so so happy that we had our wedding here. The inside feels like a fairytale, with beautiful rooms (one is a complete mirror room) and dark furniture and antique books. The upstairs is absolutely beautiful for getting ready (marble bathrooms too!!). Also, Erin and her colleagues are extremely responsive and easy to work with. At the last minute, we had to use the indoors for our ceremony, as it was raining, and you would have thought we had planned it all along. I highly recommend this place!

I am BEYOND thrilled we had our wedding at Endicott Estate. What a hidden gem! We stumbled upon this beautiful venue after our first venue had suddenly shut down 9 months before our wedding! Erin and Sheila were incredible to work with. They answered all of our questions along the way and worked so professionally with our other vendors. I cannot tell people enough about this stunning place to have a wedding. On the day of our wedding, Sheila was there to help the event run smoothly. She was attentive to all of our other vendors and made us feel as ease. I am so so so glad we stumbled upon this beautiful place- everything happens for a reason! Thank you to the whole team at Endicott for making our day so perfect!