We had a fabulous experience hosting our wedding at the Montclair Art Museum. We mostly worked with Meryl, who took over running weddings at the MAM last year. She was incredibly responsive, attentive, and communicative throughout the process, providing true caring and enthusiasm for our wedding. While the MAM is a “load-in” venue, they have an excellent sound system, kitchens for catering staff to work from, and incredible lighting that makes the room stunningly romantic during the ceremony and fun during the reception. Guests LOVED being able to browse the museum as part of the cocktail hour, and Leir Hall is a truly beautiful room. For a wedding with many disabled guests including the bride and her mom, we were very impressed from day one with how accessible the venue is compared to others that we saw. While there is room for improvement, there was a lot of care and support with accessibility (including having a great, dedicated accessibility professional at the museum). Some words of advice for future married couples: one thing to be mindful of in planning your wedding here is some of the needs that relate to protecting the artwork, like only serving clear liquid in Lehman Court or requiring vendors be a certain distance from the wall to keep art safe - not a problem, just a consideration with what drinks you serve. And given the complexity of loading in various vendors, we definitely benefitted significantly from having a caterer who is used to working there (Cheryl from Church Street Catering) and a day-of coordinator to help keep everyone in sync. In conclusion, Meryl and the team really went above and beyond many times, from helping to plan out every aspect of the day to helping with many needs throughout the day. I highly recommend the MAM, it is a beautiful place that made for a truly incredible wedding.

The museum is the perfect setting for a ceremony and reception. Mari D'Alessandro was extremely helpful and easy to work with from beginning to end. Glenn who handled audio visual was awesome. Definitely the right choice for our special day.

The staff at the museum was outstanding and extremely helpful throughout the whole process. We had a wedding of 85 people and the museum as the perfect size for our party. Everyone loved that they were able to go through the gallery as part of the reception. Glenn was extremely helpful in helping us with a lot of our visual needs and really helped to transform the space. We cant thank him and staff enough.

This is a beautiful museum with amazing natural light, helpful staff, and a great ambiance.

My only word of advice to any of those thinking of book this venue is that it is a museum. I chose to have my ceremony at a museum because I majored in fine arts and minored in art history and that is where I met my husband.

There are a lot of restrictions that come with this venue due to the fact it is a museum first (a sentiment the staff stressed to me). If you are willing to work with the employees and collaborate with them on what is/isn't allowed, then this is an amazing space. The rentals staff at MAM did the best to their abilities to make my wedding a success :)

We had our wedding reception at the Montclair Art Museum on June 30, 2012 and it was absolutely amazing. Ilana and the rest of the staff are great to work with! They were extremely helpful and patient with us. The Montclair Art Museum was a beautiful place to have our reception. It made our day special and one that we will never forget!

As we began planning our wedding, we knew for certain we did NOT want a traditional 'New Jersey'-style wedding. We looked for a unique venue that would add to the overall atmosphere. We chose the art museum because it was 1) beautiful inside and out, 2) in keeping with our vintage/art deco theme and 3) within our budget. The facilities manager and maintenance staff are easy to work with and very helpful. The night was beautiful in large part to the lighting and ambiance of the museum. Plus, our guests were very excited to explore the galleries before the ceremony.

It's been a year since our wedding and although we had a beautiful wedding day dealing with this venue was anything but pleasant.

The rental manager at this location made you feel that she wanted nothing to do with couples or wedding planning. Many of the emails that we sent were forwarded off to different departments with no consideration on how they answered clients. When we first decided on this location everyone was warm and friendly but after booking we didn't experience that same service. The rental assistant was nice but her manager lacked any customer service skills. It came to a point were I honestly dreaded seeing an email from the rental manger. Lucky for us she fell off the job once her assistant took over.

While wedding planning a lot of venue changes were made, without notice, which made for a difficult and stressful process. The venue underwent construction, new rules were suddenly sprung on us and limitations on venue space were added.

On our first tour we asked about having the DJ seated in the balcony since we did want to use the stage for something else and told that wouldn't be a problem. They also added that quartets play in this area and a DJ would have plenty of room but on one of our last walk thoughts we were told that this was not possible and wouldn't honor that request. We also planned to have a photo booth and a bar outside the doors in the hall and on that same visit we were told that would also not be possible due to new venue rules. With all of these last minute changes it forced us to push everything inside and cramped the space.

They also gave us a really difficult time about setup times and getting decor into the venue. Thank goodness I had a great catering company and wedding planner that stored our decor/seating for us. Speaking of vendors, if you use a catering company not from their preferred list, they make you leave another deposit. The company I used is a top rated company with 20+ years in the business.