Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Reviews

The Stan Hywet was the fairytale fall venue of my dreams. The wedding coordinator, Sara, was responsive, flexible, and very nice! We had our ceremony on the West Terrace, and the trees were just gorgeous in the fall. And we had our reception in the carriage house. We got so many positive comments on the venue throughout the event. It was truly a fairytale!

I couldn't have imagined a more organized and helpful staff for our ceremony — they whisked us around the grounds and kept tabs on absolutely everything. There were so many little details and moving pieces, yet they remained cool under pressure, even managing to make us laugh and keep everything light. It wasn't easy work, but they pulled it off beautifully.

Our daughter was recently married at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens and the day was even more amazing than we had hoped. We initially had booked the venue in July, 2019 and had to postpone due to COVID. Sara worked with us the entire time. When the actual day came, the weather cooperated and the day-of staff assisted with photos, appetizers for the bridal party and anything else that came up. The ceremony was in Birch Tree Allee with cocktails outside. Our guests are still telling us how much they loved the wedding and venue.

We held our reception in the Stan Hywet Manor House Reception Hall in April 2021. All of the staff and volunteers at Stan Hywet were extremely helpful throughout the planning process and the actual event. We loved that our guests were able to tour the Manor House and grounds during our cocktail hour. The reception hall itself is somewhat of a blank slate, but Stan Hywet was very helpful in suggesting vendors to help us elevate the space with lighting and decor. If you're looking for a unique Akron venue with a gorgeous backdrop for photos, Stan Hywet is the place to go!

With everything going on this year safe to say the planning process had been bumpy, being this venue was our second plan it turned out to be the most magical day! We wouldn’t have wished for anything else! Sharon Hershey was amazing to work with, I would email her a million questions about all the adjusting Covid policies and she would email me back immediately. She truly went above and beyond to put my worried bride mind at ease. Both my husband and I couldn’t have been happier the day of, with wonderful weather and the perfect location this was a dream venue.

Sharon and her team made our day a dream come true. We wanted to get married at Stan Hywet every since we first visited the property and between their top notch service and the beautiful weather everything was better than we could have imagined. We appreciated the coordination that went into moving the bridal party around the property and how well they assisted our other wedding vendors (DJ, photographer, videographer, and officiant) to make the day run incredibly smoothly.

Words can't even express how wonderful my experience with Stan Hywet was! Everyone on staff was so friendly and accommodating, and they really make you feel like it's your special day. On the day of the wedding, there were a few things that didn't go the way we had planned, but the Stan Hywet team was on top of every issue before I could even ask for their help. The grounds are beautiful and provided the perfect scenery for my dream wedding, but it wouldn't have been made possible without the Stan Hywet Rentals team.

When planning our daughter's wedding, we worked with John Tedesco at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens.
He was the most committed, assuring, friendly, completely professional (even under stress),
man we have ever worked with. (this was our first wedding).
He answered all our questions, and concerns with the utmost care.
Our wedding was a fairytale come true for our daughter.
It will be a cherished memory forever.

We recently had our wedding ceremony on the West Terrace at Stan Hywet. It is an absolutely beautiful place to get married and the grounds are impeccably maintained. Most importantly, the staff there is incredible. We worked with one of the event coordinators, Sharon, and she was fantastic. She was very organized and worked so hard to make our day beautiful. On the day of the ceremony, it was raining up until 10 minutes before we wanted to start. Sharon and other staff did a great job of having a backup plan in place while still being patient and waiting to see what the weather would do. They were wiping down chairs only a few minutes before the guests were seated all to make our dream of having an outdoor ceremony a reality. We can't say enough about the location and the people who work there.

Stan Hywet Gardens is a beautiful place for a wedding! We had the best experience. Sharon was our coordinator and was absolutely amazing. We couldn't be happier. Thank you!

A beautiful place to have a ceremony. We have gotten so many compliments already on how gorgeous our ceremony was, the backdrop at Stan Hywet on the West Terrace is by far one of the most amazing sites to have a wedding. The staff was great, very responsive and the price was right!! I would HIGHLY recommend Stan Hywet to any future bride who shares my love of the outdoors and wants BEAUTIFUL wedding photos!!

If you want a beautiful outdoor wedding - check out Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens. We were married at the Birch Tree Alle & what a beautiful place to have a ceremony! The grounds are gorgeous & the staff there are wonderful. They make you feel like the First Lady & President! You are treated with such class it feels like you are the First Lady. We also had our reception in the Manor Hall & that was the best place to have a reception - lots of room & you can make such a grand enterance into the reception down the steps!

They were there for me every step of the way, zero worries and the result was truly a fairytale! They provided a back-up ceremony site and also two people that helped run things smoothly the day of, we felt so at ease and enjoyed every minute, thank you!!

Robert and I were married last Saturday, July 25, 2009 at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens. The service was absolutely wonderful and everything went extremely well. The weather was touch and go and everyone made sure that it was not an issue, but that our wedding day was going to be memorable no matter what.

John, the event coordinator was wonderul...I don't know that I have words to express just how great everything at Stan Hywet was regarding my wedding.

A beautiful place for an outdoor wedding! Looks like an old mansion/museum. Gorgeous!

Unbelievable value, and service. What a beautiful place.

i went here to get pictures in their gardens befor my wedding. they have so many different gardens and they provide you with a personal tour guide. they were so nice and they picture were worth every thing we spent there. thay were the most beutiful pictures ever.

You cannot beat the beauty!! And the staff was phenomenal. Their organization and attentiveness to work with us on anything that came up that day was fantastic!! It was the absolute perfect venue for us.

They were so professional and organized, I felt no stress from them on my wedding day. I would have it here again in a heartbeat. I only had my ceremony here though, because I didn't think the reception site would be easy to transform into exactly what I wanted since it was so dark. The ceremony sites and pictures from there are perfect though.

I couldn’t have imagined a more perfect venue for our wedding! It was more than I could have ever asked for and we barely had to do any decorating. The grounds are incredible!

We worked with Mindy, she was super responsive and got everything worked out with the vendors. It was like having a day of coordinator. Overall we were extremely happy with the entire event and all the planning leading up to it. For an Akron wedding, the venue is on the pricey side, but you get what you pay for. We took all our wedding pictures on site and absolutely love the grounds in the fall. They also have very strict rules about the bar, including an uncorking fee for any wine you plan to bring. My FIL wasn't happy about that. But, overall we were happy with the selection they provided.

(We only had our ceremony here, not our reception.) Our wedding was absolutely beautiful, and I really feel we owe that to our choice of venue. The team at Stan Hywet, including Cindy, the coordinator, are so organized, wonderful to work with, and professional. We had a little trouble getting in contact with them initially and could only come to tour the wedding sites mid-day on a week day because it was the off season, but once we knew that we wanted to get married at Stan Hywet, the staff was very on-point and communicative.

True, it is pricey. But they set up everything for us, they have their own tent in case of rain so we wouldn't have needed to rent one, and both the groom and I had our own attendants with us telling us where we needed to be on the big day. Cindy ran the rehearsal for us and really thought of everything. I should also note that our photography is absolutely gorgeous, which is the kicker that made the price tag worth it for us.

Some caveats I do feel the need to mention are that there is no indoor back-up space, only the windowed tent, and there is no photography indoors (so rain would really limit your photography). Chairs do cost extra after the first 20 you rent. Also, if you're going to wear a ballgown and 4" heels like I did, you'll want to practice walking over grass, uneven flagstones, and stairs--there are a lot of tripping hazards!

Stan Hywet Hall was an awesome place to get married at. We had our wedding outdoors on the West Terrace. The house was a beautiful back drop for the ceremony. The Stan Hywet team did a great job at helping me set up the wedding. It was raining on our wedding day, and the event team did a great job of setting up the wedding in the short window without rain. The back up plan was a large tent, I'm glad we didn't have to use it. I do feel it was a little bit expensive to have the wedding there. It was a gorgeous wedding and Stan Hywet was the perfect place.

This was our photo site.

We couldn't have asked for a better ceremony location for our wedding. And it's VERY obvious that Stan Hywet has done a lot of weddings before because their planning, organization, and coordination the day of was extraordinary. I stressed so much about the details about how everyone is going to know when to be where and what to do next, etc. and the staff at Stan Hywet was great about helping us through every detail. They walk you through every step during the wedding rehearsal the day before. Then the day of, they have multiple staff members attending to you with headsets in constant communication. There was someone with the groom and groomsmen at all times and one with bride and bridesmaid as well. The bride and bridesmaids get shuttled to the spot where they made their entrance for the outdoor ceremony. We had a large bridal room to get ready beforehand. Our wedding was at 2:30 and the room became available to us only at noon but nothing we couldn't work around. Bride and bridesmaids all got dressed in the bridal room beforehand after getting our makeup and hair done before arrival. The bridal room is not ideal for artistic photos of dress, shoes, and rings though so may be wise to figure out where to do those pictures elsewhere. Overall, the location for the wedding was stunning and everything went very smoothly start to finish. We also had several hours after the ceremony to take pictures on the property with no visitors to Stan Hywet in sight as the staff members will coordinate which spots we would be going to take pictures next.