The Garden House at the Keeler Tavern Museum Reviews
Reviews
4.8 out of 5 rating
4.8 out of 5 rating
25 Reviews
95% recommend it
Awards
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Lu Imbriano Sent on 10/20/2023
The perfect venue!
We truly couldn't have asked for a better venue. The Keeler Tavern is such a special place and the garden house was perfect for our intimate wedding - it was warm and beautiful even while it rained! Mary Ann is fantastic and was always there to recommend wonderful vendors and help us with the planning process. We had the best night ever and couldn't recommend this space enough. -
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Ashley F. Sent on 11/22/2021
Everything I Dreamed Of!
This venue was everything I ever imagined for my wedding. The whole day felt like I was in a fairytale. So happy with Mary Ann and the whole Keeler Tavern staff. Thank you so much for making my special day absolutely perfect. -
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Erin R. Sent on 12/10/20215 Star Venue
A perfect intimate garden wedding venue! -
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Gabrielle J. Sent on 12/09/2021The perfect garden wedding venue
The Garden House at the Keeler Tavern Museum was the ideal venue for our June wedding! Everything from the beautiful garden to the newly redone bridal room exceeded expectations. The classic ballroom was a perfect backdrop for our cascading floral arrangement across the fireplace mantle and beautiful tablescapes. We also loved having our cocktail hour under the tent on the upper terrace, and guests were able to wander down to the garden for gorgeous photo ops. Keeler Tavern was also very responsive to all of our questions and provided contact info for all approved vendors, which was extremely helpful. We could not have asked for a better wedding venue, and guests are still commenting on how much they loved it 6 months later! Would 100% recommend! -
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Bruce A. Sent on 12/14/2021Our dream June garden wedding at Keeler Tavern Museum!
Like many brides in Connecticut, I spent months and months looking for the perfect wedding venue. We wanted something intimate, romantic, and unique. Nothing checked everything off that list until we found Keeler Tavern! Keeler is what made our wedding the best day ever. It was perfect for our intimate June wedding and I still have guests telling me today how much they loved the space. We held our ceremony in the sunken garden surrounded by freshly bloomed flowers and danced the evening away in the Garden House which was just stunning with the fireplace as the focal point. I honestly can't imagine our wedding without Keeler. It was the perfect location for us. Not to mention, Mary Ann was a dream to work with and she made sure everything was handled on their part. She is so kind and supportive and will make the process enjoyable for any couple. -
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Lexi Sent on 08/12/2019The Perfect Spot
Keeler Tavern was the absolute ideal location for our wedding. It was an intimate space (max 90-100 people, we were 86 and felt great). The garden was in full bloom (June 15 wedding), we had so much flexibility, and it just all felt like a fairy tale. I loved that we could bring in all of our own vendors, and Mary Ann at Keeler was super easy to work with. The location was a LITTLE inconvenience for people coming from other places - we had our guests stayed in Danbury and others took the train to Katonah - but Uber availability made it a lot easier. I can't say enough about how beautiful and intimate this venue was and I just am so happy that we had our wedding there! -
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Kerry Sent on 07/12/2017Amazing, amazing, amazing! If you're looking for a historic site or a garden or both then this is the place. Keeler is absolutely beautiful any time of year. It's private and intimate and is oozing with history and charm. Mary Ann was such a pleasure to work with. From the very first contact she was prompt in her responses and answered all of our questions. She requested we visit for a tour and spent an hour and a half taking us through all areas used for the wedding - the garden house, kitchen, the upper patio, and of course the beautiful and amazing garden. She even took us through the museum quickly so we could have a look around. The garden alone feels like you've stepped back into another time. Our wedding was in June and the roses were blooming, it's so pretty! The most perfect backdrop for the ceremony, no decor needed! We loved the garden house for it's smaller size to fit our smaller guest list. We had 55 people and it worked great with having a dance floor as well but not looking too empty a room. We loved that this venue is a 'blank canvas' and is completely customizable. We were able to craft the kind of wedding that was unique to us. While a caterer and all aspects of decorating needed to be hired/rented we still felt it was a good deal and we were able to make it work within our budget to have a beautiful day. Tip : Add on a tour of the historic tavern for your guests during cocktail hour, they will love it! (Photos by Rachel Black : Rowanberry + Lavender) -
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Katie Sent on 04/27/2016My wedding could not have turned out any better. The staff was wonderful and it was so easy to work with them. The garden was beautiful for a spring day. The property is so unique and all my guests were raving about it. It turned out to be a beautiful day so the guests enjoyed walking and sitting in the garden when the sun was shining and continued to go outside when the garden was lit up in the dark. We had a little under 80 guests and it was perfect for the location. The room looked so classy with simple centerpieces. You don't need to do too much to the room as it is gorgeous on it's own. My wedding day couldn't have been any more perfect. -
User2156005 Sent on 05/31/2015We planned our daughter's wedding for an early spring day at the Keeler Tavern Museum. The wedding was on May 24 and the garden was lovely. We held the ceremony in the garden, the cocktail hour on the tented upper terrace, and the reception in the Garden House. The Garden House dresses up beautifully with flowers, and it is wonderfully light and airy with 3 walls of French doors. We heard compliments from many of our guests on this beautiful location. It is perfect for a smaller, more intimate wedding. We had 45 guests and plenty of room for a dance floor.
We also booked the private museum tours for our guests, for a touch of a little something out of the ordinary. The majority of our guests partook in these short tours, which they found interesting.
Mary Ann was a delight to work with when booking the venue and helping us throughout the planning. She was very accommodating and helpful, and just plain fun to plan with. -
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Cyndi Sent on 05/11/2019Beautiful and flexible venue
Keeler Tavern was a beautiful venue with a lot of flexibility and Mary Ann was such a pleasure to work with. We loved Keeler Tavern because we felt that both our plan A and our rain plan were a wonderful way to celebrate with our guests (as opposed to other places where our rain plan was less than desirable). The gardens are beautiful and Mary Ann made sure that it was taken care of the week before the wedding, along with the tent and any painting to get everything looking great before our wedding.
The gardens were a beautiful place for photos, both during the day and at night. Our wedding day ended up being chilly and a little rainy, so we had our ceremony in the garden house, our cocktail hour under the tent/in the Museum, and our reception in the garden house. It was all such a pretty space and a blank slate for any theme or decor.
We had a small wedding, but this space was great for that! It did not feel too empty or too full at any time, and we really loved having space for everything that we wanted to have inside.
We needed to be flexible with other visitors to the Museum and other events going on, but the Museum was great about letting us use the space for our rehearsal and was very flexible about setup time. Our guests loved going through the Museum during cocktail hour and felt that it was a great experience. Our museum guides and the museum staff that were present for the wedding were so sweet, informative, and helpful. We are so appreciative of everything they did for us! -
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User1854856 Sent on 10/09/2014The Keeler Tavern was perfect for our small wedding, and absolutely gorgeous. The gardens are impeccably maintained. They have some restrictions such as music ending by 10pm, but we moved the party to the hotel bar at the end of the night and it turned out to be really fun. It is a bit pricey and I feel that for that price it would be nice to have a day-of coordinator included, but you do get managers overseeing and helping with parking which is nice. Mary Ann is so sweet and will try to meet your requests - they are flexible on certain terms in the contract; overall they just want you to respect the beautiful space, which is fair!
We were able to stay within our budget by bringing in our own caterer and alcohol (alcohol was a huge savings for us). You just have to be willing to do DIY and put a lot of pieces together such as rentals etc. But we thought it was completely worth it.
Thank you to the Keeler Tavern for helping us have an amazing wedding!
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