Highlands Mansion and Gardens Reviews

We hosted our wedding ceremony and reception at Highlands Mansion in May of 2024. The mansion is beautiful on its own, which made wedding planning so much simpler. While we did have to pick our own vendors, Dana was SO helpful in making suggestions and organizing the details of our day.

The mansion and gardens are so beautiful... our guests are still talking about it!

We hired Dana as our day of coordinator, and I cannot recommend her enough. Our day ran so smoothly, and I know it was because of all her hard work! She is kind and gentle, but keeps everything moving as it needs to. She is professional in her work, but also cares about the people celebrating!

The Highlands Historic Mansion & Gardens was a fantastic venue in which to hold our wedding ceremony and reception. The location is beautiful, spacious and fit the contours of our event perfectly. Our coordinator Dana was accommodating, patient, thoroughly professional and worked with us extensively before our event, to craft the wedding day of a lifetime. Even when an unforeseen tropical storm rolled through the area on the day of our wedding, she immediately activated a backup contingency plan that allowed us to carry on unabated. I cannot possibly recommend her and this location more highly.

If it wasn't for the fact my brother already had his here I'd be first to hire The Highlands for my big day! Just gorgeous property and so big. The mansion is so well kept and there's definitely potential for in the future expanding to the other buildings on the land (I hope!). Dana is the best and so hands on. They're very flexible with vendors but it does mean it's very DIY... But I think that's a huge positive! You won't regret having your big day here :-)

If you are thinking about going with the Highlands as your ceremony and/or reception venue, stop all your other searching! You will not find anywhere else that is as beautiful (or as affordable).

Dana, the manager, was incredibly helpful. We were originally supposed to be married in October of 2020. When COVID changed all our plans, Dana was incredibly supportive as we navigated through multiple rescheduling and changes. Our email thread is probably about 100 messages long and not once did Dana make me feel like I was bothering her or that my questions were too much. She is a large reason why I kept the hope that our dream wedding would actually happen and her support was a large factor in deciding to go forward with the wedding instead of just canceling it after one too many disappointments. Dana is amazing and you want her on your team.

In addition to all of her help leading up to the day of the wedding, Dana was great the day of. We had to move our ceremony location last minute because of a sudden shower and didn’t have enough time to enact our original rain plan. Dana came up with a beautiful solution that everyone loved even more than the original ceremony location. What could have been super stressful was easy and pain-free. She was unobtrusive the entire day, so when I got a text with 100 photos and videos that she had taken over the course of the wedding the day after, I was amazed and delighted.

I cannot recommend the Highlands Historical enough. The grounds are gorgeous and filled with history and the level of support is unparalleled.

Had my wedding here at the end of June, 2022 and it was absolutely perfect! There are many location options for the ceremony/reception (all gorgeous), and an overwhelming number of amazing photo spots. Everything is kept up very well, and the mansion is stunning too, especially the bridal and groom suites. I literally couldn’t have asked for a better venue or a better price. And Dana was great to work with--going above and beyond to help out both during the process and the day of!

The Highlands is an historic mansion and garden in Fort Washington, PA. It's a beautiful space for an outdoor wedding. The mansion itself is a cozy, historic home.

Note that there is no large ballroom-style space in the mansion. The space for your event is separated into separate rooms with fireplaces, a beautiful open foyer, a long, narrowish sunroom, covered patio and of course the gorgeous gardens. Plus on the up-side, you can bring your own beverages, which makes a great opportunity for cost savings.

It worked out perfectly for us as we wanted a space that was historic and unique but not super-formal and opulent. We also liked breaking up the seating into separate rooms so there was space for everyone to have a seat when they wanted one and to make sure the folks who are more hard of hearing could still have conversations without getting drowned out by dance music.

As with other historic sites, there are some restrictions to using the space...no candles in the mansion (we used battery-operated tealights), no tents outside, that sort of thing. But on the plus side, their rental coordinator, Sophia was super-helpful in helping us with vendor ideas and details. We fell in love with the site on our first visit there and it made the perfect location for our wedding.