This blog features some weddings from one of our favorite venues: Villa Terrace. We've been fortunate enough to do many weddings at Villa Terrace over the years and while they all have their unique designs, the incredible beauty of the venue always shines through!

The museum is not only stunning, but it has a fascinating history. We have included some information from their website below:

The Villa’s history as a museum begins in 1966, when the Milwaukee Art Museum accepted Ms. Agnes Smith Curtis' gift of her villa and garden. For seven years, the Art Museum utilized the Smith family home as their decorative arts wing. After that, the Friends of Villa Terrace formed to continue operating the museum on behalf of Milwaukee County, staging hundreds of art openings featuring unique decorative arts exhibitions. Cyril Colnik’s historic wrought-iron work and archives were donated in 1990 by his daughter Gretchen and along with the Kohler Foundation’s donation of other Colnik drawings, Villa Terrace has the largest collection of Colnik items in the world.

During the 1990s and early 2000s, the Friends of Villa Terrace embarked on a capital campaign to raise $1.5 million to renovate the Villa’s Renaissance Garden. The garden continues to be maintained through the efforts of the Friends of Villa Terrace.

Today Villa Terrace and its Renaissance Garden are zoned as Milwaukee County parkland. Together, they serve the citizens of Milwaukee through the creation and promotion of local, regional and international visual and decorative arts, and a wide range of intergenerational community arts programming that includes theater, music, arts and crafts, creative writing, poetry, and gardening.

Villa Terrace’s historic architecture, lush gardens, and incredible views makes for a stunning outdoor wedding and the most amazing wedding photos. Many of the weddings we have done there have been able to have their ceremony, cocktail hour, and dinner all outdoors (weather pending, of course)!

We are looking forward to planning many more weddings at Villa Terrace in the future. Check out some of our favorites below. We just cannot get enough of this stunning venue!