Home › Styles › Fairytale Castles
Fairytale Castle Wedding Venues
The fairytale castle leans all the way into the storybook: pointed towers, a drawbridge or moat, a silhouette that looks drawn rather than built, and a skyline that ends up on the save-the-date before anything else is booked. These venues are pure atmosphere, and atmosphere is legitimate criteria for the biggest photo album of your life. Pricing ranges as widely as the properties do — some are museum-castles that host a handful of weddings a year, others are full-service venues (castle weddings broadly run $10,000–$40,000 and up — confirm with the castle). What to look for: how many weddings the property hosts (rarer bookings mean earlier planning), whether the fairytale exterior comes with an equally finished interior for the reception, and the light on the towers at your ceremony hour. The look you know from Fonthill Castle in Pennsylvania or Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands. The 167 castles below match this style — use the map to find the closest one, or browse by state.
Top-rated castles with a fairytale-castle silhouette
Ranked by local reputation — rating weighted by review count.
Hearst Castle
4.6 ★★★★★ 13,470 reviews
Guests explore the art & grounds of the 20th-century mansion built by the eponymous media magnate.
Boldt Castle & Boldt Yacht House
4.8 ★★★★★ 6,708 reviews
Imposing stone castle on 5-acre island open for tours of interior, formal gardens & grounds.
Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, San Francisco
4.5 ★★★★★ 5,518 reviews
Elegant rooms & suites in a lavish 19th-century hotel, plus posh dining, a gym & an indoor pool.
Castello di Amorosa
4.2 ★★★★☆ 4,940 reviews
13th-century–style winery offering guided tours of the castle & tastings of Italian-inspired wines.
Gillette Castle State Park
4.7 ★★★★★ 4,399 reviews
This stone mansion with unique decor & a medieval-style facade belonged to actor William Gillette.
Loveland Castle Museum
4.6 ★★★★★ 3,469 reviews
This castle, built in the '20s, features an extensive sword collection & riverside picnic areas.
Hammond Castle Museum
4.6 ★★★★★ 2,937 reviews
Sprawling medieval-style complex built in the 1920s by inventor John Hays Hammond & open for tours.
Castle & Key Distillery
4.9 ★★★★★ 2,324 reviews
The Kentucky Castle
4.5 ★★★★★ 2,514 reviews
Regal hotel in a grand castle with gardens & a rooftop terrace, plus farm-to-table dining.
Glen Eyrie Castle
4.7 ★★★★★ 2,388 reviews
Genteel hotel in an 1871 castle offering a cafe, mountain views & trails, plus free breakfast.
Fonthill Castle
4.8 ★★★★★ 2,320 reviews
Former mansion that's a mash-up of architectural styles houses arts-&-crafts tiles, antiques & more.
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
4.7 ★★★★★ 2,183 reviews
Lavish, English-style mansion with manicured gardens & a broad lawn sloping down to the seashore.
Find castles with a fairytale-castle silhouette by state
One matching castle so far in these places:
Picturing a different castle?
Whatever the style, the same homework applies: what a castle wedding costs, whether you can stay overnight in the castle, and whether it's all-inclusive or a raw venue rental.