The 10th Annual Love Groove Festival takes over Baltimore's Point Park in Harbor East on Saturday, August 29, 2026, from noon to 8 PM — headlined by Robert Glasper and Saba, with live music, an art gallery, 30+ local vendors, and family activities including a petting zoo. This is the first year the festival has […]
Maryland has genuinely unusual wedding venues for couples who want something beyond a traditional ballroom — vineyards, mansions, estates, and historic properties with real documented character behind them. This guide focuses on what actually makes each venue different, and — since a converted castle or a working vineyard doesn't come with the same guest logistics […]
Maryland has genuinely wide-ranging Maryland wedding venues — waterfront estates on the Chesapeake, a working museum in a historic oyster building, vineyards modeled on Tuscany, and Eastern Shore resorts built around a centuries-old manor house. This guide compares real venues by wedding style, guest count, location, lodging, parking, and the transportation planning each one actually […]
Gramercy Mansion is a historic Tudor wedding venue on 45 secluded acres in Stevenson, Maryland — about 12 miles from downtown Baltimore and an hour from Washington, D.C. The Mansion rents for $3,000–$6,000 in peak season (April–December), holds up to 150 seated guests (200 with tenting), and has 11 on-site bed & breakfast rooms for […]
The Annapolis Maritime Museum wedding & Park is a waterfront wedding venue in Eastport, Annapolis — and its most important planning detail isn't the cost or catering, it's parking. The museum has no dedicated onsite lot. Wedding rentals include roughly 50 nearby spaces, which falls well short of what most medium or large weddings need. […]
A Herrington on the Bay wedding isn't a parking problem — the venue confirms ample, free parking at both event spaces. The real logistics question is different: this is a destination wedding on a remote stretch of the Chesapeake Bay, most guests aren't staying in the limited on-site suites, and it's an all-inclusive open-bar celebration […]
Gramercy Mansion is a historic Tudor estate and bed & breakfast on 45 wooded acres in Stevenson, Maryland's Green Spring Valley, about 13 miles — roughly 20–25 minutes — from downtown Baltimore. It's a working bed and breakfast, an event venue, and a piece of real Maryland history all at once — built in 1902 […]
Herrington on the Bay is a waterfront wedding and event venue in Rose Haven, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay — about 37 miles from Washington, DC and roughly 30 miles south of Annapolis. It's genuinely out of the way compared to a downtown Annapolis venue, which is exactly why guest transportation planning matters more here […]
The Annapolis Maritime Museum sits on Back Creek in the Eastport neighborhood, housed in a former oyster packing plant that tells the story of the Chesapeake Bay's maritime and watermen history. It's open Tuesday through Sunday, admission runs $5–$7, and it's close enough to downtown Annapolis to walk, water-taxi, or drive in — though the […]
