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The Wedding-Weekend Map (2026)

Where can the wedding become the whole weekend? We mined the websites and couples' reviews of 4,207 US beach wedding venues for hard lodging evidence — a farmhouse that sleeps the wedding party, cabins on the property, a bridal cottage — and found at least 1,843 venues with confirmed on-site lodging, 43.8% of the directory. Rolled up by state, a clear map appears. Updated 2026-07-24.

Wedding-weekend states, per resident

The headline: Alaska is the wedding-weekend capital of America per resident, with 99 venues confirmed to sleep guests on the property — 133.8 per million people. By raw count the leaders are Florida (303), California (224), Washington (127). Deepest bench relative to its venue count: Alaska, where 68.8% of all beach venues show lodging evidence.

#StateVenues with confirmed lodgingShare of state's venuesPer million residents
1 Alaska 99 68.8% 133.8
2 Hawaii 87 44.6% 60.2
3 Maine 79 63.7% 56.2
4 Oregon 79 54.1% 18.5
5 Delaware 18 51.4% 17.1
6 Washington 127 45.7% 16
7 Rhode Island 17 34.7% 15.3
8 Vermont 9 42.9% 13.9
9 Florida 303 43.7% 13
10 New Hampshire 17 58.6% 12.1
11 Massachusetts 71 41% 9.9
12 South Carolina 50 44.6% 9.1
13 Maryland 52 40% 8.3
14 Michigan 82 43.2% 8.1
15 Wisconsin 41 41% 6.9
16 New Jersey 65 39.9% 6.8
17 Mississippi 18 48.6% 6.1
18 New York 116 39.3% 5.8
19 California 224 42.6% 5.7
20 Connecticut 20 30.8% 5.4
21 North Carolina 59 40.4% 5.3
22 Virginia 37 33% 4.2
23 Minnesota 22 57.9% 3.8
24 Idaho 5 71.4% 2.5
25 South Dakota 2 100% 2.2
26 Georgia 24 53.3% 2.1
27 Alabama 11 23.9% 2.1
28 Montana 2 40% 1.8
29 Texas 52 40.6% 1.7
30 Ohio 19 33.9% 1.6
31 Kentucky 6 66.7% 1.3
32 North Dakota 1 50% 1.3
33 Louisiana 5 41.7% 1.1
34 Utah 3 21.4% 0.9
35 Illinois 8 27.6% 0.6
36 Pennsylvania 7 30.4% 0.5
37 New Mexico 1 100% 0.5
38 Arizona 2 66.7% 0.3
39 Tennessee 2 100% 0.3
40 Nevada 1 16.7% 0.3

Counts are floors, not ceilings: a venue only lands in the lodging column when its own website or its couples' reviews prove it. The real number is higher — the evidence just hasn't surfaced yet for every venue.

Planning a wedding weekend?

This page is the map; the venues with on-site lodging directory is the door-to-door list — every confirmed venue, grouped by state, with the evidence quoted on each listing. If you'd rather have everything handled in one booking, see the all-inclusive venues.

Cite this data

Suggested attribution: “The Wedding-Weekend Map” — BeachWeddingVenues.net, 2026, linked to https://www.beachweddingvenues.net/beach-wedding-stats/lodging-map/. The table is CC BY 4.0: chart it, quote it, publish it — just link back. Want a custom cut (by state or metro)? Email us. Data updated 2026-07-24.

Methodology: a venue counts as having confirmed on-site lodging when its website or couples' reviews contain concrete evidence — a farmhouse, cabins, cottages, or guest rooms on the property (mined and re-verified with each crawl of our 4,207-venue national directory). Because the flag requires proof, every number on this page is a floor ("at least N"). Population = US Census 2024 state estimates; per-million = confirmed venues ÷ state population × 1,000,000. Share = confirmed venues ÷ all directory venues in that state. More data: the state-by-state stats hub and America's beach wedding capitals.