Home › Barn venue stats › Wedding-weekend map

The Wedding-Weekend Map (2026)

Where can the wedding become the whole weekend? We mined the websites and couples' reviews of 8,507 US barn wedding venues for hard lodging evidence — a farmhouse that sleeps the wedding party, cabins on the property, a bridal cottage — and found at least 2,244 venues with confirmed on-site lodging, 26.4% of the directory. Rolled up by state, a clear map appears. Updated 2026-07-16.

Wedding-weekend states, per resident

The headline: Vermont is the wedding-weekend capital of America per resident, with 26 venues confirmed to sleep guests on the property — 40.1 per million people. By raw count the leaders are Texas (247), California (194), North Carolina (116). Deepest bench relative to its venue count: South Dakota, where 50% of all barn venues show lodging evidence.

#StateVenues with confirmed lodgingShare of state's venuesPer million residents
1 Vermont 26 49.1% 40.1
2 Montana 32 47.1% 28.1
3 Wyoming 14 45.2% 23.8
4 South Dakota 20 50% 21.6
5 New Hampshire 30 42.3% 21.3
6 Maine 29 40.3% 20.6
7 Kansas 40 34.8% 13.5
8 Tennessee 93 28.5% 12.9
9 Idaho 24 28.9% 12
10 Missouri 69 29.7% 11
11 Alaska 8 44.4% 10.8
12 North Carolina 116 27.8% 10.5
13 Virginia 92 38.7% 10.4
14 Alabama 50 23.9% 9.7
15 Arkansas 29 26.1% 9.4
16 Colorado 55 34.8% 9.2
17 Wisconsin 54 26.9% 9.1
18 Mississippi 26 26.3% 8.8
19 Kentucky 38 21.2% 8.3
20 Texas 247 31.6% 7.9
21 South Carolina 42 25.9% 7.7
22 Oregon 33 25% 7.7
23 Delaware 8 36.4% 7.6
24 North Dakota 6 27.3% 7.5
25 Georgia 82 26.4% 7.3
26 West Virginia 13 24.1% 7.3
27 Iowa 23 19.2% 7.1
28 Ohio 83 21.7% 7
29 Washington 56 22% 7
30 Minnesota 40 25.6% 6.9
31 Indiana 47 22.8% 6.8
32 Pennsylvania 88 23.9% 6.7
33 Oklahoma 25 19.5% 6.1
34 New York 105 32.1% 5.3
35 Connecticut 19 22.4% 5.2
36 California 194 26.6% 4.9
37 New Mexico 10 30.3% 4.7
38 Utah 16 16.3% 4.6
39 Rhode Island 5 16.1% 4.5
40 Michigan 43 18.5% 4.2
41 Massachusetts 28 25.5% 3.9
42 Illinois 45 22.1% 3.5
43 Nebraska 7 14% 3.5
44 Maryland 20 23.5% 3.2
45 Louisiana 14 16.3% 3
46 Florida 59 16.2% 2.5
47 Arizona 18 17.5% 2.4
48 New Jersey 21 18.9% 2.2
49 Nevada 2 5.9% 0.6

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” — BarnVenues.com, 2026, linked to https://www.barnvenues.com/barn-venue-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 2026-07-16.

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 8,507-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 barn wedding capitals.