Outdoor Wedding Venues near Central PA

The Roost in Mahaffey is a newer outdoor wedding venue just a short 1.5 hour drive from State College and 2 hours from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The Roost is an excellent venue choice for your wedding if you’re looking for a location that’s easy for family from either side of Pennsylvania to travel to, not to mention that it’s absolutely gorgeous and very thoughtfully designed.

Each year the owners of the Roost seem to make improvements to the venue, the most recent being a major upgrade to the ceremony location! Guests can now enjoy easier access to and from the ceremony spot with the addition of new cement work in the seating area. Also new this year are the addition of white benches for guests to sit - both a functional and aesthetic upgrade for your ceremony!

Justine and Tyler said “I do” here at the Roost in May of 2024, enjoying these new upgrades to the ceremony spot as seen in the photos below. As always, the Roost offers two beautiful rooms for your bridal party to get ready in, a covered patio for cocktail hour or a rain plan for your ceremony, and the show-stopping reception area that can accommodate huge weddings or small weddings without looking like an empty warehouse.

Some of the greatest wedding venues are the ones that can accommodate bad weather and pivot while still looking beautiful in every corner of the property. For Justine and Tyler’s wedding, the thunder was rolling during the vows and we raced against the clock to finish the family photos - happily there is a roof over a very large pavilion for the ceremony so we were covered both literally and figuratively. Even doing photos under the covered patio off of the main building turned out beautifully as the rain started to drizzle down.

While the remoteness of the venue can make lodging for your guests a little tricky (the closest major hotel is a 45 minute drive in Indiana, PA), the stunning views more than make up for the travel.