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TL;DR, Tupper Manor Wedding
Updated September 14, 2026
Tupper Manor at a glance
| Venue | Tupper Manor at the Wylie Inn & Conference Center, Endicott College |
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| Address | 295 Hale Street (Route 127), Beverly, MA 01915; about 20 miles north of Boston and Logan Airport |
| Built | 1901 Georgian summer home by architect Guy Lowell for Bryce James Allan and Anna Palfrey of Allan Shipping Lines; Endicott College since 1943, renamed for college founder Dr. Eleanor Tupper |
| Capacity | Up to 190 seated (Conservatory 150, Garden Room 40 more) |
| Ceremony | Lawn facing the fountain, manor and ocean behind; Ballroom indoors in rain. Ceremony fee: $950 on WeddingWire, $500 on Wedding Spot; confirm with the venue |
| Reception spaces | Bars in the Library and the Oval Room; dinner in the glass Conservatory and Garden Room; first dance and dancing in the Ballroom under its chandelier |
| Rental window | 5 hours of event time (setup and cleanup separate); amplified music indoors only; music ends by midnight |
| Starting prices | WeddingWire: reception from $3,000 off-peak / $5,000 peak; bar packages from $45 per person. Venue sheet adds 6.25% + 0.75% tax and a 22% administrative fee |
| Catering & bar | In-house only; no outside food or alcohol; food and beverage minimum applies |
| Lodging | Wylie Inn, 91 rooms, on the same 10-acre oceanfront property with direct beach access; room blocks; no hotel shuttle |
| Parking | Free paved lots at the manor entrance (venue sheet); Wedding Spot's listing also shows valet |
| Accessibility | First floor wheelchair accessible; service animals permitted |
| Best photo spots | Fountain lawn, mirrored marble foyer and curved staircase, billiards room, the pathway behind the manor, the private beach at sunset |
| Weddings I've photographed here | Keith & Lydia’s October wedding at Tupper Manor · a summer Tupper Manor wedding · Kristin & Alex’s Tupper Manor wedding · Tupper Manor wedding photo gallery |
Tupper Manor is a 1901 Georgian mansion wedding venue at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, 20 miles up the coast from Boston, with a fountain lawn for the ceremony, a Ballroom, a glass Conservatory that faces the ocean, a private beach, and seating for up to 190.
Bryce James Allan and Anna Palfrey, founders of the Canadian shipping company Allan Shipping Lines, commissioned Guy Lowell to design it as their summer house. Lowell is the architect of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and the same instincts are here: stone pillars at the entrance, a marble foyer lined with floor-to-ceiling mirrors, a curved staircase, hand-carved woodwork. The house passed to Endicott College in 1943, which named it Tupper Hall for Dr. Eleanor Tupper, who had founded the college four years earlier. It is now a residence hall and the home of Endicott’s School of Hospitality Management, and the Wylie Center next door still trains hospitality students by hosting events like yours; the venue’s own history of Tupper Manor tells it in full.
The rooms run in a loop. The Ballroom has floor-to-ceiling French doors and a chandelier over the dance floor. Its doors open into the glass Conservatory, which looks at the water and seats 150 for dinner, with the Garden Room beside it taking 40 more. The Library holds the bar and the dessert station, the Oval Room a second bar or the late-night snack, and there are a billiards room and a hospitality suite for getting ready. Outside, the lawn faces the fountain, and a path leads down to the estate’s private beach. The venue’s room-by-room page lists each space.
Among Boston wedding venues, this is the one where the hotel is part of the property: the Wylie Inn’s 91 rooms share the same ten oceanfront acres, so the last guests walk back instead of finding a car. Its neighbor Misselwood Estate, half a mile down Hale Street on the same campus, is the tented, open-air version; Tupper Manor is the choice when you want the house itself to be the party.
I’ve photographed weddings here in high summer and in October and filmed two of them, and the house is one of the easiest on the North Shore to work honestly: clean sightlines for vows on the lawn, a staircase that turns a first look into an entrance, and a beach a short walk from the dance floor for the last light. I direct as little as I can and stay close; the rooms do the rest.
Next: my Boston wedding photography portfolio, if you want the same approach in other rooms.
Tupper Manor’s argument is that it does the formal Boston estate wedding and the coastal weekend at the same time. The rooms are grand without being stiff, and the grounds give you lawn, woods, fountain and beach without a shuttle, all inside the stone pillars.
On WeddingWire it holds a 4.8-out-of-5 rating across 162 reviews, and 96% of couples recommend it. The reviews keep coming back to the food and the staff, which says something about a venue with the Atlantic outside the Conservatory windows.
The kitchen is in-house, a personal event manager comes with the booking, and the venue’s package sheet promises exclusive use of the mansion, grounds and private beach for your event. For me that means the day holds its shape: dinner goes out when the schedule says, and the sunset window on the beach stays open.
For the house in fall, see Keith and Lydia’s Tupper Manor wedding, married on the lawn on October 4, 2024. For summer, this summer Tupper Manor wedding. For a Ballroom ceremony with a string quartet in the foyer, Kristin and Alex’s Tupper Manor wedding.
If you’re weighing it against Misselwood Estate, the wedding venue next door: same college, same stretch of coast, but Misselwood is a tent beside a lawn and Tupper Manor is a house you never have to leave.
The day moves lawn to foyer to Conservatory to Ballroom, a loop of maybe a hundred steps, with the hotel across the parking lot. Here is what the two big pieces look like at Tupper Manor and where I stand for each.
Chairs go on the lawn facing the fountain, with the manor and the ocean behind you. In the wide frame the fountain, the columns and the TUPPER MANOR lettering all land together. A 5:30 start in early October puts the ceremony in the last soft light, because sunset in Beverly is about 6:20 that week; in late June and early July you have until about 8:20.
If the weather turns, the ceremony moves into the Ballroom, where the French doors and the chandelier make it read as the plan rather than the backup. Kristin and Alex chose the Ballroom on purpose, with a string quartet playing in the foyer as guests came through the doors. WeddingWire lists the ceremony fee at $950 and Wedding Spot at $500; ask the venue which applies to your date.
Dinner is in the glass Conservatory, which faces the water and seats 150, with the Garden Room beside it for 40 more; that is where the 190 figure comes from. The Ballroom, through the French doors, takes the first dance, the toasts, the parent dances, the cake and the dancing under the chandelier.
The order I see most here, and the one C-Zone Entertainment ran at Keith and Lydia’s: introductions straight into the first dance, salads, toasts once plates are down, the entrée, then everyone back into the Ballroom for parent dances and cake before the floor opens.
Two rooms means two looks in your gallery. The Conservatory goes gold at sunset; the Ballroom turns warm and dim once the music starts.
The Tupper Manor weddings I’ve photographed fell in early October, late October and high summer, and the timeline changed more than the rooms did. Sunset sets the schedule here.
Early October is the venue’s best month for light. Sunset in Beverly is about 6:20 in the first week, so a 5:30 ceremony on the lawn ends as the light goes gold, and the trees behind the manor are turning for the first look. Keith and Lydia married on October 4 with exactly that plan. Three weeks later the sun is down by about 5:50, so for Ben and Emily’s late-October wedding the ceremony started at 4:30 and the beach vows happened at 5:40, inside cocktail hour.
See Keith and Lydia’s early-October wedding and Ben and Emily’s film further down this page.
From mid-June to mid-July sunset is about 8:20, and never before 8 all summer, so a 5 pm ceremony leaves dinner in the Conservatory and still a walk to the beach before the cake. The lawn is deep green, the front steps fill during cocktail hour, and the Conservatory stays bright through the entrée. Heat is the thing to plan for on the lawn at 5; the Ballroom, which is the rain plan, works as a heat plan too.
See a summer wedding at Tupper Manor and Kristin and Alex’s Ballroom ceremony.
November through April is the off-peak season on WeddingWire’s listing, with the lower rental figure, and the venue itself says it hosts weddings all year: the Ballroom for the ceremony, the Conservatory by candlelight, the foyer mirrors doing the work the lawn does in summer. One couple in the venue’s own testimonials had a winter wedding here. I haven’t photographed one yet; the Conservatory with snow on the lawn is on my list.
Cocktail hour at Tupper Manor is indoors by design. The bar is in the Library, a second bar or the late-night snack goes in the Oval Room, and guests drift through the marble foyer and out onto the front steps when it’s warm. The venue sets the Ballroom for the hour too.
Without a first look, I do the family photos in one pass on the front steps under the TUPPER MANOR lettering right after the recessional: both families together, then each side, then grandparents, about fifteen minutes, and everyone is back at the Library bar before the second tray of hors d’oeuvres. With a first look, all of that is finished before guests arrive and you walk in with them.
If a second photographer is on the day, they stay in the Library and the foyer while I’m outside with you on the lawn or, in late October, down on the beach for the last light. Ben and Emily used that hour for something better than favors: the second photographer made a portrait of every guest, and the prints went out with the thank-you cards.
You can see the hour as it happened in a real Tupper Manor wedding, Keith and Lydia’s story.
These are the spots I actually use at Tupper Manor, in the order the day reaches them:
The bridal suite and the front room upstairs: the tall windows in the front room give the best light in the house for the dress, the rings and the invitation suite. Thirty minutes covers it.
The billiards room: where the groomsmen end up before the ceremony. Keith and Alex both spent that hour here with a cue in hand, and the candids from the dark wood room are some of the best of the day.
The marble foyer and curved staircase: the mirrors run floor to ceiling, so the first look from above comes with a second angle for free. On a rainy day the foyer and the arched Ballroom doors carry the whole first look.
The pathway behind the manor: where I take a first look when the midday sun is hard. Shade, privacy, no squinting. Keith and Lydia’s happened here with the leaves turning.
The private beach: a short path down from the lawn. Right at sunset it is the best frame on the property; at 2 pm the glare off the water is too much for portraits, so I plan beach time by the light.
The front facade: white columns, arched windows and the TUPPER MANOR lettering for the wedding party and the families.
The fountain and lawn: the ceremony backdrop, and the quiet walk once guests are inside.
One family grouping a minute is the pace here, because the front steps are wide and nobody has to walk anywhere between frames. Give me twenty groupings and I need twenty minutes, which is why they fit between a first look and the ceremony.
Nearby engagement-session ideas: engagement photos on West Beach in Beverly, and my guide to North Shore engagement photo locations.
The bridal suite upstairs, and the front room’s tall windows for the dress and the details.
Groomsmen, cuffs and a game of pool in the billiards room before the walk downstairs.
The curved staircase, the mirrors and the lantern: a first look from above.
A rainy-day first look at the arched Ballroom doors, with a second photographer on the other reaction.
The pathway behind the manor in October: shade, privacy and turning leaves.
White columns, arched windows and the TUPPER MANOR lettering for the wedding party.
Everything you eat and drink at Tupper Manor comes from the house kitchen; the venue’s package sheet calls it a dedicated on-site culinary team, and no outside caterer or alcohol is allowed. The Tupper Wedding Package covers five butler-passed hors d’oeuvres at cocktail hour, a champagne toast (a non-alcoholic option is offered), one salad, up to two entrées or a duet plate plus a vegetarian or vegan alternative, red and white wine with dinner, rolls, cake cutting and presentation, coffee and tea, and floor-length ivory linens.
Room rental and the ceremony fee sit on top of the package, and the venue’s own sheet applies 6.25% Massachusetts tax, 0.75% Beverly tax and a 22% administrative fee to the whole bill, so read any proposal with those three lines included. The kitchen’s menus lean on regional dishes and local ingredients when the season allows, per the venue.
For me the in-house kitchen is a timing tool. Dinner comes out on the event manager’s clock, which protects the beach at sunset in October and keeps the toasts from running into the dance set. If you want film too, my Boston hybrid photo + video coverage covers both with one crew.
Tupper Manor sells five hours of event time, with setup and breakdown outside it, and amplified music has to be indoors and off by midnight. Inside that box, here is what holds on this property:
Guests arrive about 30 minutes ahead; the venue lines the wedding party up 15 minutes before the processional.
With a first look, we start it about 90 minutes before the ceremony, behind the manor or in the foyer, and finish the family and wedding-party photos with half an hour in hand.
Without one, the bride with her side and the groom with his are photographed separately beforehand, so cocktail hour costs only one both-families group and a few immediate-family frames.
Church first? St. Mary Star of the Sea on Cabot Street is under two miles from the manor, so build a short buffer before a 6:00 cocktail hour and I’ll spend it on the lawn with the two of you.
About 30 minutes of getting-ready coverage is enough here; the bridal suite and the billiards room are both in the house.
Below are the real timelines from two October Fridays I photographed at Tupper Manor, one with a first look and one without.
If you haven’t chosen yet, planning a first look for your Boston wedding argues for one; the wedding day timeline without a first look shows the other.
Ben and Emily, a late-October Friday. They got ready at a hotel off the property and didn’t see each other before the ceremony, but had the wedding-party photos done early so the cocktail hour was theirs.
2:00 PM, Photography starts at Tupper Manor: details, the rooms, the grounds
2:30 PM, Bride and bridesmaids, then groom and groomsmen, kept apart so the two never cross paths
4:30 PM, Ceremony on the lawn facing the fountain
5:00 PM, Cocktail hour in the Library and Oval Room; family photos on the front steps
5:40 PM, A ten-minute walk to the beach for private vows as the sun set (about 5:50 in late October, so this landed inside cocktail hour)
5:00 – 6:00 PM, Second photographer making a portrait of every guest, mailed later with the thank-you cards in place of favors
6:00 PM, Guests seated in the Conservatory; entrances, first dance, dinner
7:30 PM, Parent dances and toasts
8:00 – 10:00 PM, Ballroom dance floor open
Keith and Lydia, October 4, 2024. A first look meant every formal photo was finished before guests arrived, and the two of them got to attend their own cocktail hour. The whole day is in their Tupper Manor wedding story.
2:00 PM, Getting ready: bride in the bridal suite at Tupper Manor, groom at the Wylie Inn next door
3:00 PM, First look on the pathway behind the manor
3:15 PM, Couple portraits, then all family and wedding-party photos at the front facade
3:30 – 5:00 PM, Groom and groomsmen in the billiards room
5:30 PM, Ceremony on the lawn, timed to the 6:20 sunset
6:00 – 7:00 PM, Cocktail hour in the Library and Oval Room, with a short sunset walk for a few last portraits
7:00 PM, Reception: entrances, first dance, dinner in the Conservatory, toasts
8:15 PM, Parent dances, then the cake
8:30 – 11:00 PM, Ballroom dance floor open until the last song
Four galleries from this house are linked here: wedding photos at Tupper Manor in Beverly, MA, Keith and Lydia’s fall wedding, a summer Tupper Manor wedding and Kristin and Alex’s wedding.
Between them: the fountain ceremony, a Ballroom ceremony, the staircase first look, the Conservatory at dusk and the beach in October light, which is what anyone searching “Tupper Manor wedding photos” is trying to see before they book.
Photography and film pricing for a Tupper Manor date is on my wedding photography pricing page. If you’re deciding between two dates here, ask me which Tupper Manor dates I have open and I’ll answer the same day.
Two films from Tupper Manor, both October, both Fridays. Photographs hold the Conservatory still; the films have the toasts and the noise of the Ballroom after nine.
This first one is Keith and Lydia’s, October 4, 2024: the first look on the pathway behind the manor, a 5:30 ceremony on the lawn as the light went gold, and a Ballroom that ran to eleven. Flowers by Evans Flowers, music by C-Zone Entertainment.
I shoot Boston wedding videography and full-length wedding films, and at Tupper Manor most couples book both, because the Ballroom after the cake is a sound as much as a picture.
Ben and Emily’s late-October Friday: a 4:30 ceremony on the lawn, private vows on the beach at 5:40 with the sun going down, dinner by candlelight in the Conservatory and a full Ballroom. Flowers by Poppy Flowers, music by E-Z Entertainment. This is their highlight film.
More films are in the Boston wedding video portfolio, and photo + video coverage explains how one team carries both cameras at a Tupper Manor wedding.
Your guests are on the North Shore already. Downtown Beverly is two miles from the manor, Salem is four, and Cape Ann is up Route 127. With the Wylie Inn on the same property and its own beach access, the weekend tends to run itself from the hotel lobby.
Downtown Beverly: Cabot Street’s restaurants and The Cabot, the 1920 theater at 286 Cabot Street that opened as the Ware Theatre and now runs live music, comedy and film, two miles from the manor.
Lynch Park: the city’s 16-acre park at 55 Ober Street, with a rose garden the Beverly Garden Club keeps and two beaches, a few minutes toward downtown.
Salem: the Peabody Essex Museum (note that it closes Tuesday and Wednesday), the harbor walk and the witch-trial sites, four miles and ten minutes away.
Cape Ann: Gloucester’s harbor and Rockport’s Bearskin Neck, about 17 miles up the coast, half an hour by car.
Beaches: Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea is about 5 miles away and Crane Beach in Ipswich about 15; guests at the Wylie Inn have direct beach access on the property, dawn to dusk.
Getting to Beverly:
Airport: Logan sits about 20 miles south, 35 minutes on a clear road; the Wylie Inn’s own FAQ says a taxi runs about 35 minutes and $40 to $50 each way.
Train: the MBTA Newburyport/Rockport line stops at Montserrat (180 Essex Street, under two miles from the manor) and Beverly Depot; the venue puts itself two miles from the commuter rail.
Shuttles and rideshares: the Wylie Inn has no hotel shuttle, so book one if guests stay in Salem; Uber and Lyft cover the North Shore, and with the inn on site most guests just walk.
Parking: free in the paved lots by the manor entrance and at the inn.
Dress code: the rooms are marble, mirrors and chandeliers; cocktail or black-tie-optional fits.
Shoes: the ceremony is on grass and the beach is sand, so block heels or flats travel best.
Lodging: the Wylie Inn on the property (91 rooms, room blocks); in Salem, the Hawthorne Hotel (93 rooms, open since 1925), The Hotel Salem (44 rooms) and The Merchant in the 1784 Joshua Ward House.
Weather: it’s the coast. Bring a layer for the beach and the lawn, even in September.
Pets: the Wylie Inn doesn’t take pets; service animals are permitted at the manor.
End of the night: amplified music is indoors and ends by midnight; the inn is a short walk.
The WeddingWire listing for Tupper Manor shows reception rental from $3,000 in the off-peak season (November through April) and $5,000 in peak season (April through October), a $950 ceremony fee and bar packages from $45 per person, with an average estimate around $31,700. Wedding Spot’s listing for the same venue shows rentals of $2,000 to $7,000 and a $500 ceremony fee. Food and drink are in-house with a minimum, and the venue’s own package sheet adds 6.25% state tax, 0.75% city tax and a 22% administrative fee. The only number that counts is the written proposal; call 978-867-1955 for one.
Exclusive use of the mansion and grounds for your event, per the venue’s sheet: the marble foyer, Library, Oval Room, Ballroom, Conservatory, Garden Room and the lawn, plus the private beach. WeddingWire’s listing puts the bridal suite, chairs, china, cleanup, event planning, flatware, glassware, linens, parking, setup and tables in the site fee. The venue’s sheet adds a personal event manager and private rooms for each of you to get ready. The Tupper Wedding Package menu, room rental and the ceremony fee are priced separately.
Yes. WeddingWire lists a $950 starting ceremony fee and Wedding Spot lists $500; the venue’s package sheet only says seasonal room rental and ceremony fees are additional. The ceremony is on the lawn facing the fountain, or in the Ballroom if it rains.
Within about a week I send roughly 100 sneak peeks; at Tupper Manor those are usually the staircase first look, the lawn recessional and the Conservatory at dusk. The whole gallery follows about two weeks after the wedding, in your private online gallery, with no limit on the number of photos. Highlight films and full-length edits take about a month. The full schedule is in how long wedding photos take to come back, with the reasons behind it.
The ceremony moves into the Ballroom, which has floor-to-ceiling French doors, a chandelier and room for a full aisle. Cocktail hour is indoors anyway (Library and Oval Room) and dinner is in the enclosed Conservatory, so rain changes one thing: where you say the vows. Kristin and Alex chose the Ballroom for their 5 pm ceremony, and their photos read as a plan, not a fallback.
Five hours of event time, not counting setup and cleanup, per Wedding Spot’s listing. Amplified music is indoors only and must end by midnight. Keith and Lydia’s day ran 5:30 to 11, half an hour past that, so ask the venue how added time is priced.
No. Tupper Manor’s own kitchen handles all food and beverage, and the venue must provide the alcohol; a food and beverage minimum applies. Florists, planners, bands and DJs are your call; C-Zone Entertainment, E-Z Entertainment, Evans Flowers and Poppy Flowers have all worked weddings I photographed here.
Tour the house, then Tupper Manor locks the date with a contract and deposit; they quote deposit terms and the food and beverage minimum at the tour. On my side, a signed agreement and a non-refundable retainer of one third of the collection reserves the date, with the balance on a payment plan, and I take a single wedding per day. My collections span $4,000 to $8,500, and wedding photography pricing lists what each includes.
Up to 190 for a seated dinner: the Conservatory seats 150 and the Garden Room beside it takes 40 more, per the venue’s room page, with the Ballroom for dancing. Wedding Spot’s listing says 186, so the last few seats depend on your layout.
At 150 guests or more, or when family is flying in, yes. At Tupper Manor the second photographer’s post is the Library, the foyer and the Conservatory while I’m on the lawn or the beach with you, and we work opposite sides of the Ballroom during toasts. Ben and Emily had theirs photograph every guest during cocktail hour and mailed the prints with the thank-you notes. Read about Boston wedding photography with a second shooter; you can add one right up to the wedding.
At the Wylie Inn, which shares the property: 91 rooms, room blocks, direct beach access, free parking, and no need for a shuttle. Salem’s hotels are about ten minutes away for overflow: the Hawthorne Hotel (93 rooms, open since 1925), The Hotel Salem and The Merchant.
The venue’s sheet describes large paved complimentary parking areas at the mansion entrance, and Wedding Spot’s listing also shows valet, so ask which applies to your date. The first floor of the mansion is wheelchair accessible and service animals are permitted. For guests staying in Salem, a hired shuttle keeps the end of the night simple, since the inn doesn’t run one.
If Tupper Manor is on your shortlist, read my wedding photography pricing and collections next, then the Boston wedding planning guide.
A staircase for the first look, a fountain for the vows, a beach for the last light and a hotel across the lot. I’d like to photograph your day in this house. Check your Tupper Manor wedding date.
