Georgia State Railroad Museum 655 Louisville Road • Savannah • GA 31401

Your rental at Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah includes up to 3 hours of event time, 14 eight-foot farm tables with benches, 8-foot banquet tables, 6-foot round tables and tan metal folding chairs, plus setup and breakdown labor. You also get a 1-hour rehearsal the day before and a bridal dressing area in the Locomotion Lab in the Tender Frame Shop, available after 4pm. You'll pay separately for catering, rentals, décor, bar service, required security at $50 an hour with a 4-hour minimum, and any extra time.

Yes, and the whole museum is yours, since Georgia State Railroad Museum rents to just one client per evening. The Workers' Garden, with its fountain, seats 120 for a ceremony. The open-air Machine Shop ruins seat 300 at tables or 350 in chairs alone, and the 1855 Blacksmith Shop seats 200 or holds 300 standing. The covered Roundhouse has a full stage, and the Tender Frame Shop, the only temperature-controlled building, seats 35 or holds 75 standing.

Yes, Georgia State Railroad Museum lets you bring outside vendors, including your caterer, as long as they're licensed, insured and follow museum rules. The museum can recommend preferred vendors, but you coordinate them yourself. Alcohol is the exception: museum staff must handle bar service, and no outside alcohol is allowed. Vendors can set up during museum hours, can't drive on site without approval, and must break down right after your event.

At Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah, the base rental is $3,500 for up to 3 hours in peak season (March–October), plus an $18 per-person guest fee. In January and February it drops to $2,500 plus $12 per guest. Extra event time is $1,000 an hour, and security is required at $50 an hour with a 4-hour minimum. Bar packages run $24–32 per person with a required 20% bartender gratuity, and you'll budget separately for your caterer, rentals and décor. A $3,500 non-refundable deposit locks your date and counts toward your balance, which is due 7 days before the event.

Your rental at Georgia State Railroad Museum includes 3 hours of event time, and events can start no earlier than 5pm. Need more time? Each extra hour is $1,000. Amplified music is allowed both indoors and outdoors, and the Roundhouse has a full stage with electricity for a band or other entertainment.

Georgia State Railroad Museum's backup plan in Savannah is the Blacksmith Shop, an 1855 brick building that the museum names as its rain plan location. It seats 200 or holds 300 standing, with exposed brick and wood trusses. The covered Roundhouse is another sheltered option, with one side open to the air and a full stage. If you'd rather add a tent outside, nothing can be staked into the ground, so it would need sandbags or water barrels to hold it down. The Tender Frame Shop is the only temperature-controlled building, seating 35.

At Georgia State Railroad Museum, you get a whole historic rail yard to yourselves, since the museum rents to only one client per evening. You can marry among antique train cars, brick ruins and the 1855 Blacksmith Shop, then party in the Roundhouse on its full stage. You're free to bring your own caterer. Fun extras make it yours alone: a site tour by train at $6 a person, a moving train car for $300, a 30-minute switching demo for $500, a blacksmithing demo for $300 and a fire pit for $200.