The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park 5901 South County Line Road • Hinsdale • IL 60521

Your rental at The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park in Hinsdale covers use of the building during your contracted hours, indoor tables and chairs set before you arrive, Lodge staff, and the microphones and sound system. Everything else comes from your vendors: your menu, bar, linens and flatware, plus outdoor tables, ceremony chairs and any tent, which are rented through the approved vendor. Every event also pays a $100 cleaning fee and a refundable security deposit of $250 on weekdays or $500 on weekends.

Yes, and if you've rented The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park for your event, there's no extra ceremony charge. Outdoor ceremonies use the wedding arbor and grounds, set on 52 acres of woodland, and indoor ceremonies take place in the second-floor ballroom, which holds up to 100. Receptions can fill the first-floor dining room, living room and alcove, the ballroom for dancing, and the patios, with indoor events across both floors kept under 200 guests.

You can bring your own caterer to The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park. The venue recommends its list of nine licensed caterers who know the building, but an outside caterer is welcome once they get a one-day license from the Village of Hinsdale, which costs $1,000. Alcohol is allowed too, as long as it comes from your licensed caterer or an approved liquor purveyor and a licensed, insured bartender serves it. Kegs, shots and open bottles on tables aren't allowed, and any tent must come from the approved vendor.

At The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park in Hinsdale, an 8-hour weekend rental of the entire Lodge is $2,800 on Saturdays and holidays and $2,300 on Fridays from 4pm or Sundays. Sundays drop to $1,300 if you only need one floor. Weekday rentals, Monday through Thursday, run $1,600 for 8 hours of the entire Lodge or $1,000 for one floor, and a 2-hour ceremony-only rental is $500. Extra weekend hours are $250 each, and every event adds a $100 cleaning fee. Your caterer, bar, linens and any outdoor rentals sit on top, and an outside caterer adds a $1,000 one-day license fee.

Weekend and holiday rentals at The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park run 8 hours, and you can add time at booking for $250 an hour. Friday and Saturday events have to end by midnight, while Sunday through Thursday events end by 10:30pm, and either way you get one more hour for cleanup. Friday evening rentals start at 4pm or later. If you need early access to set up or get ready, you can buy extra time by the hour when it's available.

At The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park in Hinsdale, you can usually move an outdoor ceremony indoors, as long as you confirm the switch quickly with Lodge staff and your vendors and the space is available. Indoor ceremonies at The Lodge take place in the second-floor ballroom, which holds up to 100 guests and has a vaulted ceiling, exposed beams and a wall of French windows. If you'd rather stay outside, tents are allowed on the patios, lawn and arbor area, but they have to come from the Lodge's approved tent vendor.

The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park is a historic lodge built in 1927 on 52 acres of Hinsdale parkland, and you get to bring your own caterer and bar. The English-style building has a first floor with a fireplace, piano and dining room that opens onto patios, and a second-floor ballroom for your ceremony and dancing. Outside, a wedding arbor and woodland grounds give you dozens of photo spots. Alexander Legge, a former International Harvester president, first developed the property with his wife Katherine, and it was donated to the Village of Hinsdale in 1973.

Yes, The Lodge at Katherine Legge Memorial Park offers tours by appointment on weekdays, some weeknights and occasional weekends. You can also walk through a Matterport virtual tour on the venue's website before you visit. While you're there, see both floors: the second-floor ballroom holds up to 100, and ask how the first floor and patios would flow for your guest count.