Union Pacific Dining Lodge — Local services in West Yellowstone

If you’re planning your wedding day in West Yellowstone, the Union Pacific Dining Lodge is a wonderful, historic Montana venue option for hosting your friends and family.

As a local Montana wedding photographer, I’ve celebrated numerous weddings at this special place and highly recommend it for your West Yellowstone wedding day.

There are many perks to hosting your wedding at this historic venue like it’s proximity to Yellowstone National Park, a wedding suite for getting ready, overall venue affordability, space versatility, and huge capacity for a great celebration.

Walking into this venue is like walking back in time. A big entryway greets you, complete with a bar for your social cocktail hour. From there it opens up into the massive Mammoth Room where old growth timber beams and large stone masonry culminate over to a gigantic fireplace in the back.

It’s location is centrally located near all of the local hotels and restaurants. Anything day of that you need is walkable too. Also, being a stone’s throw from the west entrance of the Park, makes it a perfect basecamp for your wedding guests to relax in while allowing you, your partner, and wedding photographer to venture into the park for scenic wedding pictures.

Be sure to explore the great wedding photo opportunities next door at the Museum of the Yellowstone as well.

The Union Pacific Dining Lodge will impress your guests and be a great, budget friendly venue for your big day....

The Union Pacific Dining Lodge was the perfect venue for our dream wedding. The Groom is from Montana and my family is mostly from the East Coast - so it was really amazing to be close to the entrance to Yellowstone.

The venue itself is huge, definitely can fit a wedding of over 400 but our wedding was 150ish and we felt cozy but not swimming in the venue. In the larger room (the Mammoth Room) there is a huge fireplace that you can have going throughout the night. Additionally, there is a smaller room (the Firehole) that we used for cocktails and has a bar area and another fireplace.

Additional items to note: cute little bridal suite, huge kitchen with everything your caterer needs, almost every type of glasses for the bar (we brought mason jars for beers). Also, all the tables and chairs are provided, including cocktail tables. Rentals are where they get you! So this was perfect for our budget.

The pricing includes 48 hours of use, so we used the venue for the rehearsal dinner too. The staff are easy to work with and will make sure you have everything you need!

The only con is that the venue is not insulated. It's an old building and has a few heaters but we also brought our own electric heaters. We had our wedding on Sept 28 and it snowed and was 30 degrees most of the weekend. But surprisingly we were...

The Union Pacific Dining Lodge was the PERFECT venue for our destination wedding! The building is beautiful, historic, rustic, and large enough to accommodate a massive group but quaint enough that our group of 60 didn’t feel tiny in it. The venue provides all the tables and chairs you could want, and the fully-stocked commercial kitchen is a caterer’s dream! The Firehole Room and bar are perfect for a cocktail hour. Our guests were so impressed, and the venue needed very little decoration because it is already so pretty! The day of venue point—person, Kim, was so helpful and made sure she was available if we had any needs or questions at any time of the day or night. Overall, an extremely positive experience, and much less expensive than anything of comparable size in the nearby vicinity! We...