If you’re comparing wedding venues in PA, most of what you’ll find falls into two categories: a banquet hall that rents out a room for the day, or a farm venue that’s beautiful but bare-bones. Tara – A Country Inn is neither. It’s a 30-plus-room, 1854 Greek Revival mansion in Clark, Pennsylvania. When you book it for your wedding, you’re not renting a room. You’re taking over an estate with character.

That distinction matters more than it might sound. It means your ceremony, your reception, your rehearsal dinner, and the rooms where your entire wedding party sleeps that night can all take place on the same property, without anyone driving anywhere in between.

A Private Estate, Not a Banquet Hall

Tara sits on grounds overlooking the Shenango River, with formal gardens that include a set of Frederick Remington bronze sculptures, an unusual detail for a wedding venue and one that makes for genuinely distinctive ceremony photos. The mansion itself, with its white columns and wraparound porch, has been the backdrop for weddings since Jim and Donna Winner restored the property in the mid-1980s.

As a mansion wedding venue, Tara offers something a purpose-built event hall can’t: a home with history. The property carries a documented connection to the Underground Railroad, and that layered past, with Civil War-era roots wrapped in later Southern-estate styling, gives the whole day a sense of place that a rented hall doesn’t have. At our private estate wedding venue, the whole property is yours, not a slice of it.

Ceremony and Reception Spaces, By the Numbers

Tara offers several distinct spaces, and part of planning your day well is matching your guest count to the right spot on our beautiful estate. For your wedding day, choose from one of the following:

• Sun porches: Perfect for intimate ceremonies or dinners for up to 14 guests
• Shiloh Banquet & Conference Room: Perfect for receptions for up to 60 guests
• The Old South Armory: This is Tara’s largest indoor space, holding up to 150 guests, with the kind of historic character a modern hall can’t replicate
• Outdoor garden ceremonies: Ideal for weddings with up to 150 guests, held in season on the grounds, with the mansion’s columned porch as a natural backdrop

Because these spaces range so widely in size, from a 14-person sun porch dinner to a 150-person Old South Armory reception, Tara can genuinely host anything from an elopement to a full-scale wedding with ease.

The Tara House Package: What Exclusive Use Actually Means

For couples searching for an exclusive-use wedding venue, Tara’s most complete offering is the Tara House Package: a full-property buyout that puts the entire mansion, all the guest rooms included, under your wedding party’s use for the weekend.

What that buys you, practically speaking, is privacy. No other guests checking in. No other groups sharing the gardens for photos. Just your family and friends, in the rooms upstairs, for as long as the package covers. To get more information about The Tara House Package and other wedding packages, contact our wedding coordinator.

All-Inclusive Wedding Packages

Tara’s wedding packages are built to remove the vendor-juggling part of planning:

• On-site lodging for the wedding party and guests, so nobody’s driving home late or booking a separate hotel block
• On-site dining, pulling from Stonewall’s Tavern and Ashley’s Fine Dining Room for rehearsal dinners, receptions, and next-morning brunch
• A dedicated event planner working alongside the general manager, so you have one point of contact instead of five
• Customizable packages for 2 to 150 guests, meaning the same property can host an elopement or a full wedding without feeling like the wrong scale for either

If you’re also curious about something smaller and quieter, a sun porch ceremony for a handful of guests, or an elopement without the full production, talk with Tara’s event planner about what a scaled-down package looks like.

Planning Your Visit

The best way to understand whether Tara fits your wedding is to see it. From the Remington sculptures in the garden to the Old South Armory’s ceiling height, wedding photos only carry a venue so far. Contact Tara’s wedding team to schedule a tour and get current pricing for your guest count and date.