Popular Wedding Venues in Malaysia

Interestingly, the most popular venue for weddings are not the most luxurious and expensive. Private venues with the perfect ambiance for a romantic event are the most sought-after and searched.

This list is chosen according to the blog post's popularity on WedResearch.net in term of number of views. Leading at number one is the English-themed canopy garden wedding venue, Duchess Place with over 50k views to date. For beach wedding, it is the special vibe at Lone Pine Penang that captures the hearts of many brides & grooms.

Here are the top 10 venues in the Klang Valley:
1. Garden Wedding with Canopy - Duchess Place Kuala Lumpur (56,519 views) | 2. Tropicana Golf and Country Resort (39,569 views) | 3. Lakesight @ Plaza Kelana Jaya (37,980 views) | 4. Tanarimba Janda Baik (26,981 views) | 5. Passion Road KL (25,698 views) | 6. The Club Bandar Utama (25,687 views)  | 7. Sime Darby Convention Centre (25,472 views) | 8. Jaya Palace Wisma LYL, KL (25,435 views) | 9. Sin Choi Wah, Bandar Menjalara Kepong (22,993 views) | 10. Bora Ombak Marina Putrajaya (21,516 views)

Most popular venues by category:
1. Bungalow - Garden Wedding with Canopy - Duchess Place, Jln Ampang (56,519 views) | 03-42521800

English-themed, fairy tale, garden wedding Duchess Place

Popular wedding venue due to its ballroom setting, ballroom capacity is up to 620 pax, is divisible into 300 pax smaller ballrooms. Tropicana Resort.

3. Lake View:  Lakesight @ Plaza Kelana Jaya (37,980 views) | FB Page | 017-304 7245

Lakesight's outdoor open space overlooking a pristine lake view, decorated with a romantic chuppah, simple yet beautiful rustic decorative is an ideal place to hold your ROM ceremony and intimate wedding reception of 150 pax. Organizing a small scale wedding is much more personal, you can design a menu that include everyone's collective favorites and can reduce the cost.

4. Wedding on the hill - Tanarimba Janda Baik (26,981 views) | 09-233 0655

Located 35 km from downtown Kuala Lumpur, Tanarimba offers a mountainside of majestic peaks, valleys, crystal clear streams, pristine rain forests and waterfalls. Enjoy the cool, fresh mountain air, with temperatures ranging between 20°C to 25°C. The Visitor Centre, which can seat 250 people, looks incredibly beautiful with the many rows of fairy lights hanging from the timber ceiling.

The ambiance of this venue when lighted up at night will blow you away. Just by looking at the photos, one could already feel the excitement and the love in the air. Very pleasant environment no question. The guests will be surrounded by nature, trees and beautiful ornaments all over. As it is an outdoor event, do plan for sufficient cooling systems to ensure a comfortable celebration that will be remembered for a long long time.

6. Club - The Club Bandar Utama (25,687) | 03-7725 5199

The advantages of holding your wedding at The Club Bukit Utama are the two-storey parking lots, pre-dinner cocktail party can be held at the pool side area, the reception hall that gets the view of the club's extensive swimming pool, is a cosy, pillarless, big, beautiful hall with hotel standard table cloth+chair covers. If you rent the hall, you can source external caterers or from their own restaurants such as Extra Super Tanker Chinese Restaurant.

7. Club: English-themed - Bankers Club (20,639 views) | 03-2142 4166

You can have your wedding banquet at the penthouse floors of the Amoda building, which has panaromic views over the KL city. Due the constraint of space, the main hall (ground floor) can only fit up to 150 people, the remaining tables will be at the mezzanine floor.  Its banqueting facilities can cater up to 300 people. An 8m high ceiling, extensive use of locally crafted nyatoh wood paneling, the elegant cantilever staircase, traditional English-style setting and the glass perimeter are some of the Club's outstanding features.

8. Hotel Weddings - Luxury 5-star Hotel | Westin KL (11,620 views) | 03-2731 8333

The hotel's Grand Ballroom's stylish interior and fascinating smart ambient lighting, complete with hand-blown crystal chandeliers, provides the perfect touch for an elegant entrance. Westin KL's fusion dishes are interesting, very appetizing, and well presented.

Four-star Vistana KL by YTL Hotels is a highly recommended wedding venue option for its value-for-money wedding package from RM800++ that comes with free decorations, personalised wedding backdrop, PA system, ice sculptures, corkage waiver and pre-dinner poolside cocktail hour arrangement. The biggest ballroom (Manjung) has two pillars which raise some concerns.

11. Chinese Restaurant - Sin Choi Wah, Bandar Menjalara Kepong (22,993 views) | 03-6277 3377

Be impressed by the restaurant's 3-storey big structure. There are ballrooms and halls of different sizes and designs for private weddings, non-walk-in-patron-sharing, decorated with the most auspicious of colors; gold and red. It has quite a reputation for its good quality food in big serving with great price. 

The BoraOmbak Marina Putrajaya is situated at the marina offering a relaxing view of the lake and its surrounding. The floor to ceiling glass windows of the decent sized ballroom gives way to natural light which can brighten up the wedding celebration held during the day. It is a lovely carpeted hall with modern decorations, classic white wall panels, tall window artwork, ambient and stage lights.

Glasshouse is a spacious urban architecture nestled amidst the hilltop surroundings of Seputeh, right in the heart of KL, floor to ceiling glass panelling and versatile floor plans ensure comfortable seating. Your wedding guests can admire the property's sun kissed lawns in the afternoon and moonlit evenings from the comfort of a fully air-conditioned space through the glass windows.

With its rolling lawn which fringes the sandy beach and sea beyond The Garden at Lone Pine Hotel is a charming venue for your wedding ceremony and reception. There's something really magical about saying 'I do' against the backdrop of the sparkling sea with the setting sun as witness and the graceful Casuarina trees as the audience.