PLEASE BRING YOUR INVITATION WITH YOU TO THE CEREMONY.  There is a fee to enter the park but if you show them your invitation you will be able to enter without paying the fee. Enter the park at the Sumner Ave entrance and proceed through the gate after showing your invitation.  Go straight until you can not go any further then turn right.Proceed past the ball fields then on your left hand side just past the fields there will be a parking lot that you may park in.  The rose garden is right next to the parking lot.  Directions to Forest Park: From Hartford and points south:
From Rt. I-91North, take exit 2 in Massachusetts (several miles from the state line). Continue up the hill and the road curves to the left. Take a right at the traffic light onto Sumner Ave. Forest Park is on the right.

From Boston/Worcester, and points east:
Take the Mass. Pike (Rt. I-90) West to Rt. 291 in Chicopee. Follow Rt. 291 to Rt. I-91South in Springfield. Take exit 4 (Sumner Av to Rt. 83). Take a left, under the highway. After the first traffic light, turn right, up Longhill Street. At the traffic light go left on Sumner Ave. Forest Park is on the right.

From the Berkshires and points west:
Take the Mass. Pike (Rt. I-90) East to Rt. 91South in Holyoke. Take exit 4 (Sumner Av to Rt. 83) Take a left, under the highway, go right, up Longhill Street, then go left on Sumner Ave. Forest Park is on the right.

From Greenfield and points north:
Take Rt. I-91South to Springfield. Take exit 4 (Sumner Av to Rt. 83). Take a left, under the highway, go right, up Longhill Street, then go left on Sumner Ave. Forest Park is on the right.