Winter weddings get argued for on price. That is the weakest case for them.
The stronger case is that a room with a full stone hearth at one end is doing something in January that it cannot do in July. In summer the fireplace is a handsome wall. In winter it is the reason the room feels the way it does, and every photograph taken in front of it is warmer for it.
The things to plan around
Light. Sunset in Stark County is around five o'clock in December. If you want daylight portraits, the ceremony moves earlier than it would in June - two or two-thirty rather than four-thirty. That is the single biggest structural change.
Travel. Out-of-town guests in an Ohio winter is a genuine ask. Weigh it honestly. A local list makes winter easy; a list flying in from three states makes it a gamble.
Layout. Cocktail hour comes indoors, which means the room holds the drinking and the dining. It works, but it needs deciding at the layout stage rather than discovered on the day.
What gets easier
Availability, dramatically. Your first-choice photographer is probably free. So is the band. So is the date itself, which in peak season would have gone eighteen months ago.
And the $1,000 is real - our hall starts at $4,000 December through March rather than $5,000. See the rates, or put a winter date through the estimator against a summer one.
Who it suits
A mostly local guest list, a couple who care more about the room than the grounds, and anybody whose budget is fixed but whose date is not. If your heart is set on the lane at golden hour with the trees full, wait for the summer and pay for it - that is a fair trade too.