Wedding Venues in Sarasota & Bradenton
Anna Maria Island's three-story-max barrier-island towns plus Sarasota's banyan-tree gardens and Longboat Key's bayfront restaurants. We've cataloged 11 venues in Sarasota–Bradenton, with beach, garden, historic all well-represented. Pricing varies — request quotes for the venues that fit your aesthetic. Use the multi-quote form below to send your wedding details to up to five venues at once and get faster responses than reaching out one by one. Every venue here is verified, includes a photo gallery, and lists capacity ranges so you can immediately see which ones fit your guest count. New Sarasota–Bradenton venues are added monthly — bookmark this page for the latest.
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Anna Maria Island Inn
A small beachfront inn offering two outdoor wedding spaces directly on Anna Maria Island: the Seaside Beachfront on the sugar sand and the Pelican Post pool and green space. The inn provides personalized event coordination and on-site guest accommodations across multiple cottage-style properties.
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Bali Hai Beach Resort
A two-acre independently operated beachfront resort in Holmes Beach with 300 feet of private Gulf-front sand, offering wedding ceremonies in a palm-lined courtyard beside the pool or directly on the beach. Bookings often involve a partial resort buyout, so couples have access to on-site lodging and grounds for a private destination feel.
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Beach House Waterfront Restaurant
A Gulf-front independent restaurant on Bradenton Beach whose Sunset Deck wedding space sits directly on the sand with one of the largest gulf-front decks on Florida's west coast. The venue offers ceremony and reception flexibility across beach, deck, and indoor areas with in-house culinary and planning support.
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Evergrove Estate
A privately owned 6-acre estate in the Sarasota/Lakewood Ranch area built around a restored historic barn surrounded by oak canopies and an open ceremony field. The property is unusual for the region in offering on-property overnight lodging through three separate guest houses (Meadow, Ranch, and Grove), so wedding parties can sleep on site.
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Mar Vista Dockside Restaurant & Pub
An Old Florida dockside restaurant on the bayside of north Longboat Key, set under century-old buttonwood trees with a private dock on Sarasota Bay. Event spaces include the Marina Lawn for ceremonies with a sea-grape backdrop and the covered Bayview Deck for receptions, with the kitchen handling in-house catering of locally sourced seafood.
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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
A 15-acre waterfront botanical garden on Sarasota Bay built around the rare-plant collections of Marie Selby, with seven indoor and outdoor event sites. Couples can host ceremonies inside the Schimmel Wedding Pavilion, beneath banyan trees, or in the Great Room overlooking the bayfront, with on-site catering provided exclusively by Michael's on East. The gardens are notable as the only botanical institution in the world devoted to epiphytic orchids, bromeliads, gesneriads and ferns.
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PIER 22
A locally owned waterfront restaurant and event venue housed in a 1920s Spanish-eclectic building on the historic Bradenton Pier overlooking the Manatee River. The property offers several distinct spaces — the Dockside Lounge, Waterside Terrace, Grand Ballroom, and additional private rooms — with in-house executive chefs handling custom menus.
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Sandbar Restaurant
An independent waterfront restaurant on the north end of Anna Maria Island offering beach ceremonies under an arbor on the sand and receptions in The Grand Pavilion, a covered open-air space with a dance floor. On-site coordinators handle dinner service and event details against a Gulf sunset backdrop.
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Sarasota Garden Club
A volunteer-run civic garden club on Boulevard of the Arts in Sarasota's downtown cultural district that rents its hall and surrounding gardens for private events. The mission centers on preserving the gardens and historic landmarks while supporting environmental conservation, and the property hosts intimate ceremonies in both the indoor hall and outdoor garden spaces.
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The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature
An independent natural-science museum founded in 1947 on Bradenton's Riverwalk that opens its galleries, courtyards, and planetarium for private events. Couples can hold ceremonies in the Spanish-inspired South Courtyard, the Riverside Plaza, or beneath the planetarium dome with star projections. The museum provides a curated bridal suite called Tierney Lane.
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The Sunset by Gulf Drive Cafe
A waterfront tiki-hut wedding venue at the south end of Anna Maria Island attached to Gulf Drive Cafe, with the larger Sunset Tiki, the smaller Seaside Tiki, and Seastar Sands private beach featuring seven miniature tiki huts. The venue offers ceremony, reception, decor, and catering packages with toes-in-the-sand dancing and Gulf sunset views.
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