Places in Tampa Florida to Have a Small Wedding Reception
Tampa, Florida, provides intimate wedding reception venues for couples who only want to invite their closest family members and friends. This western Florida city offers small outdoor venues and sites overlooking Tampa Bay. Due to the city's consistent warm temperatures, Tampa's couples have year-round opportunities for outdoor wedding receptions. Most wedding venues in Tampa provide on-site catering.
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Pebble Creek Golf Club
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The Pebble Creek Golf Club (pebblecreekclub.com) is in northern Tampa, right off Cross Creek Boulevard. The Golf Club's Clubhouse has two venues for small wedding receptions, the banquet room's outdoor verandah and the clubhouse's private meeting room. Both venues accommodate approximately 50 guests. The verandah provides views of the Golf Club's fairway. Pebble Creek provides on-site catering or outside catering, and event planning is outsourced to recommended vendors. This Golf Club also provides wedding coordination services.
Rusty Pelican
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The Rusty Pelican (therustypelican.com) is on the eastern shore of Tampa Bay, located next to the Campbell Causeway. This wedding venue offers views of the Bay from its small reception venues, such as the Tampa Room and the Bay Room. The Tampa Room is the smallest venue at Rusty Pelican with a seating capacity of 80 without a dance floor; with the dance floor, the venue seats 52 guests. The Bay Room seats 60 guests and features a stained-glass window and fireplace. The Rusty Pelican provides catering services, wedding cakes and music entertainment.
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Davis Islands Garden Club
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The Davis Islands Garden Club (digclub.org), or DIGC, is on Tampa's Davis Islands, which is in the northeastern corner of Tampa Bay. This outdoor wedding venue hosts receptions of up to 150 guests but are willing to service smaller parties. DIGC does not provide on-site catering but does have a list of preferred vendors for wedding receptions. Wedding parties must choose from this list of preferred vendors. If wedding parties bring alcohol, they must pay liability insurance for the party.
Tampa Club
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The Tampa Club (thetampaclub.com) is in Tampa's downtown area and on the 41st floor of the Bank of America building. Small wedding parties may view the downtown Tampa skyline from some of the club's smaller venues, including the Marti Room, DeSoto room and Library. The seating capacity for all three rooms is 20 guests. Up to 30 guests may fit in the DeSoto and Marti Rooms, while the Library accommodates 50 standing guests. The Tampa Club's restaurant provides catering. Other services include flowers, photography and cake cutting.
David A. Straz, Jr. Performing Arts Center
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The David A. Straz, Jr. Performing Arts Center (strazcenter.org) stands on the banks of the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa. This performing arts center provides the Ferguson Hall Lobby space for small wedding receptions. The Ferguson Hall Lobby accommodates 200 guests, but the Arts Center caters for parties as small as 50 to 100 guests. Classrooms in the center's Patel Conservatory also host sit-down receptions for up to 20 guests. The Straz Center only allows its restaurant, Maestro, to provide catering for wedding events. The restaurant offers sit-down catering service.
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