Inexpensive wedding venue (Wake Co area)

Re: Inexpensive wedding venue (Wake Co area)

• [Deleted User]

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  I am in the SAME boat you are in.  I'm also looking for something inxpensive, so hopefully between the 2 of us, we can find out a few reasonable places?

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• ktyd8 member

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  Are you looking for indoor or outdoor or both? What is inexpensive to you? I think knowing those will help us give you some great suggestions!

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• Astrid821

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  Duke was one the only place I looked that I thought might hold over 100 people and allow us to bring our own caterer. You should check out what they have over there. I searched for a while to come up with a list of 7 venues that sounded like they would accommodate us and our desire for an offsite caterer. 

  
  

              Duke Gardens

              Museum of Life & Science

              Preserve at Jordan Lake

              River Ridge Golf Club

              Rand-Bryan House

              Halls & Gardens at Landmark

              Barclay Villa

   

  Duke was nice, lots of options, there's also a museum at Duke that looked nice as well. The Museum of Life & Science has a beautiful butterfly house that you can get married outside of and it might be a good option as well. The Preserve and Jordan Lake was much smaller than advertised (it's a golf community club house) and I found the person in charge to contradict himself a few times which was very annoying. It wouldn't comfortably fit 100. The River Ridge requires you to buy your beer, wine and liquor from them and charges a stiff price for consumption, in my opinion. The Rand-Bryan seemed small too but I guess if you split it up it might work. The Halls at Landmark, while not an ideal location on the outside was very nice inside, however the rental was over $6k and I really didn't think it was worth it (especially in its location). We chose the Barclay Villa so I'm sure I'm bias about it but I thought there'd be enough room for people to party and it's very pretty. We did go over budget but I wasn't in love with any of the other venues and I didn't want to start looking into venues that required us to use their caterer.

   

  Hope that helps!

  

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• NcsuPsych member

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  We got married at The Rand-Bryan. They can do inside and outside weddings and are supposed to be able to accomodate around 300 people? I think you'd have to split it inside and outside.
  
  We had about 60 guests and had PLENTY of room

  

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• uneek1323 member

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_north-carolina_inexpensive-wedding-venue?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:115Discussion:e7d752e2-ac89-4a0d-889c-8f30c60015ffPost:cf53824c-6539-425d-8004-f514e8b7d8a8">Inexpensive wedding venue (Wake Co area)</a>:
  [QUOTE]I am looking for a wedding venue in the Wake Co area for September 2012 and am hoping to spend as little as possible. I have found a few places but they require me to use them for the food/alcohol which is adding up very quickly. I am going to have between <strong>125 and 150 people </strong>attending the wedding. It would be great to find a place that <strong>has tables, chairs and linens ect.</strong> that way there isn't another cost to add on.
  Posted by katie0615[/QUOTE]
  Barclay Villa can accommodate you on the bold parts above, but they are not inexpensive IMO. There were many expenses that added up quickly.

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• amill513

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  My FIs sister got married at The Rand-Bryan house in June. It was absolutely beautiful! They had about 200 guests and it wasnt crowded at all! Martha is very accomaditing and it is BEAUTIFUL and very well priced!
  
  Also- I had my proms at The Halls and Garden at Landmark and it was wonderful then and im sure it is now!! Not sure about the price but it is absolutely beautiful!
  
  Hope this helps:)
  

  

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• ukkate

  

  July 2011 edited December 2011

  Cafe Luna in downtown Raleigh does weddings also, and if you pick a Sunday, you can get a great rate.  

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• katie0615 member

  

  August 2011 edited December 2011

  Thank you to everyone for all of you help!! I have looked into a few of the places mentioned about now have some appointments set up. Fingers crossed to one of them will turn out to be the place!

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