Your wedding budget lands in one honest range, not a moving target.

Ask five wedding venues in Tampa Bay what an all-inclusive wedding costs and you'll get five vague answers. At Saxon Manor the answer is a number: $15,000 to $21,000 for the Manor Barn or the Garden Room, each fitting up to 150 guests. The BoHo venue, built for smaller weddings up to 55 guests, runs $9,500 to $12,500. Those ranges are the whole price — ceremony, reception, food, drinks, and the staff who run the day. You don't get a base rate and then a stack of add-ons that push the real total somewhere else. The number we quote in your first conversation is the number on your contract in the last one.

Where you land in that range depends on the wedding itself, not on hidden fees. Guest count matters — a 150-guest reception in the Manor Barn costs more to feed and staff than one for 90. Day of the week and season matter too, along with the menu and bar package you choose. None of that changes what's included; it changes how much of it you're buying. A couple planning a weekday wedding for 80 guests in the Garden Room lands near the bottom of the $15,000-$21,000 range. A Saturday wedding for 150 with a full bar and premium menu lands near the top. Either way, the number quoted during planning is the number you pay.

This matters because a la carte wedding planning in Tampa Bay works differently. You book a venue, then a caterer, then a bar service, then a coordinator, then a florist, then a DJ, and the total only becomes clear after every contract is signed. Each vendor adds its own markup and its own gaps in coverage. All-inclusive pricing folds all of that into one contract before you've spent a dollar. It's not a cheaper way to get married — it's a way to know the real cost before you've committed to any of it. If $21,000 is outside your range, BoHo's $9,500-$12,500 covers the same structure at a smaller scale.

The range you should focus on depends on your guest list, not on tradition. A wedding of 60 people or fewer usually fits the BoHo venue and its $9,500-$12,500 range, which still delivers a full all-inclusive package. Weddings between 90 and 150 guests fit the Manor Barn or Garden Room, each priced from $15,000 to $21,000 for the same size range. There's no version of this venue where a small wedding pays large-wedding prices, or where a 150-guest wedding gets 55-guest capacity. The number matches the room, and the room matches your guest list.

$15,000 to $21,000 or $9,500 to $12,500 isn't a venue rental fee with everything else billed separately. It's a full wedding: ceremony space, reception space, design and coordination, in-house chefs, bar and event staff, a photographer, a DJ, a tiered cake with a tasting appointment, and an officiant. That's the package at every price point in the range, whether you're at the Manor Barn, Garden Room, or BoHo. The details of each of those nine pieces — what's fixed, what flexes — are covered on our included list. What matters for your budget is that none of them are quoted separately later.

Design and coordination sit inside the price because they have to. A wedding with 150 guests needs someone managing setup, timeline, and vendors on the day, and that person is part of your event staff, not an outside hire you find later. The same goes for bar staff and floor staff — they're built into the number, scaled to your guest count. You're not pricing out a coordinator against three competing quotes two months before the wedding, hoping the number holds. That work is already inside the range you were quoted, for whichever room and guest count you booked, and it doesn't move once the contract is signed.

Food and drink are usually the largest line item in any wedding budget, and they're the reason the range moves the way it does. In-house chefs prepare the reception menu, the bar is staffed by our team, and the tiered cake comes with a tasting appointment before you commit to a flavor. None of it is subcontracted to an outside caterer billing separately from the venue. That's also why guest count affects your final number more than any other single factor — more plates and more pours cost more, inside the same all-inclusive structure. It's the most predictable part of the range, because it scales in a straight line with your guest list.

The photographer, DJ, and officiant are booked through us, not sourced independently, which is part of why the number doesn't shift once you sign. If you want florals handled in-house too, our sister company, Enchanted Design & Floral, works directly with the same team — though flowers sit outside the nine package items and are priced separately. Everything else on your wedding day, from the ceremony to the last song, comes from vendors we already work with and already trust. That's the difference between an all-inclusive price and a venue rental with a long list of phone calls still left to make.

We're currently booking weddings for 2026 and 2027. Booking early does more than secure a date — it locks in your price range before your guest list, menu, and bar selections push you toward the top or bottom of it. Couples who book further out have more room to plan the wedding around the number, instead of adjusting the number around a wedding they've already half-planned. Nothing about the $15,000-$21,000 or $9,500-$12,500 ranges changes based on how far ahead you book; it changes based on the wedding itself. What booking early buys is time to make those decisions calmly, not under a deadline.

Saxon Manor sits in Brooksville, about 45 minutes from Tampa and 90 minutes from Orlando. That distance is part of the honest math. A venue inside a major metro area carries overhead a rural property doesn't, and that overhead shows up somewhere in the quote, even when it isn't itemized. Being close enough for your Tampa and Orlando guests to make the drive, without sitting inside the real estate costs of either city, is part of how the range stays where it is. You're not paying a downtown premium for a wedding that doesn't need one, and the drive is short enough that it rarely changes a guest's decision to come.

Saxon Manor is family owned, and weddings are the only business we run. We're not renting the same room out for corporate events on weekdays and weddings on Saturdays, adjusting pricing around two different kinds of clients. Every dollar in your range goes toward systems, staff, and space built specifically for weddings — the three-room Bridal Cottage, the in-house kitchen, the bar team, the coordination staff. A venue splitting its calendar between event types has to price for both; we only have to price for one. That's part of why the range holds steady instead of climbing once you start asking what else is available.

If your wedding weekend includes more than the ceremony and reception, the BoHo room also hosts rehearsal dinners, bridal showers, and wedding-morning brunch, priced separately at $2,000 to $3,000. That's a smaller, standalone range for a smaller event, not a hidden extension of your main wedding price. Couples booking the Manor Barn or Garden Room for the wedding itself sometimes add a BoHo event the day before or morning of, and the two numbers stay separate on purpose. It's the same principle as the wedding package itself: one price range, attached to one event, with nothing folded in from somewhere else.