Historic Venue, All-Inclusive Price
Get a historic wedding venue near Tampa where the price you're quoted covers the entire wedding.
Saxon Manor is a historic, all-inclusive venue in Brooksville, 45 minutes from Tampa. One price covers the ceremony, reception, food, photography, and more.
4.9 · 1,400+ Google reviews Three venues, one estate Booking 2026 & 2027
What All-Inclusive Actually Means
An all-inclusive historic venue near Tampa means one price covers the whole wedding.
Saxon Manor is a historic wedding venue in Brooksville, Florida, 45 minutes from Tampa and about 90 minutes from Orlando. 'All-inclusive' here means the price on your contract is the price of the wedding — not a starting point, not a room-rental fee with a stack of add-ons waiting behind it. Ceremony, reception, coordination, food, drink, music, photography, and cake are built into one number before you sign anything. Couples researching all-inclusive historic venues near Tampa are usually trying to avoid exactly what a lot of venues do: quote a low number for the space, then let the real cost show up later in vendor fees. That's not how this property works, and it's worth saying plainly before you read another word of this page.
The 'historic' part isn't marketing language. Saxon Manor sits on grounds with real age and character, and the estate carries that into every room — exposed wood, natural light, mature landscaping that doesn't need much dressing up to photograph well. The three-room Bridal Cottage gives the wedding party a private place to get ready that matches the rest of the estate, rather than a converted office or a rented trailer parked out back. If your idea of a Tampa-area wedding leans toward a brick hotel ballroom or a convention-center function room, this isn't that. If you want a setting with texture to it, close enough to Tampa for your guest list to reach without a hotel stay, this is built for that specific ask.
Practically, all-inclusive means you're managing one relationship instead of a dozen. Saxon Manor's in-house team handles design and coordination, food and bar service, photography, DJ, and the officiant, all built into the package range for your room. You still make the decisions — menu, florals, music, layout — but you're not chasing six separate contracts and hoping every vendor shows up on the same Saturday and actually talks to the others. For couples planning from out of town, or working around a limited number of free weekends, that difference is often the whole reason to book a venue like this instead of assembling a wedding vendor by vendor.
If you're comparing this page against other Tampa-area venues, ask each one the same question: does the number they quote include the wedding, or just the room? At Saxon Manor, the exact list of what's built into the price — the officiant, the tiered cake with a tasting, the bar and event staff, all of it — lives on our what's included page, so you can read it line by line before you ever ask for a proposal. That's deliberate. A venue confident in its pricing shows you the whole list up front instead of making you ask for it piece by piece.
Manor Barn, Garden Room, BoHo
Three rooms at Saxon Manor fit different guest counts and budgets.
Saxon Manor has three venues on the property, and the right one depends mostly on guest count. The Manor Barn holds up to 150 guests and runs $15,000 to $21,000 all-inclusive, depending on the day of the week, season, and how you build out the package. It's the option most couples picture when they think 'barn wedding' — high ceilings, a big open floor, room for a full band or a large dance floor without anyone feeling packed in. If your family list runs long, or you're combining two big friend groups, this is usually where couples land first.
The Garden Room matches the Manor Barn on both numbers — up to 150 guests, $15,000 to $21,000 all-inclusive — but the feel is different. Where the Barn is open and rustic, the Garden Room leans toward a more polished, indoor-outdoor setting with landscaping worked into the ceremony backdrop itself. Couples choosing between the two usually aren't deciding based on price; they're deciding based on which setting matches the wedding they're picturing. We'd rather walk you through both rooms in person than tell you which one is 'better' on a web page — that's a conversation for a tour, not a paragraph.
For smaller guest lists, the BoHo venue holds up to 55 guests and runs $9,500 to $12,500 all-inclusive. It's built for couples who want the same all-inclusive structure — coordination, food, bar, photography, the rest of it — without paying for capacity they don't need. BoHo also works on its own as a rehearsal dinner, bridal shower, or wedding brunch space, priced separately at $2,000 to $3,000. Couples getting married in the Barn or Garden Room sometimes book BoHo for the rehearsal dinner the night before, which keeps the entire wedding weekend on one property instead of scattering it across three venues in three parts of the county.
Every range above depends on the same variables: guest count, day of the week, season, and which pieces of the package you build up or scale back. We're currently booking 2026 and 2027 dates, and the exact number for your date comes from a real conversation, not a generic sheet pulled off a shelf. The full room-by-room comparison, including what shifts a wedding from the bottom of a range to the top, is laid out on our pricing page. What won't change is the structure: whatever number you're quoted for your date is the number that covers the wedding, start to finish.
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Couples rate Saxon Manor 4.9 out of 5 across 1,404 reviews.
- 4.9 · 1,400+ Google reviews
- Family owned · weddings only
- One contract · one deposit
- Payment plans available
Family Owned, Weddings Only
Saxon Manor is family owned, and weddings are the only business it runs.
Saxon Manor is family owned, and weddings are the only thing this business does. That matters more than it sounds like it should. A property that also hosts corporate retreats, quinceañeras, and Sunday brunch is splitting its attention and its staff across events that don't have much in common with each other. Every person on the Saxon Manor team — the chefs, the event staff, the coordinators — works weddings and nothing else. That focus is part of why the package can include as much as it does at the price it does: the business isn't guessing at what a wedding day needs, it has built one system around doing this specific thing well, repeatedly, for years.
Florals come from Enchanted Design & Floral, a sister company rather than an outside vendor pulled in for the day. That relationship means your florist already knows the rooms — where the light comes from in the Garden Room in the late afternoon, how tall an arrangement can stand in the Manor Barn without blocking sightlines, what actually survives a Florida afternoon in the BoHo space. It's one fewer vendor you have to brief from scratch, and one fewer handoff that can go wrong between the florals you asked for and the florals that actually show up on the day.
The three-room Bridal Cottage is part of the same idea. Getting ready shouldn't mean a hotel room down the road or a back office borrowed for the morning. The Cottage gives the wedding party a private, comfortable space on the same property as the ceremony, which removes the timeline risk of moving a full bridal party, hair and makeup team, and photographer between two different addresses before noon. It's a small detail on paper, but it's the kind of thing that either quietly saves your morning or costs you thirty stressful minutes, depending on whether the venue thought about it in advance or not.
None of this is about being the fanciest venue within an hour of Tampa. It's about the number you're quoted matching the wedding you actually get, from the historic setting down to the cake tasting. That's the whole differentiator, and it's why couples comparing all-inclusive venues across Tampa Bay tend to ask us for an itemized proposal before they ask anyone else — because we're built to hand one over without hedging it. That's true whether you book the Manor Barn, the Garden Room, or BoHo, and whether your guest list is 40 people or 150.
Location And Legal Basics
Getting married near Tampa comes with a few Florida-specific steps to plan around.
Before the wedding day itself, Florida has a few requirements that apply no matter which Tampa-area venue you choose. You'll need a marriage license from the county clerk, both people need to be 18 or older, and there's a waiting period that applies to some couples but not others depending on residency and whether you've taken an approved premarital course. None of it is complicated, but it's worth handling early rather than the week of the wedding. We've laid out the full process, current fees, and what the course actually waives on our legal requirements page — that's the page to bookmark, not this one.
Location is part of why couples find this page in the first place. Brooksville sits about 45 minutes from Tampa and roughly 90 minutes from Orlando, close enough that guests from either metro area can drive in for the day without booking a hotel, and far enough out that the property doesn't feel like a hotel ballroom with a highway view. Couples splitting their guest list between Tampa-based family and Orlando-based friends end up with a venue that's a reasonable drive for both groups instead of convenient for one side and a haul for the other. That's a real, practical reason a lot of couples land on Brooksville over a venue inside either city.
We're currently booking weddings for 2026 and 2027. That's not a scarcity tactic — it's just where the calendar sits right now, and it means couples planning 12 to 24 months out are in the right window to get the date and room they actually want instead of whatever's left over. If you're earlier in the process than a firm date, the most useful next step is usually a tour of all three rooms in person, since photos flatten the difference between the Barn and the Garden Room in a way that standing in each one doesn't.
This page is focused on what makes Saxon Manor an all-inclusive, historic option for a Tampa-area wedding specifically. If you're still comparing venues across Brooksville more broadly — different properties, different styles, different price points — the Brooksville venues guide is the better starting point. If you already know you want the historic, one-price, family-run version of this, the next step is the same either way: get on a tour, walk the rooms, and get a number for your actual date instead of a range you found online.
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Booking 2026 & 2027
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103 S Saxon Ave., Brooksville, FL 34601 · 45 minutes from Tampa · 90 minutes from Orlando