San Antonio & New Braunfels, Texas

Venue

In San Antonio & New Braunfels: Two very different markets sit inside one commute here. Downtown and along the Riverwalk you are renting ballrooms, historic halls and courtyard spaces where the real constraints are load-in windows, parking and a street the truck has to fit down. Push out past Boerne, Comfort, Canyon Lake or Bandera and you are renting land instead: barns, pavilions and ranch properties that are genuinely blank-slate and a long drive from where your guests are sleeping. Expect roughly $4,000 to $20,000 either way, but out in the county that figure is the start of a longer list rather than the end of one. Ask any outdoor property what its indoor fallback actually holds, because south-central Texas summer heat and spring storms both matter and neither respects a ceremony hour. And note that a venue advertised as being in Gruene carries a New Braunfels address on the contract, because Gruene is a district inside that city rather than a town of its own.

13 listings · checked August 2026

Aggie Park — Castle Hills · aggieparkevents.com · (210) 341-1393
Blue Wing Ballroom — San Antonio · bluewingballroomsa.com · (210) 380-1717
Gruene B&B — New Braunfels · gruenebnb.com · (830) 515-8891
Hotel Emma — San Antonio · thehotelemma.com · (210) 448-8300
Inn on the Riverwalk — San Antonio · innontheriverwalk.com · (210) 225-6333
LaLa's Place Party Venue — San Antonio · lalasplacepartyvenue.wixsite.com/home · (210) 602-9494
Magnolia Gardens on Main — San Antonio · magnoliagardensonmain.com · (210) 367-3388
Prestige Reception Hall — San Antonio · prestigereceptionhall.com · (210) 663-0984
Sophie's Gasthaus — New Braunfels · sophiesgasthaus.com · (830) 627-9025
Tapatio Springs Hill Country Resort — Boerne · tapatiosprings.com · (830) 443-9681
The Lakehouse Bed and Breakfast — Canyon Lake · thelakehousebb.com · (830) 899-5099
The Marquardt Ranch — Boerne · marquardtranch.com · (830) 324-6599
The Oaks at Boerne — Boerne · theoaksatboerne.com/contact · (210) 410-7300

How to think about venue

The venue is the single largest decision on this list and usually the largest line in your budget — it sets your date, your capacity, your whole look, and often which other vendors you're even allowed to bring. Venues fall into two broad families. All-inclusive spaces bundle tables, chairs, a coordinator, and sometimes catering and bar in-house; they cost more up front but fold many line items into one. Blank-slate spaces — a barn, a field, a hall, a family home — are a beautiful empty canvas you build on; they look cheaper until you add the rentals, catering, and staffing they require. When you tour, ask what's truly included, the all-in cost with taxes and service fees, the real capacity, the rain-or-heat backup, noise curfews, parking, accessibility, and which vendors you must — or cannot — use.

Timing — Book by ~12–18 months out · maps to your Venue budget line

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