Atlanta Botanical Garden 1345 Piedmont Avenue, N.E. • Atlanta • Georgia 30309

Booking a space at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Midtown Atlanta gets you the space for your contracted time, Garden-provided tables and chairs, sound and AV equipment, wireless internet, and Garden admission for your guests. The Garden also staffs your event with a sales coordinator, an event logistics coordinator, a day-of event lead and check-in staff. You'll pay separately for catering from the Garden's approved caterers, bar service, an 18% production fee on the rental, parking at the SAGE Parking Facility, and a licensed planner, which is required once you have more than 25 guests.

Yes, you can do both at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, or book just one, since spaces are rented à la carte. A classic setup is a Rose Garden ceremony for up to 200 guests, cocktails in Mershon Hall and a reception in Day Hall, which seats 180. That's exactly how the Dream Wedding Package is laid out, so everyone stays inside the Garden all night.

Your caterer has to come from the Atlanta Botanical Garden's exclusive list: Affairs to Remember, Bold Catering & Design, District Events & Catering, LowCountry Catering, Mother's Finest Catering, Party Execs or Proof of the Pudding. Your cake baker is the one outside food exception, and all alcohol comes through the Garden's own bar. You're free to hire your own photographer, tents come from TLC Rents or EventWorks, and weddings with more than 25 guests need a licensed planner.

At the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Midtown Atlanta, your biggest price lever is which spaces you book: rentals run $650–7,000, with the Rose Garden at $4,500, Mershon Hall at $5,000 and Day Hall & Lanier Terrace at $7,000, plus an 18% production fee. The Dream Wedding Package is $13,500 with a $1,000 refundable security deposit and covers your ceremony, cocktail and reception spaces, staff, security and Garden admission. Catering from an approved caterer is separate, and hourly bar packages run $34–97 per person plus a 20% gratuity and $30 an hour per bartender. Extra time is $400 an hour.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden's Dream Wedding Package gives you a 5½-hour event: in its sample timeline, the ceremony starts at 5:30pm, cocktails run 6–7pm and the reception goes 7–11pm, with 3 hours of vendor load-in beforehand and 1½ hours to load out. The bar stops serving alcohol between 10:30pm and 11pm. Extra time costs $400 an hour, and during Garden Lights, Holiday Nights, weddings have to wrap up before 3pm.

Every wedding at the Atlanta Botanical Garden has a rain plan location written into your contract. Indoor options depend on availability and your guest count, and your sales coordinator walks you through them during your site visit. In the Dream Wedding Package, Mershon Hall, a classical building off the Parterre, serves as your cocktail hour space and your rain plan, and the smaller Wedding Ceremony Package includes an alternative rain location too.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden puts your wedding inside a botanical garden in Midtown, with your guests' Garden admission included during your event. You can choose garden settings like the Rose Garden, the Japanese Garden, the Trustees Garden and the Glade Garden in Storza Woods, anchored by Chihuly's Radiant Yellow Icicle Tower, then move indoors to Mershon Hall or Day Hall. Every booking comes with a rain plan in your contract, and couples planning something small get a dedicated ceremony package for up to 30 people.

Yes, the Atlanta Botanical Garden's Wedding Ceremony Package is built for 30 people or fewer, couple included, for $3,300 plus the 18% production fee. You get 1 hour in the Robinson Gazebo, Alston Overlook, Trustees Garden, Water Mirror or Glade Garden, an hour of setup with ceremony chairs, a prosecco toast, a rain location and 10 parking validations. A $500 refundable security deposit is required, and the package doesn't include a rehearsal or holding room.