AvantGarden 411 Westheimer Road • Houston • TX 77006

AvantGarden in Houston offers all-inclusive packages starting at $100 per person, and that price bundles your venue rental, catering and alcohol from the in-house full bar. If you'd rather price things separately, venue rental starts at $5,000 per event and meals start at $25 per person. Either way, a 20% service charge is added on top. Food truck catering is available too, if you'd like something like a taco truck for dinner.

Yes, you can hold both at AvantGarden, a historic Montrose mansion behind wrought-iron gates. Outdoor ceremonies seat up to 150 guests, and indoor ceremonies up to 50. The back patio feels like a New Orleans courtyard, with a glass-and-iron pavilion, vines, statuary and a spiral staircase. The reception can stay outside for up to 150 seated guests, with globe lights and chandeliers overhead and an illuminated built-in bar, or move inside the mansion, which seats up to 60.

Catering and alcohol at AvantGarden are both in-house, so your food and full bar come from the venue rather than an outside caterer. That still leaves room to have fun with the menu: food truck catering is available, and the venue works with everything from a taco-and-margarita party to a formal dinner. Meals start at $25 per person when they're priced separately.

At AvantGarden in Houston, all-inclusive packages start at $100 per person and cover your venue rental, catering and alcohol. If you book the space on its own, rental starts at $5,000 per event, with meals from $25 per person, and a 20% service charge applies either way. Your price moves with the day, time of day and time of year, the space you use, your guest count, how long your event runs, and the package you choose. Sunday weddings and off-season dates in July, August, September and January get 15% off.

AvantGarden is a turn-of-the-century villa in Montrose that went from underground club to live music, poetry and performance venue, and its all-inclusive packages from $100 per person cover rental, catering and alcohol. Your ceremony and reception both happen on site, with a back patio that feels like a New Orleans courtyard, complete with a glass-and-iron pavilion and a disco ball in the garden. The venue is available until 2am, and it's built for weddings with personality, from a taco-and-margarita party to a circus theme or a formal evening. Sunday and off-season dates get 15% off.

Yes, you can tour AvantGarden by booking a time online with general manager Mariana Lemesoff through the venue's scheduler. While you're there, walk the mansion, the garden and the back patio pavilion, and ask what the rain plan looks like for a patio ceremony, how many hours your package includes, and whether your date qualifies for the 15% Sunday or off-season discount.