Firefly Gardens 5410 East Highway 287 • Midlothian • TX 76065

At Firefly Gardens in Midlothian, Texas, venue rental is $3,000 Monday–Thursday, $5,000 Friday or Sunday and $6,500 Saturday. From there, you'll build your package: catering runs $33–$97 per person, beverage service $24–$52 per person, and vendor services $3,000–$14,000. Friday–Sunday dates require a vendor services minimum, and a 22% service charge, sales tax and a refundable rental deposit are added on top. Flexible on your date? A weekday cuts the rental by $3,500 compared with a Saturday, and it's worth asking about seasonal savings, too.

Firefly Gardens is an all-inclusive venue, so your rental covers planning services, your ceremony and reception spaces, a backup plan for bad weather, primary and secondary wedding suites, and a one-hour rehearsal. Tables, chairs, linens, cocktail tables and display easels are included, along with setup and teardown of your floor plan. What you'll add: a catering package, a beverage package and vendor services (think florals, photography and a DJ), plus a 22% service charge, sales tax and a refundable rental deposit.

Yes, both happen on the same eight-acre property. After getting ready in the private wedding suite, you'll walk a stepped aisle to the garden ceremony space, framed by an all-white pergola near a koi pond. The reception follows in a light-filled contemporary barn with vaulted wooden beams, crystal chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over the countryside. Firefly Gardens hosts up to 250 guests.

You'll use the in-house team for catering and bar service, and no outside alcohol is allowed on the property. For everything else, you can bring your own vendors, as long as each one provides a signed indemnification agreement and a certificate of insurance before your wedding. Prefer fewer contracts? Walters' vendor packages bundle florals, photography, DJ services, cakes and more. Just know that Friday–Sunday dates require a minimum vendor services purchase.

There's no lodging on site, but several hotels are within a 15-minute drive, near Mansfield and Waxahachie, and your Walters team will talk through accommodation options with you. Firefly Gardens is about 30 minutes south of Dallas and 35 minutes south of Fort Worth, and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is less than 40 minutes away.

Firefly Gardens is an all-inclusive countryside venue on eight landscaped acres in Midlothian, Texas, with room for up to 250 guests and the feel of a getaway just 30 minutes from Dallas. Planning services, wedding suites, your rehearsal and a weather backup plan are built in, and catering, bar and vendor packages come from one team under one contract. You'll marry under a white garden pergola by a koi pond, then celebrate in a barn-style hall with floor-to-ceiling windows and countryside views.