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The verified wedding guide to Austin · updated 16 July 2026

Plan an Austin wedding on real data, not ads.

25 venue profiles across 15 neighborhoods and Hill Country towns. Every figure carries the page it came from and the date a human checked it.

Before you pick a date

Some Austin weekends cost your guests double

SXSW, both ACL weekends, F1 at COTA, UT home games. Early October is the most collision-dense stretch of the year — two festival weekends, race weekend and home games can occupy four consecutive Saturdays. Every date on the calendar is sourced.

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Work out the money first

A budget split calibrated to the Austin market, including the line most out-of-state guides skip: a heat and rain contingency for outdoor dates between May and September. It runs in your browser and we never see what you type.

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How this directory works

Questions worth asking before you trust a listing

Published rate sheets, venue booking pages, and dated public documents, quoted on the profile with the source linked. If a venue does not publish a number, the field reads “not published” — we never estimate one for them. Ten of the 25 venues here publish no rental figure at all.

Three separate checks: usable shade over the ceremony site, air-conditioned indoor space, and active cooling such as misting. Each is verified independently and each can come back unknown. An unknown is shown as unknown — never rolled into one score that hides which of the three we actually checked.

The area photographs are real photographs of those places, licensed for reuse and credited. The venue covers are not photographs at all — they are drawn from each venue's own record, because we hold no licence to any venue's photography and a generated picture of a place is a claim about somewhere we have never been.

No. Ordering on every list is by the data — capacity, price band, or area — and never by payment. If paid placement is ever introduced it will be labelled as paid on the card itself, not disclosed in a footer.

Found something wrong? Every profile carries the sources it was built from and the date it was last checked. If a fact has changed, tell us which one and we will re-verify it and move the date.