It’s no secret that weddings cost a pretty penny. A wedding budget can quickly get out of control with venues, caterers, flowers, dresses, and suits. It’s no wonder 40% of couples start saving for a wedding from the moment they get engaged.
For many people, that’s a solid year to year and a half of saving money, sometimes even more. But that makes sense when the average wedding cost has increased over the last couple of years.
In 2021, couples in the Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale metropolitan area in Arizona, on average, spent $32,548 on their wedding.
The venue is one of the biggest cost factors for a wedding. These can often cost the bulk of a wedding budget. So when some couples are looking for ways to save, the venue should be the first place to consider.
Choosing an affordable wedding venue doesn’t mean giving up on views or amenities. You can find all-inclusive venues that have stunning views or allow you to customize your wedding without taking up your entire wedding budget.
These are affordable wedding venues in Phoenix, Arizona, that couples will love.
SoHo63
A gorgeous combination of modern and elegant, SoHo63 in Chandler, Arizona, is perfect for couples who want a hands-on experience when planning the details of their wedding.
Conveniently located in the downtown area, you’ll also be close to bars and restaurants for your other wedding events.
SoHo63 has multiple locations within the venue to host your wedding ceremony and reception.
The Tribeca Terrace features an open-air courtyard for an outdoor wedding. Strung overhead are bistro lights for a romantic atmosphere and a fireplace for a cozy feel.
Inside, you can host your wedding in The Plaza, a blank space where you can transform it into your dream wedding.
With over 15 years of experience, the staff at SoHo63 will help you create your wedding vision.
There are all-inclusive packages available, including in-house catering, event planning, and cleanup services to make your day run smoothly.
Venue cost: $4,000-$7,500
Venue capacity: 200 guests
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The Mission Wedding Chapel
You’ll find The Mission Wedding Chapel in Cave Creek, Arizona, a short drive outside Phoenix. This stunning is the ideal location for elopements and micro weddings. You will be close to restaurants at The Mission Wedding Chapel to continue celebrating your nuptials.
The Mission Wedding Chapel features a rustic atmosphere. This small wedding venue offers indoor and outdoor settings for your wedding ceremony in the quaint chapel or under the gazebo.
All-inclusive packages make planning a breeze; all you need to bring are wedding rings and a marriage license. The packages include an hour-long use of the view, a unity ceremony, and an optional photographer.
Venue cost: $450-$1,550
Venue capacity: 43 guests
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Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
This is the state’s only AAA Four Diamond resort, a luxury resort in the heart of Pheonix, Arizona. On over 160 acres, Arizona Grand Resort & Spa has a beautiful desert landscape to be the backdrop for your wedding day.
Couples will have sixteen indoor and outdoor venues at Arizona Grand Resort & Spa, fit for intimate ceremonies and extravagant affairs. Choose from the garden villas, ballrooms, and courtyards for your ceremony and reception.
Arizona Grand Resort & Spa will provide a wedding coordinator to help ensure your day runs smoothly from the first planning moments. On-site catering and spa services are also available for you to enjoy.
There are also wedding packages that include rentals, a champagne toast, and a custom wedding cake.
Venue cost: $2,600-$4,000
Venue capacity: 2,000 guests
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Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens
Celebrate your love in your own secret garden when getting married at Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this venue showcases the award-winning work of botanical designer Ray Brooks, so your wedding day is sure to be picture-perfect.
Couples will have their choice of numerous venues and can customize the venue spaces to match their wedding style.
Outdoors, there is a hacienda-style plaza surrounded by lush greenery. Inside, there is a 10,000-square-foot tropical garden that will have you and your guests transported.
Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens offers all-inclusive packages that include event planning, rentals, setup, and cleanup. The venue also provides a preferred list of vendors for couples.
Venue cost: $1,995-$4,995
Venue capacity: 200 guests
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The Farm at South Mountain
This elegant and rustic venue offers stunning views of South Mountain as the backdrop to all wedding events. Set on ten acres, The Farm at South Mountain features gardens and groves for romantic ceremony settings.
Couples can get married in The Canopy in the Grove, a pecan grove that offers 2,400 square feet of event space. Or host your ceremony and reception in Stone Grove, which has a large lawn with a wood-fueled oven.
The Farm at South Mountain has suites for the couple to get ready. The venue staff will help coordinate all wedding details and provide chairs, tables, and linens.
The Farm at South Mountain partners with Artisan by Santa Barbara Catering for its wedding dining services.
Venue cost: $3,500-$7,000
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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Gainey Ranch Golf Club
Located just outside of Phoenix in Scottsdale, Arizona, Gainey Ranch Golf Club is touted as the city’s best-kept secret. Gainey Ranch Golf Club offers elegance and luxury with stunning views in the backdrop.
Outside, you can host your wedding on a grassy hill surrounded by towering trees. There are also two patios for wedding ceremonies or wedding events.
Inside the Gainey Ranch, Golf Club is an elegant ballroom with floor-to-ceiling windows to take in the manicured grounds and sparkling lakes.
Gainey Ranch Golf Club offers full catering and bar services that can be customized to your tastes. The all-inclusive package includes table, chair, linen, and glassware rentals, as well as setup and cleanup.
Venue cost: $750-$2,250
Venue capacity: 200 guests
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Villa Tuscana
Celebrate your love in luxury at Villa Tuscana in Mesa, Arizona. You’ll be surrounded by classic Tuscan architecture for an elegant and traditional wedding backdrop.
Couples will have their choice of both indoor and outdoor options for their ceremony and reception. Inside are two ballrooms for an elegant wedding event, which couples can customize to their wedding style.
Outside, how your wedding is in the Tuscan-style courtyard that features rustic scenery and lush greenery.
The Villa Tuscana staff will help ensure that every detail is perfect for your big day. The event planning team will assist from the start. Couples will also have all-inclusive options to make planning the wedding a breeze.
Venue cost: $3,500-$9,500
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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Hotel Valley Ho
Colorful and contemporary, Hotel Valley Ho in Downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, is a great venue for a laid-back and eclectic couple.
The venue has a beautiful mid-century modern exterior, which provides a sunny contrast to the lush greenery surrounding the building.
Outside, couples can have their ceremony and reception in the Palm Courtyard and the Sky Line Rooftop. Inside, your wedding event can take place in the Soho Ballroom, which has an adjacent courtyard.
Hotel Valley Ho has all-inclusive packages that make planning easy. Couples and their select guests will enjoy a day-after brunch.
The hotel also reserves a room for the couple to stay in on their wedding night. Hotel Valley Ho also has wedding menus for your reception dinner.
Venue cost: $2,000-$3,000
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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The Legacy Ballroom
This elegant venue in Paradise Valley, Arizona, provides the perfect location for a stylish and classic wedding. The Legacy Ballroom features stunning mountain views that will leave guests speechless.
Couples can choose one of two courtyards for an outdoor wedding site. One has a classic brick patio with mountain views as the backdrop. Or choose the bright green lawn surrounded by tall trees.
Inside, you can host your wedding in the ballroom in a sophisticated style. Or have a combination of wedding sites.
The Legacy Ballroom provides a day-of coordinator and wedding planning services to ensure your day runs smoothly. There are also tables and chairs provided in the wedding rental packages.
Venue cost: $2,500-$6,900
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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Palm Valley by Wedgewood
This stylish banquet hall in Goodyear, Arizona, is surrounded by the Sonoran Desert. At Palm Valley by Wedgewood, your wedding day will be surrounded by towering palm trees and majestic cacti for the perfect desert wedding day.
Palm Valley by Wedgewood has a banquet space bathed in natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows. Outside, you can host your wedding ceremony or reception on the Event Lawn.
Couples will enjoy the event planning services to ensure all the details are in place. Palm Valley by Wedgewood has four packages: event set-up, clean-up vendor coordination, and in-house catering and bar services.
Venue cost: $595-$3,490
Venue capacity: 250 guests.
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The Scottsdale Plaza Resort
Stunning views of palm trees, purple peaked mountains, and cotton candy skies will be the picturesque backdrop of an evening wedding at The Scottsdale Plaza Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. This venue is perfect if you’re planning an extravagant affair or an intimate wedding.
Couples will be able to choose from indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces. There are elegant ballrooms and dreamy courtyards to host your wedding ceremony and reception. You will have over 50,000 square feet of space for your wedding day.
The Scottsdale Plaza Resort will provide event planners to create an entire wedding weekend for you and your guests to enjoy. There is also a suite for couples to get ready before the ceremony.
Venue cost: Starting at $2,995
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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Warehouse 215 @ Bentley Projects
Industrial chic, Warehouse 215 in Phoenix, Arizona, is a unique wedding venue with a romantic atmosphere. This 22,000-square-foot venue will take your guests’ breaths away with drapery and art deco lighting.
Couples can choose between indoor and outdoor event spaces for their wedding events. Outside is a patio and a covered courtyard for a wedding ceremony, cocktail hour, or reception. Inside, two large event spaces feature tall ceilings and exposed brick.
Warehouse 215 has sites for the couple to get ready before the ceremony. For planning, Warehouse 215 has a list of preferred vendors so couples can customize the wedding to their tastes.
Venue cost: Starting at $5,100
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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The Cottage Wedding Venue
A charming event space in Gilbert, Arizona, The Cottage Wedding Venue offers a beautiful rustic elegance for couples’ nuptials. The venue can accommodate lavish weddings as well as intimate events.
Outside, you can have your wedding or cocktail hour on the patio. The inside provides a cozy atmosphere for your ceremony or reception.
You can use your own decor to transform the space into your wedding venue.
There is a suite for couples to get ready before the ceremony. The Cottage Wedding Venue provides smart event services and coordinators to guide you through all the planning details.
There are also all-inclusive packages to fit all needs and budget requirements. The Cottage Wedding Venue has in-house catering that can customize your wedding dinner menu to your tastes.
Venue cost: $3,600-$12,000
Venue capacity: 150 guests
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Stonebridge Manor by Wedgewood Weddings
A historic manor filled with elegance, Stonebridge Manor by Wedgewood Weddings offers a captivating location for your wedding day. Your guests will surely be charmed by this venue’s small details.
Stonebridge Manor by Wedgewood Weddings offers a versatile space decorated in timeless elegance. There is a double-sided fireplace and decorative wainscoting that creates an old-world charm.
Your wedding can occur in the marquee with a fountain and contemporary chandeliers overhead.
Outside, you can host your wedding in the Manor Courtyard, surrounded by lush greenery and dazzling string lights. The Garden Pavillion is also available, where a sparkling pool can set your ceremony.
Event planning services are included with all four wedding packages that suit every price point and couple’s needs.
You’ll enjoy in-house catering, bar services, and event timeline creation so your day runs smoothly. The staff will even handle event set-up and clean-up, and vendor coordination, so your wedding will be stress-free from start to finish.
Venue cost: $595-$6,495
Venue capacity: 350 guests
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monOrchid
A modern wedding venue in Phoenix, Arizona, monOrchid is dedicated to hosting unique weddings for diverse couples. The versatile space is located in an upscale warehouse and can be transformed to fit any wedding vision.
monOrchid is a blank canvas wedding venue, so couples should feel free to be as creative as they want to create their dream wedding.
You can rent a single room or the entire building for your wedding ceremony. Outside, there is also a garden that will be perfect for hosting a cocktail hour.
There is a suite for couples to get ready on-site. monOrchid also offers in-house catering that can customize a menu for your wedding dinner.
The venue is pet-friendly, so feel free to bring fur babies to celebrate your nuptials. monOrchid will also provide cleanup and a list of outside vendors to plan your wedding.
Venue cost: $1,188-$2,003
Venue capacity: 300 guests
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