Trying to cut your wedding expenses and in doing so realize that your wedding venue is a big part of the wedding budget? It can be difficult to find a really nice wedding site that doesn’t cost a good bit of money. One option however that many couples choose is to have their wedding at a city or state park in or around Nashville. While parks weddings aren’t for everyone, one of the big advantages is that you can save some major cash in having a park wedding.
There are a couple of issues you have to figure in to your plan to have a park wedding. One is the weather. Where will you wed if it rains? Some of the parks will have a backup location. Others may not, or at least may not have a back-up site that you are all that impressed by. In that case, you will have to know of some other place close by you could move to. The other matter has to do with the reception. Again, some parks will have a nice reception location, but others will not and you’ll have to make other arrangements.
Here are some Nashville wedding locations in Nashville parks.
Centennial Park is Nashville’s urban park, and therefore is found just beyond the immediate downtown Nashville area out to the west. While the park is not large, there is a small lake and most importantly a refurbished replicas of the Greek Parthenon. Weddings are held in and around the Parthenon as well as two gardens.
The Percy Warner and Edwin Warner parks in the southeast part of the county from the biggest park in Tennessee. There are some impressive hills with many trails for walking, bicycling and even horse back riding. These parks are connected with the Belle Meade area, and the park entrance at the end of Belle Meade Blvd is the spot many couples choose to wed. There is a long hill surrounded by trees on both sides but with an opening in the middle that is cleared away and has stone steps going all the way to the top. It is a beautiful spot for a ceremony.
Actually outside of Nashville a few miles is the Montgomery Bell State Park that has within it a nice stone wedding chapel. It is inexpensive to rent and the park center has options for your wedding reception.
Back to the south side of Nashville in Brentwood is the Cool Springs House at Crockett Park. This is Williamson County rather than Davidson where Nashville is located, but still is very close to Nashville and offers an excellent location for either an indoor or outdoor wedding ceremony. The house is a wood frame house. Weddings occur in the house and also outside of the house. Reception generally take place inside, but you could have the option of setting up a tent outside for that purpose.