9 Best Wedding Venues in Hot Springs, Arkansas (2026 Guide)

Hot Springs has the best-documented wedding pricing in Arkansas, and it is because of one property.

Garvan Woodland Gardens, a 210-acre botanical garden on Lake Hamilton owned by the University of Arkansas, publishes a complete rate card covering its chapel, its reception halls, and its outdoor ceremony sites, at every day of the week and several durations. Anthony Chapel, inside the gardens, is the most-searched wedding venue in the state.

Around it sits a market that is genuinely cheap: the Hot Springs metro median published venue package is $2,450, below the Arkansas state median of $2,500 and less than a third of what New Orleans charges.

We cataloged 20 wedding venues across the Hot Springs area. Below are the 9 we would point a couple to first.

For the statewide picture, see how much an Arkansas wedding costs, and for timing, the best months to get married in Arkansas.

Quick context on Hot Springs venue pricing

Statewide, published Arkansas wedding venue packages have a median starting price of $2,500, with half the market between $1,898 and $3,500. Hot Springs runs a median of $2,450, with quartiles at $1,500 and $3,550.

That rests on four venues, so treat the median as directional. The published rates below are the real guide, and there are more of them here than in most metros three times the size.

Garvan Woodland Gardens and Anthony Chapel

1. Anthony Chapel

A 200-guest indoor chapel inside Garvan Woodland Gardens, with a vaulted glass ceiling, a Steinway piano, and included bridal and groom spaces. Capacity 15 to 200, ceremony only. Fully published:

• Three-hour rental: $5,000 Friday and Saturday, $4,000 Sunday to Thursday
• Two-hour rental $1,750 Sunday to Thursday, for 16 to 50 guests
• One-hour rental $2,750 Sunday to Thursday, up to 15 guests
• Refundable $750 security deposit

Anthony Chapel is the venue most Arkansas couples picture when they picture an Arkansas wedding. The glass ceiling under the pine canopy is the shot, and the Steinway means you can have real music without hiring a piano.

The $1,750 two-hour weekday rate for up to 50 guests is the value play and it is not widely known.

2. Garvan Woodland Gardens

The wider 210-acre property, which rents reception venues and outdoor ceremony sites separately from the chapel. This is the most complete public rate card in Arkansas:

Receptions:

• Garvan Pavilion & Terrace $3,000 for 8 hours
• Magnolia Room $1,800 for 8 hours
• Millsap Bride's Hall $1,500 for 8 hours, Sunday to Thursday

Outdoor ceremonies:

• Elopement options from $500
• One-hour garden ceremony $1,000
• Evans Celebration Garden, one hour $1,500
• Perry Point, four hours $2,000

Capacity 8 to 200 across the property.

You can build a complete Garvan wedding from that list. A Sunday chapel ceremony at $4,000 plus the Magnolia Room for eight hours at $1,800 is $5,800 for the ceremony and reception at the best-known venue in the state. Or a $500 garden elopement, at the same address, for a hundredth of a New Orleans wedding.

Eight-hour reception rentals are also generous. Most Arkansas venues sell four or five.

Downtown and historic

3. Hamp Williams Building

A historic Hot Springs venue with a stone-walled courtyard, a covered pavilion, a rustic warehouse, and a smaller 504 Room, rentable individually or together. Fully published:

• Courtyard & Pavilion: $1,800 Friday to Sunday, $1,500 Monday to Thursday
• Great Warehouse: $3,200 Friday to Sunday, $2,500 Monday to Thursday
• 504 Room: $2,200 Friday to Sunday, $1,800 Monday to Thursday
• 50% deposits required, cleaning fees additional, space only

That last term is the one to note: "only the space is rented," meaning tables, chairs, catering, and everything else is yours to arrange. Price accordingly, and compare the all-in against Garvan's rates before deciding it is cheaper.

The stone courtyard with covered pavilion is the most attractive combination in downtown Hot Springs, and at $1,500 on a weekday it is very well priced.

4. The Club House Hot Springs

A converted warehouse venue centrally located where downtown meets uptown, currently booking 2026 and 2027 weddings. Industrial, neutral, and a blank canvas.

5. Hot Springs Country Club

A full-service country club with a clubhouse, ballrooms, and an outdoor veranda, capacity to 300, with on-site culinary and event staff. Pricing on request. The formal option, and the largest full-service room in the market.

Small and intimate

6. Hilltop Manor Bed and Breakfast

A historic five-acre estate offering intimate weddings for up to 50 in the manor house or outdoors. Wedding pricing on request; suites run $199 to $499 per night with add-on packages from $59 to $455.

For a 40-person wedding with the party staying on site, this is the most complete small-wedding property in Hot Springs.

7. Suttle Ridge at DeGray

A scenic venue near DeGray Lake, outside Arkadelphia, with ceremony and reception packages, in-stock decor, and preferred vendors, capacity to 75. Published:

• Packages from $175 (JLB) to $2,525 (DeGray)
• Suttle Moments $250, or $175 Monday to Thursday
• Additional hours generally $250

A $175 wedding package is the lowest published figure in Arkansas. It is a small, simple ceremony product rather than a full reception, and it is exactly what it says.

Also worth a look

8. Chittum Venue at Forest Lakes

A Hot Springs venue with a Grand Room and sunroom, a bridal prep room, a full caterer's kitchen, and outdoor patio amenities, capacity to 200, positioned as all-inclusive. Package pricing is not listed; a 50% deposit is due at signing with a $500 refundable security deposit due with the final payment.

The full caterer's kitchen means an open vendor policy in practice, which is the main cost lever in this market.

9. Brookhill Ranch

A camp and retreat facility in Hot Springs Village renting event spaces and lodging for weddings and reunions, with rustic and modern housing and on-site activities. The right answer for a multi-day wedding with a lot of guests staying together.

How to shop Hot Springs

Start with the Garvan rate card, even if you do not book there. It is the most complete published pricing in Arkansas, and it tells you what a chapel hour, a reception hour, and an outdoor ceremony are worth in this market. Take those numbers to every other venue.

Look at the weekday chapel rates seriously. Anthony Chapel at $1,750 for two hours Sunday to Thursday, against $5,000 on a Saturday, is a $3,250 saving at the most sought-after venue in the state. If your guest list is under 50 and your date is movable, that is the single biggest lever available to an Arkansas couple.

Ask what is included, because Hamp Williams tells you and others do not. "Only the space is rented" is honest and it is also the industry norm at that price point. A $1,500 room plus tables, chairs, linens, catering, and staff is not a $1,500 wedding.

Check whether you are in the National Park. Hot Springs National Park is woven through the city itself, and the audit that placed Anthony Chapel correctly reminded us that addresses here read as "Hot Springs" and "Hot Springs National Park" interchangeably. It affects nothing about your wedding, but it will confuse your guests' GPS, so put the exact address on the invitation.

Book peak foliage early. Mid-to-late October in the Ouachitas is the best weather and the best colour of the year, and Garvan in particular fills.

Our venue checklist and the questions to ask on a venue tour cover the rest, and what a wedding venue costs puts these numbers in national context.

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