Top Natchez Venues

• Spaces for 50-700 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 2 Landmarks
• 3 Total Spaces

Set on 40 acres in Natchez, Mississippi, Dunleith Historic Inn is a National Historic Landmark dating to 1855. The Greek Revival mansion is recognized for its columned exterior, original pine floors, and parlors appointed with marble fireplaces and chandeliers. The estate has hosted more than 700 weddings and receptions. Three event spaces accommodate gatherings of varying scale. The Main House and Courtyard can receive up to 500 guests for indoor and open-air celebrations. The South Lawn accommodates up to 700 guests under large tents. The Castle Restaurant & Pub — the on-site restaurant serving Southern cuisine — hosts rehearsal dinners, bridal brunches, and private dining events. Twenty-two guestrooms spread across the Main House, Courtyard Lodge, and Dairy Barn allow wedding parties to remain on the property for multi-day celebrations. An in-house team of wedding coordinators, an event director, catering staff, and parking attendants provides full-service support for each event.

• Spaces for 2 Guests

The Natchez Convention Center occupies 32,000 square feet of flexible meeting and exhibit space in the heart of historic downtown Natchez, Mississippi, a short block from the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. The facility's ground floor holds over 23,000 square feet of divisible function space, a full-service kitchen, and a 5,100-square-foot pre-function area, while the second floor adds 6,670 square feet across eight meeting rooms — three of which open onto balconies overlooking Main Street. Building-wide Wi-Fi and first-class audio-visual equipment support everything from corporate conferences to banquets and wedding receptions. The adjacent Natchez Civic Center adds a 5,000-square-foot room well suited to receptions, banquets, and smaller gatherings, and the connected 119-room Natchez Grand Hotel allows overnight guests to stay steps from their event. All food and beverage services are coordinated through the convention center's roster of approved catering partners.

• Spaces for 20 Guests

Devereaux Shields House is a collection of three Victorian-era properties on North Union Street in Natchez, Mississippi, offering bed-and-breakfast accommodations and private event hosting in a historic residential setting. The Main House, a Queen Anne Victorian built between 1893 and 1904, features two spacious suites with working fireplaces, private verandas, and shared gardens with fire pits. The Bost House, dating to 1893 and renovated in 2019, centers on a double parlor common area with a gas fireplace and a rear patio. Aunt Clara's Cottage, the oldest of the three at circa 1870s, adds a large front veranda and a rear courtyard garden to the collection. The property hosts elopements and intimate celebrations in its parlors and gardens, with packages that include officiant services, floral arrangements, a wedding cake, champagne, and a commemorative engraved brick placed in the garden walk. On-site spa services and gourmet Southern breakfasts are available to guests and wedding parties. Devereaux Shields House holds Select Registry recognition.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

Linden Historic Bed & Breakfast is a circa 1790 antebellum mansion on seven acres in Natchez, Mississippi, four minutes from downtown and near the Natchez Trace. The estate has been in continuous Conner family ownership since 1849 — now its sixth generation — and the Cedars of Lebanon planted by Jane Gustine Conner in the 1800s still frame the front lawn. The property hosts weddings and receptions, rehearsal dinners, showers, corporate retreats, family reunions, and celebrations across its colonnaded galleries, back courtyard, formal dining room, and grounds. Wedding events include exclusive buyout of the entire house and grounds, with linens, tables, chairs, setup and teardown, and parking attendants included. Outside caterers are welcome for a nominal kitchen fee, and a preferred caterer list is available. On-site guest rooms in the main house and a renovated three-bedroom cottage allow wedding parties and event groups to make a full weekend of it.

• Spaces for 30-300 Guests
• 7 Hotels
• 1 Ballroom
• 6 Meeting Spaces

Natchez Grand Hotel & Suites stands atop the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River in the heart of historic downtown Natchez, Mississippi, directly across from the Natchez Convention Center. The largest boutique hotel in downtown Natchez, the property features 119 guest rooms and eighteen luxury suites, all appointed with hand-crafted mattresses, custom furnishings, and in-room amenities. For events, the hotel offers approximately 5,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space across seven configurable rooms, accommodating groups from under 30 to more than 230 guests. The Grand Ballroom seats up to 165 for banquets and 215 for receptions, and subdivides into the Carolyn Room and Rose Room for smaller gatherings. A separate conference wing — bookable as a full 2,168-square-foot suite or as individual rooms — supports corporate meetings, workshops, and breakout sessions. In-house catering, audiovisual technology, and dedicated event planning assistance are available for all functions.

• Spaces for 200 Guests

Hotel Vue sits on a bluff above the Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi, where the property has served as a setting for Southern hospitality for generations. Sunday lunches after church became a weekly routine for local families, while travelers appreciated the hotel's river views and convenient amenities. Hotel Vue offers accommodations alongside a bar and breakfast service — all delivered, in the hotel's own words, "with a side of Mississippi warmth" — with the Mississippi River as a constant backdrop.