Top Schertz Venues

• Spaces for 700-800 Guests
• 1 Ballroom

Set inside the McCombs Center at the University of the Incarnate Word, the Rosenberg Sky Room offers a sweeping view of the downtown San Antonio skyline as the backdrop for weddings, quinceañeras, galas, and corporate events. Its single, spacious ballroom accommodates up to 700 guests and can be arranged for gatherings ranging from intimate to grand. The space includes a private bridal room, a 28-by-28-foot dance floor, a two-piece stage for ceremonies or entertainment, and 72-inch round tables with banquet seating. A built-in sound system, display easels, and sign-in and gift tables are also included, along with free covered parking for guests. For catering, the Rosenberg Sky Room offers two in-house caterers, Flavours by Sodexo and Rosemary's Catering, or hosts may select a licensed caterer from the venue's approved list. Specialty pricing is available for UIW alumni, active and retired military, and non-profit organizations.

• Spaces for 225-250 Guests
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 1 Barn
• 2 Total Spaces

Gruene Estate sits on 17 acres in the historic town of Gruene, Texas, between San Antonio and Austin, on land the Gruene family first settled in 1846. Ernst and Antoinette Gruene built a home and barn on the property, and their sons went on to found the Thornhill Steam Mills that grew into the town of Gruene itself. Now owned by Dr. Daniel and Anna Lisa Tamez, the estate has been restored to its original 10-acre core and continues its family history of hosting the community. At the heart of the property is the original open-air chapel, an intimate space with a stained-glass window backdrop, bench seating, and a sound system with lapel microphone. Nearby, the Modern Farmhouse Covered Pavilion pairs handmade farm tables and chairs with chandeliers and string lighting, a bar and cocktail area, a concert stage with outlets for a DJ or band, and a fire pit overlooking the grounds. Together the spaces seat up to 225 guests, suiting everything from an intimate chapel ceremony to a large reception. Rental packages include a venue concierge and staff, a day-of coordinator, complimentary decor options, and use of the property's 17 acres, and the estate also offers onsite overnight accommodations in its Main House and Cottage for the wedding party.

• Spaces for 140 Guests

Chama Gaúcha Brazilian Steakhouse in San Antonio's Stone Oak neighborhood has served as the brand's original location since 2008. The churrascaria brings traditional Brazilian rodízio-style dining to the table, with gauchos carving USDA Prime cuts — including picanha, filet mignon, beef ribs, and lamb — tableside. A gourmet salad bar rounds out the experience with more than 30 fresh options, including imported cheeses and traditional Brazilian sides. Beyond regular dining, the restaurant hosts private events in dedicated private dining rooms with flexible configurations suited to both intimate gatherings and larger celebrations, including corporate dinners, birthday celebrations, rehearsal dinners, and wedding receptions. The events team, with more than a decade of experience at this location, customizes churrasco menus and coordinates personalized tableside service for each event.

• Spaces for 40-400 Guests
• 3 Ballrooms
• 2 Event Spaces
• 7 Total Spaces

The Club at Sonterra is a private club in San Antonio's Stone Oak area, anchored by an 18-hole championship golf course alongside tennis and pickleball courts, a swim team and pool, and a wellness center with group fitness classes and massage therapy. Named Encore Leisure Group's 2025 Club of the Year, it's a genuinely family-friendly place, right down to its dedicated Kids Club. As Stone Oak's exclusive wedding venue, The Club at Sonterra welcomes both members and non-members for celebrations of every kind, from traditional weddings and vow renewals to non-western ceremonies and LGBTQ+ unions. Its event rooms - the Grand Ballroom, Terrace Room, Horizon Room, Director's Room, and Governor's Room - are dressed with chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling windows, several opening onto patios with golf course views, and range from intimate meeting spaces to the Grand Ballroom's soaring 4,998 square feet, which seats up to 350 guests for a banquet. All-inclusive wedding packages include a full open bar, butlered hors d'oeuvres, and a seated gourmet meal, while the club's corporate and social event teams comfortably handle everything from 10-person meetings to 350-guest banquets. The Club at Sonterra has been honored with WeddingWire's Couples' Choice Award and The Knot's certification for its service.

• Spaces for 150 Guests
• 1 Event Space

12 Oaks Hill Country Venue is a family-owned wedding and event venue in Bulverde, Texas, in the Texas Hill Country. The property offers both indoor and outdoor spaces for ceremonies, receptions, private gatherings, and corporate events, comfortably accommodating up to 150 guests. Ceremonies can take place beneath the Heritage Oak, a ceremony site set against a wooded backdrop, or at one of the property's other outdoor locations. Wedding parties get ready in the venue's renovated bridal suite before receptions move into the spacious Reception Hall. 12 Oaks Hill Country Venue does not provide in-house catering but offers couples a curated list of preferred vendors, along with the flexibility to bring their own caterer. Guests may also bring their own alcohol, provided a licensed bartender approved by the venue oversees service.

• Spaces for 60 Guests

Are you interested in having a genuine gastronomic experience anywhere in the San Antonio area? At J-Prime, we provide a contemporary steakhouse setting that is brimming with distinctive taste and flare. In our contemporary steakhouse, which has unrivaled culinary service, we provide a delectable full-service meal at a terrific price. This evening has set the benchmark for excellence. In addition, we have a full craft bar that features a selection of different alternatives for mixed drinks. This ensures that we have everything you want for an unrivaled night out. We provide not one, but five distinct party spaces, each of which can accommodate gatherings of varying sizes. There is a premium area available for your event, regardless of whether it will be a cocktail mixer with passed hors d'oeuvres, a sit-down meal, or a happy hour event at the bar. If planning events isn't your strong suit, don't worry; we have personal event planners on-site who will make sure that your party goes off without a hitch if you hire them. We provide pre-fixe menu selections that are priced to accommodate any budget, but you are also welcome to construct your own customized meal! Make sure to make a reservation at J-Prime Steakhouse as soon as possible because our private rooms are known to fill up quickly.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

Tucked into 32 acres of Texas Hill Country near New Braunfels, The Gardens of Cranesbury View brings a genuinely rare sight to the region: three acres of formal European gardens, complete with eight-foot hedges and a driveway lined by more than 100 rose bushes. Owner Amy Templeton, a Cal Poly-trained horticulturist who studied the Gardens of Versailles, spent 15 years shaping the grounds into what she calls "a little piece of Europe set here in New Braunfels" — a deliberate departure from the typical Hill Country look, and all the more striking for it. Ceremonies take place at an elegant 15-foot wrought-iron gazebo set among the gardens, with no extra charge for using the site. When weather turns, celebrations move indoors to the ballroom — designed in the spirit of an old English chapel, with a white marble floor and warm, elegant accents across 3,200 square feet — or to the fully covered courtyard, where crystal chandeliers hang above a garden view complete with a mobile bar and space for games. A bridal suite with multiple makeup stations and a garden-view balcony, along with a separate groom's suite, round out the preparations. The venue includes chiavari and padded chairs, tables, and a day-of facilitator with every package, and the grounds are gated, well-lit, and fully handicap accessible. With her recommended list of florists, caterers, and coordinators built from 29 years in the wedding industry, Amy and her team bring a personal, deeply experienced hand to every celebration held on these remarkable grounds.

• Spaces for 500 Guests

Housed in the former Lone Star Brewery on the San Antonio River, the San Antonio Museum of Art occupies a complex built between 1895 and 1904, its twin towers and crenellated parapets still marking the site on Jones Avenue. The brewery closed during Prohibition and later served as a cotton mill, ice factory, and auto repair shop before falling into disrepair; museum director Jack McGregor rediscovered the building in 1971, and philanthropist Nancy Brown Negley helped lead the effort to convert it. Following a $7.2 million renovation by Cambridge Seven Associates, the museum opened to the public in 1981. Today the museum spans more than twelve acres and holds nearly 30,000 works of art representing six continents and more than 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum evaluates a limited number of private event rentals each year, offering planners a singular downtown location, historic buildings and grounds, proximity to the San Antonio River, and access to its art collection for weddings, corporate functions, and other gatherings.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

Magnolia Gardens on Main occupies a building established in the 1960s, previously home to the well-known Night Hawk Restaurant, in San Antonio's historic Monte Vista district. The venue is easily reached from Highway 281 and Interstates I-10 and I-35, and its long-standing reputation for attentive service and hospitality carries over from its earlier life as a neighborhood restaurant. Inside, the main dining room offers an airy, comfortable setting with a wall of large glass windows overlooking mature oak trees, a hardwood dance floor, crystal chandeliers, and an antique grand piano, along with a full-sized, fully-equipped bar. A shaded outdoor patio adjoins the dining room, giving guests an easy indoor-outdoor flow, and an outdoor gazebo and courtyard provide a dedicated setting for wedding ceremonies. The combination of historic character and flexible indoor and outdoor space makes Magnolia Gardens on Main suited to weddings, quinceañeras, corporate events, and other private celebrations, with catering and event planning handled in-house.

• Spaces for 400 Guests

The Bonham Exchange occupies a downtown San Antonio building constructed in 1891 for a German athletic association as Turner Hall, built of pressed Chicago brick, Kerrville limestone, and granite. After serving as a USO office and post office storage facility, the building was converted into a nightclub in 1981 and expanded into a 25,000-square-foot, three-level venue with a large patio. A 2012 renovation restored more than 10,000 square feet of hardwood dance floor throughout the space. Over three decades, the venue has hosted performers including Tina Turner, Prince, and RuPaul, alongside touring Broadway productions. It runs 10+ bars and a surround-sound, lightshow, and video-screen system across its dance floors, and hosts weekly karaoke and drag shows along with private events such as weddings, birthdays, and office parties. Its Rainbow Room offers a private event space with a stage, sound and lighting, a dressing/green room, and its own bar.

• Spaces for 12-300 Guests
• 7 Hotels
• 2 Ballrooms
• 7 Total Spaces

Established in 1859 by William and Mary Menger on Alamo Plaza, the Menger Hotel is the oldest continuously operating hotel west of the Mississippi and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. The hotel began as a two-story, fifty-room property built to house guests of Menger's adjoining brewery, and grew through a series of additions, including the 1881 acquisition by Major J.H. Kampmann, who added new wings and the hotel's famed cherry-wood bar, modeled after the taproom of London's House of Lords Club. That bar, now known as the Menger Bar, is where Theodore Roosevelt recruited his Rough Riders, and it remains a centerpiece of the hotel's Victorian-era lobby, filled with museum-quality artifacts and Renaissance-revival detailing from a 1909 renovation. Just off the lobby, the Spanish courtyard garden offers palm trees, blooming azaleas, and a three-tiered fountain, alongside a heated pool described as the largest in San Antonio. For weddings and private events, the hotel's Grand Ballroom and Minuet Room anchor a set of eleven event spaces, from the crystal-chandeliered Grand Ballroom with its adjacent poolside terrace to the Minuet Room's Victorian fireplace, dance floor, and French doors opening onto the courtyard. Catering and bar service are handled in-house. Positioned directly on Alamo Plaza, steps from the River Walk, the Menger Hotel blends more than 160 years of San Antonio history with its downtown setting.

• Spaces for 2,300 Guests

• Spaces for 250-2,500 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 1 Outdoor
• 2 Total Spaces

The LDR is a Texas-themed reception and banquet venue at the Henry B. González Convention Center, set on the banks of San Antonio's River Walk. Debuted in 2010, the space is filled with fine Western art and rich furnishings that draw on the maverick history and rustic elegance of the Texas landscape, including antler chandeliers, custom-made furnishings, and natural textures of stone, wood, and leather. Flexible seating areas give the room the feel of a grand Texas ranch house living room. The LDR flows directly out onto a river patio, transforming into an al fresco setting for private groups and events, and accommodates 150 to 500 guests. For larger receptions, the venue connects to The Grotto, a River Walk space beneath Bridge Hall with trees, foliage, and a waterfall, which can host up to 2,500 guests directly along the river. Catering is handled exclusively by The RK Group, the convention center's in-house culinary team.

• Spaces for 40-300 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 1 Outdoor
• 6 Total Spaces

Rio Plaza is a private event venue on San Antonio's River Walk, occupying three floors of a stone-clad building at the corner of Commerce and Navarro streets. Since 2002, the venue has hosted more than 200 weddings and special events each year across six private rooms, each with its own character — from Grande Vista's domed ceiling and panoramic river views to Cielo Vista's vintage handcrafted bar and private terrace, the Spanish-influenced interiors of Calle Vista and Salon Azul, the mission-inspired Las Leyendas & Balcony, and the Penthouse's floor-to-ceiling windows and hand-painted accent walls. A private elevator carries guests between floors, and the venue anchors the Rita's family of businesses along the River Walk, alongside Rita's on the River restaurant, Bonita Rita's souvenir shop, and Justin's Ice Cream Company. Room rentals include a day-of coordinator, house décor, tables and chairs, and a custom layout designed around each event.

• Spaces for 40-300 Guests
• 5 Hotels
• 3 Ballrooms
• 5 Total Spaces

Omni La Mansión del Rio sits along the San Antonio River Walk in the heart of downtown, blending Spanish colonial architecture with European style reminiscent of a grand hacienda. The hotel has held AAA Four Diamond status for 49 consecutive years, one of only 11 properties in North America to maintain the distinction since the rating program began in 1976. The hotel offers 338 guest rooms and suites alongside more than 18,000 square feet of event space across five venues, from grand ballrooms to an intimate garden courtyard. Couples can say their vows in the courtyard's Spanish colonial surroundings before moving into a ballroom for the reception, with catering built around farm-to-table cuisine inspired by Texas. Guests also have access to a courtyard-style heated pool, the Forbes Four-Star Mokara Spa at the neighboring property, and dining at Four Brothers restaurant and El Colegio, plus guided history tours of the property.

• Spaces for 120-500 Guests
• 5 Hotels
• 4 Ballrooms
• 7 Total Spaces

Hilton Palacio del Rio sits directly on San Antonio's River Walk, a block from the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and a five-minute walk from Rivercenter Mall and the Alamo. Every guest room in the hotel has its own private balcony overlooking the river or the city skyline, and Rio San Antonio river cruises and shuttles board just across the water. For events, the hotel's Stetson Ballroom features floor-to-ceiling windows with views over the River Walk, while a range of additional ballrooms and meeting venues offer A/V technology for gatherings of varying sizes. Couples can hold a ceremony on the hotel's terrace garden or at the historic Pavilion by Hilton, built in 1891 and located a few minutes' walk from the hotel with its own second-story balcony, before celebrating in the choice of ballrooms. Wedding packages include room blocks and special guest rates, room decor, and a dedicated wedding catering specialist to assist with menu planning.

• Spaces for 600 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Rooftop
• 1 Waterfront

Established January 12, 1995, Hard Rock Cafe San Antonio sits along the city's River Walk, three floors of patios and balconies overlooking the San Antonio River. Guests dine surrounded by an extensive collection of music memorabilia, including Ozzy Osbourne's black velvet jacket, Eddie Van Halen's Charvel guitar, a piece of the original stage Selena Quintanilla performed on, and a brick wall spray-painted by Aerosmith during the cafe's 1995 groundbreaking ceremony. The cafe offers private events ranging from partial room rental to full buyouts, with room for up to 600 guests across its three levels. It's suited to corporate events, social parties, group gatherings, happy hours, and live music, with a seasoned events team assisting from initial idea through event day. The property also includes The Balcony, a rooftop nightclub and cigar lounge with nightly live DJ, and La Flor Escondida, a Selena-themed speakeasy experience open select days.

• Spaces for 40-1,200 Guests
• 4 Restaurants
• 1 Landmark
• 4 Total Spaces

Chart House sits atop the Tower of the Americas, San Antonio's 750-foot landmark overlooking downtown and the River Walk. The restaurant's dining room and event spaces offer panoramic views of the city, a setting the venue positions as its signature backdrop for weddings, corporate gatherings, and milestone celebrations. For large parties, the entire Observation Level can be reserved for up to 1,200 guests, while three private dining rooms — the Bowie Room, Crockett Room, and Board Room — accommodate smaller weddings, cocktail receptions, corporate functions, and rehearsal dinners. Chart House pairs the setting with specially-tailored menus of fresh seafood and steaks, and a team experienced in wedding rehearsals and receptions, company functions, and milestone parties such as birthdays and anniversaries.

• Spaces for 300-500 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Park

Plaza Juarez is a tree-shaded outdoor plaza in La Villita, San Antonio's first neighborhood and a historic arts village on the south bank of the San Antonio River. The village traces its origins to informal 18th-century settlements near Mission San Antonio de Valero and was restored beginning in 1939 under an ordinance dedicated to promoting Pan-American unity, giving the surrounding streets their present-day character of preserved adobe and limestone buildings, artisan shops, and courtyards. A medium-size venue, Plaza Juarez accommodates up to 500 guests for a reception or 300 for a seated dinner. The plaza has its own concession area and a built-in stage, making it suited to corporate events, private parties, and receptions with dinner and dancing. Reservations for the space are handled through La Villita's event reservations office.

• Spaces for 250 Guests

Centre Club occupies the 30th-floor penthouse of the Weston Centre in downtown San Antonio, just steps from the River Walk, with panoramic views across the city. The club traces its roots to 1973, when it was founded as the Plaza Club, one of San Antonio's premier gathering places for the city's business and civic leaders; it has since relocated and been reimagined as Centre Club, blending that history with contemporary design and amenities. Centre Club hosts weddings and private events ranging from intimate gatherings of six guests to receptions of more than 150, with ceremonies, receptions, and after-parties all able to take advantage of the sweeping city views from the 30th floor. The club also offers fine dining and personalized service, reflecting what it describes as traditional Texas hospitality. Members and event hosts can arrange private events and book meeting rooms directly through the club's event and catering team.