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  The Tanglewood House

  1601 Madison St, Clarksville, TN 37043, USA

  • Spaces for 50-150 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 1 Ballroom
  • 3 Historic Spaces

  The Tanglewood House is a historic event venue in Clarksville, Tennessee, built in 1964 as Hachland Hills. Over the decades it hosted country music stars, including Minnie Pearl, and international dignitaries, and it remains a gathering place for weddings, reunions, showers, and celebrations of every kind. Its grounds include an 1790s log cabin that once served as a residence of Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, lending the property a rare sense of history alongside its century-old oak trees. Following a 2011 renovation, the Main House now centers on a Ballroom with chandeliers and hardwood floors, seating up to 120 guests, alongside the adjoining Hearth Room, with its stone and iron fireplace and wall of windows, which can serve as a second reception space or a 90-guest ceremony room. Outdoors, the Fireplace Patio and the Lower Grounds ceremony space — set against a log cabin backdrop and lined with antique walnut church pews — give couples both indoor and outdoor options within a few steps of one another. The venue operates as an all-inclusive property with in-house floral and rental services, a dedicated Bridal Suite and Groom's Cabin for getting ready, and a collection of on-site cabins available for overnight stays, making it suited to weddings, showers, birthdays, and corporate gatherings alike.

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  Ramble Creek

  277 Co Rd 437, Athens, TN 37303, USA

  • Spaces for 8-300 Guests
  • 3 Outdoor Spaces
  • 1 Ballroom
  • 7 Total Spaces

  Ramble Creek is a private estate wedding venue in the East Tennessee Valley, at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, roughly an hour from both Knoxville and Chattanooga. Built in 2016, the property centers on an 8,000-square-foot Grand Hall built with wood harvested and milled on-site, and its grounds include a Muscadine vineyard, a pond, and a covered bridge. Four ceremony sites give couples a mix of indoor and outdoor settings: the Vine Arbor, tucked among natural muscadine vines; the Upper Lawn, set beside the vineyard with sweeping valley views; the Lower Lawn, a quiet forest setting suited to more personalized layouts; and the Grand Hall itself, which doubles as a climate-controlled backup for outdoor ceremonies. Ramble Creek operates as an all-inclusive venue, handling catering, cake and desserts, floral design, DJ and sound, hair and makeup, coordination, an ordained officiant, guest shuttles, and décor all with its own in-house teams, including a full-time Executive Chef who prepares every dish in a dedicated on-site kitchen. The Bridal Suite offers six styling stations along with a lounge and private bathroom, while the Groom's Quarters sits beneath the Grand Hall with its own lounge, games, and private restrooms. Couples and their guests can also stay on the property: The Manor, The Villa, and The Cottage together sleep up to 42 guests within steps of the celebration, each with its own hot tub, and The Manor adds a pool with a grotto and waterfall. The venue accommodates up to 300 guests overall and has hosted more than 500 weddings.

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  River Hall at the River Inn

  50 Harbor Town Square, Memphis, TN 38103, USA

  • Spaces for 80-200 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 1 Event Space
  • 2 Total Spaces

  River Hall at the River Inn is an event venue in Harbor Town, on Mud Island in Memphis, set beside the Mississippi River within view of the Hernando de Soto Bridge. The venue hosts weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, bridal luncheons, and post-wedding brunches, along with celebrations such as birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations, and corporate functions including retreats, seminars, and business dinners. The venue's interior seats up to 80 guests banquet-style or 60 with round tables, and accommodates up to 120 for a standing cocktail reception. Just outside, the Courtyard seats up to 120 for a wedding ceremony and holds up to 200 guests for a standing reception, making it suited to larger gatherings. Buffet, plated, and hors d'oeuvres menus are available for events in either space. River Hall is part of the River Inn family of properties, alongside Paulette's Restaurant, Tug's Casual Grill, and the Terrace at the River Inn, and works with the neighboring River Inn of Harbor Town to arrange group room blocks for guests attending an event.

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  Johnston Woods

  298 Brymer Creek Rd, McDonald, TN 37353, USA

  • Spaces for 150-400 Guests
  • 3 Outdoor Spaces
  • 3 Event Spaces
  • 1 Waterfront

  Johnston Woods sits on 375 wooded acres about 20 minutes north of Chattanooga, in McDonald, Tennessee. The property traces back to the 1940s, when the Johnston family donated 400 acres of woodland, before Broad Street United Methodist Church transformed it into a retreat and event center in the 1980s. The grounds combine forest, trails, and a lake, giving weddings, retreats, corporate events, and reunions a natural, faith-centered backdrop. Several venues on the property serve different event sizes. Hurt Lodge is built with wood beam construction, stained concrete floors, and a rock fireplace, and can be paired with its outdoor deck for larger gatherings. The Woodland Center, the newest facility at 4,500 square feet, opens onto a back deck facing the field and sunset, making it suited to large weddings and receptions. Lakeside, set at Hurt Lake, hosts ceremonies and photos against the water, with paddle boarding, canoeing, fishing, and swimming available nearby. Catering is handled in-house by chef Ceasar Thomas, with outside caterers also permitted, and the venue does not allow alcohol on the property. Guests can also make use of hiking and biking trails, fire pits, and lodge-style accommodations that sleep up to 100 people.

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  Nolichuckey Bluffs Weddings

  295 Kinser Park Ln, Greeneville, TN 37743, USA

  • Spaces for 50-100 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 1 Historic Space
  • 1 Waterfront

  Perched on a riverside cliff above the Nolichucky River near Greeneville, Tennessee, Nolichuckey Bluffs centers on its Glass Chapel, a floor-to-ceiling glass structure set among the woods with panoramic views of the river and the foothills leading to the Smoky Mountains. The setting is intimate by design, with the venue hosting weddings, elopements, and vow renewals for up to 50 guests. Adjacent to the chapel, a restored 1930s log cabin offers a covered porch suited to rehearsal dinners, portraits, or getting ready before the ceremony. The property's grounds extend to river overlooks, open lawns, gardens, a gazebo, and a pavilion, giving couples a range of settings for ceremonies, photos, and gatherings. Nolichuckey Bluffs is also a bed and breakfast, with seven private cabins on-site sleeping two to six guests each. Couples can book the chapel alongside one or more cabins, allowing a wedding party to stay together on the property for the full celebration. An on-site event coordinator and officiant are available to help guide couples through planning.

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  Tennessee Aquarium

  1 Broad St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA

  • Spaces for 50-1,500 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 4 Museums
  • 5 Total Spaces

  Set on the banks of the Tennessee River in downtown Chattanooga, the Tennessee Aquarium spans two connected buildings, River Journey and Ocean Journey, that trace the path of water from mountain streams to the open sea. Guests and their event guests can get up close to alligators, otters, and freshwater fish in River Journey, then cross into Ocean Journey for penguins, sharks, stingrays, and moray eels, all with views of the Tennessee River. For private events, the Aquarium offers several distinct spaces. The Lupton Room, a 3,000+ square foot space in the River Journey building surrounded by sea nettle jellyfish and freshwater fish tanks, is equipped with AV and dimmable lighting and suits daytime meetings and luncheons. River Journey's outdoor pavilion and Ocean Journey's river-view galleries provide additional reception space, while the IMAX Great Hall, with its two-story arches, and the six-story IMAX 3D Theater lend themselves to elegant wedding receptions and corporate dinners. For larger celebrations, the entire Aquarium can be rented for a full-building buyout accommodating up to 1,500 guests, with exhibit access included throughout the evening. A 501(c)3 nonprofit that opened in 1992 as the centerpiece of Chattanooga's riverfront revitalization, the Aquarium continues to support freshwater conservation work through its research arm, the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute.

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  Country Manor Acres

  250 Boat Gunnel Rd, Townsend, TN 37882, USA

  • Spaces for 55-500 Guests
  • 8 Outdoor Spaces
  • 1 Barn
  • 9 Total Spaces

  Country Manor Acres is a 53-acre private equestrian estate in Townsend, Tennessee, set against the backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains. The Jopling family has owned and operated the property for more than 30 years, running it as one of the area's prime wedding venues alongside a working horse operation. The estate offers a range of ceremony and reception sites across its grounds, from covered barns and verandas to open meadows, hillsides, and a pond, giving couples a choice of settings with mountain views. Full-service planning support comes from the family's experienced staff, who guide couples through the details of their wedding day, and bridal party dressing areas and guest lodging are available on site. A distinctive part of Country Manor Acres is its role as a sanctuary for 14 rescued horses, which live in herds on the property and are cared for daily by the family. Guests booking weddings, private horseback rides, carriage rides, or picnics on the estate experience this horse country setting alongside the surrounding Smoky Mountains scenery.

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  Cool Springs House

  1490 Volunteer Pkwy, Brentwood, TN 37027, USA

  • Spaces for 50-250 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 2 Historic Spaces
  • 2 Total Spaces

  Cool Springs House is a restored 1830s log home in Brentwood, Tennessee, now operated by the City of Brentwood at Crockett Park. The house was built by the Carothers family, one of middle Tennessee's largest log homes at the time, and expanded in the 1870s with added halls and a Victorian front porch. A 1974 restoration by Karen and John Noel uncovered the original blue-poplar log construction beneath later coverings, work that earned the property a place on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1983. Today the venue hosts more than 100 events a year, offering exclusive use of the house and surrounding grounds for weddings, elopements, showers, rehearsal dinners, corporate events, and celebrations of life. The venue books only one event per day, so clients have private access to the full property without a competing party on site. Guest counts run up to 150 across the house and grounds, with the option to add a tent on the lawn for larger outdoor gatherings. Upstairs, the Private Event Loft offers a more intimate setting for up to 50 guests, centered on a historic 22-foot table, and can serve as a standalone space for private dinners and showers or as an add-on to a ceremony held on the main level. The property includes an on-site kitchen, two changing suites, and an open vendor policy that allows clients to bring in their own caterer or licensed vendors of choice.

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  The Pavilion at Hunter Valley Farm

  9133 Hunter Valley Ln, Knoxville, TN 37922, USA

  • Spaces for 350 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 1 Farm
  • 1 Waterfront

  The Pavilion at Hunter Valley Farm sits on the banks of Bluegrass Lake in West Knoxville, a lakefront property that began in the mid-1980s as a family-run show horse farm before transforming into an event venue after 2007. That family history still shapes the experience today, with the venue's founders describing the staff as an extension of the family that welcomes each couple and client the same way. The 6,000-square-foot Pavilion offers heated and cooled event space with glass walls that open for an airy, open-air feel, along with bride and groom suites and a caterer's kitchen. Just outside, a deck with a full brick fireplace and outdoor bar leads to a patio for outdoor dining, and a white-sand beach with a strolling boardwalk connects to a hillside amphitheater overlooking the water — a scenic option for ceremonies, concerts, or meetings. The venue hosts weddings, private parties, and corporate events, and its team provides day-of coordination, in-house floral and event design, and fully customizable packages for each celebration.

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  Epic Event Centre

  392 W Main St, Gallatin, TN 37066, USA

  • Spaces for 75-700 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 2 Ballrooms
  • 3 Event Spaces

  EPIC Event Centre is a dedicated event venue in Gallatin, Tennessee, founded in 2011 by Chef Christopher, who launched his catering business in 2002 before opening the venue itself. It operates as a family-owned business, with CEO Brenda leading alongside the couple's two sons, who now manage kitchen operations and daily business. The venue's spaces include the Jackson Ballroom and Johnson Hall, both climate-controlled ballrooms with high ceilings, along with the more intimate Honey Bee and Firefly rooms and the outdoor Courtyard, which features a large pavilion, a rock water feature, and an iron gazebo. Rentals include tables, chairs, and setup and breakdown, making the spaces suited to weddings, corporate events, and social gatherings of varying sizes. On-site catering is handled by Chef Christopher's Catering, and the venue holds its own liquor license for bar service. EPIC Event Centre was named the SBA's 2018 Rural Small Business of the Year for Tennessee.

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  Hard Rock Cafe Nashville

  100 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37201, USA

  • Spaces for 30-400 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 5 Restaurants
  • 6 Total Spaces

  Hard Rock Cafe Nashville sits at the lower end of Broadway, the busiest strip in Music City, marked by its landmark neon guitar sign and set against the downtown skyline near the Cumberland River. The cafe has served the neighborhood since 1994 and spans more than 12,920 square feet across two floors, including a 378-seat restaurant, an open-air terrace, a Rock Shop, and a live concert venue built for the city's live-music tradition. The venue's spaces suit a wide range of gatherings, from happy hours and casual groups to corporate events and social parties, with rooms sized for small private dinners up to full-building buyouts. Audio-visual needs can be customized in coordination with the venue's events team.

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  Windriver

  1800 Oakum Ct, Lenoir City, TN 37772, USA

  • Spaces for 50-300 Guests
  • 3 Outdoor Spaces
  • 2 Restaurants
  • 5 Total Spaces

  WindRiver is an 800-acre gated community on Tellico Lake in East Tennessee, built around a championship golf course designed by Bob Cupp and a 222-slip marina on the lake's 16,000 acres. The setting includes 30 miles of trails and Brightwater Park, a six-acre lakefront peninsula with panoramic water views. For gatherings, the community's spaces include Citico's Restaurant inside the Lakeside Inn, which pairs lakeside views with seasonal, locally-sourced menus and a private lounge with a fireplace and shoreline fire pit access. Nearby, the Lakeside Lawn offers a manicured setting for cocktail receptions and buffets, while the WindRiver Club recreation complex — with its pool, tennis, and pickleball courts — is anchored by an outdoor event lawn. Citico's catering team builds custom menus, from plated dinners to buffets and hors d'oeuvres, tailored to the tone of each event.

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  Cedar Springs Farm

  784 Phillips Rd, Lebanon, TN 37087, USA

  • Spaces for 75-400 Guests
  • 3 Outdoor Spaces
  • 1 Barn
  • 4 Total Spaces

  Cedar Springs at Bone Hollow is a multigenerational family farm spanning roughly 150 acres in Lebanon, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. Once managed by a retired physician, Dr. Phillips, the property is now run by younger generations of the family, who have worked to preserve its historic character while updating it for modern celebrations. The farm's centerpiece is Phillips Barn, a climate-controlled, 6,500-square-foot event space with 30-foot vaulted ceilings and string lighting, originally built in the early 2000s for a family wedding. Around it, a collection of 19th-century log cabins — including a main cabin dating to the 1820s and a smaller cabin relocated from nearby Carver Lane — now serve as climate-controlled bridal and groom's quarters, complete with kitchens, fireplaces, and bathrooms, and can also be booked as overnight lodging. Beyond the barn and cabins, Cedar Springs offers several outdoor gathering spots, including circular lawns and a fire pit pavilion, set against open farmland. The venue hosts weddings, corporate events and retreats, family reunions, and other private celebrations, with a dedicated events team, on-site catering kitchens, and ample parking supporting events of varying sizes.

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  L.A. Jackson

  401 11th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203, USA

  • Spaces for 100-150 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor

  Our indoor/outdoor rooftop has been voted the best in Nashville for five years in a row (really six times if you count the writer's pick, but who's counting? ), making it the ideal venue for an evening of celebration or even just an end-of-the-day cocktail. The fact that LA Jackson is situated in the middle of the Gulch ensures that you and your friends will have a fantastic time there regardless of the event. Espresso martinis are a customer favorite, but if you're looking for something different, try one of our seasonal specialty cocktails instead. And, of course, you always have the option to request your preferred traditional beverage from the bartender. You won't be able to forget the champagne glitter chicken (a great photo opportunity), which is one of our party snacks, along with our world-famous garlic parmesan fries, hushpuppie butter board, and other delicious options. Attention: this restaurant serves the most delicious double-patty smashburger you'll ever taste. Every afternoon, we'll be the ones to set the tone, then on Friday and Saturday nights, some of Nashville's most talented DJs will take your experience to the next level. Follow us on Instagram at @lajacksonbar to stay up to date on the latest in the world of entertainment. Our guests are welcome to come in on a first-come, first-served basis, and there will be tables and lounge areas available for them. The minimum age to enter is 21, and everyone who comes in must be at least that old. We cannot wait to see you!

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  Bluff Mountain Inn Barn Weddings

  1887 Bluff Mountain Rd, Sevierville, TN 37876, USA

  • Spaces for 50-150 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 1 Barn
  • 3 Total Spaces

  Bluff Mountain Inn is a five-acre private estate in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Bluff Mountain Weddings collection, which has hosted weddings in the area for nearly 20 years. The property is built around a full-weekend destination wedding experience, giving couples exclusive access to the entire estate rather than a single room or day. The centerpiece is the Barn, a 2,400-square-foot covered space with open-air windows on three sides and sides that roll down for weather protection, making it suited to both indoor and outdoor-style receptions for up to 150 guests. It's outfitted with a serving station, chairs, tables, linens, audio equipment, outdoor heaters, ceiling fans, a vintage chandelier, and a stage area for a DJ or band. For ceremonies, the Country Chapel offers a more traditional setting: built in 2007 and modeled after the vintage chapels of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains, it seats around 75 people in pews imported from a church in West Virginia. Smaller gatherings of 50 or fewer can use the climate-controlled Garden Reception Room, which opens through large doors onto a deck that can double as a dance floor. Beyond the event spaces, the estate includes a private bridal suite for hair and makeup, a groom's lounge with a bar, game room, and pool table, and on-site lodging with six bedrooms and six bathrooms so the wedding party can stay through the weekend.

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  Sewanee Inn

  1235 University Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375, USA

  • Spaces for 24-550 Guests
  • 2 Outdoor Spaces
  • 8 Hotels
  • 8 Total Spaces

  Framed by Gothic architecture and the rolling greens of the Domain, The Sewanee Inn sits at the heart of the University of the South's campus atop the Cumberland Plateau, with scenic overlooks and sweeping views across the Tennessee Valley. Long known as "the living room of the University," the Inn has served as a gathering place where academic tradition, community, and celebration come together. The property offers more than 8,000 square feet of flexible event space, anchored by McCardell Hall, a 3,472-square-foot room that can be configured for a seated dinner of 220 or a cocktail reception of up to 550 guests, alongside smaller parlors, meeting rooms, and an outdoor event lawn for ceremonies and receptions under the sky. An on-site culinary team crafts menus built around seasonal ingredients and Southern flavors for weddings, rehearsal dinners, and receptions alike. With 43 guest rooms and suites on site, wedding parties and traveling guests can stay steps from the celebration, with room blocks available and spacious suites for the bridal party to prepare. Guests also have access to the property's 9-hole golf course and more than 50 miles of hiking trails across the surrounding mountain.

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  Above the mist Mountain View

  Gatlinburg, TN 37738, USA

  • Spaces for 20-250 Guests
  • 4 Outdoor Spaces
  • 1 Barn
  • 4 Total Spaces

  Above the Mist Wedding Services performs personalized Christian wedding ceremonies across the Great Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Officiated by Reverend Ownby and team, each ceremony is tailored to the couple, whether scripture-based or shaped more like a conversation than a sermon, with room for couples to write their own vows. The company offers six ceremony settings, including an elevated Mountain View site overlooking the Smokies, a riverside spot along a cascading mountain river, an intimate gazebo beside a waterfall in Gatlinburg's Arts & Crafts Community, a vineyard and barn setting with reception dinner service, and an indoor-outdoor Event Center that can hold up to 250 guests. Packages bundle photography, florals, music, and cake, and can be paired with custom reception coordination, cabin bookings, and travel planning for destination weddings.

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  Whisperwood Farm

  166 Middle Creek Rd, Cosby, TN 37722, USA

  • Spaces for 100 Guests
  • 1 Outdoor
  • 1 Farm
  • 1 Event Space

  Creekwalk Inn at Whisperwood Farm is a bed and breakfast and event venue set on a farm property in Cosby, Tennessee, with creekside and meadow views overlooking the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Main Log Lodge offers seven guest rooms built from rustic log construction with knotty pine details, alongside cabin suites and off-site adventure cabins for guests who want to extend their stay. For weddings, the adjacent Whisperwood Lodge provides open-air porch seating for 100 or more guests, while a barn with a fireplace and restrooms serves as a rustic backdrop for receptions, and the farm's lawn accommodates outdoor Tennessee ceremonies of any size. Couples can select a caterer from the venue's approved list or let the on-site wedding planner arrange the full event, and lodging is available on the farm for wedding guests, along with honeymoon cabins for the couple. The property also serves guests with farm-to-table breakfast, dinner service, and prepared hiking lunches, and sits near trails, streams, and mountain scenery suited to outdoor recreation before or after a celebration.

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  Pickwick Landing State Park

  116 State Park Rd, Counce, TN 38326, USA

  • Spaces for 12-600 Guests
  • 5 Outdoor Spaces
  • 1 Restaurant
  • 14 Total Spaces

  Set inside Pickwick Landing State Park on the shores of Pickwick Lake and the Tennessee River, the Lodge at Pickwick Landing pairs a full-service conference center with 119 guest rooms overlooking the water, making it a natural gathering point for weddings, reunions, conferences, and other group events in the Memphis, North Mississippi, and Huntsville area. The Lodge offers 6,000 square feet of flexible event space, including a 200-guest conference center, a private dining room, a boardroom, and 1,300 square feet of naturally lit pre-function space, plus an outdoor terrace connected to the conference area. Guests staying on-site can also make use of the full-service restaurant and lounge, indoor and outdoor pools, and a swim beach, while the surrounding 1,400-acre park adds golfing, boating, paddling, fishing, and hiking to the mix. Beyond the Lodge, the park's five picnic shelters offer outdoor gathering options along the lake, from a hilltop shelter overlooking Pickwick Dam to a stone-and-timber shelter built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

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  Nashville Zoo

  3777 Nolensville Pike, Nashville, TN 37211, USA

  • Spaces for 50-350 Guests
  • 8 Outdoor Spaces
  • 1 Event Space
  • 9 Total Spaces

  Nashville Zoo at Grassmere sits on the historic Grassmere property in South Nashville, a former farm dating to 1810 that the Zoo has managed since 1996. The grounds combine wildlife habitats with the restored Grassmere Historic Home and Historic Farm, giving events a backdrop that mixes exotic animals with genuine Nashville history. The Zoo hosts private events after closing hours as well as daytime gatherings, with venues ranging from the covered, tented Jungle Terrace Pavilion to intimate animal-adjacent spots like Botswana Overlook, Expedition Peru, and Flamingo Lagoon. Couples can also hold micro-weddings and rehearsal dinners on the lawn at the Grassmere Historic Home, with its 1810 farmhouse as a backdrop. Taste of the Wild Catering serves as the Zoo's exclusive on-site caterer, offering customizable menus for weddings, corporate picnics, and receptions, and add-ons like animal meet-and-greets and carousel rides give hosts ways to build the wildlife setting directly into their event.

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