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The Barn Event Center of the Smokies
7264 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Townsend, TN 37882, USA- Spaces for 200 Guests
The Barn Event Center of the Smokies is a full-service event venue in Townsend, Tennessee, minutes from Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Foothills Parkway. Built around a cantilever barn design, the venue pairs Appalachian heritage with modern event amenities, and its award-winning gardens offer a scenic backdrop for photography. Inside, the Great Room brings exposed beams, a vaulted ceiling, and ambient lighting to receptions, while a dedicated Bridal Suite gives the wedding party a comfortable space to prepare before the day's events. Both indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces are available, allowing couples to plan a traditional or themed wedding suited to the mountain setting. The venue's built-in stage and dance floor, PA system with special-effect lighting, and projector and screen support receptions, corporate meetings, reunions, and celebrations of all kinds, and the facility is fully handicap accessible. Full banquet and catering services, designer serveware, and linens round out the offering for couples and event planners looking to personalize every detail.
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.
Dancing Bear Lodge & Appalachian Bistro
7140 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Townsend, TN 37882, USA- Spaces for 20-200 Guests
- 2 Restaurants
- 1 Bar
- 5 Total Spaces
Dancing Bear Lodge & Appalachian Bistro sits on 38 acres in Townsend, Tennessee, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Cades Cove. The property pairs 28 accommodations, styled with Appalachian design details and modern comforts, with an award-winning farm-to-table restaurant led by Chef Jeff Carter, sourced in part from the property's own gardens. For weddings and private events, the lodge offers a range of settings suited to different guest counts and styles. The Event Lawn & Gazebo, with its gabled entrance, anchors outdoor ceremonies for up to 200 guests, while The Landing's open-air pavilion accommodates 125 for a ceremony or 75 for dining. Smaller gatherings can be held in The Event Center, a private room attached to the Bistro, the Main Dining Room & Bar with its seasonal wood-burning fireplace, or the more intimate Covered Patio. With on-site lodging for guests and dining from the Appalachian Bistro available for private events, the property is set up to host everything from small elopements to full wedding weekends.
Blackberry Farm
1471 W Millers Cove Rd, Walland, TN 37886, USA- Spaces for 140 Guests
As the sun rises over the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, the morning mist fades to unveil one of America’s greatest hidden treasures, Blackberry Farm. Its 4,200 acres have been a mountain haven and tranquil escape for family, friends and guests for decades, as it evolved into a luxurious resort of breathtaking scenery, decadent cuisine and pleasurable pastimes. Today, as one of America’s most celebrated intimate luxury hotels, Blackberry Farm beckons discerning guests who aspire to escape modern-day frenzy and slip into a Blackberry State of Mind.
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The Lily Barn
1116 Carrs Creek Rd, Townsend, TN 37882, USA- Spaces for 138-200 Guests
- 1 Outdoor
- 1 Farm
- 1 space at this venue
The Lily Barn is a 100-acre farm venue in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Townsend, Tennessee, just five minutes from the Cades Cove entrance to the national park and a short drive from Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. At the heart of the property sits a 130-year-old cantilever barn surrounded by a 3-acre perennial garden, an evergreen maze, a pond, and beds of day lilies and native plants. Ceremonies are held at a tin-roofed outdoor gazebo set in front of the pond, with guests seated in a shallow arc so all can see the vows exchanged. Receptions move to the open-air entertainment pavilion, a diamond-lit space that seats up to 150 guests, with the option to expand further with an event tent for larger celebrations. The historic cantilever barn doubles as a private, air-conditioned dressing suite for the bridal party before the ceremony. The venue provides full catering services on-site and offers wedding planning support to help couples design their day, along with cabin rentals on the property for guest lodging or a honeymoon stay. Beyond weddings, the pavilion also hosts corporate events, family and school reunions, church gatherings, and other private celebrations.
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.
Bluff Mountain Inn
887 Bluff Mountain Rd, Sevierville, TN 37876, USA- Spaces for 50-250 Guests
- 2 Outdoor Spaces
- 1 Barn
- 2 Event Spaces
Bluff Mountain Inn is the original property of Bluff Mountain Weddings, set on more than five private acres in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Known as "the venue where it all began," the estate is designed around full-weekend celebrations rather than single-day events, with lodging for up to 12 guests across seven bedrooms and six bathrooms in the main house. The property offers a range of ceremony and reception settings, including outdoor garden ceremony sites, a white wedding chapel that seats around 75, and a covered event barn with 2,400 square feet of open-air space that hosts up to 150 guests for seating, dining, and dancing. The barn's sides roll down for weather protection, making it usable across seasons. Wedding parties are hosted with a private bridal suite for hair and makeup, a groom's suite with a bar, TV, and pool table on the lower level, and additional recreation space including a hot tub, fire pit, and arcade games. The grounds include a 20-car parking lot and are wheelchair accessible at ground level.