Weddings Under 5K

Columbus wedding venue cost index

Computed from 20 published fee schedules across the Columbus metro, checked on August 11, 2026. Median published starting price $114, with half the listings between $100 and $413. 17 of 20 (85%) start under $1,000.

Starting price distribution

Across 20 Columbus area venues in 7 cities, checked on August 11, 2026.

Published starting priceAmount
Lowest published starting priceFree
25th percentile$100
Median$114
75th percentile$413
Highest published starting price$1,600

How many come in under each threshold

ThresholdVenuesShare
Published starting price under $5001575%
Under $1,0001785%
Under $2,50020100%
Published fee of zero15%

1 of the 20 listings publish a site fee of zero. The marriage license is still a separate cost.

Cheapest published price by venue type

Venue typeCheapest publishedPrice
Garden & ConservatoryInniswood Metro Gardens - Rose Garden Wedding SiteWesterville, OHFree
Park & PavilionAmberleigh PavilionDublin, OH$50
Other VenueThe Banquet Room Weekend Wedding Package - Blacklick Woods Golf CourseReynoldsburg, OH$900

Indoor against outdoor

SettingVenuesMedian starting price
Indoor space published9$900
Outdoor space published15$100

Published capacity

5 of the 20 Columbus listings publish a guest capacity. The median among those is 50 guests.

Public agency against everything else

14 of 20 listings (70%) are park, courthouse, or state park sites, and 4 cite a source on a .gov, .us, or .mil domain.

Listing categoryVenuesShare
Park, courthouse, or state park listing1470%
Everything else630%

The listings behind these numbers, each with its source link and date, are on the Columbus venue page. The national cost index ranks 41 metros against each other.

Method: every figure on this page is computed from the listings in this directory, and every listing carries a link to the venue's own published price page or a government fee schedule plus the date that page was read. Venues that do not publish a price are not in the dataset, so nothing here is an estimate, a quote, or an average of quotes. Percentiles are linear interpolations over published starting prices.