If you’re looking to compare French Quarter wedding venues, we’ve got you covered. The French Quarter has a limited number of true wedding venues in a small, historic footprint, and several of them are also working restaurants that book out popular weekend dates well in advance. That availability pressure is the planning challenge behind a French Quarter wedding venue search: securing one of a small number of options before your date is gone.
Some venues here handle ceremony and reception together; others are ceremony-only. Here are 9 French Quarter wedding venues, from an intimate chapel to a full restaurant buyout.
- Choosing the Right French Quarter Wedding Venue
- What French Quarter Wedding Venues Cost
- Small and Intimate French Quarter Venues
- Mid-Size Historic Courtyard Venues
- Large and Flexible French Quarter Venues
- Need Event Rentals for Your French Quarter Wedding?
Choosing the Right French Quarter Wedding Venue
A French Quarter wedding venue search raises planning questions a citywide search doesn’t: whether you need one venue or two, how you’ll handle weather in a courtyard, how neighborhood foot traffic affects vendor access, and which pricing model a venue uses.
If French Quarter charm matters less than having more venues to choose from, our New Orleans party venues guide covers options across the rest of the city.
Ceremony and Reception in One Location, or Two Venues
Most French Quarter wedding venues can host both your ceremony and reception in one booking, but French Quarter Wedding Chapel is an exception: it operates strictly as a ceremony venue, not a reception space.
Decide early whether you want one venue for the whole day or a separate ceremony and reception location, since that choice changes which venues are even worth touring before you start comparing capacity and price. A one-venue booking simplifies logistics for your guests, who only need one address and one parking plan for the day. Splitting ceremony and reception across two French Quarter venues gives you more flexibility to book the specific chapel and reception style you want, at the cost of coordinating transportation between them on a day when your schedule is already tight.
Weather Contingency for Courtyard Venues
Several French Quarter venues, including Court of Two Sisters, New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Napoleon House, and Hotel De La Poste, are built around a semi-outdoor courtyard, and the same open-air design that gives them their old-world charm also brings weather exposure.
A vague answer about rain contingency is a risk on your wedding day, so ask every courtyard venue what its plan is.
French Quarter Foot Traffic and Load-In Logistics
The French Quarter’s narrow historic streets and heavy tourist and entertainment foot traffic, especially near Bourbon Street, affect vendor load-in, delivery timing, and noise in a way a suburban or purpose-built event venue never has to deal with.
A florist or catering delivery that would take ten minutes to unload at a standalone event space can take considerably longer on a crowded French Quarter block, particularly on weekend afternoons and evenings when the neighborhood is at its busiest. Ask each venue about vendor load-in windows and street access.
Food-and-Beverage Minimums vs. Flat Rental Fees
Which pricing model a venue uses changes how you compare quotes. Several French Quarter venues, including Hotel De La Poste and Antoine’s, price around a food-and-beverage minimum instead of a flat rental fee. Antoine’s Main Dining Room carries a $10,000 F&B minimum with a 20-guest minimum, while Hotel De La Poste charges no rental fee for a ceremony-with-reception booking and applies an F&B minimum in its place.
An F&B-minimum model rewards a larger guest list and more spend per person; a flat rental fee is more predictable for a smaller, simpler event. Ask which model applies before comparing two venues’ quotes side by side.
What French Quarter Wedding Venues Cost
F&B-minimum pricing scales with guest count and menu choice instead of landing on one flat number, so get a per-guest estimate at your expected headcount before comparing venues. Three French Quarter venues show how much that range can vary: Hotel De La Poste‘s weddings start at $4,422 for 50 guests under its F&B-minimum model, Muriel’s Jackson Square starts at $8,508 for the same guest count, and Antoine’s dinner and reception menus start at $65 per person on top of its $10,000 Main Dining Room minimum. A venue quoting a lower starting price for the same guest count isn’t necessarily the better deal once food, drink, and service fees are factored in at your actual headcount and menu, so ask for the full itemized estimate before comparing headline numbers between venues.
Small and Intimate French Quarter Wedding Venues
If you’re planning a smaller wedding party or need a ceremony-only booking instead of a full reception, start with these two French Quarter venues.
1. French Quarter Wedding Chapel
French Quarter Wedding Chapel, at 333 Burgundy St, is the only dedicated wedding chapel in the neighborhood, operating 24/7 with a track record of officiating more than 15,000 weddings. It seats 30 to 50 guests and is built strictly for the ceremony, not a reception.
It’s best for couples who want a fast, simple, ceremony-focused booking and plan to host their reception at a separate location. Because this is a ceremony venue only, book a separate reception location and budget for it as its own cost.
When planning that reception, you’ll want to arrange tables and chairs for your guests through a local rental provider.
2. Tujague’s
Tujague’s, at 823 Decatur St, is among the French Quarter’s oldest restaurants, with 6 dining rooms spread across a newly renovated 3-story building. The full second floor, including a private balcony overlooking Decatur Street, holds up to 135 guests for a reception, while the first-floor courtyard suits a smaller, more intimate wedding.
Across the full property, capacity ranges from 10 to 300 guests based on how many rooms are booked. It’s best for couples who want a historic French Quarter address with the flexibility to book one room or several. The smallest named private rooms here seat as few as 12 guests, so ask which specific room or floor your quote covers before booking.
Mid-Size Historic Courtyard French Quarter Wedding Venues
Choose one of these three venues if your guest list falls between an intimate ceremony and a full-property buyout, each built around a historic building’s courtyard or private dining rooms.
3. Latrobe’s on Royal
Latrobe’s on Royal, at 403 Royal St on the corner of Royal and Conti, occupies an 1821 building that once housed The Louisiana State Bank, steps from both Jackson Square and Bourbon Street. Its two large rooms seat up to 200 guests for a formal dinner or accommodate up to 300 for a reception-style event, with the gap between those numbers depending on how much of the floor is set with tables versus left open.
It’s best for couples drawn to a historic, architecturally distinctive interior, with room to host both a ceremony and reception across its two spaces. Its corner location near Bourbon Street puts vendor deliveries in the middle of the neighborhood’s peak foot traffic, so build extra load-in time into your schedule. Published pricing for Latrobe’s varies by source, so get a current quote straight from the venue.
4. New Orleans Pharmacy Museum
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum centers its events around a 2,200-square-foot courtyard inside a 19th-century building, an unusual backdrop compared to a standard event venue. Ceremony capacity runs up to 130 guests with a center aisle; reception capacity is up to 150 for a cocktail-style event or 70 for a seated dinner, and the first floor of the historic building opens to guests during your event.
It’s best for couples who want a distinctive historic setting and a moderate guest list. The seated-dinner capacity is significantly lower than the cocktail-style number, so confirm which format applies to your event before comparing this venue’s capacity to other French Quarter venues.
Photo from pharmacymuseum.org
5. Napoleon House
Napoleon House, a National Register historic building, offers a courtyard that seats 70 for a reception plus a dedicated second-floor event suite spanning 2,300 square feet for seated dinners and receptions.
Adding the first-floor patio and bar for an additional charge brings total capacity up to 300 guests, with in-house catering handled by the property’s own kitchen staff rather than an outside caterer. It’s best for couples who want the option to start with a smaller booking and add space if the guest list grows. Which spaces your base quote includes determines whether you get the full 250-to-300-guest capacity, so check that detail before booking.
Large and Flexible French Quarter Wedding Venues
Choose one of these four venues if your wedding party is large, up to and including a full-property buyout.
6. Court of Two Sisters
Court of Two Sisters holds the largest dedicated courtyard in the French Quarter, plus three indoor dining rooms and a balcony overlooking Royal Street. The courtyard alone holds up to 250 guests for a seated or cocktail-style reception, and a full-property buyout across every room and the courtyard tops out at 500 guests.
For a smaller wedding, the Grand Marquis and Royal Court rooms offer an indoor alternative to the courtyard, seating up to 100 and 90 guests for dinner respectively, and the Terrace room seats up to 160. It’s best for the largest French Quarter wedding parties, or couples set on booking the single largest courtyard in the neighborhood, though its smaller indoor rooms deserve a look if a full buyout runs bigger than you need.
7. Muriel’s Jackson Square
Muriel’s Jackson Square is the most flexible single venue in the French Quarter, with multiple spaces, including The Veranda, The Magnolia, The Cotillion, and a balcony overlooking Jackson Square, plus a full-restaurant buyout option.
Capacity ranges from 10 to 800 guests, depending on the space and configuration you book, and weddings start at $8,508 for 50 guests. A half-second-floor rental is available for smaller weddings with more flexible F&B minimums.
It’s best for couples who want one venue that can flex from an intimate ceremony to a large reception without switching properties. With this many configurations available, get a quote for the specific space and guest count you’re planning; the 10-to-800 range spans dramatically different price points.
8. Antoine’s Restaurant
Antoine’s Restaurant offers 12 private dining rooms across two floors, some with balconies over Rue St. Louis, inside a restaurant that’s operated since 1840. Individual rooms seat anywhere from 6 guests in the smallest room up to 220 in the largest, and rooms can be booked individually or combined for a full floor or restaurant buyout, with capacity reaching up to 300 guests, though a 20-guest minimum applies to every event.
Dinner and reception menus start at $65 per person, and the Main Dining Room carries a $10,000 F&B minimum. It’s best for larger wedding parties who want a historic, established restaurant setting with room to choose a specific private room sized to their guest list.
With 12 rooms varying this widely in size, confirm exactly which room your quote applies to before assuming a single capacity figure covers the whole property.
9. Hotel De La Poste
Hotel De La Poste offers a French Quarter hotel courtyard with a fire-lit fountain, plus indoor event space and on-site catering across 4,616 square feet of total meeting space. Weddings start at $4,422 for 50 guests, with no rental fee for a ceremony-with-reception booking since a F&B minimum applies instead.
It’s best for couples with many out-of-town guests who want ceremony, reception, and hotel rooms all on one property. The standard event window runs 3 hours excluding setup and cleanup, shorter than several other French Quarter venues, so confirm the cost of extending it before comparing this venue’s starting price to a longer-inclusive booking elsewhere.
Photo from hoteldelapostenola.com
Need Event Rentals for Your French Quarter Wedding Venue?
The right French Quarter venue comes down to your guest count, whether you need one location or two, and which pricing model fits your budget, not just which courtyard photographs best.
Once you’ve booked, Reventals makes it simple to fill in whatever the venue doesn’t provide, from a weatherproof ceremony structure to extra tables and chairs for a bigger reception. Browse wedding rentals, and all other event rentals in New Orleans on Reventals.
