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Wedding Destinations in St. Augustine, Florida
RESTAURANT VENUES
Trust me when I say, St. Augustine has probably some of the most
fantastic restaurants in all of Florida.
If you do opt for a restaurant celebration, or if you wish to
combine anyone of the above with a restaurant venue, your biggest
decision is where?
Here are a few ideas, and yes, we did sample the scrumptious food
in each of the following dining establishments- all received excellent
grades and passed the test with flying colors!
Raintree
Restaurant
102 San Marco Avenue
St. Augustine
Tel: 904-824-7211:
Email: raintree email@aol.com
The Raintree Restaurant is an 1879 restored Victorian home, where
weddings are celebrated in their beautiful courtyards and gazebos.
The Raintree has been classified as one of Florida’s best
restaurants for the past 20 years, and after sampling some of
their dishes, Lily and I understood why so many couples have chosen
this venue.
The building housing the restaurant is a replica of the yacht
that brought the MacDonald family to North American from England.
These brave individuals left their native homeland on a 45-foot
yacht in 1979, after selling all of their assets in order to make
a new life in the USA.
If your party consists of fifty persons or less, the restaurant’s
gazebo area and courtyard is a great place to have a wedding.
The iron gates located within the courtyard can be decorated with
flowers and other trimmings. Trellises and archways can be rented
and decorated and they can be set up along the paths for the bridge
to walk through on the way to the ceremony.
Menus are varied and they do have the personnel to help you organizing
your important event.
The beauty of this venue is that in the event of some nasty weather,
which is always a possibility, the interior of the restaurant
facilities can be an alternative. The Raintree’s wedding
staff is the same as their regular staff and this means that they
don’t just "hire out" part-time banquet personnel.
They also do not have a minimum of a few or more thousand dollars
that are often the case in many other restaurants.
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