Boatyard is a waterfront restaurant on the Intracoastal side of Fort Lauderdale, and it maintains a page specifically for small weddings — a detail I weigh more than it might seem. Plenty of restaurants will host a wedding if you ask nicely. One that publishes a small-wedding page has thought about how a 30-person wedding differs from a 130-person one.
City: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Guest count: Private Event Room for up to 60 guests; the restaurant's spaces run from 18 to 200 guests
Outside catering: Not stated on the venue’s website. Ask directly — the answer changes the budget math more than most line items.
Published prices: Prices are not published (a dedicated small-wedding page on the restaurant's site).
Venue’s own website: Boatyard
The relevant space is the Private Event Room, up to 60 guests; the restaurant's spaces overall run from 18 to 200, so mind which room your quote is for. No prices are published — restaurant weddings price as food-and-beverage minimums rather than rental fees, which is the one number to ask for first. The deep advantage of the format: there is no catering question. The kitchen is twenty feet away, the staff already works there, and the “venue fee” mostly dissolves into dinner your guests would have eaten anyway.
Our catering cost guide explains why the minimum, not the per-person price, is the number that decides whether a restaurant wedding is a bargain.
Before you book, ask
- What is the food-and-beverage minimum for the Private Event Room at 30 guests?
- Can we hold the ceremony on-site, or is it reception only?
- Is there a room fee on top of the minimum?
The rest of the region is on the South Florida page; the full census is in the Florida guide. And when the venue math starts, the catering math for small weddings and what a Florida wedding venue actually costs will save you from the usual surprises.
Facts checked October 30, 2026 against the venue’s own website. Prices and packages change — if the venue’s site and this page disagree, the venue is right and I’m out of date.