The Powel Crosley Estate is the real thing: a 1920s bayfront mansion on Sarasota Bay, the kind of house that makes a ceremony look expensive in photographs regardless of what you paid. What it sells to small weddings is strikingly un-mansion-like: a 30-minute elopement, capped at 20 people plus your officiant, for $400 plus tax in the daytime or $650 plus tax in the evening.
Read the constraints before the romance
Read the constraints before the romance, because they're firm. No set-up. No food allowed — none. The elopement is a ceremony and a photo window, full stop; if you want more time for pictures, extra half-hours cost $100 each, which is the most reasonably priced line item in this entire guide. (Regular full rentals are a different product and run through six local caterers; the no-food rule is specific to these elopements.)
City: Sarasota, Florida
Guest count: Elopements for a maximum of 20 people plus the officiant, 30 minutes
Outside catering: No food at elopements: the venue states “No set-up or food allowed.” (Full rentals work with six local in-house caterers.)
Published prices: Elopement $400 + tax (daytime, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.) / $650 + tax (evening, 5–9 p.m.); +$100 for 30 extra minutes for photos
Venue’s own website: Powel Crosley Estate
How to frame the $400
The honest way to frame it: this is a $400–$650 location fee for one of the prettiest ceremony backdrops in Florida, and dinner afterwards is a separate plan — Sarasota has the restaurants for it. Couples who try to stretch it into a reception will be frustrated. Couples who want the mansion, the bay and the photographs, then a great meal with twenty people, will think it's the bargain of the guide.
Ask them this
- Can we book two extra photo half-hours, or is one the limit?
- Where exactly on the grounds does the elopement take place?
- Is there an indoor backup spot if it rains inside our 30 minutes?
Comparing it with the rest of the region? The other Tampa Bay small wedding venues are one click away, and the statewide Florida micro wedding guide has all 38. Before you book anything, read what it costs to elope in Florida and what a Florida wedding venue actually costs.
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 Prices and packages change — if the venue’s site and this page disagree, the venue is right and I’m out of date.