The Birchwood is a boutique hotel on Beach Drive in downtown St. Petersburg, with a rooftop that looks over the bay. Its Small Wedding Packages run Sunday through Thursday, seat 30 to 60 guests, and bundle a four-hour reception with décor, linens, hors d'oeuvres, an entrée, a champagne toast and an open bar.
City: St. Petersburg, Florida
Guest count: Small Wedding Packages for 30–60 guests, Sunday–Thursday only
Outside catering: The venue doesn’t publish a catering policy on its website — ask before you plan around outside food.
Published prices: Prices are not published. The 4-hour reception package includes décor, linens, hors d'oeuvres, an entrée, a champagne toast and an open bar.
Venue’s own website: The Birchwood
The honesty paragraph
Now the honesty this guide owes you. Thirty to sixty guests is the top of “small” and well past “micro,” and the venue doesn't publish prices, so I can't do the comparison work I do on other pages. It's in the guide because the package is explicitly sold as a small-wedding product and the bones are strong — a hotel means your guests sleep upstairs, the kitchen is real, and rain is a non-issue.
If your list is 40 people who all drink and you'd rather write one cheque than hire six vendors, get the quote. If your list is 15, this is the wrong shape entirely — look at the chapels and gardens further up the region page, where 15 is the whole point.
Before you book, ask
- What does the Small Wedding Package cost at 30 guests vs. 60?
- Is the ceremony on the rooftop, the reception, or both?
- Can the package run on a Friday or Saturday for a fee?
The rest of the region is on the Tampa Bay page; the full census is in the Florida guide. And when the venue math starts, how elopement packages actually work and what a wedding photographer 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 Prices and packages change — if the venue’s site and this page disagree, the venue is right and I’m out of date.