Fall in Love with the Peña-Peck House Garden
101 to 150 guests
Holds ceremonies and receptions
Located in the heart of St. Augustine's historic St. George Street District, the Peña-Peck House’s secret garden provides a romantic backdrop for an intimate wedding and a seated reception of up to 125 guests.
Guests will be awed by the breathtaking beauty of the site you’ve chosen to take your vows. Imagine holding your ceremony and reception in the garden of the house built c. 1750 by order of the King for Royal Spanish Treasurer Juan Estevan de Peña.
Whether you choose an open-air ceremony or a tented one, your special day can be held year-round. A bridal dressing room is provided.
Expect the royal treatment, as members of the non-profit Woman’s Exchange of St. Augustine, caretakers of the historic city-owned house, will be on hand to assist in any way needed.
Choosing the Peña-Peck House for your special occasion benefits the Woman’s Exchange’s Scholarship Program for women returning to college, and helps us maintain this treasured house.
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Amenities
Ceremony Area
Covered Outdoors Space
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Liability Insurance
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
Wireless Internet
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Civil Union
Commitment Ceremony
Elopement
Interfaith Ceremony
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Second Wedding
Vow Renewal Ceremony
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Trees
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4.9
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The Pena Peck House, also known as the Woman's Exchange, in St. Augustine is highly praised by multiple reviewers for its stunning garden venue, easy accessibility from St. George street, and exceptional staff. Reviewers appreciated the simplicity of the booking process, the well-maintained gardens, and the overall beautiful setting for intimate gatherings or events. Guests were particularly pleased with the professionalism, communication, and helpfulness of the staff, including Chianna, who assisted with bookings and ensured a seamless experience for events such as welcome parties and post-wedding brunches.- Top reviews
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Clay S
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5.0
1/29/2025
We booked Pena-Peck House for a welcome party for the night before our wedding and it was a stunning property! Easy access from St. George street. Staff were amazing and the booking process was very simple and easy. The gardens were kept beautifully and made for a perfect intimate gathering for our friends and family to mingle. Couldn’t have been a more perfect venue :)
Vendor response 01/29/2025
Clay, thank you so much for your wonderful review of the Pena Peck House. We work hard to...
provide a memorable experience for our wedding guests and it is nice to hear that we succeeded. Our gardens are magnificent and it is stunning. As you learned, we are a group of volunteers, the Woman's Exchange, who manage the PPH for the City of St. Augustine. Our profits go toward the maintenance of the historic PPH and to giving scholarships to women over the age of 30 returning to school. We appreciate your kind words and hope you will stop in and see us in the future. We love to see our wedding guests again.
Machaela B
5.0
12/18/2023
Everyone that works here is so kind and generous. The space is absolutely beautiful for any occasion. Love the garden courtyard! Overall great experience with the Pena Peck house for our wedding welcome party!
Vendor response 12/19/2023
Machaela, thank you so much for your wonderful review of the Pena Peck House garden venue...
for your wedding welcome party. We work hard to give our couples a wonderful experience and I am so glad that we succeeded with you. Do you have some pictures of your event that we can share on the Knot? That would be greatly appreciated. Again, thank you so much for your fabulous review. It will help us meet our mission of "Women Helping Women" with our scholarships for women over the age of 30 returning to college.
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Mary K
5.0
10/28/2023
We threw a post wedding brunch with a Pena Peck house and it was amazing! The communication and professionalism was great and we really liked the vendors they suggested which were café 11 for the brunch food and mainsail bar for the bartenders. I would definitely recommend the Pena Peck house for any event. This is also known as the women’s exchange downtown in Saint Augustine. Again I can’t thank everyone enough who helped us!
Vendor response 10/30/2023
Mary, thank you for your wonderful review. We love helping our wedding couples have a mem...
orable experience. Our Special Events help us to fulfill our mission of "Women Helping Women".
Jenelle A
5.0
11/22/2022
The gardens were absolutely gorgeous and well maintained . It was a beautiful intimate venue and the staff were so lovely and kind . Chianna , who helped us book the venue was so informative and wonderful. We couldn’t have asked for a better venue for our wedding
Sandy P
5.0
9/22/2022
We are so grateful that we decided to celebrate our wedding day at Pena Peck House! This garden venue is beautiful, and the staff is wonderful to work with. Perfect for intimate style weddings, it was the night of our dreams!
Vendor response 09/22/2022
Sandy, thank you so much for your wonderful review of our absolutely beautiful historic ga...
rden venue, St. Augustine Bookings, and our non-profit organization, the Woman's Exchange. As you learned during this process, we are a volunteer, non-profit woman-led organization and our profits go toward our scholarship fund for women over the age of 30 returning to college. We appreciate your support and we wish you many happy married years. We hope to see you in the future as you celebrate your anniversaries.
Andrew D
5.0
9/21/2022
The Woman’s Exchange and St Augustine Bookings were great to work with. Chianna who booked the event with us and was there the day of was amazing. Great communication during the entire process. The gardens where we held the ceremony were the perfect spot for an unforgettable day.
Vendor response 09/21/2022
Andrew, thank you so much for your wonderful review of our absolutely beautiful historic g...
arden venue, St. Augustine Bookings, and our non-profit organization, the Woman's Exchange. As you learned during this process, we are a volunteer, non-profit woman-led organization and our profits go toward our scholarship fund for women over the age of 30 returning to college. We appreciate your support and we wish you many happy married years. We hope to see you in the future as you celebrate your anniversaries.
Eleni M
5.0
4/18/2021
We had the best experience working with Chianna! We planned our destination wedding during the pandemic. We didn't have the opportunity to visit Florida during the wedding planning process, but Chianna made everything so easy for us. She was always accessible and answered all of our questions!
The venue is absolutely beautiful during the spring time! There were flowers surrounding the courtyard where we had our ceremony and reception. If you are planning to have your wedding here, we would recommend having a tent. It rained for just a bit during our wedding night, but we were lucky the tent was up!
Vendor response 04/18/2021
Eleni, thank you for your wonderful review. Chianna is a valuable member of our Woman's ...
Exchange team who manages the Pena-Peck House and our Special Events. We are happy that you had such a good experience working with her. We are an organization of volunteers that manage the Pena-Peck House and I will let our Garden Committee know that all their hard work in the garden is appreciated. Since we are an outdoor venue, it was nice that the tent was available for the brief rain. We wish you many happy married years. Please stop by and see us on your next trip to St. Augustine. We love to see our brides and grooms after their weddings.
Alexis F
5.0
11/24/2018
If you’re thinking of having you’re wedding here, DO IT! You will absolutely love it! SO much more beautiful than the typical hotel ballroom AND a whole lot more affordable! My husband and I got awesome, naturally lit photos by all the beautiful flowers at the Pena Peck House. Our guests loved that it has the same charm as St George Street. If I could, I would choose this place for my wedding again and again.
Vendor response 11/25/2018
Alexis, thank you so much for your wonderful review. We try hard to give our brides, gro...
oms, families and their guests a wedding that is very special and memorable. We are a non-profit group of volunteers and our Special Events help us with our mission of "Women Helping Women". We wish you many happy married years.
Taylor B
4.0
10/10/2018
This venue is GORGEOUS! We love how well maintained and manicured the courtyard was, it was perfect fortune very classic wedding vision! The bougainvilleas (pink flowering trees) were in bloom for our wedding, and the pictures were magical! It was the perfect size for our ceremony and reception of 35 guests, and we loved that it was in the center of town. There are a few weird things about the venue, and they weren’t always the best at communicating what was needed or what costs extra, in advance. I’m glad we chose them, just make sure to ask a lot of questions I advance, so you’re not stressing last minute. Lucy was amazing though, and the venue looked gorgeous!
Vendor response 10/11/2018
Taylor, thank you for the wonderful review of your wedding at the historic Pena Peck House...
. We are a non-profit organization of volunteers, The Woman's Exchange, who have managed the PPH since 1932 for the City of St Augustine. I am glad that all our hard work to make our garden beautiful worked for you. I am sorry that our infirmation on the extras such as security and insurance was not communicated well. Your feedback helps to make our processes better in the future. Thank you. The Woman's Exchange of St Augustine wishes you many happy years together.
Kyle M
5.0
11/04/2017
We had our wedding here on 10/21/17 and it was beautiful. We worked with Coastal Celebrations, the booking agent of the venue, and it was a perfect day. Thank you to all the ladies of the Pena Peck!
Vendor response 11/26/2017
Thank you for your wonderful review. We love our brides and strive to make it a magical d...
ay for you. Coastal Celebrations is our booking agent and they are the BEST. We are a non profit group of volunteers who supports giving scholarships to women returning to college later in life with our profits. Your event proceeds go to a very worthwhile
cause.
Sara D
5.0
7/25/2017
We chose the Pena Peck house for the history of the site, as well as the beauty of the gardens. I will admit we were incredibly worried after the hurricane uprooted most of the gardens, but it turned out to be a secret blessing, the gardens came back even more beautiful with their new landscape designers. Most of our guests had never heard of this location, so even the local guests felt as if they had been invited to something special and unique. I highly recommend you reach out to their preferred vendor lists for lighting, the extra string lights made the space look absolutely magical.
It was everything I dreamed of, and more. On top of that, the staff was so friendly and accommodating. Mary in particular made the day so much easier and less stressful, a woman like that is invaluable honestly. We knew there would be security, but had no idea it would be an actual police officer. It was nice to know that random drinkers from St George street wouldnt be able to wonder in, and the officer was so friendly.
Highly recommend this location if you are interested in a classy and intimate garden party. We were able to use the location for both ceremony and reception, the sentiment we have heard from everyone is that it was the "most beautiful" and "most romantic" wedding they've ever seen.
Vendor response 07/26/2017
Thank you so, so much for your wonderful review. We love our brides and grooms and do our...
best to help you have the most memorable wedding ever. It is so nice to read that we were successful with your wedding and reception. Everything that you mentioned are the things that we try to make happen for every wedding. As you know we are volunteers and our Special Events is a large part of our revenue that we use to maintain our historic house and to give scholarships to women returning to college. Again, I am so glad that you had the "most beautiful" and most "romantic wedding" ever seen!!!
Katie V
5.0
5/21/2017
The ladies at the pena peck were so helpful all along the way. The venue was beautiful and everyone had a wonderful time!
Vendor response 07/26/2017
Thank you so much for your wonderful rating and review. We work hard to make your weddin...
g memorable and I am glad that we succeeded.
Pattie M
5.0
12/09/2014
We found the Pena-Peck after our (initial) first-choice of the White Room Loft didn't have our preferred date available... but you know what they say -- everything happens for a reason! The Pena-Peck's outdoor venue was simply amazing and was the best thing that ever happened to us. The ladies of the Women's Exchange were the most charming, sweet and helpful ladies that even came and enjoyed the festivities with us (we invited them to join in to clarify) and we could see them tapping their toes to our band. YES THEY ALLOW BANDS! Of course, they must adhere to the city noise ordinance which we honestly had a little trouble with, but no one complained and we even had a line at the side entrance of folks who wanted to join our party (I guess they thought it was a bar/public party?)
We booked through Lindsay (Coastal Celebrations) and she was fabulous. She worked with out budget and also was the POC for our rentals. We had a rain scare coming up to our day (it ended up being GORGEOUS out though!) but she made sure she helped us not only find a tent, but at an AMAZING price we couldn't beat by calling around for over two weeks.
Everything about the House is great - from the staff to the grounds! Everything is so beautiful it hardly needs decoration. We would choose it again in a heartbeat!
Melissa L
5.0
6/12/2013
When my fiance and I first walked into The Pena Peck House gardens we knew that it was the place we wanted to get married at. It is in the heart of downtown. The women that helped us the day of were wonderful and went above and beyound to make sure our day was wonderful. We had to tent the gardens at the last minute because we thought it was going to rain but it turned out to be a sunny day. It is possible to rent parking spaces for our guests in the parking lot behind the venue.
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