Milan Catering’s design company, the Sarasota Wedding Gallery, specializes in transforming your ideas into beautiful weddings and events with showrooms that feature the Ringling, Crosley, Selby and other Tampa and Sarasota venues. We offer one of the largest, national rental networks for the WOW factor for your wedding or event.  Our wedding coordinators are experts at these Tampa and Sarasota venues on schedules, timelines and the practical aspects of throwing a Great Party!.  Our featured showrooms include these Sarasota venues:

Powel Crosley Estate 

 
The Crosley Estate is a historical Mediterranean mansion directly on Sarasota bay.  Wedding ceremonies face the bay, the mansion or under the pavilion.  The interior great room, dining room and den accommodate up to 147 guests or chose the bay front lawns for over 500 guests.  The great room has ivory tones with vintage scones for evening lighting.    If you chose white as a base, the backdrop of manicured lawns and the bluish tint of the sky and bay are breathtaking.  The Crosley provides tables and their bar service glassware. We provide the chairs, dinnerware, flatware, and specialty décor items, including vintage Tiffany lights.  Popular entertainment additions are photo booths and cigar rollers and our vintage food cart which is used for After Bites or specialty desserts.   Chill lounges or cocktail seating can be set up near the dance floor; or in the great room after dinner service.

Ringling Museum Courtyard

The Ringling Museum Courtyard is a Venetian style garden that can accommodate up to 1000 guests.  The courtyard is filled with bronze replicas of Greek and Roman sculpture, including a bronze cast of Michelangelo’s David.  The three terraces provide natural demarcations for weddings: the ceremony on the first terrace, the cocktail hour in the middle terrace and the wedding reception on the third terrace, next to the David.  Bands are on a stage above the third terrace fountain; and the center walkway is converted to a dance floor.  As your caterer, we provide all of the rentals, tables, chairs, linens, bar service glassware, dinnerware, flatware and any specialty décor items.  Our experienced Wedding and Event Coordinators will manage the unique challenges of this historical museum including the layouts, schedules, and rental policies. This is complex venue setting which requires experienced staff. 

Ringling Ca d'Zan Mansion

The Ca d'Zan Mansion is Sarasota’s Castle, a palatial mansion that reflects the splendor and romance of Italy. With its Venetian Gothic architecture, the mansion is a combination of the grandeur of Venice’s Doge’s Palace, combined with the gothic grace of Cà d’Oro, with Sarasota Bay serving as its Grand Canal.  The Ca d'Zan can accommodate 225 guests on the marble terrace.  Ceremonies can be in front of the mansion; the front lawns or the Campiello; a new patio addition that sits adjacent to the terrace.  Again, we provide all of the rentals. 

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Marie Selby Gardens is 14 acres of lush, tropical gardens on Sarasota Bay with winding walkways through thousands of exotic plants, the bamboo pavilion, a waterfall garden and even a butterfly and hummingbird sanctuary. Wedding ceremonies are at the Wedding pavilion, under the Banyan trees or on the bay.  The Selby has two reception sites; the Great Room that can accommodate up to 240 guests; and the Mansion which can accommodate 50 guests in the dining room and den; or 100 on the manicured bay front lawns.  The Selby provides tables and chairs, we rent a dance floor for the Great room and dinnerware, flatware, silverware and décor items.  Because of the set-up times and distance between the wedding and reception sites, we recommend our experienced wedding coordinators to make sure everything runs smoothly.  Your décor options will be more challenging with this venue; so visit our Sarasota Wedding Gallery to see the Great room  with accurate interior colors, ceiling treatment and lighting and the yellow tones for the interior mansion.

Chelsea Center at St. Thomas More Church 
   

The Chelsea Center features a 400 guest banquet hall overlooking the lighted water fountain.  You can create a separate cocktail area in the foyer or along the fountain walkway.   The Chelsea Center provides all of rentals, including the dance floor, staging, dinnerware, flatware and glassware.

For other Tampa and Sarasota venues, call our wedding and event planners to talk about alternative venue selections.   Visit our Facebook to see samples of these beautiful settings.