Cheap Casual Wedding Venue Ideas?

Unfortunately, Airbnb took away the event friendly options because of a recent shooting. Have you looked at local parks or VFW halls?

Community halls might allow this!

I would second Melle's suggestion to look into community centers! I was about to recommend public parks (you can easily get a permit to have a wedding at public parks from anywhere between $50-$250) but these usually don't allow loud music and heavy drinking. Community halls sound like a good option

Try city rec centers, look at your city's park & rec site because they typically allow you to set up your own buffet and have full kitchens to use. The ones where I live are like $90/hour.

We found a place on AirBNB but we messaged our host to make sure it would be okay first before booking. I found messaging hosts was very helpful, some said no of course but others were ok with it.

We’re having a rather small wedding with 25-30 guests.

I found this policy page on their site:

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2704/what-are-airbnbs-rules-for-parties-and-events-at-listings

I don’t have any specific recommendations but think about parks though they may have restrictions around drinking. We actually have a group homes organization that owns a farm out in the county and rents out an event house pretty reasonably. But for me I felt like I’d been to too many weddings out there and I wanted a more woodsy event, so I went with the park where I run trails all the time.