For a reception, no.
A wedding is not sold at an advertised price. It is sold on the number of guests, the season, a Saturday rather than a Friday, whether there is accommodation on site, whether the caterer is imposed or free. A single figure placed on a page cannot describe any of those situations, and it will be read as the price of your venue by somebody who has understood nothing yet of what you offer, and who was in fact looking for four other pieces of information.
Two things then happen, and both cost you. Couples with a smaller budget close the tab without writing, when some of them would have signed by moving the date or reducing the guest list. And those with a larger budget decide they have found something cheaper than elsewhere, which lowers from the outset the value they place on your venue.
The price of a reception is built during the conversation, once you have understood what they want and they have understood what you know how to do. Publishing it means giving up that conversation before it happens.
For accommodation, yes.
A site with no prices becomes less useful than your own Booking listing, which is rather the point.
The moment your venue sells nights, the rule reverses. A gîte, guest rooms, a house let by the week: nobody asks about availability without some idea of the price. And the platforms you are already listed on do publish it.
The format that works: one "from" price per unit, by the week, rounded down, plus the price of the whole property if it lets as a block. Two precautions, learned while rebuilding these pages. Rates taken from a platform include its commission, so they are higher than what reaches you: check before publishing. And the question of whether cleaning is included always comes up, because it is the first thing anyone will write to ask.
The venue that does both.
Many estates host weddings and let gîtes for the rest of the year. The answer is not a compromise, it is a separation: the reception page carries no price and leads to the enquiry form, the accommodation page carries its "from" prices and leads to booking. Two journeys, two intentions, two treatments. It is a question of site structure before it is a question of price.
What goes in place of the price.
A page without a price is not an evasive page, and it does not excuse you from being findable in the first place. What reassures a client is not the figure, it is knowing they will not be wasting their time. Give them what they need to place themselves: the minimum and maximum seated at table, the seasons when you host, what is included and what is not, whether the caterer is imposed, how many people can sleep on site. A client who finds that writes to ask for a quote. A client who finds none of it goes elsewhere, and you will never know.
The questions I am asked next
What do you reply to someone who asks the price by email, before any conversation?
Neither a bare figure nor a refusal. You give what allows them to place themselves, the capacity, the season, what is included, then you suggest a fifteen minute call and explain why: because the price depends on the number of guests, the day and the season, and a figure given at random would be wrong in both directions.
What about a range, say "from 3,000 to 8,000 €"?
It combines both drawbacks. The bottom of the range is the only figure anyone remembers, and the top scares off those who would have signed in the middle. If you want to give an order of magnitude, give it on the phone, once you know which date and how many people are involved.
My competitors publish their prices. Do I not look secretive?
A competitor who publishes a price usually has a simpler offer to describe than yours, a bare hall by the day for instance. The risk is not looking secretive, it is staying silent: a page that gives neither price nor capacity nor what is included does read as evasive. It is that information which answers the suspicion, not the rate.
Where do accommodation prices go without contaminating the reception page?
On the accommodation page, and nowhere else. One "from" price per unit, by the week, rounded down, stating whether cleaning is included. The reception page does not repeat them, not even at the foot: a couple looking for a venue would read that figure as yours.
This is the rule I apply on every site I deliver. It was set after rebuilding the site of a château that also let its rooms, where the two logics had been mixed on the same page.
