Accidental Tampa area wedding venue owner embraces new gig

When Toni Miller relocated from Toronto to an 18-acre estate in Seffner with her husband and mother in 2019, she never could’ve predicted the global pandemic to come. On a more personal note, she never could’ve predicted she’d be living at a wedding venue as a result. 

A native of Barbados, Miller originally moved to Tampa to attend USF before eventually graduating from the University of Tampa with a degree in communications and marketing. Her advertising career led her northward but she eventually tired of the cold weather (“Growing up in Barbados, I really was not into the Toronto winters,” she laughs.) So she decided to move back to the area and purchased the land that would eventually become Mill Pond Estates about fifteen miles outside of Tampa — where she made a personal sanctuary out of her new acreage with her and her husband residing in one house on the property and her mother in another. Miller and her family paid a little under $500,000 for the property in 2019.