Georgetown Wedding Venues in Seattle, Smallest to Largest
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Georgetown is a mile of brick warehouses, one of the oldest bars in Seattle and a 44-foot cowboy hat. It is also where people come to get married.
The venues here run from a chapel that seats nine to a ballroom that holds three hundred. What follows is every real wedding space in the neighborhood, with addresses and capacities, smallest to largest. We are one of them!
Why couples pick Georgetown
The neighborhood sits south of downtown, between Boeing Field and the Duwamish. Industry got here first and never fully left, so the buildings that went up for freight and machinery are still standing and have been handed to other uses. That is why the wedding spaces look the way they do: brick, timber, loading doors, courtyards that used to be lots.
Parking is free and there is plenty of it, which in Seattle settles a lot of arguments.
Most of these places are within a few minutes of each other on foot. Your ceremony, your dinner and your drinks can be three different rooms without anyone getting in a car.
Georgetown wedding venues, smallest to largest
Shotgun Ceremonies, 5805 Airport Way S
Us. A pink shipping container chapel and a covered outdoor gazebo at the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall. The chapel fits up to 9 guests and the gazebo up to 12.
Ceremonies are $500 and include a licensed officiant, witnesses if you need them, your music and the paperwork filed afterward. The ceremony itself runs 10 to 20 minutes and the space is yours for up to an hour. Parking is on site and free.
This is the right room if you want to be legally married without planning a wedding. It is the wrong room if you want a seated dinner, a dance floor or more than a dozen people. Those are below.
Want to get married at a series of Georgetown bars? Then you're looking for our Pub Crawl Wedding. That ceremony splits your vows across Star Brass, Jules Maes and 9lb Hammer, with a toast at each stop and your license signed somewhere along the way. The whole thing runs about two hours and costs $575. Everyone in your party has to be 21 or over, and the bar tabs are yours. Here is how the pub crawl wedding works.
If you're looking for a fun officiant who can perform your ceremony at any of the locations below, Shotgun Ceremonies Officiant Bronwen Stevenson has officiated weddings at most of these locations and would love to be your wedding officiant too. Just book an off-site elopement ceremony!
Mezzanotte, 1210 S Bailey St
An Italian restaurant with a back room called the Garden Cathedral that seats 40. If your version of a wedding is everyone you love eating pasta in one room, this is that version.
Seated capacity 40. The food is the point, so plan around the menu rather than the floor plan.
The Corson Building, 5609 Corson Ave S
A 1910 building with a walled garden, set back on a side street you would not find unless someone told you about it. Up to 80 seated, or 14 in the private dining room for something very small.
It has been running long-table dinners since 2009 and the cooking is why people book it. Expect a dinner party that happens to contain a wedding.
The Georgetown Stables, 980 S Nebraska St
A working stable in the early 1900s, now a warehouse-style ballroom with distressed brick, exposed timber, a stage, a speakeasy-style bar, a courtyard and a lounge with fireplaces. 80 seated or 200 standing.
The rental includes audio, lighting, chairs, tables and a dance floor. They offer all-inclusive packages and they also allow outside vendors. Same family as Fonda La Catrina and El Sirenito, so catering is handled if you want it handled.
Georgetown Ballroom, 5623 Airport Way S
The largest room in the neighborhood. Two adjoining spaces, two mezzanines, a stage, a grand staircase and a tree-filled outdoor courtyard. 200 seated or 300 standing.
They run a full-service planning process and book weddings year round, seven days a week. This is the Georgetown venue for a wedding that looks like a wedding. The number is (206) 763-4999.
Getting married in a Georgetown park
Oxbow Park at 6430 Corson Ave S is the one with the Hat n’ Boots, a 44-foot cowboy hat and two 22-foot boots rescued from a 1950s gas station. Permitted ceremony capacity is 100.
Seattle Parks requires a permit for a ceremony on park property. The rate is $154 an hour with a two-hour minimum. Applications open 12 months ahead and close 14 days before the date, and fees are non-refundable once paid. If you're planning something large, you'll probably want this. If you're eloping with just a few friends and family, I have found that the permit is not necessary. If you have questions, give me a call and I'll share my opinions.
Shotgun Ceremonies can marry you in a park. We officiate off-site anywhere in the greater Seattle area, and Oxbow Park is in our own neighborhood, so no travel fee applies. An off-site ceremony is $500 and a $200 deposit holds the date. It includes a custom ceremony, the license signing and the filing afterward. Here is how an off-site wedding works.
The rules worth knowing before you build a day around it:
No alcohol anywhere in a Seattle park.
No amplified music unless it is approved in advance.
No rice, seeds or confetti. Flower petals are fine and you clear them yourself.
Nothing staked into the ground and nothing nailed to a tree.
The park stays open to the public while you are getting married.
What to settle before you book
Guest count first. It eliminates most of this list in one move.
Ask what the rental includes. Chairs, tables, sound and a dance floor are either in the number they quoted you or they are four more invoices.
Ask about outside vendors. Some venues require their own list and some do not care.
Listen for the airport. Georgetown sits beside Boeing Field. Planes are part of the soundtrack here, which matters if your ceremony is outdoors or you are recording vows.
Walk the block before you decide. These places are minutes apart, so the room you book does not have to be the room you end the night in.
The legal part, wherever you book
The venue does not make you married. Three things do: a Washington marriage license, a licensed officiant and two witnesses.
The license comes from the county. In King County it is $169 to apply, there is a three-day wait after it is issued and you then have 60 days to hold the ceremony. Both of you have to finish the application in person, or by notarized mail if one of you cannot get there. Here is the whole process, step by step.
A license from any Washington county is valid anywhere in the state, so if Snohomish or Pierce is an easier drive, use that one. The signed certificate goes back to whichever county issued it.
If you want the small version of all this, we are at 5805 Airport Way S with a chapel, a gazebo and a licensed officiant who has been marrying people in this neighborhood since 2010. Book a ceremony.
Come elope with us.
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