Top Capitol Hill Holiday Party Venues

• Spaces for 150 Guests

Urban Light Studios has recently merged our event space with our downtown Seattle venue, AXIS Pioneer Square. The amazing AXIS space and our helpful staff can provide everything you need to create your dream event, be it large or small. Urban Light Studios team of talented photographers remain available to you for all your photography needs. We are no longer accepting events at our Greenwood studios. With great pride, AXIS has preserved 10,000 square feet of space within the historic 1889 Globe Building as Seattle’s most exciting event space. We provide two separate but joinable spaces allowing an event capacity of 25-400+, depending on desired layout. AXIS is centered on a series of 18-foot brick arches blending seamlessly into antique wood floors, with a sprinkle of industrial modern design. AXIS is one of the only large capacity non-hotel event spaces in downtown Seattle and is easy walking distance to numerous downtown hotels, as well as the burgeoning Pioneer Square restaurant and bar scene (right out our back door). The modular AXIS space is designed by event professionals to allow you to customize your event within our stunning confines. Our experienced event staff is the best in the business and proudly awaits the opportunity to make your next event truly extraordinary.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

The Columbia City Theater boasts one of the most beautiful settings for live music and performance in Seattle. The theater reopened on June 25th, 2010 to rave reviews and was featured in Seattle Weekly’s “Best of Seattle” list after being open for less than two months. It has since been dubbed “The city’s finest sounding room,” by SPIN Magazine.

• Spaces for 49-225 Guests
• 1 Meeting Space

Centrally located on Mercer Island, just five minutes from both Seattle and Bellevue, the Mercer Island Community & Event Center (MICEC) pairs an easy-to-reach island setting with panoramic views of Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains, giving guests a sense of getting away without actually going far. Designed by the Miller-Hull Partnership, the state-of-the-art, 42,755-square-foot, two-story facility was built to encourage public access and enjoyment, and it opens six days a week to host weddings and receptions, business meetings, conferences and banquets, and celebrations of all sizes and themes. Inside, an open floor plan connects the Mercer Room, four smaller meeting rooms, and a full gymnasium and multi-purpose dance room, so a single booking can flex from an intimate seated dinner to a larger reception or an athletic event without leaving the building. Every rental benefits from flexible seating options, a complete catering kitchen, modern audio-visual equipment, and free wireless internet, while free on-site parking makes arrival simple for guests coming from across the island or over the bridge from Seattle and Bellevue.

• Spaces for 120 Guests

• Spaces for 220 Guests

• Spaces for 150 Guests

• Spaces for 125 Guests

• Spaces for 300 Guests

• Spaces for 420 Guests

• Spaces for 13-800 Guests
• 2 Restaurants
• 7 Hotels
• 7 Total Spaces

The Seattle Marriott Waterfront sits directly on Elliott Bay in downtown Seattle, at 2100 Alaskan Way across from the city's cruise ship terminals. Nautical-themed guest rooms look out over the water and surrounding mountains, and Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, and the Seattle Aquarium are all just minutes away. Nine event rooms make up more than 18,000 square feet of space, anchored by the roughly 8,000-square-foot Grand Pacific Ballroom, which holds up to 900 guests theater-style, 800 for a reception, and 600 for a seated banquet. Smaller rooms, including the Harbor Room, Seaport Room, and Executive Boardroom, support meetings and gatherings of varying size, and proximity to Bell Harbor Conference Center adds further capacity when needed. Weddings bring waterfront ceremony sites together with the hotel's ballrooms, supported by Marriott Certified Wedding Planners who help coordinate menus, table settings, and vendors. Hook & Plow, the hotel's on-site restaurant, doubles as an event space with its own water views, while on-site catering and event technology round out the planning support available for meetings and celebrations alike.

• Spaces for 20-200 Guests
• 3 Event Spaces
• 6 Historic Spaces
• 6 Meeting Spaces

The Phinney Neighborhood Association occupies a campus of two historic Seattle school buildings — the Blue Building, built in 1904, and the Brick Building, built in 1917 — along with the nearby Greenwood Senior Center, and because the organization's mission centers on fostering an inclusive, welcoming community, its rooms are rented out by the hour to host everything from meetings and classes to private parties and celebrations. Since both campuses are ADA-accessible with elevators and offer free on-site parking, groups of nearly any size can move easily between spaces, from small classrooms that seat up to 35 people to the Community Hall, a 2,336-square-foot room with sprung bamboo flooring, a stage with podium, and seating for up to 135 guests (150 standing), and the Greenwood Room, which accommodates up to 200 seated guests beneath its accordion dividing wall and projection screen. Because the association hosts nearly 800 community activities each year across these same rooms, renters booking an event here are stepping into buildings that already anchor daily community life in Northwest Seattle.

• Spaces for 70 Guests

• Spaces for 220 Guests