Top Catawba Venues

• Spaces for 20-300 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 4 Museums
• 6 Total Spaces

The Venue at Hart Square Village is available for a wide range of events, including weddings, proms, Quinceaneras, Christmas parties, family reunions, fundraisers, and business meetings. Offering the convenience of a modern facility in a historic setting, The Venue includes a great hall that seats up to 200 guests with a full catering kitchen. A 20-person boardroom and two classrooms are available for smaller functions, while the arbor in the historic village is excellent for close-knit informal events. The Venue includes beautiful outdoor spaces with panoramic scenes of the historic village. The outdoor stage is located beside the modern venue facility, making it the optimal space for an outdoor wedding ceremony and indoor reception. For small weddings or elopements, The Chapel of Peace, ca. 1871, and St. Mark’s Chapel, ca. 1844, deliver waterfront views of the village. Best of all, when you choose to rent The Venue at Hart Square Village, you are helping to preserve the largest collection of log cabins in the nation.

• Spaces for 75-125 Guests

The Lakehouse Mansion was created with one vision in mind: a place where luxury and togetherness meet the calm of lakefront living. This isn’t just a vacation rental—it’s a sanctuary for slowing down, making memories, and enjoying the best of both worlds: space to gather and space to retreat. Every detail has been thoughtfully designed to host life’s most meaningful moments. From family reunions to milestone celebrations, from quiet weekends with friends to restorative retreats, the mansion has welcomed guests from all walks of life who are looking for more than just a place to stay. Here, comfort meets elegance. Expansive spaces encourage connection, while cozy corners invite reflection. The water just steps away serves as both a backdrop and an invitation—whether you’re boating, relaxing on the dock, or simply enjoying the peace of the inlet. At the Lakehouse Mansion, it’s not just about where you stay—it’s about how you feel while you’re here: rested, inspired, and connected.

Wedding Planner in Hickory, NC

• Spaces for 200 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Vineyard

Vesuvius Vineyards is a historic vineyard estate and event venue set on more than 700 acres of private property in Iron Station, North Carolina, about 30 minutes from Charlotte. The property centers on a home built in 1792 by General Joseph Graham — the oldest standing home in Lincoln County — a historically registered landmark that has welcomed weddings and special events since 2009. The open-air arbor overlooks the property's stream and surrounding grounds, serving as the primary reception space for up to 200 guests. The arbor can be enclosed and heated for winter events, and the property offers multiple outdoor ceremony locations along with an open-air chapel available as a covered backup. Guests have room to explore the grounds, strolling alongside the creek and across the covered bridge. For weddings, the upstairs of the home includes a grooms room and a bridal suite with two rooms for hair and makeup and a private bathroom. Beyond weddings, the venue hosts holiday parties, birthday celebrations, showers, anniversary gatherings, vow renewals, corporate events, and fundraisers.

• Spaces for 70-500 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Bar
• 4 Total Spaces

Brushy Mountain Golf Club is a semi-private club set among rolling greens, open fairways, and mountain views in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Alongside golf, the club hosts weddings, receptions, corporate events, tournaments, reunions, and celebrations of all kinds within a 6,000-square-foot clubhouse. The clubhouse pairs an event room with a full-service restaurant and bar and a large outdoor deck framed by windows overlooking the course. The banquet room seats up to 180 guests with room for a buffet, DJ, and dance floor, while the full facility accommodates as many as 325. Catering, a professional event planning staff, and on-site lodging at The Lodges at Brushy Mountain support everything from wedding receptions to business meetings.

• Spaces for 200 Guests

Willow Creek Inn is a historic Victorian manor built in 1877, now operating as a boutique event venue in Prescott, Arizona. Originally located in downtown Prescott, the building was carefully disassembled and relocated to its current address on Willow Creek Road in 1962, where it was reassembled and renovated. The property has carried several names over the decades — including the Green Frog Inn and The Carriage House Inn — and spent more than two decades hosting weddings, anniversaries, and banquets as the Willow Creek Restaurant. In 2021, the property was purchased and reimagined as a dedicated event venue by a third-generation wedding hostess, who oversaw a full renovation and redecoration of the space. Today, Willow Creek Inn welcomes a broad range of celebrations — weddings and elopements, anniversary parties, vow renewals, birthday gatherings, family and class reunions, celebrations of life, and corporate events — in both indoor and outdoor settings framed by lush gardens, serene creeks, and mature trees. The venue offers event coordination, in-house décor services through Willow Creek Creations, and partnerships with local catering and vendor teams. Event insurance is required for all bookings.

• Spaces for 250-1,100 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Farm
• 1 space at this venue

The Quarry at Carrigan Farms is an outdoor event venue set within a former stone quarry on a fifth-generation family farm spanning 300 acres in Mooresville, NC, about 30 minutes north of Charlotte. The quarry's natural features — granite cliffs rising 70 feet above crystal-blue water, a cascading waterfall, a white sand beach, and a lush green lawn — form the ceremony and reception backdrop. An open-air pavilion accommodates up to 250 seated guests for weddings of all sizes. The venue also offers elopement packages for groups of 15 or fewer. With more than 35 years of hosting weddings, the venue operates on an all-inclusive model that bundles the space with farm-to-table catering, bar service, and waitstaff. Meats are charcoal-grilled on-site; the seasonal menu draws from produce grown on the farm.

• Spaces for 200 Guests

Murray's Mill Historic District is a preserved milling complex listed on the National Register of Historic Places, set along the banks of Balls Creek in eastern Catawba County, North Carolina — about ten minutes from I-40. The site centers on a 28-foot waterwheel and a mill pond whose waters slip over a historic dam, creating a landscape that has remained largely intact since the mill last operated in the mid-twentieth century. Several period structures span from the 1880s through 1913: the mill itself, the Murray & Minges General Store, the Wheathouse — now used as an exhibit gallery — the John Murray House furnished to the period, and numerous outbuildings. The Historical Association of Catawba County has stewarded the site since restoration began in 1980 and opened the district to the public in 1988. The grounds serve as a backdrop for weddings and private events, where the pond, dam, and working waterwheel provide a setting unchanged by the surrounding countryside.

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• Spaces for 200 Guests

• Spaces for 300 Guests

• Spaces for 6-400 Guests
• 8 Hotels
• 1 Ballroom
• 7 Meeting Spaces

Set in the Catawba Valley just outside downtown Hickory, North Carolina, the Crowne Plaza Hickory pairs a full-service hotel with 12,000 square feet of versatile event space for weddings, banquets, meetings, and social celebrations. The property sits less than an hour from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Charlotte Douglas Airport, and only minutes from the Hickory Furniture Mart, Lenoir-Rhyne University, and the historic Union Square district. At the center of its event offering is a 4,480-square-foot ballroom that accommodates up to 400 guests and subdivides into three sections, adapting to receptions both large and intimate. An additional 6,500 square feet of meeting and banquet space in the adjoining Piedmont Center rounds out the options, with rooms ranging from a 175-guest hall to smaller parlors and boardrooms suited to rehearsal dinners, showers, and corporate gatherings. All event spaces are equipped with high-speed wireless internet and multimedia capabilities. On-site catering, dedicated event planning, an on-site restaurant, and an indoor heated pool complete the offering, delivered with the Southern hospitality the hotel is known for.

• Spaces for 12-320 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Ballroom
• 3 Total Spaces

Statesville Country Club is a private country club in Statesville, North Carolina, bringing together golf, dining, aquatics, tennis, and fitness under one membership — and opening its doors to private events for weddings, receptions, corporate gatherings, and social celebrations. The newly remodeled Ballroom anchors the event side of the club, accommodating up to 320 guests with a flexible floor plan that adapts to any room style. Smaller occasions find a home in the Board Room, a fireplace-warmed space that seats 2 to 12, and the Front Private Dining Room, which holds up to 18 guests across multiple configurations with views of the Aquatic Center. The club's culinary team builds custom event menus from a full range of options — hors d'oeuvres, buffets, plated meals, and bar packages — while an on-site events coordinator supports planning from first inquiry through event day.

• Spaces for 100 Guests

• Spaces for 240 Guests

The Peninsula Club is a private country club set along eleven miles of Lake Norman shoreline in Cornelius, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte. The elegant clubhouse looks out over panoramic lake views, providing a picturesque backdrop for weddings, private receptions, and corporate events. With more than 25 years of experience, the Club hosts a wide range of private celebrations — including wedding ceremonies and receptions, engagement parties, rehearsal dinners, bridal luncheons, and milestone gatherings — in flexible indoor spaces that include an intimate Lakeside Room and a spacious ballroom. Guests may arrive by water at one of eight private boat slips, with direct access to the clubhouse and dining facilities. In addition to its event programming, The Peninsula Club offers a recently renovated championship golf course, tennis and pickleball, pool facilities, and multiple dining venues — all set within a lakefront community on one of North Carolina's largest lakes.