Top Friday Harbor Venues

• Spaces for 100-250 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Theater
• 2 Total Spaces

Brickworks Events Center occupies a historic former brick factory in the heart of Friday Harbor, on San Juan Island in Washington State, within walking distance of the ferry landing and reachable from Seattle, Vancouver, and Bellingham. The building's character comes from its restoration: massive end-to-end wooden trusses held tight with steel brackets rise above an open floor of island fir. The main hall offers a 2,100-square-foot open floor plan that seats up to 120 guests and accommodates as many as 160, suiting weddings, concerts, workshops, conferences, and community celebrations alike. A full commercial kitchen is available to clients and caterers, and the space is equipped with a large drop-down screen, wireless microphones, and in-ceiling sound. Just outside, the Sunshine Plaza adds an outdoor gathering area with greenspace, seating, and the Tokitae Stage for open-air ceremonies and performances. The venue is a project of the San Juan Islands Agricultural Guild, and rental proceeds support the nonprofit's work toward a resilient, sustainable local food system in San Juan County.

• Spaces for 196-200 Guests
• 1 Theater
• 1 Meeting Space

Set on land donated to the Lopez Island community in 1984, when Natalie Roush gave five acres in Lopez Village toward what would become a shared gathering place, the Lopez Center for Community and the Arts is owned and operated by the nonprofit Lopez Community Center Association, which formed in 1987 to carry the vision forward and, after years of fundraising that gained early momentum from seed funding provided by Andy Holland in 1994, opened the doors of its main facility to the community in October 1999. At the heart of the center is a multipurpose main hall, where a stage, hardwood floors, and a vintage Steinway piano support everything from theater and music productions to meetings, memorials, and fundraisers, while large sliding glass doors open the room to natural light and to the rolling lawn beyond. That lawn, together with a south-facing veranda and an outdoor pavilion built for the center's earliest seasonal concerts, gives weddings held here room to spread from an outdoor ceremony across the grounds into the hall for a reception seated at up to 200 place settings, a scale that has made the center known as the largest wedding venue on Lopez Island. A fully equipped kitchen, included with every rental, and technical packages ranging from a simple microphone and piano setup to full theatrical lighting and a live band system round out what the center can offer, all of it maintained by an all-volunteer Board of Trustees elected annually by the Lopez Island community whose gifts of land and labor built the place.

• Spaces for 12-150 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 2 Bars
• 2 Hotels

The Orcas Hotel hosts weddings, corporate gatherings, bat mitzvahs, and private celebrations of all kinds, from intimate dinner parties to full property buyouts, at the Orcas Island ferry landing in the San Juan Islands. Built between 1900 and 1904, the hotel has welcomed travelers for generations and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; guests and event-goers step directly off the ferry onto the property, with no parking required. Events can be held in the Dining Room, featuring the Orcas Hotel Bar, for 20 to 40 guests depending on event style; in Big Blue, a cozy drawing room and wine bar for intimate gatherings of up to 12; or outdoors on the Lower and Upper Lawns, which host lunches, receptions, dinners, and small ceremonies. The hotel's event team builds custom menus for any time of day, offers full bar service, and can arrange on-site room blocks for guests along with off-site catering delivered anywhere on Orcas Island.

On San Juan Island, in the state of Washington, you'll find the historic beachfront resort of Roche Harbor. The settlement is a short drive from adjacent Friday Harbor and is steeped in a long and illustrious history. It is also bordered by gorgeous gardens. There is a vast variety of housing alternatives available, including opulent modern residences, historic hotels, and small cottages. There are three well-known restaurants along the water's edge, and diners can choose from more formal dinner service to more relaxed café fare. In addition to being able to accommodate boats of any size, our world-class marina also provides whale watching excursions, boat and kayak rentals, a floatplane dock, and a customs office for the United States. In addition, there is a full-service spa, a grocery store, various shopping places promoting local artists, and an extensive network of hiking paths that have been authorized by the national government. Get away to Roche Harbor on San Juan Island for the vacation of a lifetime on this lovely and tranquil island!

• Spaces for 400 Guests

Rosario Resort centers on the historic Moran Mansion, the anchor of a 30-acre waterfront property on Orcas Island in Washington's San Juan Islands. Robert Moran founded the resort in 1932, envisioning it as, in his words, "a wonderful place in which to forget one's troubles and worries and get back to Nature." Inside the Mansion, the Music Room's vaulted ceilings provide a setting for wedding ceremonies and intimate performances, and nearby, the circular Roundhouse Suite, originally built in 1913 as the Moran children's playhouse, perches on a rocky bluff above the marina. For larger gatherings, the Event Center looks out over Cascade Bay, while the waterfront lawn hosts outdoor ceremonies surrounded by island scenery. Guests arriving by water can dock at the resort's marina, which holds more than 36 slips and 8 mooring buoys, and two on-site restaurants, Harbor Bar & Grill and Blackfish Cafe, serve the property through the summer season. Lodging includes the waterside Cliffhouse Suite as well as Bayside, Harborside, and Hillside rooms, most positioned to capture views of Cascade Bay and the surrounding islands.

• Spaces for 24-225 Guests
• 2 Hotels
• 2 Meeting Spaces
• 1 Waterfront

Outlook Inn on Orcas Island overlooks Fishing Bay in the town of Eastsound, roughly 80 miles northwest of Seattle in Washington's San Juan Islands. The property includes 32 guestrooms across a mix of styles, from Water's Edge Suites and Bay View Studio Suites to Historic Rooms in its original building, giving couples and their guests a range of places to stay on-site. For weddings and private events, the inn offers both indoor and outdoor settings, including garden ceremonies among the property's landscape and micro weddings with bay views. Its grounds extend to waterfront shoreline and old-growth forest, both used as photography backdrops, while the Victorian Room and Water's Edge Event Space provide indoor venues for receptions, meetings, and dinners. Water's Edge looks out over Fisher's Bay through large windows and sliding glass doors, with direct access to the adjoining lawn for guests who want to move the celebration outdoors. New Leaf Cafe handles on-site catering for weddings and events, preparing menus built around locally sourced ingredients. Couples planning a wedding also have access to the Orcas Island Wedding Collective, a network of local vendors and planners who support the inn's events.

• Spaces for 500 Guests

• Spaces for 80 Guests

Cabins on the Point sits on three acres of private beachfront along West Sound, on Orcas Island in Washington's San Juan Islands. Its cabins, Heather and Primrose, and its beach cottage, Willow, were built in the early 1900s in a simple Cape Cod style and have been restored with cozy, romantic details, including wood stoves, fluffy pillows, and water views on two sides. The grounds open onto a lawn overlooking the waters of West Sound, a setting the property makes available for weddings. The cabins take on an added charm when decorated for the occasion, and couples are invited to reach out for details on hosting a ceremony on the point. Beyond the wedding lawn, guests have access to a private beach for beach bonfires, a dock available by arrangement for boats, and a two-person hot tub tucked among the trees near the Heather and Primrose cabins.

• Spaces for 85 Guests