Top Swannanoa Venues

• Spaces for 35-200 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Bar
• 3 Total Spaces

Zelda Dearest is an artful love letter to Asheville, where the spirit of southern hospitality comes to life. Hidden away like a secret garden in downtown's South Slope neighborhood, this refined hotel captures the worldly and creative essence of Zelda Fitzgerald. Just as Zelda enchanted the world, this hotel enchants its guests with graceful hospitality, indulgent surroundings, and an irresistible charm. Each unique room in these elegantly restored Victorian buildings is an homage to the historic architecture of Asheville and the artful spirit that surrounds it. When Zelda fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald, they spent their lives in hotels and seeing the world. This space embodies Zelda’s romantic, enigmatic spirit and provides the perfect, unique venue for your intimate wedding. Asheville held a special place in Zelda's heart, and we humbly honor her memory through our sincere hospitality, exquisite accommodations, and our adoration for this beloved little city.

• Spaces for 30-40 Guests

The Studio was born out of a vision to create a chic, versatile space in Downtown Asheville that caters to creatives, professionals, and those hosting intimate events, all at an affordable price. With 12 years of experience in Asheville’s hospitality and event industry, I saw a need for a venue that feels perfectly sized for smaller gatherings, without the oversized costs often associated with larger spaces. Whether you’re planning a micro-wedding, rehearsal dinner, or photoshoot, The Studio is designed to provide an inspiring and elegant setting that fits your event and your budget. Hosting an event for 20 shouldn’t come with the same price tag as one for 100, and The Studio offers a solution for those seeking a beautifully modern space tailored to their needs. At The Studio, we believe in supporting Asheville’s vibrant community of creatives and professionals, offering a space where big ideas can thrive in a way that works for the local market.

• Spaces for 48 Guests

The Argot Room is brought to you by Jargon, an established West Asheville Restaurant. The Argot Room is the perfect event venue for get-togethers of all kinds: brunches, reunions, bachelorette/bachelor party dinners, wedding party or rehearsal dinners, graduation dinners, birthday celebrations, baby showers, business dinners, and even band performances! We are able to accommodate parties up to 50 people, and work closely with our clients to design an experience and menu that is uniquely memorable. The Argot Room has an area for a dance floor and dj to get that party started, and even audio/visual capabilities for special presentations. The space has a similar charm and that vintage vibe that Jargon has, but with even more flair. Your guests will swoon over our cozy lounge areas, overall distinctive design and whimsical atmosphere.

• Spaces for 80-350 Guests

Host your next event at Asheville’s first craft brewery! With two beautifully designed, industrial-chic venues, it is the perfect setting for meetings, happy hours, fundraisers, holiday parties, and unforgettable retreats. The Event Center is ideal for gatherings of 70-340 guests and boasts a state-of-the-art stage with projector screen and sound system as well as the outdoor option of adding the Rooftop! Hosting an all-day meeting? Finish up with a Rooftop happy hour, surrounded by the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Need a unique space for your next gala or annual retreat? Our industrial-chic space features three levels, three bars, and a full AV setup equipped to handle meetings, streaming, and live music. The Barrel Room is ideal for more intimate gatherings of 25-100 guests. Perfect for intimate corporate dinners, interactive meetings, or casual happy hours, the Barrel Room provides a comfortable place for your group to gather. Hosting a large event and need extra room to spread out? The Barrel Room can be connected directly to the Event Center via removable walls, allowing for mingling-style gatherings of 600+ guests. Both venues include tables and chairs, a private bar, bar staff, and a Venue Coordinator to assist with planning and logistics. Inquire today and let the event professionals at Highland Brewing plan your next corporate gathering! Non-profit rates are available for registered 501-c3 organizations.

• Spaces for 50-100 Guests

Nestled in fabulous downtown Asheville, NC, UpMarket Gallery offers a one-of-a-kind event space where history and creativity come together in our newly-renovated 100-year old icon of Asheville history. Surrounded by curated artwork, this intimate venue is the perfect gathering space for groups of up to 50 guests, whether you are hosting a private celebration, corporate event or creative workshop. With a rich artistic ambiance and historic charm, UpMarket Gallery provides an inspiring backdrop that makes every occasion unforgettable.

Nestled close to Downtown Asheville, White Labs offers a laid-back yet lively setting for gatherings of all kinds. Savor handcrafted brews with ample seating, perfect for catching up with friends or celebrating special occasions. Looking to elevate your experience? Our Biergarten is available for private events, ensuring unforgettable celebrations with personalized touches and plenty of great beer and food!

• Spaces for 100-350 Guests
• 3 Event Spaces

"The Venue" is an event facility located in the center of downtown Asheville, and offers a spacious floor plan of 13,000 + sq feet, with three unique sections. Two sections offer private entrances - The Market Street level and The Second floor with a beautiful balcony area overlooking downtown Asheville. Having a characteristic French cottage setting of exposed brick walls, barn ceilings, and vintage tile floors, "The Venue" offers a warm and relaxed atmosphere. With a touch of uniqueness and elegance, this event facility will make any celebration an exceptional experience for guests, as well as the host.

• Spaces for 4,000-8,000 Guests

The newly renovated HomeTrust Park is available to celebrate life's special moments, outside of Tourists Baseball.

• Spaces for 180-230 Guests
• 1 Theater
• 1 Historic Space

White Horse Black Mountain is a nonprofit listening room and event venue housed in the historic McMurray Building at 105 Montreat Road in Black Mountain, North Carolina — about 20 minutes east of Asheville. The building, originally constructed in the 1940s as a Chevrolet dealership, was transformed into an intimate performance and events space by founders Kim Hughes and Bob Hinkle, who opened White Horse in November 2008 following a community-wide renovation effort. The main room spans 3,000 square feet with high arched wooden ceilings that deliver exceptional natural acoustics. It seats up to 180 guests and holds approximately 50 more standing, making it well-suited for weddings, rehearsal dinners, reunions, birthday celebrations, corporate retreats, and seminars. The venue includes a state-of-the-art sound system, a high-definition projection system with a 14×17-foot screen, and a full bar featuring local and regional draft beers, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. An outdoor patio with mountain views provides additional gathering space, and free parking is available throughout the adjacent lots and downtown area. White Horse accommodates outside caterers and food vendors and is ADA-accessible. As a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the venue offers donor pricing to other organizations with nonprofit status.

• Spaces for 80-500 Guests
• 1 Rooftop
• 2 Event Spaces
• 2 Breweries

Highland Brewing Company is Asheville's original craft brewery, founded in 1994 by Oscar Wong, a Chinese-Jamaican immigrant who introduced craft beer to the city using refurbished dairy equipment at Barley's Taproom. Today, the company operates an 11-acre campus in East Asheville — formerly the Blue Ridge Motion Picture Studios — with indoor and outdoor event venues, five sand volleyball courts, and an 18-hole disc golf course. The largest independent, family-owned brewery native to the Southeast, Highland has been led since 2018 by Leah Wong Ashburn, Oscar's daughter. The campus accommodates private events ranging from intimate gatherings in the Barrel Room to receptions of up to 350 guests in the Event Center & Rooftop, with Blue Ridge Mountain views and a full stage with audio-visual equipment.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

Sherrill's Inn is a registered historic property in Fairview, North Carolina, minutes from Asheville. Built in 1845 on land that John Ashworth first settled around 1801, the inn was enlarged by Bedford Sherrill in 1834 to serve travelers crossing Hickory Nut Gap — a waystation for stagecoach passengers and livestock drovers that drew prominent guests including President Millard Fillmore in 1854 and Mary Ann Morrison, who later became the second wife of Stonewall Jackson. Today the property operates as a private event venue, hosting weddings and special occasions across several distinct outdoor spaces. The Ceremony Field offers a manicured lawn framed by towering trees with a natural stage; the Boxwood Yard is enclosed by meticulously groomed hedges; the expansive Reception Field spans 75 by 225 feet with a bandstand; and the Covered Porch overlooks the grounds. The historic house interior includes preparation rooms and a library available to wedding parties. The inn welcomes events year-round, combining two centuries of mountain hospitality with the quiet character of the Blue Ridge foothills.

• Spaces for 40-250 Guests
• 2 Restaurants
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Total Spaces

The Century Room on the Park occupies the second floor of Pack's Tavern in downtown Asheville, housed within a restored 1907 building adjacent to Pack Square Park. The venue's main event space is a turn-of-the-century ballroom with high ceilings, exposed wood trusses, and original brick walls — a historic interior in one of Asheville's landmark settings. The ballroom accommodates up to 180 seated guests or 250 for a cocktail-style gathering, and is equipped with a private suite and advanced audio-visual capabilities. For smaller occasions, the Parkside Patio seats 25 to 40 guests across both covered and open-air sections, with direct views of Pack Square Park. A fully staffed kitchen and full bar support every event, with catering options spanning hors d'oeuvres, buffet, plated, and family-style service. A dedicated events team assists with planning from first inquiry through event day.

• Spaces for 50-600 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Hotel
• 8 Total Spaces

Biltmore Estate spans 8,000 acres of Blue Ridge Mountain landscape in Asheville, North Carolina, centered on America's Largest Home — a 250-room French Renaissance château built for the Vanderbilt family in the late 19th century. The estate offers eight distinct wedding and event venues, accommodating gatherings from 20 to 600 guests, ranging from intimate hidden gardens to grand outdoor celebrations framed by mountain views. Venue options span a wide range of settings and character. The Walled Garden surrounds a historic 1895 glass-roofed Conservatory. Diana sits atop a private hilltop hemlock grove with sweeping views of the Biltmore House. Lioncrest, listed on the National Historic Register, pairs a covered open-air veranda with a vaulted-ceiling Grand Ballroom. Deerpark, originally a calving barn designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt, now hosts ceremonies and receptions through its floor-to-ceiling windows and adjacent courtyard. All wedding packages include an open bar, seated or stations dinner, a custom wedding cake, and a two-night stay at The Inn on Biltmore Estate. Dedicated Catering Sales Managers guide couples through the planning process, including long-distance and destination wedding coordination.

• Spaces for 40-600 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 6 Total Spaces

Lioncrest and Deerpark are two historic event venues on the grounds of Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina; each with a distinct architectural character rooted in the estate's working agricultural past. Lioncrest, originally part of Biltmore's dairy complex and listed on the National Historic Register, combines a covered open-air Veranda (its three walls of floor-to-ceiling windows framing views of surrounding woodland and a private courtyard) with an upper-level Grand Ballroom featuring a soaring vaulted ceiling, exposed beams, wrought iron chandeliers, and large etched glass windows. The combination is equally suited to intimate ceremonies and receptions of up to 320 guests. Deerpark, designed by Richard Morris Hunt (the same architect behind Biltmore House), was originally built as a calving barn and converted into a restaurant in 1979. Its 6,600-square-foot layout centers on an open-air courtyard encircled by four wings whose glass doors open wide to unite indoor and outdoor space, creating what the estate describes as a casual yet elegant feeling. The full Deerpark venue accommodates receptions of up to 600 guests.

• Spaces for 200 Guests

Grand Bohemian Lodge Asheville is a AAA Four Diamond boutique hotel set in Historic Biltmore Village, within steps of the Biltmore Estate. The hotel channels the romance and atmosphere of a 17th century European hunting lodge, with interiors featuring a rare Bösendorfer piano, Swarovski crystal chandeliers, and 24-karat gilded detailing throughout. The hotel hosts weddings and private events in spaces that embody Old World character and refined luxury. The Tyrolean Terrace offers an outdoor tent-covered setting beneath crystal chandeliers, while interior ballroom and salon spaces provide an elegant backdrop suited to ceremonies, receptions, and celebrations of all scales. Private dining is available through Red Stag Grill, the hotel's restaurant specializing in locally sourced, game-driven cuisine, and a dedicated events team coordinates details from ceremony to reception. Grand Bohemian Lodge Asheville is independently owned and operated by The Kessler Collection, part of Marriott's Autograph Collection. The property also features an art gallery with rotating exhibitions by local, regional, and international artists, and The Spa at Grand Bohemian, which offers water-based healing therapies.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

Set within Antler Hill Village at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Antler Hill Barn is a private event venue with deep agricultural roots. Designed in 1900 by Biltmore House architect Richard Morris Hunt, the barn once served as the hub of the estate's farming operations, stabling workhorses and mules, storing feed and equipment, and housing a blacksmith's forge and repair shop within a landscape of dairy, market garden, sheep, poultry, and pigs. Today the thoughtfully preserved barn hosts weddings and private celebrations, its rustic farm architecture lending a casually elegant character. Nestled beneath a forested hillside and overlooking pastoral fields and the French Broad River, it offers a bucolic setting near the estate's Winery and The Inn on Biltmore Estate. Wedding packages bring together an open bar, a seated or stations dinner, a custom wedding cake, and a two-night stay at The Inn, making the barn a fitting choice for couples seeking a relaxed country affair on the Vanderbilt estate.

Cornelia Vanderbilt could have chosen any place in the world for her 1924 wedding reception, and she chose Biltmore. Today, you can offer your guests the same tradition of gracious hospitality and unmatched beauty with a wedding at Biltmore.

• Spaces for 205 Guests

The Capital Club of Asheville is a private event venue in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, built around a rooftop terrace with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the city skyline. Its modern design pairs a climate-controlled indoor banquet room with the open-air terrace, giving events both a sheltered gathering space and an outdoor vantage over the mountains. The venue hosts weddings, rehearsal dinners, and a wide range of private gatherings, including corporate receptions, fundraisers, milestone anniversaries, showers, reunions, and celebrations of life. Versatile layouts accommodate groups as small as 15 and up to 175 guests, with seated dinners for up to 120 and cocktail-style receptions for larger crowds. Rentals come well-appointed, including tables, chairs, linens, a roller bar, music service, audio/visual equipment, and access to an onsite prep kitchen. The venue works with a range of caterers and can approve outside vendors, and its central Patton Avenue location places events in the heart of downtown Asheville.

• Spaces for 110-150 Guests
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Mansion

Homewood is a restored 1927 English stone manor in Asheville's historic Montford neighborhood, less than a mile from downtown. Built as the residence of Dr. Robert Carole, the property has hosted notable figures over the years — among them composer Béla Bartók and pianist Nina Simone. The venue has operated as a wedding and events destination since 2001, drawing on the manor's architectural character: original hardwood floors, cherry walls, 20-foot ceilings, a Grand Appalachian Stone Fireplace, and wrought-iron chandeliers. The Great Room accommodates up to 110 guests for seated dinners with a dance floor, or 150 for cocktail-style receptions. Ceremonies take place either indoors in front of the fireplace or outdoors in the adjacent Garden Ceremony Site, set within landscaped grounds. Homewood provides complimentary overnight parking for up to 200 vehicles, full handicap accessibility via elevator and ramps, and in-house event coordination through Carolina Love Events. The venue welcomes all couples.

• Spaces for 130-350 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Ranch

Taylor Ranch is a fifth-generation, privately owned 500-acre working Quarter Horse and Texas Longhorn cattle ranch in Cane Creek Valley, fifteen minutes from Asheville, North Carolina. The property's seven-acre stocked lake, gently rolling hills, and mountain views set the stage for weddings, rehearsal dinners, family reunions, milestone celebrations, and corporate gatherings. Two lakeside post-and-beam structures anchor the event experience. The Lakehouse spans 6,000 square feet with a full Red Oak bar, central stage, and dance floor. The Waterin' Hole is an open-air covered pavilion set beneath hardwood tree canopies, accommodating up to 130 guests with its own bar, dance floor, and food service areas. Ceremony space at the lakeside deck allows guests to exchange vows at the water's edge. Beyond the main structures, the grounds offer lawn games, a campfire ring with log bench seating, and sport fishing — giving guests reason to linger across the property. On-site event coordination and turn-key planning services are available.