Top Tumwater Venues

• Spaces for 200-300 Guests
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Estate
• 1 Mansion

Thornewood Castle, located on four acres near American Lake and studded with old growth fir trees, is a historic mansion. It was built in 1908 by Chester A. Thorne and is the only one of its sort on the west coast. The house measures 27,000 square feet and is decorated in the Gothic Tudor style. Thornewood, originally built as a single family property, has been painstakingly restored to its former glory as an elegant country inn. Explore the hallways where presidents and luminaries have trod before you. Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt stayed in our presidential suite on their visit to Washington. Explore the grounds, which include a beautiful half-acre sunken English perennial garden. American Lake is a lovely place to swim, fish, and boat. Take pleasure in watching spectacular sunsets from the hand-tiled lakeside patio. Stained glass window insets from the Middle Ages, as well as antique furniture and artworks, decorate the mansion. Whatever you decide, we will spoil you and make your stay with us a memorable experience. Thornewood Castle is a destination wedding location in the Pacific Northwest that can accommodate both indoor and outdoor ceremonies. Guests can exchange vows in our sunken English garden, within the Great Hall and Ballroom, or on the grounds overlooking American Lake. Thornewood Castle can accommodate weddings and celebrations of all sizes. Make sure to go through our Wedding Photo Gallery to see all of the possibilities available to you! In addition to our interior and outdoor venues, we can host visitors. You should consider having a contingency plan in place if you are planning an outdoor wedding in the Seattle/Tacoma area in case of unexpected rain or other adverse weather.

• Spaces for 200 Guests

The Washington State Legislative Building anchors the Capitol Campus in Olympia. Completed in 1928, it was designed by New York architects Walter R. Wilder and Harry K. White. Their design won a national competition held in 1911. The building's dome rises 287 feet. It is the tallest masonry dome in North America. Wilkeson sandstone, quarried in Pierce County, covers the exterior. Inside, marble arrives from farther away: Formosa marble lines the Senate chamber, French Escalette marble lines the House, and gray Alaskan marble runs through the main corridors. A Tiffany chandelier hangs over the Washington State Seal in the rotunda. The rotunda, its mezzanines, and the Columbia Room host weddings, receptions, dances, and graduation ceremonies. Private events can take place inside the building after hours. Outdoors, ceremonies can also take place in the Sunken Garden, under a wisteria trellis, or on the lawn near the Tivoli fountain. The surrounding grounds were laid out by the Olmsted Brothers and include an arboretum and cherry trees, all within a National Historic District.

• Spaces for 60-100 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 1 Mansion

Swantown Inn is an 1887 Queen Anne/Eastlake Victorian Mansion in Olympia, Washington. It's listed on both the city and state historical registers. The mansion pairs its Victorian architecture with modern comforts, including room-controlled heat and air conditioning, EV charging, and Wi-Fi throughout. The inn has hosted weddings on-site for more than 25 years. Its current owners, Nathan and Casey, have spent over two decades focused on smaller and elopement-style celebrations. Non-denominational ordained officiants are on staff to help couples build a personalized ceremony. An elopement package bundles the officiant, cake, sparkling beverage, a small bouquet, and a night's stay in the Astoria Room. For larger gatherings, the Grand Victorian Ballroom accommodates up to 60 guests for weddings, receptions, showers, board retreats, and corporate meetings. Built in 2018, the ballroom echoes the mansion's historic character while adding chandeliers, a bar area serving espresso and baked goods, AV capabilities, and Wi-Fi. It's ADA compliant, with an accessible bathroom, ramp, and designated parking. Four guest rooms with king beds and private bathrooms round out the property, along with the apartment-style Puget Suite, which sleeps up to six across two bedrooms.

• Spaces for 80-300 Guests
• 1 Museum
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Venue with Activities

Hands On Children's Museum is a 28,000-square-foot museum in Olympia, Washington, with a half-acre Outdoor Discovery Center and views of the East Bay waterfront. The LEED- and Green Globes-certified building holds more than 150 hands-on exhibits, giving private events a playful, whimsical backdrop that's a departure from a typical ballroom or hotel venue. The museum hosts weddings, corporate meetings and receptions, birthday and anniversary parties, holiday parties, memorial services, fundraisers, family reunions, and school dances. Wedding couples can hold their ceremony outdoors and their reception inside, with guests free to explore the galleries and dance to a live band. A dedicated event coordinator plans each event, and the building offers kitchen facilities throughout (refrigerator, freezer, stove and oven, high-temperature dishwasher, and an industrial cooler), ADA-accessible ramps and a centrally located elevator, and video screens that can display slideshows or presentations. For birthday parties, the museum offers daytime party packages for small or large groups as well as private after-hours parties for up to 80 guests, with full access to the museum galleries and, for an additional fee, the Outdoor Discovery Center.

• Spaces for 40-350 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Ballroom
• 6 Total Spaces

Indian Summer Golf & Country Club hosts everything from wedding weekends to corporate retreats, board meetings, and holiday galas, with a private-club feel that suits both a bride's ceremony and a company's leadership forum. Wedding celebrations often begin outdoors in the Oakside Courtyard, a landscaped space set beneath towering oak trees with views over wetlands and gardens, before moving into the club's 33,000-square-foot clubhouse for receptions. The clubhouse sits alongside a golf course designed by Peter L. H. Thompson, running through old-growth forest and water features, and includes Embers Restaurant, which serves Northwest-inspired cuisine from an outdoor deck overlooking the course. Event bookings come with full-service, in-house catering, tables, chairs, linens, china, and glassware, plus bartending and butler hors d'oeuvre service. Weddings include an eight-hour event window, a rehearsal, and dedicated changing rooms for the couple. Complimentary parking is available for guests, and an in-house events management and catering team supports planning from booking through event day.

• Spaces for 250 Guests

The clubhouse at Olympia Country & Golf Club was built in 1925, on a bluff above Butler Cove. Its terrace overlooks the golf course, the saltwater waterfront, and the Olympic Mountains beyond. The club sits on nearly 100 acres near Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1917, the club first stood in Lacey before relocating to its present site in 1923. The eighteen-hole golf course took shape gradually: nine holes opened in 1926, with the back nine added in 1958. Recent renovations added the Terrace on the Green restaurant, a new pro shop, cart storage, a parking garage, and a remodeled Legacy Building. Terrace on the Green serves Pacific Northwest cuisine built on locally sourced ingredients, from fresh seafood to plant-based dishes prepared fresh daily. A separate lounge offers a more casual setting. The property also includes a fitness center and pickleball courts. Olympia Country & Golf Club welcomes non-members to host events in its waterfront setting, with no member sponsorship required. Its events team, reachable through the club's main line, coordinates weddings and private events of varying sizes.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

Prairie Hotel sits in Yelm, Washington, in the foothills of the Cascade Range, roughly an hour from Mount Rainier National Park and thirty minutes from Olympia. The hotel offers four room categories — Classic and Superior rooms, Studio rooms with select fireplaces or private patios, and suites with separate living areas, full kitchens, and jetted tubs or fireplaces — each appointed with high-speed Wi-Fi, a 42-inch flat-screen television, and a work desk. For weddings and other group travel, the hotel arranges discounted room blocks for out-of-town guests attending weddings, reunions, and business events, and coordinates nearby private event spaces for rehearsal dinners, brunches, and related gatherings. A handful of restaurants sit within walking distance, including Mr. Doug's Restaurant next door, Uptown Lounge, and Casa Mia, for groups looking to extend a celebration beyond the hotel.

• Spaces for 10-150 Guests
• 3 Outdoor Spaces
• 4 Historic Spaces
• 4 Total Spaces

Lakewold Gardens is a nonprofit public garden on the shores of Gravelly Lake in Lakewood, Washington, not a purpose-built banquet hall. The 10-acre estate dates to the early 20th century, and its design took shape over decades under Corydon and Eulalie Wagner, who owned the property from 1938 and brought in landscape architect Thomas Church, who returned regularly after his first Pacific Northwest visit in 1958 to refine the grounds. In 1987, Eulalie Wagner donated the estate to a new nonprofit, and Lakewold opened to the public as a garden in 1989. That history shapes how events work here. Rather than booking back-to-back weddings, Lakewold reserves a limited number each year, giving couples exclusive use of the Wagner House and surrounding gardens instead of a single interior room. Ceremonies and receptions can host up to 150 guests among century-old trees and garden rooms shaped across nearly a century of horticultural stewardship, while smaller micro-weddings and elopements are available for couples who want a quieter version of the same setting, including the Tea House gazebo and the wisteria-covered veranda. The same Wagner House rooms — an Upper Conference Room, Living Room/Dining Room, Veranda, and Atrium — are also available to rent for birthday parties, showers, corporate retreats, and other private gatherings, each with a view out into the garden.

• Spaces for 120 Guests

• Spaces for 150 Guests

• Spaces for 200 Guests

• Spaces for 72 Guests

• Spaces for 200 Guests

• Spaces for 80-360 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Meeting Space

Lacey Community Center occupies a vaulted-ceiling banquet hall within Woodland Creek Community Park, its hardwood floors and wall of doors opening onto a terrace that overlooks a small pond on the park grounds. The building's principal room can be partitioned into three sections and accommodates up to 280 guests with banquet seating or 360 with theater-style seating, suiting it to receptions, banquets, conferences, and community gatherings. Two additional meeting rooms, which can be combined into one larger space, hold 80 to 120 guests and are equipped with audiovisual equipment and wireless internet for presentations and smaller functions. A fully equipped kitchen, an adjoining lobby, and city staff assistance with table and chair setup round out the facility, which is operated by the City of Lacey's Parks, Culture and Recreation Department.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

• Spaces for 200 Guests

• Spaces for 320 Guests

Lake Lawrence Community Club occupies a lodge built in 1923 as Edwards Pavilion, when Louie Armstrong and Amber Reichel raised the building from logs felled on the property itself and Frank Noreen constructed its fireplace. The pavilion served Edwards Resort, a fishing and recreation getaway on the lake, and hosted dances there for decades before the resort closed in 1973. The lodge and its grounds then became part of Lake Lawrence Community Club, which now opens the space to the wider community for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, family reunions, and other private events. The lodge hosts guests with 38 banquet tables, 4 round tables, and 310 folding chairs, along with two separate dressing areas for the bridal party and groom. A full kitchen equipped with a professional range, microwave, 100-cup coffee maker, three refrigerators, and a beverage cooler supports on-site catering. The parking lot holds 300 vehicles under supervised parking, and motorhomes and RVs are welcome to stay overnight. Rentals run from Friday setup through a Saturday event day and a Sunday morning cleanup, giving wedding parties and event hosts a full weekend at the lake.