Top Vale 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 220 Guests

WoodMill Winery sits in the Southern Appalachian foothills of Vale, North Carolina, producing wines from muscadine, scuppernong, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and Concord grapes. The winery's selection spans sweet to dry varietals, with a particular emphasis on muscadine — a native Southeastern grape recognized for high antioxidant content. The estate hosts a range of private celebrations, from weddings and receptions to anniversary and birthday gatherings, bridal and baby showers, family reunions, and corporate meetings and workshops. Non-profit organizations are offered special pricing for on-site events.

Wedding Planner in Hickory, NC

• 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 300 Guests
• 1 Barn
• 1 Farm
• 1 Historic Space

DeStarte Wedding Barn is a rustic-yet-elegant venue set on a six-generation family farm at the base of North Carolina's South Mountains, near Lawndale in the foothills west of Charlotte. Recognized as a North Carolina Century Farm with property heritage dating to 1803, the setting pairs an authentic barn with mature pine forests, poplar trees, and rolling pastures crossed by brick walkways. The venue began as Glenda Miller's family home, and the original barn was built to shelter the family's horses before becoming the heart of the property's celebrations. Its main barn anchors the space with a 16-foot rock fireplace and a 6-foot rock fire pit, hosting weddings of roughly 20 to 300 guests across intimate gatherings and large-scale events alike. DeStarte offers all-inclusive packages that bring together tables, vintage wooden oak chairs, linens, a bartender, an on-site coordinator, a DJ, and ambient lighting, along with ample parking with handicap access. On-site lodging rounds out the experience, including a five-bedroom home, a private guest house, and a handcrafted cabin nestled in the pines.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

• Spaces for 200 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.