Top Wauwatosa Venues

• Spaces for 120-2,125 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 5 Total Spaces

The Marcus Performing Arts Center sits directly on Milwaukee's Riverwalk in the heart of downtown, pairing a landmark performance hall with a range of spaces built for weddings, galas, corporate gatherings, and commencements. Its signature reception space, the Bradley Pavilion, is a ballroom lined with floor-to-ceiling windows and a private balcony overlooking the river, with direct access out to the adjoining Fitch Memorial Garden for guests who want to step outside between courses. That garden, with its ivy-covered wall and fountain, doubles as a ceremony backdrop for outdoor weddings and receptions. For larger gatherings, Uihlein Hall — the center's largest venue — can host lectures, commencements, and annual meetings on the same stage used for opera, Broadway, and dance. The riverside Peck Pavilion offers an outdoor setting for concerts and seasonal events, while the Promenade provides a more intimate lounge-style space for a pre- or post-show dinner or reception. Marcus Center Food & Beverage serves as the venue's exclusive caterer, building chef-driven menus around seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, and a dedicated event management team guides hosts through planning from first tour to event day.

• Spaces for 24-250 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Meeting Spaces

The Grace Center is an event venue in downtown Milwaukee operated by Grace Lutheran Church, offering three rentable spaces for weddings, celebrations, and business gatherings. The Great Hall, the Grace Center's largest space, is a vaulted, glass-walled room that accommodates up to 250 guests for a seated meal and is used for wedding receptions, galas, proms, fashion shows, and similar celebrations. Rental includes a dance floor, a sound system with wireless microphone, a catering kitchen, tables and chairs, and an on-site events representative to oversee the event. Wedding receptions are supported with high-quality bar service and a list of preferred local caterers. For smaller gatherings, Grace Place Coffee is a trendy space for 20 to 24 guests suited to presentations, workshops, or small group meetings, with access to an adjoining atrium for cocktail receptions. The Classroom is a modern, multi-purpose room for intimate gatherings of up to 30 guests, suited to a seated meal, lecture, or meeting, and includes a projector and screen. While the Grace Center hosts receptions and celebrations, wedding ceremonies take place in the adjoining Grace Lutheran Church rather than the Great Hall.

• Spaces for 75 Guests

• Spaces for 10-300 Guests
• 2 Ballrooms
• 1 Historic Space
• 3 Meeting Spaces

The Milwaukee Athletic Club is the only social and full-service athletic club of Milwaukee, but that's not the only reason the MAC is one of a kind. Elegant, full of history, and in the heart of downtown, your Milwaukee wedding guests will truly enjoy their time at The Milwaukee Athletic Club. The Milwaukee Athletic Club has an in-house wedding team who ensures a seamless experience. The Grand Ballroom of The Milwaukee Athletic Club is the perfect wedding venue with white and gold pillars and arches, crystal chandeliers, and a 24k gold leaf hand painted ceiling. A wedding at The Milwaukee Athletic Club is all about elegance. The rooftop deck is the perfect place for your reception, overlooking downtown Milwaukee.

• Spaces for 50-65 Guests
• 1 Event Space

Indulge is a private event venue in the heart of Downtown Milwaukee, located at 708 N Milwaukee St. The intimate space accommodates parties of up to 50 guests seated or 65 guests for cocktail-style gatherings, making it well suited to rehearsal dinners, holiday parties, birthdays, corporate cocktail hours, graduations, and similar celebrations. Rentals average $600 for a five-hour event and include granite tables, leather chairs, real china and silverware, black linen napkins, Riedel wine glasses, and a sound system for guests to plug in their own music. Food can be catered in-house by Indulge or brought in by an outside caterer of the host's choosing, while bar service is handled exclusively by Indulge's own staff, offering a full bar with professional bartenders. Indulge is part of the Bianchini family of Milwaukee restaurants and venues.

• Spaces for 32-125 Guests
• 3 Hotels
• 1 Ballroom
• 3 Total Spaces

Hotel Metro, Autograph Collection is a boutique, art deco-style hotel set in a building dating to the 1930s in downtown Milwaukee, within walking distance of Lake Michigan and the Historic Third Ward. The property's event spaces include a Ballroom with an attached atrium and two rooftop meeting rooms, each outfitted with natural light, on-site catering, and AV equipment for gatherings ranging from corporate meetings to wedding receptions. The Ballroom, the largest of the three spaces, accommodates up to 125 guests and is supported by a dedicated events team and an on-site culinary team handling catering. Couples can also reserve a private bridal suite for pre-wedding preparation, and wedding parties booking 10 or more overnight rooms qualify for group rates. Guests and event attendees can also dine at Oggie's Kitchen & Bar, the hotel's on-site restaurant, or enjoy cocktails at the seasonal Puffer Fish Rooftop Bar. Historic touches remain throughout the property, including a vintage 1930s typewriter and an original mail chute available to guests.

• Spaces for 300 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Event Space

South Second is a modern, industrial event venue minutes from downtown Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood. The space combines an indoor hall with a renovated outdoor patio, bar, and balcony overlooking the main floor, for a combined 16,500 square feet that can be arranged in an open-concept, blank-canvas layout. The venue accommodates up to 300 guests and hosts wedding ceremonies and receptions, corporate meetings and team-building events, award ceremonies, holiday parties, and social celebrations. A newly updated bridal suite is available for wedding parties getting ready on-site, and an on-site parking lot plus reserved spaces are available to guests. Catering is provided exclusively by Saz's Catering, which has planned and executed events for over 30 years, and every rental includes a dedicated event planner to help coordinate catering details, timelines, and other logistics.

• Spaces for 250 Guests

• Spaces for 50-358 Guests
• 1 Bar
• 3 Theaters
• 4 Total Spaces

The Broadway Theatre Center, home to Skylight Music Theatre, sits in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward and offers a set of distinct spaces for private events. The Cabot Theatre is a replica of an 18th-century Jewel Box opera house — Le théâtre de la Coupe d'Or in Rochefort, France — seating 358 guests across the orchestra level, dress circle, and gallery, with state-of-the-art theatrical systems and upholstered box seating that make it suited to ceremonies and performances alike. The Studio Theatre offers a more intimate black box setting with loose chair seating for up to 99, built for an informal atmosphere where the audience feels close to the action. For receptions and gatherings, the Dorothea C. Mayer Salon is a European-style room on the second level overlooking Catalano Square, flexible enough to seat up to 50 guests at tables or hold 100 assembly-style or standing. The Skylight Bar rounds out the venue with a cabaret-style space seating up to 100, standing room for 150, a small stage for intimate performances, and catering vendors on call for events of any size. Skylight Music Theatre has staged musical theater in Milwaukee since 1959, producing more than 105 performances a season across a repertoire spanning baroque opera, operetta, and Broadway musicals — giving events held at the Broadway Theatre Center a genuine theatrical backdrop.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

Established in 2011, Red Lion Pub is a British-style pub in downtown Milwaukee. Its kitchen serves a full menu of British dishes alongside Wisconsin-inflected American fare, all made from scratch, and its bar pours a rotating selection of authentic beers, spirits, and cocktails. Multiple TVs throughout the space make it a popular gathering spot for soccer fans catching matches from home and abroad, and the pub describes itself as an extension of the neighborhood's living room, where customers and staff become friends. Red Lion Pub caters private events on-site and off-site, handling birthday parties, holiday parties, corporate events, and wedding festivities. Each event is tailored to the host's tastes and needs, with the pub taking care of the details to bring the occasion to life.

• Spaces for 12-175 Guests
• 3 Museums
• 3 Landmarks
• 3 Total Spaces

North Point Lighthouse and Museum is a restored 1855 maritime landmark set on a two-acre wooded site within Milwaukee's Lake Park, itself laid out in 1893 by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The 74-foot tower and Queen Anne-style Keeper's Quarters guided Great Lakes shipping traffic until the light was decommissioned in 1994; a volunteer group, North Point Lighthouse Friends, restored the property to its early 20th-century appearance, reopening it to the public in 2007. The lighthouse's Gallery Level and adjoining lawn and patio host weddings, receptions, rehearsal dinners, and life-celebration events, with a tent option extending capacity for larger outdoor gatherings. A smaller Board Room accommodates corporate meetings and nonprofit retreats. Rentals of the museum and grounds include onsite staff and a commercial photography permit, and events unfold amid the site's maritime exhibits, spiral tower staircase, and grounds overlooking Lake Michigan.

• Spaces for 300 Guests

The Wisconsin Country Club is a private club in Milwaukee, set along an 18-hole golf course built in 1954 by designer William Diddel and renewed in 2014 with a $3.5 million makeover by architect Bruce Hepner. Founded in 1926 as Brynwood Country Club, the property spent 14 years as the country-club campus of The Wisconsin Club before joining Concert Golf Partners in June 2023 under its current name. Weddings of up to 300 guests unfold across nearly 5,000 square feet of entertaining space in the clubhouse, with get-ready rooms for the wedding party and a choice of outdoor ceremony sites across the manicured grounds — including settings with panoramic views of the 18th green. The culinary team creates custom menus served as cocktail-hour hors d'oeuvres or as plated, family-style, or buffet meals, with bartenders pouring signature drinks and premium liquors from an open or cash bar. Private and semi-private rooms handle everything from board-style meetings to large conferences, supported by audio-visual equipment and complimentary WiFi, and the wheelchair-accessible clubhouse offers on-site parking. From bridal showers and rehearsal dinners to golf tournaments, fundraisers, and class reunions, the club's planners look after the details from the initial tour through event day.

• Spaces for 300 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Meeting Space

For more than 65 years, Davians has served the Milwaukee area, growing from a snack and vending company founded in 1958 into a full-service catering and events business that began hosting events in 1990. The family-owned company operates its Event Center in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, where multiple private rooms and both indoor and outdoor ceremony spaces accommodate groups of 20 to 300 guests. Davians handles every detail of an event in-house, providing tables, chairs, linens, china, and glassware alongside chef-prepared menus built from local, seasonal ingredients and a full bar staffed by its own bartenders and event staff. The venue hosts weddings, corporate meetings and annual gatherings, social celebrations, memorial services, and galas, and its wedding program has been voted Best of Weddings on The Knot for three consecutive years. The venue's team draws on decades of experience in the Milwaukee food and beverage industry to guide clients from planning through execution, working to make every guest feel like family.

• Spaces for 20-607 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 6 Total Spaces

Set within Mitchell Park in Brookfield, Wisconsin, the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary nonprofit cultural arts facility that has served as a hub for performing arts, arts education, and visual arts since opening in 2002. The Center's array of spaces are available for rental to individuals, organizations, and corporations for performances, weddings, festivals, meetings, fundraisers, and private parties. Among its rentable spaces, the Kuttemperoor Grand Hall is a two-story room with exposed wood beams and Susan Falkman's hand-carved limestone fireplace, adjoined to the north by the Elmbrook Rotary Fireside Lounge and its etched-glass window by artist Conrad Schmitt; the space accommodates ceremony seating for up to 200 guests and can expand onto an adjacent patio for larger receptions. Nearby, The Burke Colonnade is a structure of whole-tree timber framing designed by WholeTrees Architecture and Structures, offering ceremony seating for up to 200 guests. The Harris Theater, home to a hand-blown glass bird installation by artist Steve Feren, seats up to 607 for concerts, lectures, and formal meetings, while the Dawes Studio Theater and adjoining Gerlach/Haack Outdoor Theater provide indoor and outdoor options for recitals, ceremonies, and receptions. The Wilson Center welcomes more than 55,000 visitors annually, including over 10,000 students through its arts education programming, and offers an onsite catering prep kitchen, free Wi-Fi, and free parking in the adjacent Mitchell Park surface lot to support events held at the Center.

• Spaces for 70-300 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 1 Meeting Space
• 1 Waterfront

The Polish Center of Wisconsin is a cultural center in Franklin designed in the style of a Polish country manor house, built by the Polish Heritage Alliance and opened in August 2000 after Milwaukee's Polish community raised funds through Polish Fest. The building sits on wooded grounds overlooking a spring-fed lake, with banquet rooms and an outdoor patio that take in the lake views. The center's Ballroom hosts weddings, banquets, galas, and receptions for up to 300 guests, complete with tables, chairs, event setup, cleaning, and banquet staff, plus a full bar available for larger gatherings. The more intimate Veterans Room, accommodating up to 70 guests, suits brunches, meetings, and smaller private celebrations. Throughout the year, the center also hosts workshops, concerts, art exhibits, and Polish Fest, the region's three-day summer celebration of Polish culture.

• Spaces for 150-350 Guests
• 1 Bar
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Event Spaces

Waukesha Elks Lodge 400 is a fraternal Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks lodge in Waukesha, Wisconsin, that also operates as an event venue for weddings, receptions, and private celebrations. The lodge offers two banquet spaces depending on the size of an event: the Main Hall, a ballroom and dining hall that accommodates 350 guests comfortably and includes a private bridal suite, and the Jolly Cork Pub, a full-service bar and lounge with room for 150. Guests renting the Main Hall have access to a dance floor and an adjoining tap bar, and the lodge's rental agent works directly with each event on table layout and setup. The lodge provides full bar service and an onsite caterer who can assist with menu planning, along with a list of preferred and approved vendors for events that need additional support.

• Spaces for 200-225 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Barn
• 1 Event Space

Located about 15 minutes from downtown Milwaukee in Franklin, Wisconsin, Crystal Ridge operates as a ski, snowboard, and tubing hill through the winter and turns into an event venue the rest of the year. From May through October, its Lodge offers 5,000 square feet of event space with a rustic-meets-modern feel, drawing weddings, parties, and other private events to the hillside setting. The Lodge accommodates up to 200 guests, depending on the floor plan, and comes with 20 barnwood tables, white folding chairs, and a customizable layout for ceremonies, receptions, or cocktail hours alike. An in-house bar staffed by trained bartenders, a head table setup, and cocktail tables for a happy hour or reception round out the indoor offerings, while Edison lights strung from the lodge beams and along the patio, an outdoor ceremony option, and use of the patio and fire pit extend the celebration outside. Rentals include free parking with overnight access, day-of decorating and vendor setup time, and a day-of venue coordinator to help the event run smoothly.

• Spaces for 100-400 Guests
• 1 Bar
• 2 Meeting Spaces
• 3 Venues with Activities

Village Bowl & Social is a family-run bowling and entertainment venue in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, offering bowling, a full-service bar, and three banquet spaces for private events. The complex pairs its 26 lanes with dedicated event rooms, giving guests the option to combine a party with bowling, billiards, or darts alongside a traditional banquet setup. Strikers Social Lounge is the venue's largest hall, holding up to 270 guests with a private entrance, a dance floor, pool tables, darts, and its own full bar — suited to wedding receptions, quinceañeras, and anniversary parties. The Vista accommodates up to 150 guests for events such as baby showers, anniversaries, and celebrations of life, while The Summit is sized for smaller gatherings of up to 100, built around business meetings, sales training, fundraisers, and rehearsal dinners. Every rental includes table and chair setup, a choice of linen colors, catering tables, a microphone and podium for presentations, and setup and cleanup service. In-house catering ranges from themed buffets to à la carte menus, with no minimum food-and-beverage charge.

• Spaces for 250 Guests

Aud Mar Banquets, known locally as "The Aud Mar," is a family-owned event venue in Muskego, Wisconsin that has served the community since 1958. With more than 60 years in the restaurant business, the venue brings friendly, focused hospitality to occasions ranging from small family gatherings to large corporate events, and from intimate rustic ceremonies to black-tie formal weddings. Set on Bass Bay, Aud Mar Banquets offers lakefront grounds as a backdrop for celebrations, with a 360-degree virtual tour available for prospective clients to preview the property. The venue's food and beverage program spans menus for casual events and elegant weddings, prepared to accommodate guests' special dietary needs. Aud Mar Banquets is affiliated with Bass Bay Brewhouse.