Let me tell you about one of Seattle's best kept secret wedding venues... Not a ton of weddings have been held here per se, but I foresee many in the future after our experience.
My wife and I got married here, and Jason W, the Food and Beverage Director, is freaking saintly. They need to revise his title to Food and Beverage and Wedding Director. This man and his awesome staff were absolutely PHENOMENAL with helping us plan, accommodating our wishes above and beyond.
I cannot overstate how fantastic Jason did helping us figure everything out, and dealing with all the chaos leading up to and including the wedding. Long story short, the pricing was awesome, and we wouldn't have been able to make our wedding what we wanted anywhere else we got quotes from. View was beautiful, everything just immaculate. Fireplace and Skyline room are both about as good as venues get at their prices.
Eventually we will come back to this review and update with more info because this place deserves an essay about how awesome they are, but one of the many highlights as a sneak peak: my mother-in-law wanted to have fresh Lechon (basically a whole roasted pig) as one of the appetizers. Jason graciously encouraged us to bring in food like this if it had cultural significance for us (wife is Filipino-chinese) and the plan was to bring in a small "appetizer-sized" pig we could keep warm on the stove or in an oven. Well in all the chaos it turns out the Lechon we got was pretty gigantic. There was NO WAY this thing was gonna stay warm because there wasn't an oven big enough to fit a full sized Lechon, and Jason was able to get creative and make it work! Ovens were opened and the Lechon was laid on the doors to keep the heat on it to stay hot and fresh while guests arrived. Hope that kitchen didn't get too hot!
It was just stories like this for days. Jason and the staff took great care of us, and all the residents we met were super friendly and thoughtful people. THANK YOU GLEN ACRES for helping us start our marriage off perfectly.
Brief summary of highlights:
-recently went to a rather swanky wedding overseas, our food was better, hands down (shoutout for the braised short ribs!)
-reasonably priced drinks, and great bartender kept the bar bumpin all night!
-flexible speaker system, easy to use
-projector system worked great even though we changed plans last second and didnt use it
-they were very accommodating with our hopes for interior decorating, let us hang stuff from the walls and ceiling
-parking was ample and close
The list goes on and on and on. It's been 4 months since our wedding and I am still ecstatic about this place. You can't go wrong here. Thank you Glen Acres, and thanks Jason!