Meeting & Event Venues

As an event planner, you know that your most important decisions happen before you send out the invitations to your event. The first, and usually the most important, decision that a host or hostess will make is “where?” The venue can often dictate the size, duration and theme of an event, and usually dictates if people consider the event a success. Accordingly, the search for a venue can begin long before the event even occurs.

With so many venues in the San Francisco Bay Area, it can sometimes be difficult to choose the location that is perfect for your event. Anyone who has been through weeks of site visits knows that at some point every banquet hall and hotel starts to look the same, and all too often the venue is selected because they can’t stand the thought of one more site visit. What is usually overlooked by most event planners is that if every venue looks the same to them…chances are their guests will think it looks like every other venue. In turn selecting a unique venue for an event not only provides a nice change of scenery for the event planner, but more importantly for their guests.

A unique venue is different from the traditional banquet hall or hotel experience. Venues will often offer a sense of history (a Museum), culture (an Art Gallery) or the cool and unusual (a Professional Sports Facility) as opposed to the hotel ballroom, which although beautiful, may not be memorable. This is especially important when entertaining out-of-town guests as you can entertain your guests while exposing them to the culture and history of a great city like San Francisco. You are also visiting a unique, one-of-a-kind place which will leave a lasting impression, and will give an alternative view of the space not typically seen by the public.