Wedding DJ at Mariani’s Venue in Pembroke, NC

The Space

The owner behind this venue spent more than 30 years in construction and civil engineering before turning to event space, and it shows in details easy to miss on a walkthrough: an indoor waterfall with its own garden, an upstairs open balcony, and a full bar downstairs, laid out with the kind of practical eye you get from someone who built things professionally before he built this one.

The entire back wall of the venue is glass, opening the reception room onto a patio with flower gardens, a large lake, and a fountain, so the transition from ceremony to reception does not require guests to leave the water and gardens behind, just walk from one side of the glass to the other. That wall of glass also means natural light fills the reception space for most of the day.

Capacity & Layout

The venue seats around 300 guests and can hold up to 350 standing, numbers that put it comfortably in range for a large wedding without pushing into convention-hall territory. With the indoor waterfall and garden on one side, the upstairs balcony above, and the glass back wall opening to the lake and gardens on the other, the floor plan naturally breaks into a few distinct zones rather than one undifferentiated room.

Ceremonies typically happen outdoors, lakeside, among the flower gardens and near the fountain, with the reception moving indoors afterward to the bar and dining space. A rain plan is included at no extra cost, which matters for anyone locking in an outdoor ceremony date without wanting a second, separate contingency conversation later, and it means the indoor-versus-outdoor question rarely turns into a last-minute scramble.

Amenities

Catering is in-house, with the venue handling food directly rather than requiring an outside caterer, and the full bar downstairs is part of the same package. That combination, an indoor waterfall and garden feature on one side of the room and a working bar on the other, means the reception space itself has more built-in visual interest than a plain banquet room, worth factoring into how much additional decor a couple wants to bring in.

The venue has been recognized as the Best Wedding Venue in Robeson County and has built vendor relationships over a 15-year period, the kind of track record that tends to mean a smoother night for everyone working the event alongside the DJ. The property is wheelchair accessible throughout, and both the indoor reception space and outdoor ceremony area are built to handle a full guest list without bottlenecking at doorways.

Location & Getting There

We have worked a wedding here, so we know the venue’s flow directly: how the ceremony area by the lake connects to the reception room, and where a DJ setup fits against the indoor waterfall and full bar without crowding either. The venue sits in COMtech Park, between Lumberton and Pembroke off Highway 711, a location that puts it within easy reach of both towns rather than tucked deep into one or the other.

The venue is open Monday through Saturday, 11am to 11pm, hours generous enough that setup and load-out rarely compete with a tight morning turnover. Sound behaves differently on the two sides of that glass back wall: the indoor reception room, with its bar and waterfall garden, holds a system well for dancing, while the outdoor patio and lakeside ceremony area, open to the water and gardens, call for a setup built for open air rather than a closed room.