Wedding DJ at Marriott Winston-Salem in Winston-Salem, NC

The Space

This Marriott sits in downtown Winston-Salem’s Twin City Quarter and finished a $20 million renovation in April 2019 that touched nearly everything: 319 new guest rooms, a new lobby and entrance, a 2,500-square-foot health club, and the addition of the M Club. The hotel is also connected directly to the Benton Convention Center, giving it more event infrastructure attached than a standalone hotel would have on its own.

Butcher & Bull, the hotel’s restaurant, runs a contemporary take on a traditional steakhouse, chophouse classics alongside Southern fare built from local ingredients, and it includes three private dining rooms that seat between 16 and 45 guests, useful for a rehearsal dinner or a smaller gathering that does not need the full ballroom. That restaurant sits inside the same building as the event space, so catering logistics do not depend on an outside kitchen.

Capacity & Layout

The hotel offers 15,000 square feet of flexible meeting and banquet space split across 17 meeting rooms, 14 of which are pillarless, a detail that matters directly for a reception layout since a pillarless room means no support column breaking up a dance floor or a head table’s sightline. The Hearn Grand Ballroom anchors the larger events, with a Hearn Foyer attached for cocktail hours or a receiving line before guests move in.

Beyond the ballroom, smaller named rooms, including Bethabara, Corpening, Moravian, Piedmont, Salem, and Winston, give the hotel room to run a rehearsal dinner, a ceremony, and a reception as three separate bookings without any of them competing for space on the same night. Private Dining Room 1 alone can seat up to 700, so even the individual spaces here carry real capacity rather than functioning only as breakout rooms.

Amenities

With 319 guest rooms on-site, a wedding party and much of the guest list can stay under the same roof as the reception, which simplifies the end of the night considerably. The hotel is pet-friendly, up to two pets per room at 75 pounds each with a $50 non-refundable fee, worth knowing for a couple who wants a dog involved in the weekend even if not in the ceremony itself.

Self-parking is available in an attached, city-owned parking deck, and valet runs $33 per day for anyone who wants it. The fitness center includes Fitness On Demand along with complimentary WiFi throughout the property, and the hotel offers grab-and-go breakfast and Fresh Bites in-room dining, conveniences that matter most for a multi-day wedding weekend rather than a single evening reception.

Location & Getting There

The hotel sits about 17 miles from Piedmont Triad International Airport, a manageable drive for guests flying in, and its downtown Winston-Salem location inside the Twin City Quarter puts it within easy reach of the rest of the district on foot. Being physically connected to the Benton Convention Center means the property is built around hosting large events regularly, not occasionally, which tends to show in how smoothly load-in and vendor access run.

Check-in runs from 3pm and check-out at noon, standard hotel timing worth building into a wedding weekend schedule so a Friday rehearsal dinner or Sunday brunch does not collide with room turnover. The ballroom and breakout rooms here are finished, carpeted hotel event spaces built for banquet acoustics, and with 14 of the 17 rooms pillarless, a DJ has a clean, uninterrupted sightline and dance floor to fill without a support column in the way.