Wedding DJ at Prescott Automative in Hendersonville, NC

The Space

Vehicle storage takes up 68,000 square feet of the Prescott Auto Reserve’s 100,000-square-foot footprint in Hendersonville, since the property is built around a luxury car club first and an event space second. A wedding here shares the building with a serious car collection, which is not something most couples get to say about their reception venue, and it gives the whole property a different character than a standard event hall.

The 10,000-square-foot event space is the section built to handle large gatherings, with in-house catering available so a couple is not coordinating an outside kitchen into an unfamiliar building. The Members Lounge sits between two views, car collections on one side and the Blue Ridge Mountains on the other, which is a genuinely unusual backdrop for photos taken during a cocktail hour.

Capacity & Layout

At 10,000 square feet, the event space is sized for a real reception rather than a small private dinner, with enough open floor area to lay out dinner seating, a dance floor, and a DJ setup without feeling cramped against the walls. The clubhouse lounge sits adjacent, giving guests a separate area to gather during cocktail hour or after dinner.

That clubhouse lounge is built for lingering rather than passing through: large-screen TVs, wifi, racing simulators, and pool tables give guests something to do that most venues do not offer, which can matter for a reception that runs long or for a rehearsal dinner where people want to relax rather than sit formally. A coffee bar rounds out the dining options on site.

Amenities

In-house catering means the venue’s own kitchen handles the meal rather than requiring an outside caterer to load in, and with more than 300 parking spaces on site, guest parking is not a concern even for a large wedding list. The facility already runs public events on a regular basis, including car shows, galas, and silent auctions, so it is used to managing a crowd and a schedule.

The car collections themselves function as a built-in amenity for anyone in the wedding party with an interest in cars, and the clubhouse’s racing simulators and pool tables give a reception an activity option beyond the dance floor, which is unusual among venues built primarily around dining and ceremony space. A coffee bar and additional dining options are also on site, so guests have somewhere to gather before the event space itself is opened up.

Location & Getting There

The Prescott Auto Reserve sits at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Hendersonville, which is the source of the mountain view from the Members Lounge and gives the property a real backdrop rather than a decorated one. With more than 300 parking spaces on site, guests driving in from Hendersonville, Asheville, or the surrounding Blue Ridge communities have room to park without a shuttle or an overflow lot arranged separately.

We have worked this room before, and the 10,000-square-foot event space, being a large open industrial-scale room, gives a DJ plenty of room to set up away from dining tables while still projecting cleanly across the floor, with the adjacent clubhouse lounge available as a quieter overflow space if guests want to step away from the music.