Wedding DJ at Cotton House Brewery in Cary, NC

The Space

Cotton House Craft Brewers operates out of the Pasmore House, built around 1900 as a boarding house for some of the first students at Cary High School, and the owners restored the building themselves to keep its original character rather than gut it for a generic taproom look. Inside, that shows up as prohibition-era charm: intimate rooms instead of one open hall, with a 1910 piano available for guest musicians and local artwork on the walls that is actually for sale.

Outside, a double-tiered back deck looks over a lush backyard with views of Downtown Cary Park and its fountain, which gives the property an outdoor setting that still feels like it belongs to the town rather than a rented field somewhere outside it. The brewery grows its own hops on a farm in Liberty, NC, and the family behind it has lived in Cary for more than 45 years, so the taproom reads less like a rental and more like a house that happens to also serve beer.

Capacity & Layout

No published guest count is available for Cotton House, but the layout gives a good sense of scale on its own: the taproom is built from a converted house rather than a purpose-built hall, so it naturally favors smaller, more intimate weddings over a large ballroom-style reception. The prohibition-era rooms inside keep groups close together rather than spread across one big open floor, which suits a couple who wants conversation and closeness over a wide dance floor.

The back deck adds a second layout option for the same day: cocktail hour or dinner outside on the double-tiered deck, with the ceremony or dancing moving inside to the taproom as the evening cools. That split between an outdoor deck with park views and an indoor room with piano and local art gives a couple two distinct settings for one wedding without needing to book two venues or move guests anywhere in between.

Amenities

A 1910 piano sits ready for guest musicians, which is a genuinely unusual offering, and the walls are hung with local artwork that guests can buy, so the room itself changes conversation starters compared to a blank rented hall. Parking is handled with a lot across the street rather than on-site spaces, worth knowing ahead of time so a couple can direct guests clearly instead of leaving them to guess where to go.

Because Cotton House brews its own beer, using hops grown on the owners’ Liberty, NC farm, the taproom itself is the amenity in a way a rented hall never is: it is a working brewery with its own product on tap, not a space cleared out and dressed up for the day. That gives a wedding here a house-made drink to build a toast or a signature pour around, sourced from the same family that restored the building.

Location & Getting There

Cotton House sits in Cary directly across from Downtown Cary Park, which is what the back deck looks out over, fountain included. That puts the venue inside walking distance of the kind of downtown a couple might want for engagement photos or a rehearsal dinner the night before, rather than an isolated property guests have to drive far out of town to reach.

We worked a wedding at Cotton House and found the split between rooms shapes how sound behaves here: the taproom’s smaller, prohibition-era spaces hold music close and warm for dinner and toasts, while moving the party out to the double-tiered deck for cocktail hour or dancing opens the same sound up to the park view without needing a second system.