Wedding DJ at International Home Furnishings in High Point, NC

The Space

The International Home Furnishings Center began life as the Southern Furniture Exposition Building, which opened June 20, 1921, as a 10-story, 249,000-square-foot structure that cost roughly $1 million to build and drew 700 buyers from 100 cities to its first show. The building was renamed the International Home Furnishings Center in 1989, and a 12th-floor addition in 2001 brought the complex to 3.5 million square feet, more than 14 times its original footprint.

During World War II the building was pressed into military service, housing the Demobilized Personnel Records Branch of the U.S. Army’s Adjutant General’s Office across 13.5 of its 14 stories, a detail that speaks to just how much interior space this building holds. Today it anchors High Point Market, the world’s largest home furnishings trade show, held twice a year in April and October with dates set two decades in advance.

Capacity & Layout

The material available for this listing centers on the building’s role as a furniture trade show complex, spanning 14 stories and 3.5 million square feet, rather than describing any dedicated wedding ceremony or reception space, so we are not able to speak to a private event capacity here. High Point Market alone draws between 70,000 and 80,000 attendees per show, which gives a sense of just how much floor space the building is built to circulate at once.

The IHFC complex spans four full city blocks and connects into more than 180 showroom buildings across downtown High Point, together totaling over 11 million square feet. Floors 2 through 5 hold accessory showrooms and floors 6 through 11 hold contemporary design showrooms, with InterHall, an 80,000-square-foot space on the first floor, set aside to showcase new product ideas and emerging furniture brands.

Amenities

A Designer Lounge on the 7th floor provides meeting and seating facilities, and parking is available for customers visiting the building, practical details tied to its regular trade show function rather than to weddings specifically. Accessibility services are provided during High Point Market itself, which suggests the building is set up to handle large crowds during its twice-yearly events, moving tens of thousands of people through its floors over the course of a single market week.

Because this building operates primarily as a furniture industry trade show venue rather than a dedicated event space, the amenities documented here reflect that purpose: showroom floors, market-week accessibility support, and customer parking, rather than catering, bar service, or rental furnishings typically associated with a wedding venue. Any private event held in the building would need to work within that trade show infrastructure rather than a purpose-built banquet setup.

Location & Getting There

The building sits in downtown High Point, part of a district that holds over 11 million square feet of showroom space across more than 180 buildings, making it the center of one of the furniture industry’s most significant events. Piedmont Triad International Airport is about 17 miles from downtown High Point, a short drive for guests flying in from out of town for either a market event or a private function held in the building.

Given that the documented spaces here are trade show showroom floors rather than built-out ceremony or reception rooms, sound handling would depend entirely on which specific floor or room within the 3.5-million-square-foot complex is actually used, hard showroom surfaces and high ceilings on the display floors would behave very differently from a smaller enclosed meeting room like the Designer Lounge, so equipment and coverage would need to be planned around whichever floor is actually booked.