Wedding DJ at Montford Rooftop Bar in Asheville, NC

The Space

Ten years after it opened in August 2016, this rooftop bar is still the longest-running one in downtown Asheville, a title it earned by arriving before the city had much of a rooftop scene at all. It sits on the 8th floor of the DoubleTree by Hilton Asheville Downtown, reached through a private elevator at the hotel’s entrance, which keeps arrival for a private event separate from the hotel’s regular guest traffic.

The draw is the view: unobstructed, west-facing sightlines across the Blue Ridge Mountains that no other downtown Asheville rooftop bar can claim. Mountain Xpress has named it Best Bar with a View for seven years running, and the bar’s cocktail program runs on spirits from local distilleries, including Chemist, Eda Rhyne, Cultivated Cocktails, and Two Trees, rather than a generic well pour a couple would find at a standard hotel bar.

Capacity & Layout

A private event using the full patio and indoor space can hold up to 75 guests, which makes this a room for an intimate wedding reception or a rehearsal dinner rather than a large ceremony. That number covers both zones together, so a couple’s headcount has to account for guests moving between the indoor bar and the outdoor terrace rather than filling one or the other, and a guest list near the upper end of that range will feel the room fill up on both sides at once.

The indoor bar area sits behind floor-to-ceiling panoramic windows, giving guests the mountain view even when they are not standing outside, while the west-facing terrace is where that view opens up fully at sunset. For an evening reception timed around golden hour, the terrace side of the room does the work the indoor bar cannot.

Amenities

Complimentary valet parking comes with the venue, removing one more logistical step for guests arriving downtown for an evening event. The private elevator access at the hotel entrance means a wedding party does not have to navigate the hotel lobby or public elevators to reach the 8th floor.

A smart casual dress code applies, worth passing along to guests ahead of time so nobody arrives underdressed for a rooftop event. Regular hours run 4pm to 10pm Sunday through Thursday, 4pm to 11pm on Friday, and noon to 11pm on Saturday, giving a private event room to run late into the evening without conflicting with the venue’s own posted closing time.

Location & Getting There

The rooftop sits atop the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Asheville, putting a wedding reception here within walking distance of the rest of downtown for guests who want to continue the night elsewhere afterward. Valet parking and the private elevator both cut down on the logistics that come with a downtown, multi-story venue, and neither requires guests to know the building beyond the entrance where the elevator waits.

Sound on the rooftop splits between the enclosed indoor bar, where floor-to-ceiling windows and a hard floor reflect sound back into the room, and the open, west-facing terrace, where mountain air and open sky absorb it instead, so a DJ working a wedding here needs a setup that can cover both an indoor bar and an outdoor terrace without losing energy on either side.