Wedding DJ at The Restoration Asheville in Asheville, NC

The Space

Set on Patton Avenue in the heart of downtown Asheville, The Restoration is a 4-star boutique all-suite hotel with somewhere between 60 and 64 guest rooms and suites, every one built as a suite rather than a standard hotel room. Its rooftop bar, The Observatory, is the property’s signature feature, pouring cocktails against views of downtown and the Blue Ridge Mountains beyond, while The Exchange runs as the hotel’s full-service restaurant serving regional and American cuisine to guests staying on for a rehearsal dinner or next-morning breakfast.

Beyond the rooftop and the restaurant, the hotel keeps a downstairs bar and lounge called The Draftsman Lounge and Game Room, a lobby coffee bar called The Rise, and a set of curated event spaces built into the property rather than added on afterward. Walking distance from the hotel puts guests among Asheville’s breweries, galleries, restaurants, and live music venues, which matters for a wedding weekend that spills past a single night and gives out-of-town guests somewhere to go before and after the event itself.

Capacity & Layout

The hotel keeps three meeting rooms available for corporate and private events, which is the scale to plan around here: this is a boutique property built for a focused gathering, not a hall meant to hold hundreds. A couple choosing The Restoration is choosing a downtown hotel setting over a standalone ballroom, with the flexibility to spread a wedding weekend across several of its rooms rather than one fixed space.

The rooftop terrace at The Observatory adds an outdoor layout option layered on top of the indoor meeting rooms, so a ceremony or cocktail hour can happen up top with mountain views while dinner and dancing move to one of the meeting rooms or The Draftsman Lounge below. That vertical layout, rooftop up top, meeting rooms and lounge on the lower floors, lets a couple move guests through the evening in stages rather than keeping everyone in one room from start to finish.

Amenities

On-site catering is available directly through the hotel, and the property runs three separate bars and lounges between The Observatory, The Draftsman Lounge, and the ground floor, so a couple does not need to bring in outside bar service. Guests can also stay the night in one of the 60 to 64 all-suite rooms, keeping the wedding party together after the reception ends.

The hotel offers a 24-hour fitness center, massage services, and a sauna house partnership for anyone building spa time into the weekend, along with private valet parking and full accessibility, including entire wheelchair-accessible units, for guests who need it.

Location & Getting There

The hotel sits in downtown Asheville, about 12 miles from Asheville Regional Airport, and within walking distance of the city’s brewery and gallery district, so out-of-town guests can extend the trip into a weekend without needing a car. Valet parking is available directly on site for anyone driving in.

With the ceremony or cocktail hour possible on the open rooftop terrace and the reception moving into an enclosed meeting room below, a DJ setup here has to account for open-air sound up top giving way to a more contained indoor room once the party comes back downstairs.