The Zahn Event Center at The Manor

A beautiful setting with wonderful staff that bent over backwards to make our wedding spectacular. There were so many great suggestions, novel ideas and up-to-date information that our ceremony and reception turned into a wedding to be remembered. Our guests were impressed and we could not have been happier. Thank you MANOR!!!

Ten stars for flexibility! With a deployed groom, we had no firm date till one week before the wedding, and The Manor worked with us to plan for several possibilities. The manager was always available to answer questions and make suggestions. When our groom arrived home on leave, The Manor staff set things in motion, everything fell into place, and the wedding and reception were very special. No one would have guessed that they had been planned without a date!

This is a wonderful place very big and spacious. The staff was wonderful. Very Beautiful. I would recommend this place, but it is really easy to spend alot of money there as well!

The Manor was a great place to have both our Ceremony & Reception. We had a outdoor garden ceremony, and the reception inside The Manor indoors. The staff was so helpful and always available for as many meetings, emails, and phone calls as we needed before the wedding. The pricing for the catering (which was required to use their in-house catering) was very reasonable ($30-35 per person) and the food was fantastic! (we got tons of compliments on the Food). We were also able to bring in all of our own beer, wine and alcohol with no corkage fees - we just had to hire our own bartenders! A huge plus! At the time we booked the venue - they did not do any Saturday evening weddings though, so we ended up having a Friday evening wedding (which we hadn't originally considered), it worked out great though and we were very happy how everything worked out.

If I would have worked with the same venue coordinator the whole way through, my review it probably would have been five stars all the way. She made up timelines, answered all my questions, and went above and beyond what I expected.BUT a month before the wedding I was informed she was "no longer with the company" and I would be working with two new girls. They weren't terrible, but not super willing to help either. In the crunch time before the big day, I really could have used the old coordinator, but instead I got two new girls to do one person's job. They offered no help other than letting me know how much money we owed and help figuring out what items we would be renting from them.That said, the grounds are beautiful. It's a great setup for pictures outdoors. There's no AC inside the building so it got pretty warm and a little uncomfortable. The food was delicious and we got many compliments on it. They have a lot of fees for small things that I could have done without )chair setup, glasses, etc). Overall I feel the price might have been a little high, but not unreasonable.

This is a tricky one...The venue is absolutely beautiful and the grounds are wonderful, but this is not really a professional situation...We are ultimately glad that we chose to use this venue simply because it produced such wonderful pictures and the guests loved the atmosphere. The food was not very good (it was decent, guests didn't complain, we just weren't so keen on it), there was much confusion about prices and details...It was a bit of a nightmare, but it all worked out!

I decided to get married at The Manor mainly for their grounds. I wanted an outside ceremony, and as we all know that is risky in seattle. Well the day of my wedding, we had "scattered showers", however we were able to make the decision only an hour before the ceremony whether we wanted to move it inside or not. We decided to"risk it", and keep it outside. We got lucky and the rain never returned that day. Had we not been so fortunate to have mother nature be so kind to us, our wedding would have been a very different day. Having the ceremony inside would not have been as desirable and can you imagine not being able to take any photos outside in the beautiful gardens?I think the price is high for what you get. I was very dissapointed in the decor. Plastic tables and chairs with pastel floral linens isn't exactly wedding quality. In order for us to mask these items we rented their white linens, and spent hundreds of dollars. I felt there were unnecessary costs that we were unaware of, making it hard to stick to our budget. Such as, a fee to turn on the soda machine, or to turn on the ice machine, or re-stack the chairs we used during the ceremony. I also think the price should include a rehearsal because every bride wants a trial run to calm her nerves. We also had to use thier caterer, as we got married in peak season. The food choices were not appealing and were way too expensive. I was also dissapointed when I found out that I had to pay for a minimum of 120 guests even though I only had 100 guests coming to my wedding. We also had to pay a very high service charge on top of all of that. Overall we had an amazing wedding! However from one bride to another, check all of the prices before you book and ask yourself if you would still want to get married if you did have rain on your wedding day and were not able to use the gardens.

We loved the venue. It is beautiful but not only is the place overpriced you need to rent all the glasses, table clothes, chairs ect..ect. We also got the catering done there after going to the open house and tested all the food. Let me tell you the food that they cook for the open house is nothing like what they serve. We were very, very dissapointed in the food to say the least. Chicken was transparent (raw) and the potatoes were instant. So sad because the venue is wonderful. If you see it and love it... I would suggest bringing your own catering in. On a lighter note the people that work there are very nice and attentive.