All Things Weddings
Let’s tie the knot!
Whether you’re planning the perfect wedding, searching for a memorable reception venue, or hosting a welcome party, rehearsal dinner, or post-wedding brunch, a custom private charter with Argosy Cruises elevates any celebration with a breathtaking Pacific Northwest setting and the professional support to pull it all together.
Weddings & Receptions
Your wedding deserves a setting as unforgettable as the moment itself. A private charter lets you say “I do” surrounded by Seattle’s most iconic views—city skylines, mountain ranges, and shimmering Northwest waters. Whether you’re planning an intimate ceremony or a lively reception, the experience feels elevated, intimate, and entirely your own.
But a beautiful setting is only part of it. We also help make sure that you can make the event your own while keeping the planning simple.
We provide the foundation of the event:
- The venue, setup, tables, and chairs
- Professional bar service
- Experienced captain and crew
- Recommended timelines for setup, boarding, cruising, and off-loading
Your choice of vendors for:
- Catering and dessert
- Planners and day-of coordinators
- DJs, musicians, and entertainment
- Photographers and video
- Photobooths, décor, florals, and more
Our vessels offer indoor and outdoor spaces, flexible layouts, and natural backdrops that reduce the need for extensive decorations—freeing you to focus on personal touches that matter most. We are also more than happy to share our list of preferred and recommended partners for an even more seamless day!
Welcome Parties, Rehearsal Dinners, & More
Set the tone for the weekend—or cap it off in style—with a celebration that brings everyone together in a setting that feels relaxed, memorable, and uniquely Northwest.
Whether you’re hosting a welcome party, a rehearsal dinner with room for toasts and photos, or a post-wedding brunch to keep the festivities going, a custom private charter provides:
- A signature Seattle experience. For out-of-town guests, it’s an unforgettable welcome to the region. For locals, it’s a refreshing change from the typical restaurant or event space.
- Flexible, comfortable spaces. Plenty of room to mingle, celebrate, and enjoy the moment without feeling boxed into a traditional venue.
- Scenery that is the décor. No need for excessive decoration — the views do the work for you.
- Simple to plan, polished in execution. Choose from our preferred caterers, add additional entertainment and activities or keep it simple, and we’ll help you bring it all together so that you can focus on the big day.
Ready to Learn More?
Submit an inquiry and tell us about your celebration. We’ll answer your questions, share available dates and pricing, and schedule a tour of available vessels with you.
In July and August, we can generally accommodate:
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- Wedding with ceremony: Up to guests
- Other wedding event: Up to guests
In all other months, we can generally accommodate:
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- Wedding with ceremony: Up to 114 guests
- Other wedding event: Up to 300 guests
Even within the above date ranges, availability for various group sizes is subject to vessel availability. To check if we can accommodate your event size on your preferred date(s), please submit an inquiry.
Our standard event timeline includes 1 hour of setup time (client, vendors, and a small setup group onboard), 30 minutes of boarding for your guests, 3 or 4 hours of cruising, and 30 minutes of offload time after docking.
We recommend a 4-hour sailing for ceremonies + reception.
If you’d like to expand on this timeline, either for setup/offload or during the cruise, please include in your inquiry and we will include in your proposal.
If requested, we can schedule a 1-hour rehearsal onboard your vessel on a day during the week before your event. Your event coordinator will confirm an available date and time with you 30 days prior to your cruise.
We recommend that the wedding party get ready elsewhere and arrive ready for the event. Some of our vessels have rooms available for storing wedding party items or for doing a quick change – our sales team answer questions about the specific spaces available onboard various vessels.
We can incorporate this into the timeline, and boat rental rate, though we recommend that photos be taken on the docks or during the reception, so as not to interfere with the time you have onboard.
Our captains will happily keep the boat in one place or slow down during the ceremony. The time it will take to get into position is dependent on the boat and docking location, but we plan for ~15min of cruising to get the boat in place for the ceremony.
We are prepared to host your special day rain or shine! We are able to move the ceremony indoors should there be any inclement weather.
For weddings, we do require a day-of planner to be onsite to help with the run of show while our couples sit back and celebrate! While we don’t have in-house planners, we do have a list of suggested planners that have worked with couples onboard our boats before.
You will work with an Argosy event coordinator to plan load-in and vendor logistics for your cruise and to create a Banquet Event Order (BEO) for use by our staff, but please note that this event coordinator provides pre-cruise coordination only and will not be onboard for your cruise.
Argosy Cruises has home docks on the Seattle Waterfront and in South Lake Union – These departure locations provide gorgeous views of the Seattle skyline that make for a great ceremony or event backdrop! We can usually also cruise from Kirkland City Dock or Carillon Point in Kirkland on Lake Washington. Other departure locations may or may not be possible depending on facility requirements and distance from our home docks.
If departing from another location is important to your event, please do submit an inquiry and our team will consider all relevant logistics specific to your requested date, group size, and event type to determine if it would be possible.
Caterers: While we strongly recommend our preferred vendors for both their experience onboard our vessels and the excellent food and service that they provide, you may use an alternate caterer. There is an additional fee for using an outside caterer that covers our administrative cost of verifying insurance and answering questions about our galleys, load-in spaces, and more.
All other vendors: Yes, we can welcome most vendors onboard – please let us know who you’d like to work with so that we can ensure that our space and staff are prepared to welcome them. Be advised that there can be unique challenges in working onboard vessels.
Argosy will be providing all beverages – we do not allow outside beverages to be brought onboard. Our sales team can provide you with a full menu of our beverage selections.
You are welcome to bring your own food (for an additional fee). If bringing your own food onboard, you will need to provide plates, utensils, serving ware, and ways to heat/cool/store food if needed. Argosy does not provide food service and does not have kitchen facilities onboard.