About this vendor
Imagine your wedding in a setting of timeless elegance at the historic Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington. Welcome friends and family to a celebration surrounded by century-old architecture, grand ballrooms, and luxurious touches that create a romantic and unforgettable experience, where every moment is steeped in beauty and sophistication. Together we will create a celebration beyond compare, in a setting beyond compare.
Amenities + details
Ceremony Area
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
Liability Insurance
On-Site Accommodations
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
Wireless Internet
Covered Outdoors Space
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Ballroom
- Historic Venue
- Hotel
Venue Service Offerings
- Bar & Drinks
- Cakes & Desserts
- Destination Weddings
- Food & Catering
- Service Staff
Awards and Affiliations
2013 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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Reviews
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4.1
out of 5.018 reviews
We held our wedding at The Davenport, and overall, it was a beautiful experience! The venue itself is absolutely stunning, timeless, elegant, and full of charm. Our guests couldn’t...
stop commenting on how gorgeous the space was, and the atmosphere made both the ceremony and reception feel like a page out of a fairytale. The drinks and food were also a hit with everyone, and the staff handled dietary restrictions with ease.
The staff were friendly and accommodating throughout the planning process. When small hiccups arose on the day of, they were quick to problem-solve.
That said, future couples should read contracts carefully and be aware of the 24% service charge, which applies to everything, from microphone rentals and food to the room charge itself. Once tax is added, which is also applied to the service charge, overall costs increase by 35%.
A few details that we had coordinated extensively were missed during the rehearsal and on the wedding day. Table linens were not available as planned, the rehearsal lacked a microphone for practice, and the microphone provided on the wedding day was handheld rather than the lapel mic we had discussed, leaving our officiant juggling the script and microphone. Additionally, we were supposed to receive updates on our bar tab at every $1,000 spent, but nothing was communicated until last call.
The morning of the wedding felt particularly unorganized. Nobody could tell us where to park or unload, and we had to track someone down to gain access to the bridal suite. We were directed to park on the street, which forced us to frantically run up and down the block unloading the wedding dress, florals, and a U-Haul full of decorations. In prior meetings, we were told we could use the loading dock. This delay put our schedule behind by about 45 minutes, causing the mother of the bride to miss her makeup time slot and leaving us with less time for photos than planned.
For the price, a groom’s suite should be included. We did not love having to pay $400 to extend our honeymoon suite for the groom to get ready, which felt like the only option. When we checked into our honeymoon suite, we were told that someone else had already checked in to our room, but they gave us a key anyway and told us to check if anyone was there, which was unsettling. Additionally, when we returned from our honeymoon, we found a number of charges to our room from the wedding the night prior. These have since been sorted, but it was frustrating to come back to unexplained expenses.
If you are having your ceremony and reception in the same room, a wedding coordinator is essential because it would not have been possible to pull off otherwise.
For the cost and caliber The Davenport claims to offer, details like these really should not have been missed. Overall, our day was beautiful, and we would not change where we got married, but some parts of the day were a bit disappointing.
My sister’s wedding was beautiful and went smoothly until we could no longer locate Missy the coordinator. She was a terrible communicator, we only saw her one time in a span of 12...
hours, and she just poof disappeared. Missy did not rehearse with the party how to enter the reception, and the getting ready rooms were locked with her nowhere to be found. Missy also did not give the bride and groom their promised room key at the end of the night because, you guessed it, we literally could not find this woman. She was very rude and condescending, and none of us really enjoyed speaking with her. I would recommend the hotel, but the wedding coordinator needs to be removed and replaced.
What can I say, for a once in a moment experience this venue and the coordinators were the worst.
To summarize they changed the coordinators twice before our wedding. Everything ...
discussed prior in writing and phone conversations did come to be on our wedding day. All reservations, details with our photographer, loosing bridesmaids dresses, ruining the first look, ruining the grand entrance, serving kids meals to adults, letting random people get served at our open bar, letting random guest walk through our event, missing items and a staff that doesn’t take any responsibility or understands what true customer service is — this was a nightmare. High level things that are a huge red flag are the following:
—The coordinators were no where to be found throughout the night/day of our wedding. My bridesmaids had to keep calling them.
—Our wedding guest were served kids meals rather then the pre order platted meals. Even though we paid for the most expensive meals.
—The sales director is extremely condescending and didn’t take any responsibility. Honestly we should of be refunded for the whole event.
—To top it off the director of sales tried to frame me and my wedding party for a broken glass shelf in the bridal suite. Thank goodness I had a photo for when we originally tour the venue 9 months prior to prove the shelf was broken 9 months earlier and not from my bridal party. But it shows how this staff is completely immature and unprofessional.
I don’t know if it is because we were not from that area or not from Spokane. But it’s a shame with all the beauty and charm the Davenport has lack of management and internal organization leaves the worst taste from our wedding.
Brides and Grooms please do yourself a favor and go somewhere else for your special day. Let us please gift you with knowledge in this horrible management. I’d also be cautious that the good reviews are even real honestly we were scammed!
You have been warned!
I was born and raised in the Spokane area, The Historic Davenport is where I always dreamed of having my wedding. So when my Fiance proposed and The Historic was within our budget ...
I felt as though all my dreams were coming true. It breaks my heart to say that I hated my wedding, my husband and I both look back on the night and are not pleased with how the evening went.
The entire process with the davenport was very difficult, there were several communication breakdowns between us and the event staff. I was constantly reaching out to them trying to get clarification only to be left more confused. When misinformation was provided rather than apologize for the confusion and clarify the information, I was told that it was my fault that I didn't understand. When my husband reached out to question what we were told in regards to payment and the breakdown of charges the rep argued with my husband and told us there is no way that anyone there would have ever given us that information. We ended up paying for our entire guest list to have salmon when only about 15% of them had ordered salmon, The rest of the guests had chicken, this was only the tip of the iceberg.
We had both our ceremony and reception at The Davenport, the set up for the Ceremony was good and done per my request. However they didn't bother to turn on the air conditioning in the Elizabethan room, I got married in June, the room was so hot I was dripping sweat by the end of our ceremony.
Then we went into our reception and the tables were not set as we had discussed, I said something and they rectified the situation. The rest of the issues throughout the evening were not rectified nor addressed after we brought them to the attention of the General Manager. Throughout the entire evening, our wedding coordinator was MIA until it was time to close up the venue. Our DJ didn't know what to do because the coordinator was not communicating with us or the other vendors. The worst part is when I got our photo booth pictures from that venue there was several photos of the Davenport Staff in our photo booth, WHERE WERE YOU WHEN WE NEEDED SOME DIRECTION!
The entire night was disorganized, even though we had countless meetings and phone calls with the event coordinators to work out a schedule and all the details. Guests were leaving because there was nothing happening, the DJ didn't know when to have us do our first dance, when we realized how late it was we went up to the DJ and asked him to start the first dance, I thought this is what the coordinator and all the planning was supposed to take care of. The entire evening was a mess. For over $20,000 we would have expected more. Very disappointed and would advise anyone thinking of booking with the davenport to tread cautiously.
We had an amazing reception at the Davenport. It was classy, fun, beautiful, and the wedding coordinator was there the whole time to ensure everything went great! We even stayed th...
ere that night. The Davenport ALWAYS delivers!
We absolutely loved our reception at the Historic Davenport! The space is so beautiful and gave our wedding exactly the vibe we wanted. We booked the Marie Antoinette room. Once th...
e Davenport found out about our number of guests (150) and plans for cocktail hour, buffet and a photobooth, they gave us complimentary use of the adjoining rooms (the Cutter Room and the Flowerfield Room).
Our wedding coordinator, Sabrina Mallah, was super helpful and responsive. She would respond to emails generally within 24 hours and always had detailed answers to our questions. She was willing to work with us to make our wedding go exactly how we wanted and was knowledgeable, experienced, and friendly. She was available on the day of the wedding and took care of distributing vendor tips and interacting with vendors. Everything went so smoothly!
Barb at the Davenport Flowers was absolutely incredible. I told her that we wanted to spend less than $1000 on flowers for a 150 person wedding and she didn't try to upsell me, but came up with some great ideas to make our budget work. In fact, we ended up spending less than $900 on flowers by using candle trios with rose petals for half of the centerpieces reusing the bridesmaids bouquets as centerpieces, and getting a few bouquets for the remaining centerpieces. On the morning of the wedding she personally came up to my room and showed me the flowers to make sure that I was happy with them. I asked her if we could make a few changes and she was more than happy to do so. The flowers looked so amazing in all of the photos!
The food was great. We did the traditional wedding buffet, which provided more than enough food for everyone. The kitchen made a special meal for our vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free guests that I heard was absolutely amazing. My parents are on a very restrictive diet and Chef Tom made special meals for them. Also, we had one vegan and gluten-free guest who could not eat any of the desserts and the staff went out of their way to get her a sorbet so she could enjoy dessert too.
We booked a post-wedding brunch at the private room (seats 28) at the Palm Court Grill. The staff created a special menu for us and even set a table runner with our wedding colors along the table as decoration. The only snafu (explained below) was that a couple of the menu items got mixed up, but I talked to the staff and they were happy to honor our request for the original menu items. Service was prompt and friendly, even for 28 people!
A couple of things to note: it seems that the Davenport may have some staff turnover. The salesperson we were working with to book our wedding (Megan Kasper) left halfway through the sales process, and it took a little while to track down the new salesperson. Also when we were booking our post-wedding brunch, the manager who was organizing the brunch left before our wedding (luckily, the previous manager left detailed notes for the new one but a few things got lost in the shuffle). I didn't find this to be a huge problem, but just wanted to mention it for full disclosure. Also, the first wedding salesperson did not fully review our contract and left some clauses in there that did not apply to us. Once I pointed this out they rectified the problem immediately, but just make sure to read your contract carefully before signing!
In general, everyone from the Davenport was extremely quick at responding to emails and phone calls and worked hard to make our special day perfect!
You have to appreciate a hotel which will put rose petals and chilled champagne in your honeymoon suite. The Davenport is beautiful and very luxurious. I felt very pampered! Do not...
, however, order room service. Perhaps the meals are better, but we paid $50 for a pastry, hashbrowns, sausage, and coffee. I don't think that amount of food was worth the price.
Our reception at the Davenport was wonderful. We enjoyed working with the staff and would highly recommend them to anyone looking to plan a wedding.
We booked a night stay in this hotel because it was the top rated hotel in Spokane. We mentioned that we were on our honeymoon and the friendly staff gave us an amazing upgrade. Th...
e hotel is very nice, staff is friendly, beds are comfortable.
My family stayed at the Lusso which another part of the Davenport and were very please with the accommodations. It was downtown so walking distance to most everything which was im...
portant as all of our family were coming in from out of town. The hotel also provided transportation for our guests which again was very important. I would recommend this hotel to anyone for any reason
The davenport although expensive is the best way to spend your wedding night. From the minute we got out of the car they were polite and courteous to us. It's always clean and the ...
beds are incredible. Well worth the money!
loved being picked up in the towncar at the end of the night!
on time, and it's a free service!
Planning the wedding was very easy because so much of the davenport services are in house. The wedding ceremony and reception were both beautiful as well. Additionally when you boo...
k a wedding at the Davenport you receive a free stay in the Honeymoon Suite the night of your wedding, which is a fantastic perk.
Really there is no other place like the Davenport here in Spokane, Some of our guests stayed at the hotel and just loved the service and comfort. The Sunday brunch was excellent
The Davenport is beautiful and the staff was helpful. Everything turned out perfect and we have a million great pictures! I thought it would be way out of my price range but it end...
ed up being very fairly priced. My family and I did not have to worry about any setting up or taking down because the employees took care of it all. I also live out of state so I was pleased that I was able to plan everything so easily.
The most expensive part was the catering. If you have the reception there, you are required to use their catering. It was decent food.
We had our wedding reception in the Marie Antoinette ballroom in the Historic Davenport. It was absolutely awesome! The hotel recommended vendors, and everyone they recommended w...
as awesome. Beyond that, the hotel staff was so amazing. They made sure that every detail was just the way we wanted it. Brianna, our wedding coordinator helped us get everything we had every dreamed of. The food was absolutely delicious and our signature drink was just as we imagined!
The service by the hotel catering department was fantastic. They walked us through every step of our wedding reception so there would be no surprises and then on the day of the wed...
ding us and our families were able to completely enjoy the moment, we didn't worry about a thing!
The hotel has been beautifully restored and was exquisitely and tastefully decorated for the holidays. There was very little that I had to do for decor other than centerpieces for...
the tables which was great.;My husband and I really wanted to have an evening wedding in December naturally on a Saturday night. This was impossible to do at the Davenport because they host numerous company Christmas parties every weekend in December and they are repeat customers and therefore have more pull than a wedding. We ended up having an afternoon wedding on Saturday which actually worked out great and we saved a ton of money too!
Contact
10 South Post Street, Spokane, WA
The Davenport Hotel Collection