The WBU Event Venue

dule our 2020 wedding to 2021 and helped us figure out all the steps through planning and implementing our ceremony and reception. She even ran out for more wine when our guests blazed through our original stock! Location wise, the WBU is very close to the city, so we were able to get convenient hotel blocks at North Shore hotels that made it easy for our out of town guests to see Pittsburgh. Our party hard guests had an easy time getting Ubers to / from the venue because of how close it was to downtown. There is plenty of parking as well, including parking close to ADA ramps. Natasha's bar tending staff were also friendly and kept the good vibes going all night. Their help with tear down and clean up made the end of the night easy and stress free. The venue itself was perfect for our vintage inspired wedding. The ballroom has a classic Americana vibe and an awesome bar. The private green room for getting ready was so useful. Our guests loved how unique the ballroom was - and they loved being able to try drinks from the brewery downstairs as well. The venue has so much authentic Pittsburgh charm. We really wanted a venue with a personality that would shine and be part of the decor itself, and the WBU did exactly that.

space with classic Pittsburgh character, somewhere close to downtown, somewhere that would let us pick our own catering and stock our own bar, and somewhere large enough to hold what ended up being a confirmed guest list of 175. There were very few options that even met those criteria, but it didn’t matter - we knew as soon as we met with Natasha at the WBU that was where we wanted to get married. Natasha and her husband just finished renovating the second-floor ballroom and brought back the charm the room had from decades past. The space feels massive with tall, tin decorative ceilings. The bar area is a huge wrap around with plenty of it’s own character. Our original plan was to use the downstairs space (which is also awesome as it used to be a bowling alley - though you could never tell, unless you looked at some of the old pictures they have on display of what it used to look like - and now has a modern industrial feel), for our ceremony and to host the dinner & reception upstairs in the ballroom. Our timing, however, ended up being cosmically off. Our wedding date was supposed to be March 28th, 2020 and we had to postpone just shy of two weeks before the date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Natasha had already been great to work with before the moment when we had to rearrange everything, but the wonderful person that she is was made more apparent as she helped us work through all of the uncertainty of our second planning attempt for what was now a COVID wedding. We shifted our special day to early November and changed our plans continuously throughout the summer based on what was safe and allowed with ever-changing regulations. Natasha stayed on top of EVERYTHING. We would not have been able to pull the day off without her! The way we were finally able to do our event (adhering to PA event and capacity restrictions) was a much smaller affair where we only used the second-floor ballroom. We had a small celebration with our parents and bridal party. The final set-up was exactly as we had hoped, though again, it would not have been possible without Natasha. We were using lots of decorative greens and berries to line the center of each of our tables - myself and the groomsman were tasked with laying out those decorations since they arrived the morning of the wedding. We are not a particularly crafty group, but as with so many other things, Natasha (who is an incredibly crafty person with a green-thumb) offered her help and guidance and saved the day. When all was said and done, through months of extra stress and a second round of planning, the wedding day was exactly what we had hoped it would be. We have nothing but positiving, incredible memories from our wedding and we want to thank Natasha and the WBU for that even being possible! We wouldn’t change a thing if we were to go back in time and do it all over again. We would host our wedding at the WBU every time and recommend the venue wholeheartedly to absolutely anyone and everyone!