Why are Tri-City venues so expensive?

Cortney1982

Please tell my why every venue I've looked at wants $3-4K to rent the building or even OUTSIDE area for about 5 hours!!!  I don't get it.  Go to Portland and you get a more beautiful space for $1,000. 

firsttimersluck

Because they don't have much competition over there... Unfortunately that's how it works... Our venue in Bellingham was 1k for the ENTIRE day, but they also have to compete with a LOT of other venues.

mrandmrsbrist

It also might be that you're look at strictly "wedding" venues.

Check with the city of Pasco, Kennewick and/or Richland. Their city buildings (the Richland community center in Howard Amon park is BEAUTIFUL) are muuuch cheaper.

firsttimersluck

Agreed ^

Look up your local Parks and Rec areas.. That's how we found ours. 

Googling "wedding" will pop up most expensive down to cheapest [usually].

roxybsktbll

I do wedding photography in the TC and was shocked when I went looking for a venue. One of my favorite weddings that I have done was at the Richland community center. They had the tables set up and an aisle down the middle guests sat at their tables durring the ceremony. I thought it was a great idea and so pretty. Pluss, with how hot it gets here in the summer the airconditioning was very nice.