Harpoon Brewery

This is a wonderful, low key venue! It has been newly renovated to look something akin to Game of Thrones--- thing wrought iron chandeliers, exposed brick and long solid wood bench seating- very lovely. The best part is that the price for renting it, is actually a minimum spend amount. So we are renting it, but you actually just have to spend that much in booze at the bar. They also have awesome large pretzels that are made fresh that are great! They will also do brewery tours for free for your guests, which are usually really hard to get into, so your guests will appreciate having other things to do during the reception. To cut costs we are doing our reception on a Sunday evening in winter without the event room in the back of the bar with casual dress, and sit where you like/ stand if you like dinner with BBQ. The preferred vendors list ranges from fancy to BBQ, but all of the options sound awesome. You also have the option of DJ'ing your own wedding, they have a built in sound system which allows you to hook up your iPod if you have a preset playlist.

We had our rehearsal dinner at Harpoon Brewery and it was awesome! The majority of our guests were traveling from out of town to celebrate our wedding, so we invited everyone who was attending to the rehearsal dinner (est 60 guests). The event space is low key and unique - exactly what we were going for. The event staff made booking and planning the event very easy - all costs were well laid out and they worked directly with the catering to arrange food service. It is a bit pricey to host an event there, but the spend does go towards the open bar (invite drinkers!). My MIL worked with Harpoon on the decor, and everything looked great when we got there so I was happy. We had our event on a Friday night, so the beer hall was open to the public and partitioned off for us. I could see that some may not like that its not exactly private, but we knew this ahead of time and it was plenty of space for our group. Really other than the noise (would be too noisy for speeches), I don't think guests even payed attention to the fact that it was just a partitioned space. They also rent out the full hall for larger events if you hold it on a non-weekend day. We did catering through Harpoon's preferred vendors (Soulfire and Baker's Best) and Harpoon provided pretzels throughout the night (as apps and the cinnamon pretzels late night after dinner). The catering went well - we got the whoopie pies from Baker's Best and they were amazing...I still dream about them. My only complaints on the evening were that the door guy wasn't very friendly (a little off-putting for the beginning of a joyful occasion), and that only one flavor of sauce was served with each tray of pretzels. Some of our guests raved about the beer cheese sauce but not everyone got to try it since the tray at their tables only had one (different) sauce - I'd recommend requesting that all sauce flavors be served with each pretzel tray so that your guests can try them all. Overall its great place for a cool and fun event!