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Take in the crashing waves, and breathe in the salt air as you say your vows at The Cottages on Charleston Harbor, a waterfront venue in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
The Cottages on Charleston Harbor's lush event spaces will find you surrounded by beautiful veiws, with the calming sounds of water lapping at the shore just a few feet away with the Charleston Harbor as the stunning background for your ceremony, reception, and events.
Treat your company to a luxurious overnight retreat filled with breathtaking views of Fort Sumter and Downtown Charleston, with waterfront access to the heart of the Holy City. Let our experienced planners handle all of the details for you.
Facilities and Capacity The Cottages on Charleston Harbor can accommodate up to 175 of your guests. The property is made up of ten cottages. Each of these cottages contain two bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a porch complete with a hammock and rocking chairs. Nine of the Cottages give you and your guests a clear view of the Charleston Harbor just outside. The property also contains two lawn areas for hosting wedding ceremonies, rehearsal dinners and more. Both overlook the harbor and can be tailored to your wedding size and style.
Services Offered When couples and guests come on property, The Cottages on Charleston Harbor offers them warm southern hospitality. You and your guests will feel like you have not even left home with all of the amenities, conveniences and services the team offers.
Catering Our five qualified catering partners provide a variety of dining options for private dining, corporate dinners, rehearsal dinners, receptions and farewell brunches. We invite you to visit our website and pick the caterer that fits your event.
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The property was exactly what I wanted; a venue that allowed for a destination wedding weekend. Amazing location and views, pool and bikes for onsite guest, all our family and friends in one location! Initially had a few hiccups and delays in communication but we understand that covid and postponements didn’t help. We had rented 7 cottages for 42 guest and then 25 guest were booked at the hotel next door. Albeit the hurricane changed a lot of plans and we had to postpone from Saturday to Sunday. We originally planned on 106 guest and ended with 42. Lisa the GM was super helpful and flexible. We lost power so Lisa drove my mom to another hotel to iron and steam dresses, helped pick up catering for us, and helped coordinate things. After all the typical wedding stress and additional atypical stress being on site all weekend was amazing and I could not recommend it more. We had a great rehearsal and welcome event the night before by the pool followed by everyone hanging out in the cottages. Waking up on my wedding day at 9 am and relaxing by the water for a little before starting to get ready at 10:30 was such a luxury. Being onsite I almost never felt rushed or like anything was forgotten. I could go grab anything I needed in my cottage throughout the day. This made me feel like I got to spend every second enjoying time with family and friends instead running around from different locations. Everyone loved the food with the contracted catering GFC. Wish we could have gotten to take advantage of the post wedding pool day with the cottage guest we planned. If I had to do it all over again I’d pick the cottages again and again.
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Jamie Sent on 06/13/2021
5 out of 5 rating
5.0
Beautifully unique hotel and wedding venue!
We stayed at the Cottages for our intimate wedding ceremony and dinner and don’t regret a thing!
The venue is gorgeous – you have views of both the marsh and harbor, and sometimes have a small beach when the tide is out! Lisa and her team did a phenomenal job prepping the lawn area to make sure our day was picture perfect. The cottages themselves are timelessly homey while still providing that elevated “hotel” experience (I would absolutely recommending stay here over a beach house if I were visiting Charleston!). Being able to stay at our wedding venue location made our entire wedding party more relaxed and turned the wedding from just a one-day-event into a vacation.
Note – they have two separate cottage lawns, so this venue can absolutely support bigger weddings if necessary, but we opted for the smaller of the two!
Speaking as a local - this is truly a unique venue that provides an ambiance that you cannot get anywhere else in Charleston, and we’re so happy we had our wedding here.
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Alicia Sent on 11/04/2015
5 out of 5 rating
5.0
We chose the Cottages for our wedding venue because of the beautiful views and the adorable cottages. It was important to have our family all in one area so we rented out all 10 cottages to make our wedding a private event. We did the ceremony outside in front of Cottages 4,5,&6 and then the reception beside Cottage 1. The locations was perfect, the staff felt like family, and my dream wedding became a reality thanks to this venue!
Liz Sent on 10/28/2015
5 out of 5 rating
5.0
My daughter's wedding was held at The Cottages of Charleston Harbor. It was just beautiful! We have had so many compliments on the wedding, and the staff was extremely helpful. Couldn't have asked for a more perfect setting.
User2186770 Sent on 06/18/2015
4.8 out of 5 rating
4.8
The Cottages were a spectacular venue for both our wedding/reception and rehearsal. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful setting. It was the perfect place for our wedding. We did an informal rehearsal which had a warm family style feel. We didn't know how wonderful the experience was going to be until we started the day of prep. To be able to get ready in a house, on the same property as the event, made the day a breeze!! The ceremony along the waterfront and the reception at sunset was everything a bride could dream of.
The only thing; as wonderful a venue as it is, it is very difficult to rent the space, due to the rules about also renting a certain number of cottages. However, if you look at it like we did, you can have your friends and family help you partially pay for the venue space. And you have to make sure they are not already booked for the weekend you want. However, if you get as lucky as we did, you will have one of the most special spaces in the Charleston area!!
User1521757 Sent on 01/29/2014
4.4 out of 5 rating
4.4
Beautiful locate and extremely private. Once there quality of service and attention to detail and us were impeccable. The only dilemma is the planning process - at times the event planner there was not flexible and comes across harsh.
Kristen Sent on 09/21/2018
0.5 out of 5 rating
0.5
We booked our September 29, 2018 wedding at the Cottages on Charleston Harbor in February 2018. We contracted with the venue for more than $8,000 worth of accommodations, including the event space fee. We also signed a room block contract with the neighboring resort for our guests of $4,000.
In August 2018, I asked the Cottages to confirm if the dock between our reception space and the neighboring resort had been fully repaired and if we could use it for our photos. I was told that we could use the dock for photos before 4 p.m. because a concert would be taking place on the beach… That’s how we discovered a national touring indie rock concert had been booked, a double-header, at the exact same time and 10 feet away from our wedding.
The neighboring resort booked Moon Taxi with Ripe as an opener in July 2018 with Ears for Music (a concert promoter) and did not consult our wedding venue prior to booking.
The Cottages and the neighboring resort are two separate companies. They had no written agreement in place, we had no legal opportunity to fight back. The “partnership” is extremely irresponsible.
We were told that they would surely solve the situation and waited a full week before being informed that they would not move or cancel the concert. Both properties offered to release us from our contract and we left. Forty days from our wedding and the amazing staff at another venue took us in. When I asked Lisa, general manager of the Cottages, to reimburse us for new wedding invitations and for the time spent moving 11 vendors, she directed me to the the neighboring resort as it was “completely their fault.”
We were not reimbursed by the neighboring resort.
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The Cottages on Charleston Harbor includes the following items and services for wedding events in its starting site fee:
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The Cottages on Charleston Harbor is recommended by 85% of couples who have used their services. Their overall rating is 4.2 out of 5 with the following breakdown: 4.4 in quality of service, 4.3 in value, 4.2 in average response time, 4.2 in professionalism and 4.1 in flexibility.
