The MV Skansonia is a historic ferryboat and waterfront wedding venue located in Seattle, Washington. This unique boat was built in 1929, and boasts beautiful views of the Seattle skyline. It’s permanently docked on Lake Union, and is the perfect setting for both your ceremony and reception. The MV Skansonia is an all-inclusive venue with popular food, beverage, and decor packages to make your planning fun and easy. Our team looks forward to bringing your vision to life!
Facilities and Capacity
Here at the MV Skansonia we pride ourselves on timeless elegance and vintage-nautical decor.
Enjoy Lake Union, Gasworks Park and the Space Needle as your backdrop while you exchange your vows on the picturesque bow of our ferry. Indoors, your guests will be dazzled by a romantic atmosphere made up of tea lights, draped chiffon, gold mirrors, and Edison bulbs.
Our main floor features a dance floor, dining area, historic bar, and garage doors that open up to the bow of the boat.
The upper deck has two sitting rooms, a covered promenade overlooking the water, and a private bridal suite.
The MV Skansonia can accommodate up to 250 guests.
Services Offered
Our full-service venue offers all-inclusive packages to ensure every detail is taken care of. We provide hands-on event specialists and a day-of coordinator so your planning process can be enjoyable, efficient, and stress-free.
The MV Skansonia offers top-of-the-line in-house catering, bar service, floral/decor, and entertainment/experience options for your special day.
We offer tastings of our award-winning cuisine, which includes a wide range of local mouth-watering Pacific Northwest flavors. Couples can choose from hors d'oeuvres, stations, family-style, buffet, plated meals, and/or a cocktail reception. We also have an on-site bakery for your wedding cake needs, or you can bring in your own.
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Recommended by 97% of couples
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Harrison Hakes · Married on 08/30/2019
A Truly Magical Evening
We are both from Illinois and wanted to give our guests a truly Seattle experience. This was it. The staff was amazing to work with, gave us extremely helpful suggestions, and truly took effort to get us the special day we were looking for. They were extremely responsive and helped us numerous times with all our questions. The venue offers decor, catering, and floral options which made planning so much easier (plus, the options were awesome)! The food was FANTASTIC. Our guests have told us again and again how they usually hate wedding food, but loved our menu. So impressed and happy with how our wedding turned out and can't recommend the Skansonia enough!
Sent on 09/26/2019
The MV Skansonia's reply:
Thank you so much Harrison & Seth!! We are so happy for you both (and Marcy). You wedding was so much fun :)
Wesley Nell · Married on 09/22/2018
Wedding planning made so easy and stress-free
Love this venue and their staff! They are extremely easy to work with and very responsive. They seem to adapt well to however you and your partner treat wedding planning. We are not super into wedding planning so it was fantastic for us to have a one-stop shop for everything. I really appreciated their flexibility as well. We brought in all of our own alcohol and dessert and our dogs! And the venue, what is not to love? Views of the city, mountains, water, and Gas Park. I want to live on this boat. I would recommend this venue in a heartbeat to friends and family.
Sent on 11/02/2018
Tiffany · Married on 07/22/2018
From our first tour of the venue to the last dance on our wedding night, the MV Skansonia met and exceeded all our expectations! The Skansonia provides the perfect backdrop! The inside and outside details of the boat are unique, very vintage and everything I dreamed of for our special day! The staff is so attentive and kind and made sure the focus was always on us and making the day perfect! The food was phenomenal, the flowers absolutely beautiful and the bakery brought my dessert vision to life! Our friends and family are still talking about our wedding and how perfect of a venue it was! My husband and I will forever reminisce about the best day of our lives in what we believe was the best location and venue to begin our forever together!
Sent on 09/08/2018
The MV Skansonia's reply:
Thank you so much for this wonderful review and for choosing the Skansonia to celebrate. Congratulations Tiffany & Joe!!!
The MV Skansonia Price Rates
Book your ceremony and reception at the MV Skansonia (Mon-Thurs) and the ceremony fee will be waived. For new bookings only. Valid for 2019 bookings (expires 11/15/2019).
Book a Friday evening ceremony and reception and receive complimentary tea-light package and table runners for all reception tables. New Bookings Only.
Welcome all of your wedding guests on board the MV Skansonia with a complimentary glass of bubbly. Promotion applies to all Sunday ceremony & reception packages booked on or before 12/31/2019. Cannot be combined with other promotions. Promotion for new bookings only.
14 Endorsements
I love this venue so much that I chose it for my own wedding! The view is fantastic and I liked the convenience of getting so many services under one roof. The staff are friendly and I enjoy going back to this venue for photography, videography & photo booth events!
I love this venue so much that I chose it for my own wedding! The view is fantastic and I liked the convenience of getting so many services under one roof. The staff are friendly and I enjoy going back to this venue for photography, videography & photo booth events!
I love this venue so much that I chose it for my own wedding! The view is fantastic and I liked the convenience of getting so many services under one roof. The staff are friendly and I enjoy going back to this venue for photography, videography & photo booth events!
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