We compared prices and toured several of the downtown hotels, and we felt like the Westin was by far the best value for the money for our wedding weekend accommodations. We met with Jay Cox and he worked with us to reserve a block of rooms for the week of our wedding at a discounted rate of $149 per night (normally about $225/night).

The Westin is right in the heart of downtown, has great views, and is within easy walking distance to shopping, restaurants, and the theater district. It's also close to the Pike Place Market and the Space Needle. There is a large lobby and bar area downstairs where you can meet up and socialize, and the hotel was a short 12 minute cab ride to our wedding venue. Parking in downtown Seattle always comes at an additional cost, so we made sure to warn our guests that they should plan on paying $25-$40 a night depending on whether they parked in a street lot or at the hotel itself.

I wanted to book a suite with two adjoining rooms for myself and my bridesmaids, and so our guests would have an area to gather and hang out. We chose a specific suite in the south tower, but a few weeks before our wedding we learned that the hotel had pushed back some renovations and the rooms I had carefully selected were no longer available. However, they were able to book us into the Imperial Suite (46th floor, north tower), which was larger but had no kitchen amenities (kind of a bummer). But we made it work and all our guests seemed to really like the suite as well as their individual rooms.

The staff was very helpful and brought up complimentary roll away beds and full length mirrors which made getting ready in the parlor with all my bridesmaids very fun. Jay felt bad about switching our rooms at the last second, so he had chocolate covered strawberries and champagne sent up to our room for the wedding night, which we thought was such a nice touch. We were very happy that we chose the Westin for our accommodations.