Brisbane's Best Engagement Party Venues
Newly engaged and looking for the perfect engagement party venue in Brisbane? Here's a list of Brisbane's best engagement party locations to hire for an unforgettable celebration. All of these event spaces cater for cocktail functions or seated dining, and are the perfect places to hire for low key events through to epic celebrations.
The top engagement party venues in Brisbane range from casual function rooms to grand ballrooms and cater for intimate events with 20 loved ones through to cocktail parties for 500+ guests. Many of the engagement party spaces on this shortlist are also named among Queensland's most popular wedding venues and hence come with professional event staff included in your party package.
Our favourite Brisbane venues for fun engagement parties include funky industrial spaces with atmospheric lighting, groovy cocktail bars, rooftop hangouts and unexpected spaces like a chapel, barn and barrel room. For seated functions the city's cultural hubs including Fortitude Valley offer a wonderful selection of private dining rooms to hire for your exclusive use.
Here are 16 awesome engagement party venues in Brisbane.
Top 16 Engagement Party Venues in Brisbane
1. Factory 51 Brisbane
- Location: 51 Holdsworth Street, Coorparoo, QLD 4151
- Capacity: 110
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
Factory 51 is hidden down a private laneway in the heart of Brisbane city and has a flexible room set up for seated or cocktail events, making it an ideal engagement party venue. With an elegant crystal chandelier and romantic fairy lights set against industrial brick walls, Factory 51 is an atmospheric event space perfect for both chilled events and upbeat party vibes.
All engagement party packages include exclusive use of the function room which has its own marble bar and adjoining courtyard area. Catering options are tailored to your budget and include canapés, grazing tables, antipasti boards, wood fired pizza or shared feast menus for seated events. Beverage packages or bar tabs are available with premium wines and craft beers on tap.
2. Darling St Chapel
- Location: 16 Darling Street East, Ipswich, QLD 4305
- Capacity: 100
- Engagement Packages: $65/pp
Built in 1879 the historic Darling St Chapel is one of Brisbane's most unique places to host an engagement party. The chapel has had a modern makeover in recent years and now has a built-in bar in the main event space, creating an atmospheric setting for private parties and engagements.
Darling St Chapel is also the perfect venue if you want surprise your guests and turn your engagement party into a surprise wedding as all the facilities for ceremonies are onsite. Cocktail style parties start at $65/pp with a woodfired pizza menu and BYO drinks.
3. Rosmarino Ristorante
Location: Fortitude Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
Capacity: 48
Engagement Packages: $1,500+
Rosmarino Ristorante has three intimate engagement party spaces in the heart of Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. With a private dining room that seats 14 guests, a gorgeous courtyard with retractable roof that seats 35 and an indoor event space seating 48, this popular foodie spot is the perfect place to celebrate your engagement over fine Italian cuisine.
4. The Bethnal
- Location: 6 Byres Street, Newstead, 4006
- Capacity: 130
- Engagement Packages: $1,500 + food & beverages
The barrel-lined walls, fairy lit ceiling and polished concrete floors of The Bethnal, create an electric atmosphere perfect for intimate cocktail parties in this industrial-style, contemporary event space.
Venue hire for engagement parties at The Bethnal starts at $1,500 including exclusive use of the barrel room for 5 hours, furnishings for a cocktail or seated event, a DJ booth, lounge & coffee table area and experienced mixologists to serve from the private bar. Wheelchair accessible.
5. Black Hall Kalbar
- Location: 87 George Street, Kalbar, QLD 4309
- Capacity: 90
- Engagement Packages: $140+/pp
This elegant engagement hall is situated just outside of Brisbane in the Scenic Rim region and is hidden in the gardens of the gorgeous White Chapel Kalbar. The American-style barn opens onto a spacious lawn where there's a rustic outdoor bar perfect for low key private functions. The owner of Black Hall has an Airbnb just a few doors down the road, making this beautiful engagement venue an ideal spot for surprise weddings.
6. Brisbane City Botanic Gardens
- Location: 75 Gardens Point Road, Brisbane City, QLD 4000
- Capacity: 150
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
Nestled in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens is The Gardens Club, a vibrant cafe and function space situated within the heritage listed Curators Cottage. This popular engagement venue caters for cocktail functions with up to 150 guests or seated events for up to 60 people with space for dancing. Profits from all engagement parties & weddings go back to the community via the Wise Foundation.
7. Workshops Rail Museum
- Location: North Street, North Ipswich, QLD 4305
- Capacity: 500
- Engagement Packages: $65+/pp
The Workshops Rail Museum has two affordable engagement venues within its historic walls, both featuring relics from the location's heritage as Queensland's first railway workshop. The largest event space is the Moving Goods Hall where an iconic PB 15, No444 steam locomotive takes centre stage in an 11 metre high shed. Featured, is the site's original dining hall which can seat 220 guests.
8. Loyal Hope Brisbane
- Location: 50 Morgan Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
- Capacity: 100
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
Loyal Hope is a heritage-listed hall located in Brisbane's James Street precinct and having been modernised with timber floors and a built-in bar, is a funky engagement party location. The 1920's building comes with designer furniture for seated or cocktail events, is fully licensed and offers flexible catering options from grazing tables to food trucks through preferred suppliers.
9. Victoria Park Brisbane
- Location: 309 Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006
- Capacity: 15 - 400
- Wedding Packages: $110+/pp
Victoria Park has seven private function rooms situated within 2km of the Brisbane CBD which cater perfectly for all kinds of engagement celebrations from casual functions to grand black tie events. Venues range from elegant marquees and ballrooms with crystal chandeliers to casual cocktail spaces including an orchard room and putting lounge with access to the putt putt course or driving range.
All engagement party venues at Victoria Park are filled with natural light, have beautiful views over Brisbane city, adjoin outdoor terraces and have private bars. Event packages can be custom designed for 20 to 400 guests.
10. The Warehouse Brisbane
- Location: 8 McLachlan Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006
- Capacity: 100 - 1,000
- Wedding Packages: $123 - $415/pp
The Loft & Rooftop Terrace at The Warehouse is one of Fortitude Valley's best engagement venues thanks to incredible skyline views and the understated elegance inside the unique heritage-listed event space. With 7 metre cathedral ceilings, exposed brick walls and decor that pays tribute to a bygone era, The Warehouse is the perfect place to party with up to 250 seated guests or 500 for cocktail soirées.
11. The Joinery
- Location: 244 Montague Rd, West End, QLD 4101
- Capacity: 200
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
The Joinery offers 285m² of blank floor space on which to style your perfect engagement party in Brisbane's funky West End district. The converted warehouse features sky high ceilings & pendulum lights, polished concrete floors and exposed brick walls and seats up to 180 guests or can host cocktail parties for 200.
The Joinery is one of the only Brisbane function venues to allow BYO drinks and preferred caterers tailor event packages to suit your requirements.
12. Wellington Point Farmhouse
- Location: 625 Main Road, Wellington Point, QLD 4160
- Capacity: 150
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
Wellington Point Farmhouse offers affordable function room hire for engagements, weddings and other private events after 4pm each day. The cafe, restaurant and deck can seat up to 100 guests overlooking 24 acres of market gardens and has a relaxed, rustic aesthetic synonymous with country life.
13. Mary Mae's
- Location: 119 Lamington Street, New Farm, QLD 4005
- Capacity: 200 - 300
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
Situated under the Brisbane Powerhouse, Mary Mae's bustling bar & restaurant offers a vibrant social setting for engagement soirees. The Brisbane River venue has small event spaces to hire for intimate parties with 30 - 50 guests, or you can book out the entire location for seated functions with up to 200 guests or cocktail parties with 300 people.
14. Electric Avenue
- Location: 23 Logan Road, Woolloongabba, QLD 4102
- Capacity: 16 - 150
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Electric Avenue is the perfect engagement party venue for intimate celebrations with its multiple character-filled rooms providing a choice of chic event spaces furnished with retro artworks and eccentric memorabilia.
Upstairs, Mrs J. Rabbits is a private bar that can be hired for cocktail functions with up to 50 guests or formal dining for 20. Other private dining rooms seat between 25 - 35 guests and there's an outdoor courtyard suitable for functions of up to 20 people. The entire venue can be hired for cocktail engagement parties with up to 150 guests.
15. Canvas Club Engagements
- Location: 16b Logan Road, Woolloongabba, QLD 4102
- Capacity: 10 - 150
- Wedding Packages: All inclusive
Canvas Club is a chic cocktail & tapas bar located in the relaxed theatre-goers precinct of Woolloongabba and is one of our most recommended engagement party venues in Brisbane because the staff are specialists in hosting epic cocktail events. The venue is well known in the bartending scene with some of Australia's award winning mixologists perfecting their signature cocktails here.
Inside the heritage-listed building are several awesome events spaces for engagement parties including a vintage-inspired secret garden and private dining room that are well suited to events with 20 - 30 guests. For larger parties of up to 150 guests the entire venue can be booked out.
16. The Black Brisbane
- Location: 35 Collingwood Street, Albion, QLD 4010
- Capacity: 40 - 170
- Engagement Packages: All inclusive
The Black is a relaxed hang out situated in Brisbane's industrial-chic suburb of Albion and with a beautifully intimate community vibe oozing throughout the complex, is one of the city's best engagement venues.
The luxe-rustic warehouse is nestled within a refurbished builders yard and features a funky bar, spacious function area and an adjoining covered courtyard that comes fully furnished. Engagement packages are tailored to fit most budgets.
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