Arras Banquet & Event Space

ARRAS gives couples a Vancouver wedding that can begin above the city and end beneath a dance floor full of people.

Near Granville Island and Broadway, the contemporary venue spreads across three different event spaces, allowing the wedding to change character as the day unfolds rather than asking every moment to happen inside the same room.

Perhaps it begins on the rooftop.

High above the street, the Rooftop Terrace opens toward Vancouver with sweeping views of downtown, the North Shore mountains, False Creek and English Bay.

It is the kind of ceremony setting where the backdrop needs very little help.

The chairs fill.

The skyline stretches beyond them.

And somewhere between city, mountains and sky, two people get married.

Then everyone can move downstairs.

ARRAS's Ballroom brings a completely different feeling to the celebration, with expansive natural light, architectural details, a built-in dance floor and an adjoining covered patio. Its neutral contemporary design gives couples room to decide what the wedding should become rather than competing with the flowers, colours and details they bring into it.

For smaller celebrations, the Piano Café offers something softer and more intimate, with high ceilings, abundant light and a grand piano giving the room a character of its own.

That flexibility means ARRAS can hold very different versions of a wedding.

A small ceremony and beautiful dinner.

A rooftop promise followed by cocktails.

Or hundreds of favourite people gathering for a full reception beneath the city lights.

The venue's in-house team takes care of many of the pieces that make those celebrations work, including food and beverage service, event staffing, standard rentals and audiovisual support.

Then comes the moment every carefully designed wedding eventually reaches.

The menus have done their job.

The speeches are finished.

The skyline outside has turned from afternoon blue to Vancouver after dark.

And the built-in dance floor finally becomes the most important square footage in the building.

For couples who love Vancouver and want the city itself woven through their wedding, ARRAS lets them celebrate above it, beside it and right in the middle of it.