Weddings
From $176 per head
Ceremonies and receptions for two to three hundred and fifty, with an event manager who recommends and coordinates your suppliers.
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Since 1973 · North Terrace, Adelaide
Six event spaces, from an elegant Library to a glass Conservatory and a garden Marquee, a kitchen that has cooked for royalty, and an event manager who plans every last thing with you.
Built in 1846 and home to Sir Henry Ayers, renowned businessman and five times Premier of South Australia, from 1855. A working events house since 1973.
Which means six event spaces, from the elegant Library to the glass Conservatory and a garden Marquee, holding anything from two people to four hundred. A kitchen that has been feeding this city for five decades. And a team who have run more events than anyone else in Adelaide.
What we host
From $176 per head
Ceremonies and receptions for two to three hundred and fifty, with an event manager who recommends and coordinates your suppliers.
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Full day from $84 per head
Seminars, breakfasts, conferences and gala dinners. AV, run sheet, dietaries and suppliers all sit with one team. Brief us once.
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From $94 per head, drinks included
Milestone birthdays, school formals, baptisms, engagements and memorials. The kind of rooms that turn an ordinary date into one people still talk about.
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From $79 per head
Private end-of-year parties from $79 per head, and our own Jingle Ball in a Marquee on our lawns, complete with dance band, three course menu and drinks package.
Christmas & Jingle BallThe spaces
The rooms in Ayers House are original, and they have been left that way. The Conservatory came later, built around the old stables and coach house, and it is now the one most people ask for.
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2 to 22 around one table
The smallest and the warmest room at Ayers House. Birthdays, board meetings, boardroom lunches and elopements, all around a single table.
Seats up to 70 · 100 standing
Weddings and ceremonies, cocktail parties, milestone birthdays and sit-down dinners. Our grandest room, and it has been hosting balls and parties since 1870.
Seats 30 to 80 · 110 standing
A contemporary, adaptable room with its own dance floor, and a Bridal Suite that becomes private breakout rooms for corporate events. Works just as well for a wedding as it does for a party or presentation.
Seats up to 170 · 250 standing
Built around the original stables and coach house under a vaulted glass roof, the Conservatory is our largest room, with its own bar and a huge dance floor with space for live entertainment.
Seats 180 to 350 · 430 standing
Built to order on the front lawns, for anything from Christmas dinner dances to weddings and large corporate events.
Next to Henry’s Table
Chesterfields, a long bar table and armchairs. Drinks before dinner, a breakout space between sessions, or where the party ends up.
Your event manager
Not a coordinator you meet on the day. One event manager plans the whole thing with you, then hands it over in detail to the venue manager who runs it.
Most couples who book here do not hire a wedding planner, because they do not need one. Your event manager has worked with most florists, photographers, stylists and bands in Adelaide, and will tell you honestly which ones will never let you down.
They build your run sheet, coordinate your suppliers and sort out who is arriving when. By the time the doors open, every decision is already made, and the venue manager running your day has been briefed on all of it. We answer the questions before they are asked, so you can relax.
So you just need to book a celebrant and choose your suppliers, then leave the rest to us.
One contact, one invoice, and one team who own the whole thing. AV, run sheet, dietaries, timings, external suppliers and the bar tab all sit with us.
We have done hundreds of conferences, launches and gala dinners in these rooms. Brief us once, and the next thing you have to do is turn up. Nothing goes wrong in front of your CEO.
The food
Ayers House has been a working restaurant since 1973. In that time our kitchen has cooked for royalty, for Prime Ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard, and for a great many events that never made the papers.
Everything is made here. Sides come with every course, dietary requirements are handled expertly rather than grudgingly, and your guests order individually instead of by alternate drop unless you ask for it.
Ask about your date
Every enquiry goes to one of our event managers, who will check your date and come back to you personally. We would love to hear what you have in mind.
Would you rather talk it through? Call (08) 8224 0666
or email eventsmanager@ayershouse.com.au