Venue 808 808 J Street • San Diego • CA 92101

Venue 808 in San Diego's East Village includes a lot of the setup in your rental. You get two fully furnished get-ready suites, the vintage farmhouse and sunken cocktail lounge, built-in tables and seating for 140 guests plus 10 high-top bars, market string lights, surround sound speakers, a built-in bar and cocktail area, nine restrooms, security and a venue manager. Plan separately for food and drinks, which come from Coastal Cuisine & Cocktail Co. with a $7,500 and up food and beverage minimum. Add-ons include the speakeasy, extra bar setups, additional security, and 66-inch rounds with black linens and black chairs.

Yes, you can do both under one roof at Venue 808. Ceremonies take place indoors, either in the wood-built Farmhouse Chapel or in a grove of real olive trees strung with fairy lights. Your reception then moves into the main space, a former 1933 produce warehouse with open-beamed ceilings and big multi-paned windows, with the sunken cocktail lounge next door for cocktail hour. The building covers 18,000 square feet and holds up to 300 seated or 1,000 standing.

Food and drinks at Venue 808 come exclusively from Coastal Cuisine & Cocktail Co., which builds a customized food and beverage package with each couple. For everything else, the venue shares a recommended vendor list of pros who've worked there before. Every vendor needs to send a certificate of insurance at least one month before your event, and if a friend or family member is DJing or you're bringing your own furnishings, you'll need day-of event insurance.

At Venue 808 in San Diego, the rental fee runs $5,000–$8,000 depending on the time of year, and there's a food and beverage minimum starting at $7,500. Catering and bar service come exclusively through Coastal Cuisine & Cocktail Co., and the final number moves with your menu, your bar choices and how many guests you invite. Optional extras like the speakeasy, auxiliary bars, extra security, and round tables with black linens and chairs add to the total. Ask for a proposal with your date and guest count to get a real number.

Venue 808 rents as a full day, from 11am load-in to 1:30am load-out, so you and your vendors get plenty of time on both ends. The guest curfew falls between 11:30pm and midnight. Surround sound speakers are built in, and amplified music is allowed indoors with some restrictions. Unless you've arranged otherwise, everything needs to be removed at the end of the event.

Venue 808 is an 18,000-square-foot industrial venue in a 1933 produce warehouse, with room for up to 1,000 standing guests or 300 seated. Inside, you'll find a grove of real Tuscan olive trees, a wood-built farmhouse chapel, a 1960s-style sunken lounge and a hidden speakeasy, so your ceremony, cocktail hour and reception all happen in one building in San Diego's East Village. Two furnished get-ready suites keep your wedding party on site all day. And with a guest curfew of 11:30pm–midnight and load-out until 1:30am, your celebration can run late into the night.

Yes, you can book a tour of Venue 808 online through the venue's Calendly scheduling page, and there's also a 3D virtual tour on its website if you'd like a first look from home. For tours, park in the metered spaces in front of the building at 808 J Street. While you're there, see the olive grove and Farmhouse Chapel for your ceremony, the sunken lounge, and both get-ready suites, and ask where your guests will park, since event parking is in nearby structures.