Quinceanera Venues in Houston: What to Ask Before You Pay a Deposit
Quinceañeras · Stafford, Houston Quinceañera venues in Houston: what to ask before you put down a deposit A quinceañera is not a birthday party with a bigger cake. It is a ceremony, a court, a choreographed vals, a meal and a dance — five events in one night. Most venue listings are written as if it were a wedding with teenagers, and that is why so many families end up paying for the wrong room. The arch, the gown, the entrance. The room has to hold all of it and still leave a dance floor. The five things that happen, and the space each one needs The entrance She arrives, often through a doorway with dry ice and the court behind her. This needs a clear run and a sightline from the seated tables. Rooms with pillars in the middle kill it. The ceremony Shoe change, last doll, toast, sometimes a blessing. A raised area or a cleared front with a microphone that works. Ten minutes that everyone photographs. The vals The waltz with the court — often fourteen dancers, sometimes more. This is where rooms fail. You need a genuinely clear floor, not a gap between tables. The meal Seated for the family, usually 150 to 300. Your caterer, your menu, and enough kitchen for them to plate at that volume. The dance The part that runs longest. Sound, lighting and a floor that stays busy until the end — which at a quince means late. Ask a venue to walk you through those five moments in the actual room. If they can only show you the seated layout, the vals will be a problem on the night. The gown needs room to be seen. So does the court behind it. Si prefiere escribirnos en español Queremos ser honestos: por el momento nuestro equipo no habla español por teléfono. Si nos llama, la conversación será en inglés. Lo que sí podemos hacer es responderle por correo electrónico en español. Escríbanos a info@thehendrixhouston.com con la fecha que tiene en mente y el número aproximado de invitados, y le enviaremos los precios, la disponibilidad y lo que incluye cada salón. También puede traer a alguien de su familia que hable inglés cuando venga a ver el salón — las visitas duran unos treinta minutos y no hace falta cita previa durante nuestro horario. In short: we cannot take a call in Spanish yet, but we will happily answer your email in Spanish, and you are welcome to bring an English-speaking relative to the tour. The three costs families underestimate Running late Quinces run long. Almost every family goes past the booked slot. Ask the hourly rate before you sign, not at 1am. Ours is $350 in the Mansion and $200 in the Dome. The catering markup A 20% margin on a $6,000 food bill is $1,200. Venues that allow outside catering hand that straight back. There is no approved list and no markup here. Chairs and linens Frequently rented in by default because nobody said they were included. Banquet tables, Chiavari chairs and linens come with every booking here — check before you sign a rental order. What it costs at The Hendrix The Mansion is about 10,000 sq ft, seats 300 and holds 350 standing, from $2,500. Added to that: a $350 cleaning fee, a $300 security fee and a refundable $500 deposit returned after the night. Every rate is published on the pricing page, and the packages page has a calculator that shows your total with the fees already in it. Only one event runs here at a time, so the building belongs to your family for the evening — the parking, the entrance and the photographs outside included. Ask about a date(281) 801-5211See the quinceañera page Quinceanera questions How much does a quinceanera venue cost in Houston? The Mansion at The Hendrix in Stafford starts at $2,500 and seats 300 guests. Added to that are a $350 cleaning fee, a refundable $500 deposit returned after the event, and a $300 security fee where alcohol is served or the event runs into the evening. Additional hours are $350. How many guests fit at a quinceanera at The Hendrix? The Mansion seats 300 at round tables and holds 350 standing across about 10,000 sq ft. There is room for a court of fourteen or more to dance the vals without moving tables. Can we bring our own caterer and DJ for a quinceanera? Yes. There is no approved supplier list and no markup on your food bill. Any licensed caterer may use the 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen, and the same applies to your DJ, decorator, photographer and MC. What happens if the party runs past our booked time? Additional hours are $350 in the Mansion and $200 in the Dome. Quinceaneras routinely run long, so it is worth agreeing the rate up front rather than at one in the morning. Do you speak Spanish? Not on the phone yet – a call with us will be in English. We are glad to answer your email in Spanish, so send us your date and approximate guest count using the email link on this page and we will reply with prices, availability and what each room includes. You are also welcome to bring an English-speaking relative to the tour. Is there room for the entrance and the vals? Yes. The Mansion has a clear run for the entrance with no pillars in the middle of the floor, and enough open floor for the full court to dance the vals without rearranging the seated tables.
Dear Mama: The Sunday Houston’s Event Planners Built for Their Own Mothers
A day here · Stafford, Houston Dear Mama: the Sunday Houston’s event planners built for their own mothers Every event in this building is booked by someone making a day for somebody else. This one was different. The Planner’s Circle — a group of Houston event professionals who spend every weekend perfecting other people’s celebrations — took a Sunday in May and turned the whole thing on themselves. The stage, mid-afternoon. Sage-green backdrop, layered white arches, floral columns — and eight women who normally run the room, sitting in it. The brief, from people who write briefs for a living When planners plan for themselves the requirements get unusually specific. They asked for three things, and every one of them narrows a venue list fast. A wall they could build against The centrepiece was an installation, not a decoration scheme — a curved arch set, floral columns, printed wall panels running the length of one side. That needs a blank wall, real height above it, and a floor you can rig from. Their own suppliers, all of them Every planner in the group had a florist, a caterer, a baker and a photographer they trust. An approved-supplier list would have ended the conversation in the first phone call. The building to themselves Mothers, daughters and grandmothers in one room, some being photographed, some in tears. Not a day to share a corridor and a car park with another party. All three are simply how this venue works, which is the short answer to why the day happened in Stafford rather than closer in. Before the doors opened. The whole set was built against one blank wall of the Mansion. Thirty-six seconds of the day Filmed here, in the room you would book. Nothing in it is another venue’s footage. Your browser does not support this video. Not a brunch. Six things happening at once. The mistake most people make with a Mother’s Day event is to build it around a meal and a speech. This one was built around things to do, running in parallel, so that nobody sat still being talked at for two hours. A flower bar Buckets of daisies, gerberas and armfuls of baby’s breath on white-and-gold shelving. Guests built their own bouquets and took them home — a better favour than anything bought in. A cake competition Aprons on, tiers out, judged at the end with everyone holding their cake in the air. It produced the loudest thirty seconds of the afternoon. A payphone for messages A vintage wall payphone on a blush linen table with a card reading “Dear Mom… This One’s for You”. Guests picked it up and recorded what they wanted to say. A panel Seated on the stage, mics passed along the row, honest conversation rather than a keynote. This is where the afternoon went quiet. A rose to give Long-stemmed roses handed person to person across tables. Simple, and the source of most of the photographs people actually kept. Beauty and scent stations A perfume-blending bar and a styling demo running along one wall, so there was always somewhere to drift to between the set pieces. The photograph everyone remembers from the day. Two generations, one microphone. The part nobody planned The panel was on the run sheet. What happened during it was not. The mic went along the row and then out into the room, and the afternoon stopped being a programme. Older women talked about their own mothers. Daughters said things out loud they had clearly been carrying for a while. One woman held the mic with her free hand flat against her chest and could not finish her sentence, and nobody minded. Then somebody laughed, and the roses started moving between tables, and it turned back into a party. The roses moved table to table for most of the afternoon. The cake competition, judged. Everybody held theirs up at once. Three things worth stealing If you are planning a Mother’s Day brunch, a bridal shower, a milestone birthday or a women’s event of any kind, three decisions from this day are worth copying outright. Give people something to do with their hands A making station beats a photo booth. It gives the shy guest somewhere to stand, it starts conversations between strangers, and everyone leaves holding an object rather than a print. Build one thing tall A single installation with real height does more for the photographs than a hundred table centrepieces. Spend the decoration budget on one wall and let the rest of the room stay simple. Leave a gap for the unplanned bit The best twenty minutes were not on the run sheet. Build a moment where the microphone can leave the stage, and then let it. The room they used Dear Mama ran in the Mansion — the ground-floor room, about 10,000 sq ft, which seats 300 at tables or holds 350 standing. It gave them the wall height the installation needed, step-free access from the main entrance for the older guests, and a 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen their caterers worked from all afternoon. Upstairs, the Dome suits 80 guests or fewer and would hold a smaller version of exactly this day. Only one event runs here at a time, whichever room you take. The Mansion — 300 seated, 350 standing, from $2,500 The Dome — 80 guests or fewer, from $1,200 Your own caterer, no markup 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen Free guest parking at the door One event at a time Every rate is published in full on the pricing page, and you can build a package and see the total on the all-inclusive packages page. If you are planning something for a smaller group, the shower pages cover the Dome in more detail. If you are planning something like this Come and stand in the room before you decide anything. It takes about half an hour, walk-ins are welcome during opening hours, and you will know within five minutes whether
Micro Weddings and Small Wedding Venues in Houston
Weddings · Stafford, Houston Micro weddings and small wedding venues in Houston Most Houston wedding venues are built for 200 and priced for 200. If you are planning for 40, or 60, or 80, the problem is not finding a room. It is finding one that does not make forty people feel like a rehearsal in an empty hall. A small wedding is not a scaled-down big one. It is a different evening, and it wants a different room. The empty-room problem Book 50 guests into a 300-seat ballroom and the photographs will show it. Empty round tables at the edges, a dance floor with too much space around it, and a room that reads as under-attended no matter how happy everyone is. The fix is not decoration. It is square footage. A room that fits your guest list closely feels full, sounds better, and photographs as though the day was always meant to be exactly this size. The Dome at The Hendrix is 2,000 sq ft and we market it at 80 guests or fewer — deliberately, because that is the number at which it feels right rather than the number we could physically fit. It is upstairs, it has its own large marble bar, and it is priced the same on any day of the week. What “micro wedding” actually means The term gets used for three different things, and they need different rooms. Elopement — 2 to 12 The couple, witnesses, perhaps parents. Often a ceremony and a long dinner rather than a reception. A small private room and a good table. Micro wedding — 20 to 50 Immediate family and closest friends. Usually one space for everything — ceremony, dinner, dancing — with a reset in between. The Dome does this in a single booking. Small wedding — 50 to 100 Everyone you would actually miss. At the top of this band the Dome is tight and the Mansion is the better room, dressed to feel intimate rather than filled to its capacity. What a smaller wedding buys you The honest case for going small is not that it is cheap. It is that the same budget buys a noticeably better evening. Food people talk about A $6,000 catering budget is $30 a head at 200 and $120 a head at 50. That is the difference between a buffet and a menu. Time with your guests At 200 you get roughly 90 seconds per guest across the whole evening. At 50 you actually have a conversation with everyone who came. A weekday that works Small guest lists travel better midweek. A Friday or a Thursday is easier to fill with 50 people than with 200, and it costs less. The Dome, dressed for a reception of eighty. Its own bar, its own floor, and nobody else in the building. What it costs The Dome is $1,200 daytime, $1,500 evening and $2,000 for a full day, the same on any day of the week. Add a $200 cleaning fee, a refundable $350 deposit, and a $300 security fee where alcohol is served or the event runs into the evening. Additional hours are $200. Included: tables, Chiavari chairs, linens, the marble bar, an on-site concierge, free parking and the 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen for whichever caterer you choose. There is no approved supplier list and no markup on your food bill. If your list grows past eighty, the Mansion seats 300 from $2,500 — and both getting-ready suites come with it either way. One wedding a day Whichever room you take, only one event runs here at a time. There is no second wedding upstairs, no shared parking and no hard stop because the room has to be turned for someone else. For a day built around forty people who matter, that turns out to be the part couples mention afterwards. Ask about a date(281) 801-5211 Small wedding questions What is a micro wedding? Usually 20 to 50 guests: immediate family and closest friends, with the ceremony, dinner and dancing often in one space. Below that, 2 to 12 guests is generally an elopement, and 50 to 100 is a small wedding. Where can you have a small wedding near Houston? The Dome at The Hendrix in Stafford is about 2,000 sq ft and marketed at 80 guests or fewer, with its own large marble bar. It is priced the same on any day of the week, from $1,200. How much does a small wedding venue cost in Houston? The Dome is $1,200 daytime, $1,500 evening and $2,000 for a full day, on any day of the week. Add a $200 cleaning fee, a refundable $350 deposit, and a $300 security fee where alcohol is served or the event runs into the evening. Additional hours are $200. Why does a small wedding look better in a small room? A guest list of fifty in a 300-seat ballroom photographs as under-attended, with empty tables at the edges. A room sized close to your guest count feels full, sounds better and photographs as though the day was always meant to be that size. Do we still get the getting-ready suites for a small wedding? Yes. Both the bride's and groom's suites are included, and only one wedding runs at The Hendrix per day, so there is no second party in the building and no hard stop.
What an All-Inclusive Houston Venue Package Really Costs
Pricing · Stafford, Houston What an all-inclusive Houston venue package really costs People search this expecting a number and get a contact form. So here is the number, the honest version of what “all-inclusive” covers, and a straight answer on whether a $5,000 ceiling is realistic in Houston. Tables, chairs, linens, bar and concierge, set before you arrive and cleared after you leave. First, what the phrase actually means “All-inclusive” means different things at different venues, and the difference is worth thousands. At a hotel it usually means food and room, priced per head, with everything else extra. At an independent venue it usually means room and everything that lives in the building — tables, chairs, linens, bar, staff — with catering left to you. The second kind is almost always cheaper for the same evening, because you are not paying a margin on the food. The Hendrix is the second kind. What is included, on every booking: Banquet tables and Chiavari chairs, set and cleared Linens A bar on each floor 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen for your caterer On-site concierge for the whole booking Bride’s and groom’s suites Free guest parking Step-free ground-floor access The numbers The Mansion runs from $2,500 for a Monday-to-Thursday daytime booking up to $6,000 for a Saturday or Sunday full-day Premium package. The Dome is a flat rate on any day of the week: $1,200 daytime, $1,500 evening, $2,000 full day. Then the additions, which every venue has and few publish: Cleaning fee $350 in the Mansion, $200 in the Dome. Charged once, not per hour. Security fee $300 for professional security. Not automatic — it applies to evening events and to events where alcohol is served. Ask us if neither applies to yours. Refundable deposit $500 for the Mansion, $350 for the Dome. Returned after the event. Additional hours $350 an hour in the Mansion, $200 in the Dome, if you run past your slot. There is no catering markup, no bar minimum, no corkage and no service charge on your own suppliers. Is a $5,000 all-in wedding realistic in Houston? This is the question behind the search, so here is the honest answer: yes, but only on a weekday and only for a smaller guest list. A worked example, 80 guests, weekday, in the Dome: Dome, full day — $2,000 Cleaning — $200 Security — $300 Catering at $25 a head — $2,000 Running total — $4,500 That leaves roughly $500 for florals, cake and a DJ, which is tight but not impossible if friends and family carry some of it. Push the same event to a Saturday in the Mansion for 200 guests and you are at $3,500 for the room before a single plate of food. The lever is not the venue. It is the day and the head count. Anyone quoting $5,000 all-in for 200 guests on a Saturday is either not counting the catering or is about to. The Dome, upstairs. Eighty guests or fewer, and the same price whatever day you take. The part most people actually want: everything else Almost nobody who searches for an all-inclusive package is only thinking about the room. What they are really asking is: how much of this can somebody else carry? The room is the part venues publish. The rest — the food, the flowers, the cake, the bar, the tableware — is where the evening is actually won or lost, and where a family with jobs and children ends up doing eleven separate negotiations with eleven separate suppliers. So alongside the room, The Hendrix can bundle in as much or as little of the following as you want, on an à la carte basis: Catering Full service for your guest count, or a kitchen for the caterer you already have. Your choice, and it stays your choice — there is still no approved list and no markup if you bring your own. Decoration and styling Backdrops, floral installations, draping, uplighting, the monogram floor, table styling. From a simple dress-up to a full build against the wall. Cakes and confectionery Celebration cakes, dessert tables, small chops and grazing displays, sized to the event rather than to a standard menu. Drinks service Bar service with a TABC-certified bartender, glassware and the bar on each floor. Or bring your own bottles and we staff it. Upgraded tableware Chargers, china, cutlery, glassware, napkins and linens beyond the standard set, so the tables photograph the way you pictured them. The rest of the run sheet DJ and sound, photography and video, MC, photo booth, security, coordination on the day. If it belongs in the evening, ask. Or hand us the whole thing At the top of the range is a white-glove booking, where you worry about nothing and we handle everything — room, food, styling, cake, bar, tableware, suppliers, timings and the day itself. You turn up to your own event as a guest. Because we are buying the whole package rather than selling you a room and leaving you to assemble the rest, this is routinely the point where the number surprises people. A venue that does not offer it has to be compared against six or seven separate invoices; a set of standalone suppliers has no room to move on any of them. We usually have quite a lot of room to move. We do not publish those figures, because they genuinely depend on the event. A 60-guest weekday shower and a 300-guest Saturday wedding are not the same conversation, and quoting a range would mislead both. What we will do is build the number with you honestly, itemised, so you can see exactly what you are paying for and drop anything you would rather do yourself. A tour, a call or an email is all it takes: (281) 801-5211 or info@thehendrixhouston.com. Three ways people overspend Buying a Saturday they did not need A Friday evening costs less and almost nobody declines. A Thursday costs less again. The guest list
Banquet Halls in Houston: What the Word Actually Buys You
Choosing a venue · Stafford, Houston Banquet halls in Houston: what the word actually buys you “Banquet hall” is one of the most searched phrases in Houston events and one of the least useful. It describes a room with tables in it. It tells you nothing about the four things that decide whether your event is any good. The same square footage can be a hall or a venue. What separates them is not the floor plan. The four questions the phrase does not answer Two rooms can both be 10,000 square feet, both seat 300, and be completely different products. Here is what actually differs, in the order it will affect you. 1. Can you bring your own caterer? This is the big one, and it is where most of the money hides. A hall with in-house catering sets a per-head minimum, marks up the food, and hands you a menu built to be cooked at volume. A hall that allows outside catering lets you spend the same money on food your guests actually want. For a Nigerian party, an Indian wedding, a halal or kosher event, or a family that wants the aunt who has cooked for thirty years, this is not a preference. It is the whole decision. At The Hendrix there is no approved list and no markup, and a 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen your caterer works from. 2. Is anyone else in the building? Many halls run two or three rooms at once. That means shared parking, shared restrooms, a corridor with another party’s guests in it, and staff split between events. It also means a hard stop, because the room has to be turned for tomorrow. One event at a time is a different experience and it is worth asking about explicitly. The answer is rarely on the website. 3. What does the room look like with the lights up? Every hall photographs well at night with uplighting. Ask to see it at 2pm on a Tuesday with nothing in it. Panelled walls, real ceiling height and chandeliers photograph as a location. Painted breeze block and a suspended ceiling photograph as a school gym, whatever you drape it with. 4. What is the number on the invoice? The headline rate is rarely the number. Ask for the cleaning fee, the security fee, the deposit, the overtime rate and the corkage before you compare anything to anything. Panelled walls, chandeliers and real height. The room does a lot of the work before anyone decorates it. Where The Hendrix sits We are at 1250 Texas Parkway in Stafford — 20 minutes from downtown Houston, 10 from Sugar Land Town Square, 15 from the Galleria, and inside the loop of most of southwest Houston’s churches and funeral homes. Ground floor The Mansion SizeAbout 10,000 sq ft Seated300 guests Standing350 guests From$2,500 Step-free from the main entrance, with the prep kitchen and both suites on the same floor. Upstairs The Dome SizeAbout 2,000 sq ft Best for80 guests or fewer Own barLarge marble bar From$1,200 Priced the same on any day of the week, which makes a small event easy to budget. A checklist to take to every viewing Print this, or screenshot it. Ask all nine at every hall you see, including ours. Can I use any licensed caterer? Is there a markup on my food bill? Will another event run at the same time? What is the cleaning fee? What is the security fee? How much is the refundable deposit? What do additional hours cost? Is BYOB permitted, and on what terms? Is parking free, and how many cars? A venue that answers all nine on the phone without checking is a venue that has nothing hiding in the invoice. Ours are published on the pricing page. Walk the room before you decide(281) 801-5211 Questions worth asking any venue What is the difference between a banquet hall and an event venue? The phrase describes a room with tables in it, not a level of service. The differences that matter are whether you can bring your own caterer, whether another event runs at the same time, how the room looks with the lights up, and what the additional fees are. Which Houston banquet halls allow outside catering? The Hendrix in Stafford places no restriction on which licensed caterer you use and takes no percentage of your food bill. A 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen is available to them. Always ask a venue this before comparing headline rates. How much does a banquet hall cost near Houston? At The Hendrix the Mansion starts at $2,500 and the Dome at $1,200. Added to that are a cleaning fee of $350 or $200, a $300 security fee where alcohol is served or the event runs into the evening, and a refundable deposit of $500 or $350. Every rate is published in full on the pricing page. How many guests does The Hendrix hold? The Mansion is about 10,000 sq ft and seats 300 guests, or 350 standing. The Dome upstairs is about 2,000 sq ft and suits 80 guests or fewer. The two rooms are never booked at the same time. Will another event be running at the same time as mine? No. Only one event runs at The Hendrix at a time, so the floor you book is yours alone. There is no second party through the wall, no shared parking and no hard stop to turn the room for someone else.
Company Christmas Party Ideas in Houston That People Turn Up To
Corporate · Stafford, Houston Company Christmas party ideas in Houston that people actually turn up to Every December there is a party nobody remembers and a party people talk about in February. The difference is almost never the budget. It is four decisions, and most of them get made by accident in October. The Mansion dressed for December. Garlands, warm uplighting, and a floor with room to actually dance on. Decision one: pick the night before you pick the room The single biggest lever on a Houston holiday party is the day of the week, and it is worth more than any decoration budget you will argue about later. Saturdays in December are the first dates to go, and they are priced accordingly across the whole city. A Monday-to-Thursday evening at The Hendrix starts at $2,500 against $3,500 on a Saturday — the same room, the same hours, the same everything, for a thousand dollars less. There is a second argument for a weeknight that has nothing to do with money. Nobody has to give up a Saturday in December. Attendance on a Tuesday evening in the first two weeks of the month is reliably higher than on a Saturday competing with three other invitations, a school play and someone’s in-laws. If your date is flexible, book a weeknight and put the difference into food. People remember what they ate. Decision two: stop booking a ballroom, start booking a floor Hotel ballrooms quote by the head and then meter everything after it. The room comes with a catering minimum, a bar minimum, a corkage rule, a preferred-supplier list and a service charge on all of it. You do not find out what the party actually costs until the invoice. The alternative is to book the floor and bring your own everything. At The Hendrix only one event runs at a time, so the building is yours for the evening — no wedding party humming through the wall, no second bar competing for staff. Your caterer, no markup There is no approved list and no percentage taken on the food bill. Use the Vietnamese place your team actually likes, or the barbecue everyone votes for. A 1,000 sq ft prep kitchen is theirs for the night. Your bar, your bottles BYOB is permitted. Alcohol must be served by a TABC-certified bartender whose certificate reaches us five days out. Whatever is left at the end goes home with you. Free parking that fits everyone Several hundred vehicles, lit, on site, at the door. Nobody expenses a garage and nobody arrives twenty minutes late having circled the block. Seated for an awards dinner. Three hundred at round tables, with a stage end that still leaves a dance floor. Decision three: choose a shape, not a theme “Winter wonderland” is not a plan. The shape of the evening is, and there are really only four that work for a company of any size. The seated dinner with awards Round tables for up to 300, a lectern and a video wall for the reel. Best when there is something genuine to hand out. Budget 40 minutes for the programme and not a minute more — the room turns on you after that. The standing reception Cocktail tables, grazing stations, no seating plan and no speeches. Holds 350. The right answer for a firm where half the room has never met the other half, because nobody is trapped next to one person all evening. The family party Late afternoon into early evening, children welcome, a photo corner and a dessert table. Costs less because it uses the daytime slot, and it is the only format that reliably gets people who have stopped coming to work things. The two-room evening Dinner downstairs, then everyone moves upstairs to the Dome for a bar and a DJ. The physical move resets the energy at exactly the point most parties sag, around 9pm. Decision four: the two things that make it feel expensive After a hundred events in this building, the same two things separate a party that photographs well from one that does not, and neither is the centrepiece budget. Lighting. Overhead fluorescents at full brightness will flatten the most beautiful room in Texas. Warm uplighting around the perimeter, chandeliers dimmed, candles on the tables — that is most of the effect, and it is cheap. Ceiling height. Garlands, drape and any installation that goes up rather than along is what makes a room read as a venue rather than a function suite. The Mansion has the height for it, which is why the December photographs from this room look the way they do. Your caterer, your menu, no percentage taken. What it actually costs So you can build a number without calling anybody: Mansion, Monday–Thursday evening — from $2,500 Mansion, Saturday evening — from $3,500 The Dome, any day — from $1,200 Cleaning fee — $350 Mansion, $200 Dome Security fee — $300 Refundable deposit — $500 Mansion, $350 Dome Additional hours — $350 Mansion, $200 Dome No catering markup, no bar minimum, no service charge on your own suppliers. Every rate is published on the pricing page, and you can build a package and see the total on the all-inclusive packages page. Book December in October The second Saturdays go first, and they go early. If your date is fixed, the useful thing to do now is find out plainly whether it is still available — and if it is not, whether the Thursday before it is, at a thousand dollars less. Check your December date(281) 801-5211 Questions about December parties How much does a company Christmas party venue cost near Houston? At The Hendrix in Stafford, a Monday-to-Thursday evening in the Mansion starts at $2,500 and a Saturday evening from $3,500. The Dome is $1,500 for an evening on any day. Most company parties fall on a weeknight, which is the cheaper slot. When should we book a December work party in Houston? October at
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