Events & Entertainment

Black Umbrella Studio is a 6,000 square foot creative rental studio on Hall Avenue in downtown Huntsville. Its website says it is built for photographers, filmmakers, brands and content creators, with a seamless white cyclorama wall, multiple shooting bays, professional lighting, and green and colored backdrop screens. The studio is rented for portraits, headshots, branding and fashion shoots, product photography, interviews, music videos, podcasts and commercials. It also lists cap and gown graduation sessions, and on-location photo and video services. The space doubles as a venue for private parties, showers, corporate events and pop-up showcases. Reach out through the site to discuss a project and reserve a date.

Bellehouse is an all-occasion venue on Sullivan Street in Madison. Its website lists corporate and social events, weddings, birthday parties, baby and bridal showers, graduation parties, fundraisers, workshops, live music and styled shoots among the events it hosts. Its website shows an establishment date of 1912 and includes a venue layout, a free public parking map and a destination map. It also has a gallery, quarterly newsletters and an inquiry form where you pick an event type, date and estimated guest count.

The Swan House Events Center is a private event venue in New Market, northeast of Huntsville. According to its website, it sits in a countryside setting and hosts weddings, birthday and graduation parties, reunions, baby showers, anniversaries, rehearsal dinners and corporate or social events. Event spaces include a covered pavilion, an Island Gazebo and a Grand Ballroom, so events can be held outdoors or inside. The site says the staff helps plan the details for each event. Tours are by appointment only, and the website has a calendar you can check and a form to request a viewing.

White Azalea Estate is an event venue in Harvest, about 15 miles from downtown Huntsville, that describes itself as family-owned and operated. The 14,500 square foot space was converted from a restored barn and mixes rustic and industrial touches. The website says the main hall seats around 350 guests indoors, with total occupancy up to 890. The grounds include a dressing suite, a private lounge, a caterer's prep kitchen, a covered patio and outdoor ceremony spaces. It hosts weddings as well as proms, corporate events, reunions and other celebrations. The site has galleries for wedding and non-wedding events, plus pages for availability and tours.