CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Wedding and Event Venues?

$1.4M across 1,259 payments, July 31, 2017 to August 31, 2026 — 221 purchase orders and 59 vendors, run by Recreation and Parks.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: WEDDING AND EVENT VENUES

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 221 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$1.4MTotal spent
221Purchase orders
59Vendors
24%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$177K
FY2018-19
$229K
FY2019-20
$409K
FY2020-21
$65K
FY2021-22
$41K
FY2022-23
$112K
FY2023-24
$127K
FY2024-25
$74K
FY2025-26
$187K
FY2026-27 *
$8K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $13K.

Who was paid

The 25 largest of 59 vendors on this line.

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 221 purchase orders booked to this line.

50 payments · November 2, 2018 to October 29, 2019

5 payments · December 23, 2025 to May 5, 2026

2 payments · June 17, 2020 to February 18, 2021

37 payments · November 3, 2017 to August 30, 2018

41 payments · October 29, 2019 to February 2, 2023

18 payments · November 21, 2019 to May 19, 2020

22 payments · January 15, 2019 to April 20, 2020

27 payments · April 3, 2020 to April 21, 2020

4 payments · March 26, 2024 to July 25, 2024

12 payments · January 12, 2018 to October 3, 2018

25 payments · November 9, 2022 to August 28, 2023

35 payments · February 22, 2022 to December 7, 2022

27 payments · August 8, 2024 to August 25, 2025

33 payments · August 24, 2023 to September 27, 2024

23 payments · May 8, 2026 to August 25, 2026

2 payments · April 30, 2018 to April 30, 2018

20 payments · October 17, 2019 to October 17, 2019

22 payments · September 29, 2017 to August 29, 2018

6 payments · August 4, 2017 to August 4, 2017

20 payments · August 8, 2024 to August 26, 2025

13 payments · February 19, 2020 to February 19, 2020

1 payment · October 2, 2023 to October 2, 2023

1 payment · December 26, 2023 to December 26, 2023

19 payments · May 30, 2019 to July 15, 2019

15 payments · May 15, 2023 to May 15, 2023

1 payment · February 28, 2020 to February 28, 2020

8 payments · December 14, 2023 to February 6, 2024

1 payment · August 22, 2023 to August 22, 2023

11 payments · May 14, 2019 to November 1, 2019

1 payment · October 17, 2024 to October 17, 2024

4 payments · October 29, 2021 to October 29, 2021

11 payments · September 12, 2022 to July 13, 2023

4 payments · December 20, 2022 to December 20, 2022

10 payments · November 10, 2025 to August 31, 2026

11 payments · September 19, 2023 to May 21, 2024

7 payments · November 15, 2021 to July 12, 2022

7 payments · February 28, 2023 to June 15, 2023

10 payments · August 11, 2023 to July 15, 2024

14 payments · April 7, 2026 to April 8, 2026

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.