Holiday Gathering Guide: Perfect Minnesota Event Places

Most Minnesota event planners have the same item topping their wish list this season — they want the perfect event place to hold their upcoming holiday shindig or company event. Now, we all know that the first step toward making a party memorable is to find the perfect Minnesota event venue. After all, the event space is the foundation upon which you build your party theme. It can lend the gathering flavor, inspire a theme and even transport your guests to a different time and place in history.

Begin with event location. Views of the moon shimmering across the snow-covered countryside will give your gathering a backdrop straight off a holiday greeting card. Then again, there’s nothing quite like the vision of thousands of sparkling city lights from a high rise event space far above the streets of the city.

Consider a golf course or country club banquet room, such as:

Brackett's Crossing Country Club
Green Haven Golf Course
Majestic Oaks Golf Club
Stonebrooke Golf Club
The Harvest Grill and Town & Country Caterers
Town & Country Club

Or a Minnesota event center like:

Al & Alma's Supper Club
Mermaid Entertainment and Event Center
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 
Canterbury Park
St. Paul Student Center at University of Minnesota 

Or perhaps a restaurant with private room to take advantage of that exact kind of surrounding ambiance that seems custom made for a holiday gathering.

Then again, maybe this year you’d like to stir things up. At this stage of Minnesota event planning, your company event is like a blank canvas. What you envision can emerge if you just tap into your imagination.  For example, a gathering in a gallery or a theater like the Chahassen Dinner Theatres can be an elegant and sophisticated milieu. Plenty of museums offer event space and would serve to stimulate interesting conversations among installations. An evening at a vineyard rental or wine tasting room could conjure up a European mood as would one of many mansion event centers in your city that are available to accommodate you like the Blaisdell Manor or St. Anthony Main Event Centre. Think of historical public places (libraries, government buildings, even zoo parks or a community center in your community. Chances are, there are exceptional event spaces available in all of them like these:

Mounds View Event Center
National Sports Center
New Brighton Community Center
North Metro Event Center
Roseville Skating Center + City Hall
Shoreview Community Center

Perhaps your event is better suited for a hotel banquet space, is so, consider these outstanding Metro area properties:

Aloft Minneapolis
The Commons Hotel
Minneapolis Marriott Northwest
Radisson Hotel Bloomington by Mall of America
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel

In fact, you may even stumble across another unique event space in our Minnesota directory of event venues.

On a boat, on a train, in a hanger with a plane? Your gathering could be a moving experience when you host it on a boat — a dinner cruise complete with dancing and music might be just the ticket. Or, all aboard an excursion train to evoke a feeling of nostalgia and rekindle a fondness for a bygone era.  Then again, your guests could be flying high in a event place where the emphasis is on soaring above the clouds.

For a party that’s literally on the go, explore event transportation and travel by limousine or travel by bus or simply reserve a shuttle for your company event.

Finally, let’s not forget it is winter. Snow and cold means fun, both indoors and out. Why not try a resort for events where there are sleigh rides, sledding or even ice skating? Some popular year-round resorts include:

Arrowwood Resort & Conference Center
Breezy Point Resort + Conference Center
Cragun's Conference and Golf Resort
Fortune Bay Resort Casino
Grand Casino Hinckley
Grand Casino Mille Lacs
Grand View Lodge
Superior Shores Resort + Conference Center
Treasure Island Resort & Casino

Or keep things low-key with an activity-based brouhaha at a Minnesota event center that offers bowling and/or bocce ball, arcades, casino gaming or even a sporting event.

Look into these event places in our expansive Minnesota event venues directory or complete Minnesota listing of resorts for events  — for a wintery wonderland no-tie affair.

Whether you’re going for a traditional Dickens type holiday or feel like mixing things up in a sparkly jumble of lights and sounds, your holiday event will shine in the end when you begin with the perfect event place.