Gateway Classic Events is a family-friendly classic car museum, exotic vehicle showroom, and special events venue located in O’Fallon, Illinois. Looking for a unique location for your bridal shower, engagement party, wedding ceremony, or reception? Gateway Classic Events offers multiple function spaces that go way beyond the basic ballroom.
Facilities and Capacity With a maximum capacity of 1,200 guests, Gateway Classic Events offers four flexible event rooms. The facility’s largest space, The Expo Center, is 80,000 square feet. The most popular room for wedding receptions, The Lincoln Lounge, is 10,000 square feet and features space for up to 300 guests along with seating and a dance floor. There are also two smaller spaces: The Cadillac Lounge and The Conference Room.
Cuisine Gateway Classic Events can coordinate catering through your choice of their three preferred caterers: Bella Milano, Roy-El Catering, Sugarfire Smokehouse. If you’d like to bring in a caterer or service provider outside of this list, you’re more than welcome to do so. Gateway Classic Cars will just need the proper licenses and insurances from the vendors you select.
Services Offered Your rental includes event planning, use of the bridal suite, set up, tables, chairs, lighting, sound, cake cutting, and parking. Other rental options include specialty linens, black linens, silver charger plates, centerpieces, black wall draping, ceiling drapery, and string lights. Gateway Classic Cars also offers an extensive list of event add-ons, which includes the following:
Wifi
Table design and decor
Movie theater set up
Uplighting
Sound system
Extra microphones
Staging
Projector
Screens
Location Gateway Classic Cars is located just 20 minutes outside of St. Louis in O’Fallon, Illinois. For the convenience of your guests, multiple hotels are situated nearby. The St. Louis International Airport, the nearest major airport, is also 30 minutes from the venue.
We hosted our wedding reception at Gateway Classic Cars on 4/13/19. The staff was incredibly helpful with everything that we needed. They were so nice and easy to work with. All of our guests could not stop raving about how awesome our venue was! We would highly recommend booking your event at Gateway!
Sent on 04/17/2019
April
· Married on 07/09/2016
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
This was the perfect place to host our son in law and daughter's wedding. John and the entire staff were super helpful and responsive. We keep hearing from our guests how wonderful the evening was and what a great time everyone had. We had the hors d'veours in the lounge area, a movie for the children in the theater and dinner in the reception area and through out the evening guests could wander around looking at cars. This was the most wonderful evening. I highly recommend Gateway Classic Cars for your event.
Sent on 07/17/2016
Alicia
· Married on 06/08/2019
1.0
Quality of service:
1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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This venue was terrible! Warning please do not use!!!
Originally when I booked was a year ago and they had 2 different ladies running the wedding venue part, very nice and helpful and always in contact. Around Jan or Feb I found out I had a new event coordinator. Long story short the week of my wedding the air was not working! Event coordinator (Chrissy) told me there was a fan there in reception area because when they were dancing last Saturday (June 1, 2019) they got hot! June 7th was my rehearsal was very hot still! was sweating in there doing some setup and rehearsal, I told them fan needed to be in corner not in the way of ceremony for pics they said they would. Day of Wedding June 8,2019 hot again now 2 big giant fans in area of wedding and reception! And 1 of the big fans is in my video right in the aisle where the whole party walked for ceremony was in pictures and videos! Was told they couldn't turn down air without permission, finally it got turned down a little still hot! Fresh flowers practically wilted! from heat! There's more, was told lights couldn't be shut off during dancing, then lights were off during dinner that were not suppose to be off. And then a circuit blew so we had no music for awhile, I paid for stringed lights that a line of didnt work. It was a total wreck, the getting ready room was dirty! Floor was suppose to be vacuumed and was not! Its not a place to get ready they are not a wedding venue, no full length mirror. I never got a call from them afterwords. I have been in contact with them asking for a refund for the air conditioning that clearly was not working and they have refused to refund anything to us. That place stressed us out the day of the wedding being so hot and running around asking them to do this or that. And I have had multiple emails back and forth and I am getting no compensation for everything that went wrong on that day due to there building issues and the things they should have done not done. And we sat in a uncomfortable, hot venue and paid to have air conditioning and had no air conditioning! Please do not use this place anywhere would be better then this place! PS I have contacted higher up and they have not contacted me back either! I also have numerous emails of bar time changes one time she wrote I have bar 6-11pm and towards the end it was 6-10 ! and I paid for the 6-11pm. I have every single email!! DO NOT USE THEM!!!!
What items and services are included in the starting site fee at Gateway Classic Events?
Gateway Classic Events includes the following items and services for wedding events in its starting site fee:
Bridal Suite
Chairs
Clean Up
Event Planning
Lighting/Sound
Parking
Set Up
At Gateway Classic Events, what items and services related to wedding catering are included in the cost?
Gateway Classic Events includes the following items and services in its wedding catering costs:
Cake Cutting
What are the most important characteristics of Gateway Classic Events in terms of venue type, style and location?
The space offered by Gateway Classic Events for wedding events is known for:
Ballroom
Banquet Hall
Museum
What kind of indoor/outdoor options are available at Gateway Classic Events for wedding events?
Gateway Classic Events offers the following indoor/outdoor options for weddings:
Indoor
What kind of wedding events does Gateway Classic Events offer?
Gateway Classic Events offers the following types of wedding events:
Ceremony
Reception
Bridal Shower
Engagement Party
What services does Gateway Classic Events offer for wedding events?
Gateway Classic Events offers the following services for wedding events:
Clean Up
Event Planner
Get Ready Rooms
Lighting / Sound
Set Up
What percentage of users recommend Gateway Classic Events and which are the most valued aspects of their wedding services?
Gateway Classic Events is recommended by 33% of couples who have used their services. Their overall rating is 3.7 out of 5 with the following breakdown: 3.7 in quality of service, 3.7 in average response time, 3.7 in flexibility, 3.7 in professionalism and 3.7 in value.
