Medina Entertainment Center is a splendid wedding and banquet venue located in Medina, Minnesota. This venue has hosted weddings and other special celebrations for over 60 years, with a variety of entertainment options available. The experienced venue staff want to ensure that each client’s wedding day is everything that they wish for. For your wedding, this team will attend to the details so that you can focus on your partner and your important day.
Facilities and Capacity
Wedding ceremonies and receptions held at Medina Entertainment Center can be hosted in a number of stylish and well-furnished event spaces. For the entirety of your event, you can enjoy their exquisite trio of Event Rooms, as well as the Images Room, and the Grand Ballroom. The Event Rooms give eminently customizable spaces that can be combined for a spacious ballroom experience for up to 250 seated guests. The Images room is an intimate space complete with a bar and wheelchair-accessible ramp for smaller gatherings of between 20 and 150 guests. Finally, the Grand Ballroom offers a magnificent space, with a dance floor, elevated stage, lobby, kitchen, coat closet, three bars, and two sets of restrooms. Spectacular gala events can be held in the Ballroom, ranging from 200 to over 600 guests. The dance floor alone can seat up to 360 guests at round tables and up 446 guests around banquet tables.
Services Offered
The flexible event spaces in this venue can host a variety of wedding events. These include gatherings such as engagement parties, bridal showers, rehearsal dinners, and elopements all the way through to ceremonies and receptions. Your reception dinner will have full place settings on top of crisp table linens and tasteful table skirting. Day-of coordination services are readily available from the experienced wedding consultants on staff. Other services available for dinner and dancing include servers, bartenders, and on-site security. Audio-visual features are readily available for all event spaces in order to create the atmosphere you desire. On-site bowling lanes present a fun and accessible activity for you and your guests. Copious on-site parking and the nearby Medina Inn offer convenience for visitors to the Center. The peak season for this venue extends from May through October, with Plymouth Creek Center an additional option for a dining venue.
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WOW! Medina did a wonderful job for our big day. We truly enjoyed every minute of our day because the staff was so wonderful, Missy (the event coordinator) went above and beyond our expectations, and the venue was able to accomodate our guest list of 200. Every detail leading up to our wedding was stress free because of the wonderful job Missy did in our planning meeting. We loved the food, it was all delicious! We had a buffet and all of our guests made it through the line within 20 minutes and all had HOT food! We also had a live band and this venue was phenomenal for a band! The set up was great. Medina offers tons of extras that made the day stress free! Thank you to all the staff at MEC for making our day so perfect!
Sent on 11/10/2019
Medina Entertainment Center's reply:
Yahoo! I LOVE reading this to start my day. I am blessed with a truly awesome team and thank you for taking the time to let us know. Best wishes!
Jackie Nevotion
· Married on 09/01/2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
You won’t be disappointed with Medina!
We just had our wedding at Medina Entertainment Center Sunday Sept 1st and we couldn’t be more happy with how everything turned out! We received so many compliments on how beautiful the space/decorations were, which we did very little and we were in the Ballroom, how good the food was and how amazing their team was the entire evening. We particularly loved Chuck the security guard. He was on top of things, took extra care of our gift box and added a little humor to the evening which was awesome! We worked with Christine who was amazing from the beginning. She made everything seamless, was always good at answering my questions and understanding when we made changes. It was such a beautiful day/night and we owe a lot of that to everyone at Medina. We would highly recommend having your wedding or any event at Medina you won’t be disappointed!
Jackie and Rico Nevotion
Sent on 09/08/2019
Medina Entertainment Center's reply:
Thank you, Jackie & Rico! I will extend the compliments to our entire team, and I am so happy to hear you loved the space and had a wonderful wedding! It was awesome working with you!
Bjorn Helgoe
· Married on 08/17/2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Awesome Coordinator & Food!
My wife and I loved working with Medina! Christine is an amazing coordinator and always went the extra mile to help. She was so friendly and professional. The food was incredible as well. Highly recommend.
Sent on 08/21/2019
Medina Entertainment Center's reply:
Thank you, Bjorn! I always had such a fun time with you and Sheng, and I will always remember your beautiful reception at the Plymouth Creek Center! It was fabulous! Thank you so much for your review, and hope to see you in Robert's sometime soon. ;)
My name is Nicole from Little Mac Design and I am a professional wedding photographer that shot at this venue a few weeks ago. I met with Missy(Director of Catering and Events at Medina Event Center) and she was amazing! She was very flexible,organized,payed attention to what the bride & groom wanted and always made sure all of their needs were taken care of. We worked well together as a team.I loved shooting at this venue and I look forward to working with Missy and this venue again for my next wedding I will be shooting there in February of 2019! ~ Nicole Engstrom( Professional Wedding Photographer) of Little Mac Design
This has to be my favorite Venues in the Mpls/st. Paul area. They know how to work with there clients to create the perfect night. The food is amazing and their customer service is the best you can ask for. Medina Entertainment Center is a must look at venue for you next event.
Medina Entertainment Center was wonderful to work with. The staffs there were great and so helpful! The service was excellent, and we appreciated every single detail that they did to make the night perfect for everyone! We got to see and took part of something amazing, and we'd recommend this venue to our clients!
