Metropolitan Ballroom & Clubroom Reviews

The Metropolitan Ballroom provided the vintage, romantic, candlelit venue we were looking for. The D'Amico staff did a marvelous job of taking care of every guest and the atmosphere was warm and welcoming. After the wedding - many guests commented on how they loved the layout of the ballroom. The dance floor was a sunken one and for those who preferred not to dance, they were not interfering by having to walk accross the dance floor to get from their table to the bar. The layout is fantastic and they can accomodate a small intimate group up to hundreds. We had 150 guests and the space was used well. Nothing but good things to say about The Metropolitan!

Everything about our experience was amazing and stress free! We ended up having food stations so there wasn't a structured dining experience, which had potential for me and my husband to not actually eat anything. The head waiter at our event actually put together plates for us and brought them to us when he saw that we had the opportunity to eat. We were blown away by this level of service!

Hidden gem just outside the Twin Cities. We had our wedding here in February of 2023 and still get compliments on the venue (recently remodeled) and the food. We had roughly 200 people & a buffet.

A few reasons I didn’t give 5 starts & things to know if you book with them:
- I wouldn’t recommend working with Krista as your event planner. Many missed details and poor communication. I would recommend Bre.
- Overall communication between the actual event planner you work with before hand & the day of coordinator/day of event staff is minimal & frustrating. There were only two planning meetings accounted for prior to our wedding which is crazy & I had to proactively reach out to set up additional calls.
- Quite a few details were missed on the day of the wedding & as the bride it was frustrating when it’s a day you just want to go smoothly. A few missed details that stood out.. 1) There were multiple vanities & mirrors available when we toured the venue but they weren’t there the day of the venue. We had 1 mirror when getting ready & the staff had to scramble to find a second 2) we were originally told the wooded are could not seat 200 guests (they said max 180) so we spent $800 to outsource a temporary wall. When we first arrived at the venue, all of the chairs were set up & when I talked to the staff they said they had seating for 200 & we didn’t need the wall. 3) The head table was set up incorrectly & I had to have them fix it. 4) During dinner, the event manager asked me what tables parents were sitting at. I thought this was odd because I had already filled out a sheet saying which tables were VIP & who should eat first after us (which was more than just the parent tables). My brothers table should’ve eaten right away & ended up eating last.
- All in all these little things aren’t the end of the world, but when you have planned for them, communicated them, reminded the venue of them, it’s really frustrating when you show up day of and these things have clearly not been communicated.