Downtown Faribault, forty-five minutes south of Minneapolis. Pressed tin ceilings from 1895, still original. Crystal chandeliers over exposed brick. A bar built by hand from wood pulled out of this building.
You get the doors at 10 in the morning and fourteen hours of event time. Your name goes up on the marquee. Bring the caterer you want. Sit down with Tina at the end of your tour and leave with a written quote in your hand, not a follow-up email three days later.
Both are yours privately for the whole day. The difference is size and setting: a grand street-level ballroom, or an intimate loft that opens onto the rooftop.
The big room. The whole guest list, everyone at one party, under an 1895 pressed tin ceiling and crystal chandeliers, with the Alley Patio just off the side for cocktail hour.
See the BallroomThe smaller, private one. Its own street entrance, a brick atrium for the ceremony, and 1,700 square feet of open rooftop over the Faribault skyline for the last dance.
See the Rooftop LoftSetup access starts at 10:00 AM, with fourteen hours of event time and access to the getting-ready suites.
Extra hours are available before and after. Monday through Thursday rates available on request.
Booking both venues together is simply the two rental fees combined, so a single wedding can flow between the Ballroom and the Rooftop Loft across the day.
Look up and the ceiling is the one that was pressed in 1895. Crystal chandeliers hang over exposed brick, and the bar along the wall was built by hand from wood pulled out of this building. Four hundred and thirty people fit in here without it ever feeling like a hall. When the room gets warm, the door opens onto the Alley Patio, string lights overhead and room to spill outside.
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Its own entrance off the street, so the day belongs to you from the moment you walk in. You get ready upstairs in two furnished suites, say your vows in the brick-lined atrium below, then end the night outside on 1,700 square feet of open rooftop with Faribault laid out around you.
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Both spaces have their own bridal suite and their own grooms suite, and you have them from the moment the doors open. Nobody is waiting on a room to free up. Nobody is doing hair in a hallway. The morning has somewhere to happen.
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She takes you through the Ballroom and the Rooftop Loft, inside and out, and shows you how your day would actually move through each one. Then you sit down, go through pricing together, and she writes your quote by hand before you leave.