Four years of work deserves more than a folding table in the garage. An exclusive-use graduation venue 8–10 minutes from Rolling Meadows High School — up to 150 guests, budget-honest pricing, and zero cleanup for the parents. International Banquet, family-owned since 2008.
Graduation season hits Rolling Meadows all at once — ceremonies at Rolling Meadows High School, college kids home in May, and every weekend from mid-May to late June spoken for. A graduation party at our banquet hall serving Rolling Meadows means the date is protected, the food is handled, and the parents attend their own kid's party instead of working it.
An open house and a seated dinner are different animals. Here's how Rolling Meadows families actually run graduation season — and when the guest of honor has a birthday celebration in the same stretch, some families combine the two.
Come-and-go flow without your kitchen being destroyed. Buffet stays stocked for hours, the grad holds court, and the last guests leave a room you don't clean.
Grandparents flew in for this. A proper meal, real toasts, the diploma on display — the formal version of the milestone, at family-style prices.
Two or three families, one guest list that overlaps anyway, one split bill. The single smartest move of graduation season — and the room's big enough to do it right.
August send-offs and post-college celebrations for the grads whose friends are now scattered — one night that pulls everyone back to the table.
A grad party guest list is the widest of any event — classmates, teammates, teachers, grandparents, the neighbor who drove carpool for a decade. The room seats them all on one level, the menu feeds seventeen-year-olds and eighty-year-olds from the same buffet, and International Banquet in Arlington Heights is a ten-minute drive from the Rolling Meadows ceremonies, with free parking for the whole caravan.
Grad season books itself solid — the planning is the easy part.
May and June weekends go to whoever calls first — often by early spring. Lock the date as soon as the ceremony schedule posts.
Menu style, photo table, slideshow, school colors if you want them. One planning conversation; the grad can even come pick the menu.
Setup, service, and cleanup are ours. You show up with the honoree and the cake topper — and leave with leftovers, not garbage bags.
Graduation season is expensive enough. Per-person pricing, no room fee. Minimums: $1,500 lunch (until 4 PM), $2,000 Sunday–Thursday evenings, $3,000 Friday & Saturday evenings, before tax and gratuity.
The budget-smartest grad party: a daytime celebration that wraps by 4 PM, at the season's friendliest price point and lowest minimum.
The open-house engine — a stocked spread that feeds teenagers, toddlers, and grandparents on their own schedules for hours.
For the seated version with the grandparents in from out of town — shared platters, real toasts, and the diploma passed around the table.
Joint grad parties split beautifully — two or three families sharing one date share the minimum too, which usually beats three separate backyard parties on cost alone.
View Full MenuRolling Meadows High School graduation, party the same evening — ceremony to celebration in fifteen minutes flat. 95 guests, buffet ran for three hours, and I sat down at my own daughter's party for the first time in any family event I've hosted.
We did a joint party with two other families from the team. Split three ways, it cost less than catering our backyard would have — and the boys got one big party instead of three obligation stops for their friends.
College graduation, twin celebration for our son and his cousin. Slideshow of both grads, family from three states, and food that had the grandparents asking for the kitchen's name. Zero stress on our end.
What grad families ask before the ceremony schedule posts.
May and June weekends fill by early spring — as soon as school calendars post, dates start going. Booking 2–4 months out is the safe window; joint parties should coordinate even earlier.
Yes — the buffet format is built for it. Guests come and go across the afternoon or evening, the spread stays stocked, and the grad gets to see everyone without a receiving line.
One of the smartest moves of grad season. Shared date, shared minimum, one overlapping guest list — and each family still gets its own tables, cake, and photo spot.
All of it. We help stage the photo/memory table during setup and coordinate projection and sound for slideshows and toasts.
Luncheons $25, family style $29, buffet $34 per person. Minimums: $1,500 lunch, $2,000 Sunday–Thursday evenings, $3,000 Friday & Saturday evenings, before tax and gratuity.
About 8–10 minutes from Rolling Meadows — guests can go from cap toss to cocktail hour without losing anyone on the drive.
