December books early, and the building holds one party at a time — so the night you reserve is entirely yours. Our banquet hall serving Schaumburg is minutes from Woodfield and seats 50 to 150 guests, company or family, with free lit parking and full-service catering. International Banquet, family-owned since 2008.
Every Schaumburg host knows the December equation: the Woodfield corridor is gridlocked, the convention hotels are stacking three parties a night, and half the guest list bails at the word 'garage.' The party that wins the month is the easy one — short drive, free parking at the door, a festive room with no competing event through the wall. Everything else the hall does lives on our Schaumburg event space page.
The office party and the family Christmas want different evenings from the same month — corporate versions run on the same rails as our business event coordination all year.
Dinner, open bar, awards or white elephant, a dance floor that management pretends not to enjoy. Festive enough to matter, professional enough for Monday.
When the family outgrew the house: family-style platters, a kids' end of the table, and the usual cook finally sitting down for her own holiday.
Close the year with the people who funded it — warmer and more personal than a restaurant buyout on the Golf Road strip, with privacy to actually talk.
A countdown that belongs to your crowd alone — dinner, bar, and a midnight nobody shares with a stranger's party.
December multiplies every venue's weaknesses — full garages, split kitchens, coat-check roulette. Here your party is the building's only event, with the kitchen, bar, and staff undivided. International Banquet is family-owned, a 12–18 minute drive from anywhere in Schaumburg, and the free lot outside is lit, plowed, and steps from the door — a genuine December amenity.
The dates go early; the planning stays short.
Prime December Fridays and Saturdays start going in August — often to the same companies rebooking. Lock the date; details can wait.
Menu, bar package, décor level, music, awards or gift-exchange logistics. One call typically closes it.
Decorated room, stocked bar, briefed staff. Your job is the toast — and prying people out at the end, which is the good problem.
Per-person catering, no room fee. Minimums: $1,500 lunch (until 4 PM), $2,000 Sunday–Thursday evenings, $3,000 Friday & Saturday evenings, before tax and gratuity.
Team holiday lunches and family gatherings that wrap before dark — December's most budget-friendly celebration.
The holiday table guests expect — abundant, varied, paced for mingling and gift exchanges.
The full company-party treatment: plated courses, 3-hour open bar, toasts, dancing. $40 per person without bar.
Sunday–Thursday December dates carry the $2,000 minimum instead of the weekend $3,000 — and midweek parties dodge the corridor's worst traffic nights too.
View Full MenuWe moved the company party out of a Woodfield-area hotel after years of sharing walls with strangers' events. First December here, attendance jumped — free parking and a fifteen-minute drive did what three years of raffle prizes couldn't.
Family Christmas for 55. Nobody hosted, nobody cooked, nobody's living room got destroyed — and my mother experienced the radical concept of sitting down at her own holiday.
Booked a mid-December Wednesday: lower minimum, empty roads, and honestly the best turnout we've had because we weren't competing with three other parties that night.
What December hosts ask before the corridor calendar fills.
Prime Friday and Saturday dates start going in August and thin out fast by October. Weekday and Sunday dates last longer — and carry the lower minimum.
The room dresses festively for December, and your own company or family décor layers on top — we place it with you during setup.
Standard December fare — we build the timeline around it and coordinate the mic and sound so the speeches actually land.
Absolutely — family Christmas dinners, joint multi-family parties, and New Year's Eve. Same room, none of the dishes.
Luncheons $25, buffet $34, plated dinner $65 with 3-hour open bar ($40 without), per person, plus the standard minimums — $1,500 lunch / $2,000 Sun–Thu / $3,000 Fri–Sat, before tax and gratuity.
Free, on-site, well-lit, steps from the door — the exact opposite of a December garage by the mall.
