An intimate wedding venue 10 minutes from Palatine for couples who want the celebration without the 200-guest production. 30 to 80 guests, in-house Italian kitchen, custom ceremony setup, free parking. International Banquet, family-owned since 2008.
Not every couple wants a 200-guest wedding. Some want the closest 30 people, a real meal, and a real conversation — without losing the moment to logistics. Our space is built for that. Ceremony and reception in one room, dinner timed to the toasts, and no rushing the bride and groom through a 6-hour timeline they didn't ask for. We host couples from Palatine, Schaumburg, Rolling Meadows, and beyond. For the full Palatine venue overview, see our banquet hall near Palatine page.
Small weddings used to mean cutting corners. Now they mean better corners. Here's how couples actually book the space and what each format trades off.
30–50 guests, plated dinner, real toasts. Everyone fits at three or four round tables. Conversation flows because the room isn't competing with itself. Most-booked format.
Ceremony at 4 PM, cocktails during turnover, dinner at 6. We flip the room while guests are at the bar. Saves the cost of a separate ceremony space.
One long table for 40 guests, family-style platters down the middle. Italian-wedding feel without the formality. Photographs beautifully.
Lower formality, often co-ed engagement-party energy. Bar-forward, less ceremony, more party. Couples who've done the big one and want the second one to feel different.
Round tables of 8 for 40-guest weddings, or a long banquet table for 30 family members. Ceremony setup at one end of the room, dinner at the other; we turn the space during cocktails. Natural light through large windows photographs beautifully. Free parking matters here because grandma is coming and she's not walking through a deck. The room handles ceremony-only events and larger receptions up to 80 guests for intimate wedding formats.
Most small-wedding couples plan in three conversations, not three months of meetings.
Visit the space, see how it configures for your guest count, confirm the date. Most couples lock in within a week of touring.
Your event manager confirms menu, ceremony layout, dinner timeline, bar package, and any custom décor. Pinterest boards welcome.
Walk into a fully set room. Get married. Eat. Toast. Dance if you want. Leave when you want — no rushed timeline forcing you out by 11 PM.
Three packages, scaled to format. Per-person pricing, no separate room fee, ceremony setup included.
Daytime ceremony + lunch. Finishes by 4 PM. Lower cost, photographs in natural light, accommodates older relatives who don't want a late night.
Evening ceremony + plated dinner. Cocktail hour, 3-course meal, toasts. The most-booked format for 40–60 guest weddings.
Plated dinner + extended bar + late-night snack. 6-hour event with dance floor active. Premium menu selections.
Multi-cultural weddings (Italian-Polish, Albanian-American, Indian-American, and others) quoted as custom. Dual-cuisine menus and traditional ceremony elements integrate without extra logistics charges.
View Full Menu42 guests, ceremony and reception same room. We didn't want a 200-person wedding and we didn't want to feel like we were settling. We didn't. It felt like the right size — we actually talked to every guest. Photos turned out beautifully.
Vow renewal for our 25th. 35 guests, family-style long table, Italian feast. My husband cried at his own toast. Worth every dollar to feel like that again.
Intimate Albanian-American wedding — 55 guests, dual-cuisine menu, traditional family blessings woven in. The team handled both sides of the family without anyone feeling like an afterthought.
The questions couples ask before locking the date.
We've done weddings as small as 22 guests and as large as 80. Below 30 we recommend the family-style long-table format so the room doesn't feel empty. Above 80 you move into the broader banquet hall capacity.
Yes — most small weddings do this. We set the ceremony at one end of the room, dinner at the other. During cocktail hour we flip the space. Saves the cost of a separate ceremony venue.
Yes — a private getting-ready space adjacent to the main hall. Used for bride and bridesmaids before the ceremony, and as a quiet retreat during the reception if needed.
Typical: ceremony 4 PM, cocktails 4:30–5:30, dinner 5:30–7:30, toasts during dinner, dancing 7:30–10. Tighter than a 200-guest wedding because nothing has to wait for a 30-minute receiving line.
Yes — bring whoever you want. We coordinate with all outside vendors. The only thing in-house is catering and bar.
Yes — Italian-Polish, Albanian-American, Indian-American, and others. Dual-cuisine menus, traditional ceremony elements (henna, tea ceremony, religious blessings) integrate into the timeline.
Saturday peak-season (May–October) books 6–10 months out. Sunday and weekday weddings often have availability with 8–12 weeks notice. Holiday-season weddings book aggressively starting in August.
