We recently hosted a special VIP/guest experience at River's Edge Music Festival in St. Paul, and…read moreliterally a week before the event we found ourselves with some additional, unexpected décor needs. As I am based in NYC, I reached out to a local colleague for a vendor recommendation, and received Shannon at Entourage's contact info. Hands down, working with Entourage was an extremely seamless & professional process. With very little direction and no time (I asked Shannon for a proposal about an hour before a client presentation), I received prior to my meeting multiple options/pricing and photo examples of the elements. Shannon offered feedback & great recommendations, and within a few days we had a final game plan. Once on-site in St. Paul, Entourage again impressed me with the ability to navigate some hurdles to make our outdoor experience look incredible & elegant. My only regret is that I did not contact Entourage earlier in my planning process for additional design & décor needs! You will be in good hands with Shannon and company. Look forward to working with Entourage again for future special events!

I would never work with Minneapolis Event Centers or Entourage Events again and highly discourage…read moreanyone else from doing so. Details of our wedding planning experience are below: Working with Entourage Events and the Minneapolis Event Centers was incredibly stressful. Due to incredibly high turnover, we were in contact with a different employee every time we had a question, an update to our wedding day plan, or when we attempted to schedule follow-up meetings. This meant that we had to go over every single detail we had already agreed to with each new employee. In every meeting, there were numerous mistakes with our event order and also blatant attempts by MEC and Entourage Events to charge us more money without our consent. We were able to resolve these issues only because of our meticulous documentation of emails, conversations, and agreements. The time and effort it took to advocate for ourselves caused us intense worry and stress for the entire year planning our wedding, as we felt we were constantly at risk of being taken advantage of financially. The most concerning communication issue with Minneapolis Event Centers and Entourage Events is that they only have one email for clients to contact, meaning we had no way to directly reach people we had spoken to about pricing or other agreements. In our case, that meant that at one point MEC/Entourage Events refused to honor the bar package they offered us when signing the contract, as they had "no record" of that conversation after the employee who originally confirmed the discount left their position. Luckily, our wedding coordinator attended a meeting with us to demand that our original agreement be honored. During that meeting, the owner of Entourage Events, Steve Hark, yelled at our wedding coordinator. It was completely unprofessional. The interaction did, however, prepare us to be vigilant in our future conversations with him and other management. Overall, it was clear throughout the wedding planning process that this company is extraordinarily disorganized, which leads to unnecessary frustration and anxiety for its clients. No matter how good the food is or how beautiful the space, the difficulty of having to work with such an unprofessional company is not worth it. Note: the employees who worked the actual wedding day were wonderful and accommodating. My complaints lie with the upper-management alone.

If you are going for a breathtaking WOW factor this is it! I do believe weddings are their main…read morebusiness and they have the decoration and space set up organized and down to a science. Your event will probably go off without a hitch. If you are a bride that likes glamour and things done in a big way---this will probably be a venue you will want to check out. I am more about quality and substance vs. quantity and showiness therefore I can only give it a three stars based on my likes and dislikes. I recently attended an event there and for the money that was spent a few things I would have been disappointed in was the sound quality indoors and outdoors. --How close the chairs were outside--they are small seated chairs and unless you have the ass of a child they did not need to be touching because most adults need the room on the side of the chair for some overflow. The food---I had steak and others had the chicken and fish and one vegetarian had pasta...the feedback on all of it was not that good! These plates are all right around 32-38 per plate so at that price you would expect delicious food. I think the quality of the food was there and it had more to do with the preparation vs. the product itself. The staff was a little snippy with the wedding party in the afternoon when one asked if there was anyway possible they could get coffee or water--apparently this is a money making business and that was not part of the deal so they were shut down with a curt response of No-but nice try!!!! The open bar selection was boring and standard--and the glassware was not upscale. I would have expected a martini glass to be available and perhaps a few more exotic liquors and mixers just for fun. These are all areas that you can address beforehand if you choose to use this as your venue --I feel like if you are aware of some of this it can easily be enhanced for a five star experience.

If I could give this business more stars, I definitely would! Tony was exceptionally kind and…read morearrived early to make sure things were running smoothly before our event. We enjoyed his energy and are hoping that we can invite Fun PhotoBooth Productions again for next year! We also loved the clear communication via email to make sure that the team could drop off equipment efficiently for set up. Love Tony and the team!

Great customer service. Very agreeable team. They remember you who are and will accommodate.read more

There is so much I could say about this venue. This was the first venue we toured and we instantly…read morefell in love with it! The venue itself it GORGEOUS- it has so much charm that we barely had to decorate to make it look picture perfect! We received SO many compliments on how awesome the space was! The barn has two levels and enough outside space to spread out, which was really nice during COVID. Amber was also incredible to work with- She kept us updated on COVID precautions as our date was approaching and was quick to respond to any concerns/questions. Our day really was perfect- and we owe a lot of that to Green Acres and Amber- We would definitely recommend them!

Fresh Face Painting recently repainted our screened-in porch. It hadn't been painted in years, and…read morethe paint was peeling badly. We didn't know if it could even be repainted successfully, based on our experience years earlier with our house & garage. However, Fresh Face Painting did an outstanding job! Not only did the owner remove all paint down to bare wood, he replaced our dilapidated screen door with a cedar door he built from scratch, replaced all the screens, noticed insufficient support for columns & added additional anchors, and replaced rotted wood. We would definitely hire him again!

We hired Jaime for Day-Of coordination for a small wedding in September 2020. Planning a wedding…read moreduring a global pandemic was challenging but Jaime was available all along the way to help with our planning and she was great! She has deep experience with weddings and knows all the "watch outs" and gave us really good consultation along the way (especially about COVID) to making sure our wedding was perfect. She was always available to me to ask questions and send regular emails to making sure all of the planning was on track. She was with us all day on the wedding day, making sure everything ran smoothly. We highly recommend Jaime for your wedding!

Got to check out an EDM show at the new venue, Royalston Square which was previously hosting only…read morecorporate events, which is cool! Royalston Square is an event venue that has projectors that go 360 degrees around an entire room. Now this venue have many shows but I imagine that will change in the future. I do like the large smoking patio this place has as well as a lot of bathroom stalls. For its size, the mens washroom count is definitely overkill. Now for drinks it's a mixed bag. I get that it's the very first EDM event so there are some pains but the bar needs to be either in the room where you enter where there was not enough utilized space or have more bars in general as the lines for alcohol was very long and got in the way of the crowd. The drink price for a shot and beer is above average from other local clubs like Last Call but lower than the Filmore. Production is great...when it works. Unfortunately due to the lack of ventilation the projectors or laptop that did the visuals seemed to overheat and stay off for a large portion of the set. I don't know if thwy tested the visual setup with so many people but having the projector be on and off during the final set was...interesting and left something to be desired. Because of this as well as the long alcohol lines, I'm taking a star off. Since this is the first review and first event I expect them to fix this after they get more experienced with hosting events like this. Cheers

I came in here to take a sneak peak at some tiaras (ended up buying one elsewhere because customer…read moreservice here was just not friendly at all) - one of them came over to me and asked if I had an appointment. I said that I wanted to look at tiaras and then, I was informed that I needed an appointment to look at tiaras. To be honest, they had three people working there and only one of them was preoccupied with another customer.

What a concept! Getting married right at the Mall of America. Pretty cool if that's your sort of…read morething. I wandered in with my cousin who is getting married this summer and she was looking for a tiara. They had quite a few and she tried some on, but she has envisioned the perfect tiara for her and she just hasn't found it yet. The employee who helped us was friendly and more than willing to answer questions patiently. It's a cute little shop with a wide variety of items available. Even gowns in all different shapes and sizes. No flower girl baskets, but it's more of a boutique, so I didn't expect them to have everything.