25 Beautiful Modern Wedding Venues in Minnesota
Searching for your dream modern wedding venue in Minnesota? This guide is meant to help you find the perfect venue for your celebration! Luckily, Minnesota has a plethora of swoon-worthy spots to plan your wedding, so it’s fair to say that there’s something here for every couple.
As a Minneapolis-St. Paul wedding photographer, I wanted to create this guide for you to help you in your search since I know when you type in “wedding venues in Minnesota,” sooo many different venues pop up. Hopefully, this list helps you narrow down your options!
Keep reading to discover modern wedding venues throughout Minnesota!
25 Beautiful Modern Wedding Venues in Minnesota
Here’s a roundup of some of my favorite modern wedding venues you could choose from for your celebration:
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is a unique wedding venue, alongside being a famous art museum. They have a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces you can rent for your wedding, including rooftop terraces, gardens, plazas, and more!
Hewing Hotel
Hewing Hotel is a historic Minneapolis wedding venue as it was once a farm implement warehouse, and the newly renovated hotel still features remnants of its industrial past in the design. The hotel is the ideal backdrop for a chic and sophisticated celebration and has versatile spaces you can choose to use, including a ballroom, library, and a private dining room. They also happen to be a full-service wedding venue offering you hotel accommodations, event planning, in-house catering, and more!
Machine Shop
The Machine Shop is an eclectic and historic wedding venue that is right next to the Mississippi River in the heart of the St. Anthony neighborhood. You can plan either an intimate or grand celebration here, and at this venue, you’ll find plenty of space and lots of natural light. Another reason to love this venue? It provides you with a blank slate to work with so you can truly bring your unique wedding vision to life.
The Whim
The Whim is a stunning wedding venue with 1920s industrial beauty, an abundance of natural light, eye-catching white brick and timber ceilings, and a variety of gorgeous event spaces. The venue also has getting-ready suits, a glass menagerie room, and to top it all off – an underground Speakeasy!
PAIKKA
PAIKKA is a wedding venue in St. Paul that is complemented by its modern industrial design and versatile spaces. It is also a woman-owned venue that has an industrial-chic aesthetic, vaulted ceilings, brick walls, and lots of space for you and your guests.
The Hutton House
The Hutton House is a gorgeous house on Medicine Lake and is just minutes away from downtown Minneapolis. The venue has gorgeous tall ceilings, lots of natural light, and is a beautiful, quiet oasis outside of the city to host your celebration.
Lumber Exchange Event Center
Lumber Exchange Event Center is a wedding venue that offers you an all-inclusive Minneapolis wedding experience, along with multiple event spaces, historic architecture, and old-world elegance and charm.
The Luminaire
The Luminaire might just be the wedding venue of your dreams if you’re looking for a space that can be transformed to match any wedding vision. This space has sweeping ceilings, lets in lots of natural light, all paired with a modern industrial minimalist aesthetic.
Minneapolis Event Centers
Minneapolis Event Centers has versatile spaces to align with your unique wedding style – there’s definitely something for every couple to fall in love with at this venue. They have large windows that let in lots of natural light, large, spacious rooms, eye-catching light fixtures, and much much more to offer you.
The Blaisdell
The Blaisdell can be found in the heart of Minneapolis, and this venue happens to be a historic 1915 Georgian mansion that has since been renovated. You’ll also find here a charming courtyard, a traditional parlor, a beautiful Grand Ballroom, private suites, and lounge rooms.
The Lowlands
The Lowlands wedding venue, which is a repurposed industrial building with tasteful lighting, a gently curving staircase, large windows, and a lower-level bar. This venue also has a plethora of gorgeous indoor and outdoor spaces to choose from as the backdrop for your celebration.
Urban Daisy
Urban Daisy is a wedding venue with lots of open space, huge windows, and comes with an edgy, chic ambiance. The venue also offers you separate areas for ceremonies, receptions, and cocktail hours, along with a built-in bar.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is the wedding venue for you if you are your partner love the arts and are looking for a wedding venue with an elevated and sophisticated ambiance. You’ll have four unique spaces to choose from, including the Target Wing, the Regis Fountain Court & Bruce B. Dayton Rotunda, the Villa Rosa Room, and the Wells Fargo Community Room.
LeVENERE
LeVENERE is an experiential wedding venue that provides you with two getting-ready suites, a cocktail lounge and bar, reception ballroom, indoor ceremony space – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The space artfully embodies 1920s French glamour and old-world charm, and sophistication, and is a great choice if you’re looking for a venue that exudes timeless romance.
Weisman Art Museum
Weisman Art Museum overlooks the Minneapolis skyline, has riverfront views, and is another wedding venue that is perfect for art lovers. You’ll find a variety of backdrops you can use for your ceremony and lots of stunning artwork to admire, peruse, and entertain your guests.
A’BULAE
A’BULAE is a SoHo-inspired wedding venue with gorgeous skyline views and a loft-style aesthetic. They also have a ballroom, flexible layouts, and a lounge and bar. One of the notable features of this venue is its in-house culinary team, who will create a tasty menu that will leave your guests asking for more!
The American Swedish Institute
The American Swedish Institute can be found in the heart of Minneapolis and is a beautiful castle-like mansion fit for a fairytale wedding. The venue has indoor and outdoor spaces, with the typical ceremony space being in front of the entrance to the mansion.
Royalston Square
Royalston is a one-of-a-kind wedding venue that brings a sample of the Las Vegas Sphere to Minneapolis. It’s a creative and eclectic venue with innovative lighting, an immersive tech-forward space, with projection mapping tech and sound design that can be used to create wall-to-wall scenes for your event.
Windows at The Marquette Hotel at IDS Tower
Windows is a ballroom on the 50th floor of The Marquette Hotel at IDS Tower that has gorgeous floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking downtown Minneapolis. It’s a sophisticated and luxurious venue that offers you an unforgettable backdrop for your celebration.
Guthrie Theater
Guthrie Theater is a wedding venue that has spaces of all sizes and shapes, whether you want a space that overlooks the Mississippi River or a space that offers views of the city. The space has modern, captivating architecture, and unmatched views – from the theater, you can see more than just the Mississippi River. The venue also has views of the St. Anthony Main Riverfront and the Stone Arch Bridge.
Woodland Glasshaus
Woodland Glasshaus has a luxury-chic design set inside a glasshouse. This venue is available from May to October and is set underneath a canopy of trees, offering you a quiet oasis with forest views.
White and Sable
White and Sable is an elegant wedding venue with a clean and minimalist vibe. They have soaring ceilings, sparkling chandeliers, luminous windows, and flexible indoor and outdoor spaces you can choose from.
Equestria West
Equestria West is a wedding venue with an equestrian-inspired design and an open concept paired with rich finishes, which include soft leather furnishings, chandeliers, and high-back chairs. The venue also has a beautifully manicured courtyard, lush gardens, a fountain, and more!
Edward Anne Estate
Edward Anne Estate can be found within Bavaria Downs, and it’s just minutes away from Minneapolis. This luxurious estate has stunning scenery, wildflower meadows, beautiful rolling hills, a canopy of stately oaks, rose gardens, and a lake. It’s truly the definition of “idyllic.”
Landmark Center
The Landmark Center is a historic venue that embodies themes of the Italian Renaissance with its skylights, courtyards, and a vast atrium. It’s an elegant and dreamlike setting for your celebration.
Ready to Choose Your Dream Wedding Venue in Minnesota?
I hope you found this overview of different modern wedding venues in Minnesota helpful. There’s no shortage of incredible options you could choose from, as the Twin Cities truly have so much to offer you!
And… if you’re still looking for a Minnesota wedding photographer for your upcoming celebration, let’s connect! Love, family, emotion. Those are the three things that are present at every wedding I photograph. The rest is eclectic and wildly unpredictable. Together, we will create images that showcase who you really are and authentically tell your love story.
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