The Speakeasy at The Broz: A Prohibition-Era Bar Inside a Minnesota Wedding Venue
Search "speakeasy wedding venue Minnesota" and not one venue website comes up. Only directory listings.
That is strange, because it is the single most asked-about room at The Broz.
What it actually is
Downstairs at The Broz there is a Prohibition-era speakeasy. Not a themed room built last year, a real one, in a building that has stood on Main Street since 1898.
It is dark, low-ceilinged and intimate in a way a ballroom can never be. It seats a fraction of what the Grand Ballroom does, and that is the point.
Why it changes a wedding night
Most receptions have a shape problem. Dinner ends, the dance floor opens, and the half of your guests who do not dance have nowhere to go. They stand at the edge of the room, or they leave early.
At The Broz they go downstairs.
The Speakeasy and the Brick X Lounge stay open all night alongside the Grand Ballroom. Your college friends are dancing upstairs. Your aunts and uncles are having an actual conversation in a bar that looks like 1925. Nobody is going home at nine because there was nothing for them to do.
Couples tell us afterward that the Speakeasy is where the night's best photos came from, and where the people who do not dance ended up staying latest.
The other nights it's good for
It is not only a reception room.
Rehearsal dinners. The night before, for your families, in a room nobody has seen yet.
The after-party. When the ballroom winds down, this is where the last couple of hours happen.
Cocktail hour, while we flip the ballroom from ceremony to dinner.
Private events that have nothing to do with weddings.
Seeing it
Photos undersell this room, because the thing that makes it work is how it feels when you walk down the stairs and the noise from upstairs drops away.
Take the virtual tour if you want a look now, or come walk through it. Rental rates start at $3,000 for a Sunday in the off-peak season, and the Speakeasy comes with the building, not as an add-on.
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