Right on the banks of the Mississippi River and north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, lies the beautiful city of Minneapolis that boasts a strong cultural presence and great historic architecture. And the Calhoun Beach Athletic Club is just another jewel placed in this city’s crown. Located in Minneapolis’s swanky Uptown district, with a massive deck with panoramic views of the crystalline Lake Calhoun and offering an upscale venue for your wedding day, we totally love the views at Calhoun Beach Athletic Club. This stunning landscape can also be seen through the early 20th century-style windows, which flood the room with natural light that we will use to capture flawless photos of you on your wedding day. 

Let’s start by exploring how you must have imagined your wedding to look like. You must have daydreamed, right from the moment he got down on one knee with a ring in his hand, and you were left speechless, about your bridal look and your first kiss as a bride and groom. You must have had millions of ideas in a flash of a second, a traditional black tie, and intimate wedding, or a lavish elegant one. A fall-winter wedding amidst the whimsy of the mist and snow or a spring-summer wedding, surrounded by blooms and warmer sun. While a wedding checklist really helps, various other things go beyond the checklist. Like thinking and deciding about the wedding cake, the perfect wedding invites, the theme of the wedding (if any), decor according to color, mood, a season, or festivities, welcome table, guestbook, and boundless other things. Among all those, features one of the most important elements of your wedding planning - a wedding venue. While finalizing the venue will make you tick it off from your checklist, there’s a lot that goes into reaching that stage. 

Calhoun Beach Athletic Club in Minneapolis is a wedding venue that makes all kinds of wedding dreams come true and is the answer to all your doubts and confusions regarding your wedding venue. 

Located in the Market Street region, Calhoun Beach Athletic Club is a spectacular Minneapolis wedding venue with years and years of providing magnificent services to Minneapolis couples. Not only that, but Calhoun Beach Athletic Club also serves newly engaged couples based in the suburbs of Minneapolis like Eden Prairie, Chanhassen, Edina, Minnetonka, Lakeville, Rogers, Plymouth, Golden Valley, Delano, Victoria, Shoreview, Mound, Vadnais Heights, Rosemount, and many more. 

The dazzling Calhoun Beach Athletic Club can accommodate anywhere from 12 to 1000 guests. Rustic columns and chic lights create a classy atmosphere in which to celebrate. While the Calhoun Beach Athletic Club provides a fantastic foundation, it is your vision that will bring your wedding day to life. Whatever your personal style, the event planners at the Calhoun Beach Athletic Club will alter the space to represent your personality. The Calhoun Beach Athletic Club is a sophisticated venue ideal for your dream wedding.

Let’s tell you more about the amazing wedding facilities at Calhoun Beach Athletic Club, which make it the best of wedding venues in the suburbs of Minneapolis. 

The entry of Calhoun Beach Athletic Club marks its way to excellence! The moment you enter, the place leaves you spellbound, inviting you to explore more. The gorgeous property takes your breath away and you can’t help but imagine the photo ops! It's no doubt one of the most favorite spots of our Minneapolis photographers. Overlooking Lake Calhoun, the deck is going to impress you like nothing else! It’s a great place to have your first look, as our Minneapolis suburbs wedding photographers would love to capture that first moment when you and your partner lock your eyes on your wedding day. That ‘forever’ moment against such a scenic background is what the most romantic wedding photos are made of. The beauty of the gorgeous architecture makes a phenomenal background for wedding portraits. You’ll be tempted to think about how you’d pose with your bridal party right in front of it! 

The deck is also a great place to have some romantic post-wedding photographs. As far as your wedding ceremony and wedding reception, a grand staircase leads you to the hall. And you’ll be bombarded by another chain of ideas related to your wedding photography. It could be your first look, your grand wedding portraits with your groom or bridal portraits. The staircase simply impresses you with its grandeur. You will feel every bit of a princess coming down the staircase, all dolled up as a bride as your handsome groom waits for you downstairs. The glorious chandeliers make you foresee the look on your guests’ faces when they arrive for your wedding. And you’ll love that feeling! The staircase is an ideal spot for your royal looking wedding portraits with your groom and also for the entire bridal party comprising the uber dashing groomsmen and elegantly dressed bridesmaids.

The gorgeous Minneapolis wedding venue was built in the early 20th century and boasts elegance and old-world charm of that era. The huge arched windows ensure that the event spaces are adorned with abundant sunlight, and offer dramatic views of Minneapolis’ trendiest neighborhoods. The chandeliers are a stunning piece of art and add to the glory of the interiors! 

The event space, the hall, is great for wedding ceremonies and wedding receptions alike. Floor to ceiling glass, huge windows, gorgeous chandeliers, and lots of natural light, make Calhoun Beach Athletic Club a unique event space in the entire city. You could have the hall adorned with drapes as you exchange your wedding vows for dreamy ambiance. And as the night falls, moody romantic light changes the entire ambiance of the wedding space. Glamor can be added to your wedding decor with subtlety. Click here for the inspiration. You could even add elements of the season or festivities into your wedding decor such as having your table settings inspired by Thanksgiving or incorporating fall elements into various wedding details. 

The elegance and pomp of the wedding venue beg for sophistication when it comes to the decor, table settings, seating arrangement, wedding guest books, sweet tables, and cakes. And we are always here to help you with your wedding planning. There are various themes that can add a zing to your wedding at this vintage wedding venue in Minneapolis. You could have a vintage theme and add a vintage vehicle to your wedding. How about arriving in a vintage vehicle, truly like a princess, and complementing the grand look of this Minneapolis wedding venue? Not only does that add the luxury quotient to your wedding photos but it also makes a great elegant prop for your first look, pre-wedding photos, and post-wedding photos. You can carry on with the vintage theme throughout your wedding. Click here to know more about it. 

Moving on to your post-wedding photography, have you decided on having one? We totally recommend it as it gives you more time to bask in the glory of your wedding day! The city boasts spectacular architecture and nature bites We have compiled a list of nearby locations where your post-wedding photography will be a trendsetter! We’ll take you through some quintessential Minneapolis photography locations where you can head to for some stellar wedding photos. So, whether it is a pre-wedding ceremony photoshoot or a post-wedding photo session, either way, these locations are a great idea! Moreover, these locations are a great idea for pre-wedding photography as well! 

The magic of Minneapolis resides in every nook and cranny of this dreamlike city! The vibrant vibes of this gorgeous city reside in its effervescent parks, museums, mansions to country clubs, gardens, rustic farms, and lavish hotels, Minneapolis has so many locations that make it a great city for personalized and gorgeous wedding photography! Our wedding photography team ensures that your Minneapolis wedding photography is a perfect potion of the soul of your love story, once-in-a-lifetime precious wedding moments, and the spirit of the city vibes!

From swooning along with a live music performance at the First Avenue and Seventh Street Entry to appreciating contemporary art at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis is a spirited arts city! The vibrance makes for a great backdrop if you wish to capture the pulse of the city in your engagement photography.

Let’s get straight to the point and give you some insight. In case you and your partner are interested in a nature-inspired engagement session, Minneapolis won’t let you down! Did you know that Minneapolis is also known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes? Therefore, it is more than obvious that this gorgeous city is loaded with scenic beauty. And there is much more to Minneapolis than Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet which is waiting to be explored! In this spectacular city, nature gives you plenty of opportunities to add uniqueness to your engagement photos. 

And this magic can be captured forever in your Minneapolis wedding photography, for you to reminisce that your spectacular wedding took place in this iconic city. You could have the city smile in the background as our Minneapolis engagement photographers capture your pre-wedding photo session against the best engagement locations in Minneapolis. You could have your wedding day extended by a few more hours and enjoy the feels as our Minneapolis wedding photographers capture your post-wedding couple portraits at iconic photography locations in this city.

As far as your engagement photo shoot in Minneapolis is concerned, the location in this city totally depends on your personality and mood. While some couples opt for romantic scenic locations like the waterfront and open landscapes, many choose warm cozy places like libraries or cafes or iconic places like Chino Latino, Sabastian Joe’s. 

Let’s take you through some of the best engagement locations in Minneapolis that also serve as great post-wedding photography locations. 

French National Park

French National Park is worth an exploration! We are back to our favorites - bridges and water, and this time amidst lush vibrant greens! This beautiful Minneapolis engagement location is loaded with photo ops such as the vivid forest, the bridge overlooking a pond, and waterfront. You could also carry props like food items or a save-the-date sign. 

Minnehaha Falls

Minnehaha Falls is sheer beauty and is located just 20 minutes away from Calhoun Beach Athletic Club. Our Minneapolis engagement photographers love capturing the dreaminess of gushing water as it falls from a height of 60 feet. The falls overlook the Mississippi River, bringing with it boundless opportunities for romantic engagement photography. And with winter, comes a promise of one of the most spectacular sights - the icefalls! If you decide to have your Minneapolis engagement photography in the winter, the frozen Minnehaha Falls are going to take your photography many notches higher! 

Loring Park

Here’s one of our favorites! It’s so close that you’ll reach in a blink. Located just 12 minutes away from Calhoun Beach Athletic Club, there are so many photo ops at this 289-acre park that will take your breath away! The lush greens of the park provide an unmatched vibrance to your backdrops and scream serenity like none other! Stand together under a tree, locked in an embrace, and let the shade and peeping sun weave their magic and witness our engagement photographers turn into magicians! If you are confused about what to wear amidst such vibrant surroundings? The walkways and lawns are ideal for a vibrant engagement photoshoot. The surrounding vibrance of flowers blooms all around you both, providing perfectly natural frames to your romance. After a brief walk, as you come across the bridge, the beauty of this place goes up a notch! With the high rises in the background, the bridge makes for a spectacular prop surrounded by greenery all around. 

Elm Creek Park Reserve 

Located less than an hour away from the wedding venue, Elm Creek Park Reserve is a 4,900-acre wonderland of forests! Walk down the beautiful walkways surrounded by lush vibrant forests, and let our Minneapolis engagement photographers work their magic! The bridge here makes for an amazing prop and even better during winters when the wooden bridge shines out of all the snow around. You could wander around the Noerenberg Memorial Gardens and Gale Wood Farm located right within the reserve for more variety of photo ops. After all, it's your wedding day and you’d want that fuzzy feeling to last as long as possible! If you are planning to wear stilettos, make sure you carry comfortable shoes along as there’ll be some walking involved, especially in the grasslands. You could even lay down on the flowery grassland, atop a throw, and just simply look at the views of the sky! And you know why that’s romantic? Because you both are just lying there, in the comfort of each other and the whole world just stops there for a moment. Before you get back to the drill like every day.

Stone Arch Bridge

Situated just 16 minutes away from Calhoun Beach Athletic Club, Stone Arch Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is worth an exploration! This beautiful Minneapolis engagement location is loaded with photo ops such as the vibrant railings, rustic walls, and gorgeous buildings. The Stone Arch Bridge is ideal for couples who wish to include the city’s glorious history in their engagement photography or post-wedding photography. The rusticity of this place is unparalleled and it takes you back into those yesteryears. The timeless vibes of the Stone Arch Bridge can be seen engraved across the railings, written on the walls, and boundless romances that it has witnessed! The nearby vintage buildings also make for great backdrops for romantic portraits of couples. The sunset is a great time to shoot your engagement photos here as the views leave you spellbound. We absolutely love the sight of the sky in various reddish hues coupled by the distant city down below, as the sun goes down. The golden hour engagement photography is a favorite here, where so many elements come together to light up your engagement photos. You could even go down to the water and indulge in some romantic portraits as the water sparkles behind you. To improvise a bit, you could carry props like a save-the-date sign. 

The Guthrie Theater at the Majestic Oaks Golf Club

This Minneapolis engagement location is located around 35 minutes from the wedding venue. The Guthrie Theater, which is a part of the Majestic Oaks Golf Club, located in the city of Ham Lake in the suburbs of Minneapolis, is a unique place for some indoor engagement photography in Minneapolis. It is home to some of the most spectacularly colored backgrounds, which our Minneapolis engagement photographers love capturing!

These handpicked locations are more or less half an hour away from the wedding venue, Calhoun Beach Athletic Club. Therefore, post-wedding photography is a must as reaching at any one or more of these locations shouldn’t be much of a problem. In fact, it's a great way to have your wedding day extended and revel in the feeling of being the most celebrated people that day! Whether you get your post-wedding photo session at one of these locations or the wedding venue, our professional wedding photographers will create magic with their lenses. Your love story and wedding day will be captured as things keep unfolding throughout your big day. Calhoun Beach Athletic Club is an ideal Minneapolis wedding venue to celebrate the happiest day of your lives and to create memories that will last for you a lifetime. It is an excellent blend of style and natural beauty for the kind of wedding that you have always dreamt of! Witness our wedding photographers in Minneapolis suburbs capture all the nuances, raw emotions, every little tear, every joy accompanied by smiles and laughter, and relive your wedding day anytime you want! 

Our team of professional wedding photographers in Minneapolis becomes your storytellers as they capture every little moment - the first time when you lock your eyes with your partner, the first time your father sees you as a bride, the tear in your mother’s eyes as your father walks you down the aisle, from the welcome table adorned with everything that you’ve so carefully thought of, to the perfect wedding exit, and everything in between. All the emotions riding high, the meticulously planned settings of your wedding, your gorgeous wedding venue, and the pulse of the city, are beautifully blended to create timeless memories of your wedding day.

We at George Street Photo & Video provide an exceptionally talented wedding photography team and highly competitive packages, starting from USD 1,500. Click to know more about our wide range of wedding photography and video packages by scheduling an appointment with us!