December is chaos everywhere else. An exclusive-use holiday venue 8–10 minutes from Rolling Meadows — your company or your family, 50 to 150 guests, free parking, and not a single competing party in the building. International Banquet, family-owned since 2008.
December taxes everyone's calendar — between Woodfield shopping runs, school concerts, and year-end deadlines, people guard their evenings. A holiday party wins attendance by being easy: minutes from home or office, free parking, and a room that's festive the moment guests walk in. That's the event our Rolling Meadows event space builds for companies and families alike, night after night in December.
An office party and a family Christmas dinner want different evenings from the same month. Here's how Rolling Meadows hosts actually book the season — corporate versions run with the same coordination as our business event hosting year-round.
Festive enough that people have fun, professional enough that Monday isn't awkward. Dinner, open bar, awards or white elephant, dance floor optional but recommended.
When the family outgrew the dining room. Family-style platters, kids' end of the table, and nobody hosting means everybody's actually present — including whoever usually cooks.
End the year with the people who paid for it. A warmer, more personal setting than a restaurant buyout, with the privacy to actually talk.
The countdown with your crowd only — dinner, open bar, and a midnight that belongs to your party instead of a stranger's.
December amplifies every venue problem: garages full, ballrooms double-booked, staff stretched across three parties a night. Here, your party is the only one in the building — no noise bleed, no coat-check mix-ups, no divided kitchen. International Banquet's family-owned hall sits minutes from Rolling Meadows with free, well-lit parking directly outside, which in a Chicago December is not a small thing.
December dates go early. The planning itself is mercifully short.
Prime December Fridays and Saturdays start booking in August. Lock the date first; the details can wait a month.
Menu, bar package, festive décor level, music, and any awards or gift-exchange logistics. One planning call usually covers it.
Room decorated, bar stocked, staff briefed. Your only job is the toast — and getting people to leave when it ends, which is the good problem.
Per-person catering, no room fee. Minimums: $1,500 lunch (until 4 PM), $2,000 Sunday–Thursday evenings, $3,000 Friday & Saturday evenings, before tax and gratuity.
Midday holiday lunches for teams and family gatherings that wrap before dark — the budget-smart route to a December celebration.
The holiday table people expect — abundant, varied, and paced for mingling. Guests graze, gift exchanges happen, the night flows.
The full company-party treatment: plated courses, 3-hour open bar, toasts, dancing. $40 per person without bar service.
Sunday–Thursday December dates carry the $2,000 minimum instead of the $3,000 weekend one — the quiet lever for a bigger party on the same budget.
View Full MenuOur company party has been here three Decembers running. Same room, same staff, zero surprises — and having the whole venue means our party never shares a wall with someone else's. Attendance went up when we moved here. That says it all.
Family Christmas for 60 after we finally admitted no house fits us anymore. Family-style dinner, kids' table by the dance floor, and for the first time in years my mother didn't spend the holiday in a kitchen.
Booked a Thursday in mid-December — lower minimum, easier calendars, and honestly a better party because nobody had three other events that night. The team still brings it up in July.
What December hosts ask before the calendar fills.
Prime Friday and Saturday December dates start going in August and are largely gone by October. Weekday and Sunday dates hold out longer — and carry a lower minimum.
The room dresses festively for December, and you're welcome to layer on your company's or family's own décor — we'll help place it during setup.
All standard December fare here. We build the timeline around your program and coordinate the mic and sound so speeches actually get heard.
Absolutely — family Christmas dinners, multi-family joint parties, and New Year's Eve gatherings. Same room, warmer setting than passing dishes over a crowded kitchen island.
Luncheons $25, buffet $34, plated dinner $65 with 3-hour open bar ($40 without), per person. Minimums: $1,500 lunch, $2,000 Sunday–Thursday evenings, $3,000 Friday & Saturday evenings, before tax and gratuity.
Free, on-site, well-lit, and steps from the door — no garage, no fees, no icy hike in dress shoes.
