PAIKKA Reviews
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4.1 out of 5 rating
4.1 out of 5 rating
10 reviews
82% recommend it
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Chelsea Sent on 07/31/2019Beautiful venue great for customization
Paikka is a beautiful clean slate, perfect for making your wedding exactly how you want it to be! From allowing you to bring in your own vendors and decor, to providing the beautiful custom wood reception tables and chairs, this venue is absolutely fantastic! Although it seems fairly pricey for the rental fee, their allowance to bring in your own caterer and bartenders actually brings the cost down to much less than other venues around the area. They know how to do weddings and we are so glad we went with them! -
Mackenzie Sent on 03/04/2019
Winter Wedding at PAIKKA
We loved the vibe that PAIKKA had the moment we toured the space. It was exactly what we were looking for in a venue for our winter wedding. Having both spaces (separated by the most amazing doors) created room for our guests to spread out and mingle. Lake Monster Brewery down the hall was also the perfect place for my now husband and I to escape and have a beer (just the two of us) after our ceremony. PAIKKA’s staff are extremely helpful and provided solutions to all the ideas we had for the space — It was also great to bring in our own catering, bartending, lightening, etc. with suggestions from the knowledgeable staff. Thanks again! -
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Lacresia Sent on 02/28/2019Beautiful venue, easy to work with,
Working with PAIKKA great. The space was beyond anything I could have imagined for the day. The lighting, texture, decor etc. The staff were so responsive and provided answers to the millions of questions I had leading up to the wedding! One thing I would suggest is that PAIKKA have lighting options available in house. We wanted the cafe lights we saw during our tour and later learned they were an additional $800 to rent. It would be so nice if Paikka had them available for an additional rental cost, and even more wonderful if they were less than $800. It is also helpful to know that you are essentially just renting the room. Lots of other venues offer a little more hands on support for the event - helping with the flow of the event, making suggestions for first look locations, assisting with timing or how things can be arranged, someone available to help with the set up and night before/day of, but PAIKKA does not offer any of those services. Its really a do every single thing yourself or hire someone outside. Would be nice to have someone that knows the space really well and have seen how weddings can flow there helping in the process. Again, such a phenomenal venue but a little more in-house services would be great! -
User2897122 Sent on 12/07/2016A very nice venue with some unique touches. We met with Marlo and found her to be a very sharp, real person who won us over. We booked the venue 5 months before the wedding with the money I had inherited when my grandmother passed away two months earlier. After a month, circumstances altered and a change in venue was unavoidable. We promptly cancelled our hold, so as to give Paikka as much time as possible to rebook the venue.
Angela, Marlo's partner, maintained communication with us from that point forward. Most of her email replies took days. Her messages were terse and her commitment to holding onto our 50% deposit was surprisingly steadfast. We had to lobby carefully and politely to even get her to agree to return our money if someone booked the venue for the night we originally had.
We worked to spread positive word about Paikka and convince our contacts to consider booking them, all the while receiving no support, empathy or kindness from Marlo or Angie. Four months went by and Paikka never booked that evening. When pressed, they maintained that they had to turn away two interested parties during the four weeks we had them booked. I don't know whether that is the truth or not, but the chances seemed very unlikely to us.
Unfortunately, our recommendation is not to book Paikka. They walk by the letter of their contract and their $1500 non-refundable deposit is unreasonable. There are plenty of other, magical venues in the Twin Cities area whose management are amicable, flexible and understanding.
If you really want to book them, I'd take a close look at their contract and try to negotiate it to be more favorable to you should something unforeseen happen. If they won't budge, and you still decide to book them, if something goes wrong and you have to move your venue or cancel the event, you might as well not even bother to let them know.
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