Graham Center

I started to plan my wedding and looking for a nice affordable place where we can have our union; after searching and searching I remembered that FIU has ballrooms, so I called them to see if they rent them to the public and they DO!!!
Maxine, the event coordinator was excellent, she had the disposition to help me from the get go and she is full of ideas. I have to admit that I was a bridezilla the 1^st meeting, but she never stop smiling.
We rented the middle ballroom (they have 3) as we had a small wedding of less that 100 guests. The rental included the tables, the chairs and the dance floor!!! you can’t get any better than that. For additional fee we had plants to fill out the room and we had lighting, everything was super affordable.
Maxine is full of ideas and her staff is ready to serve. I was able to visit the venue as many times as needed (with the DJ, with the photographer, with my fiancé, etc.) they were always ready to accommodate us.
The set up was ready the day before (as they did not have other events in that ballroom) and we where able to start the arrangements 1^st thing in the morning, which was awesome. Our wedding was the only programmed event for the day (and I do believe that is always like that) so, the DJ didn’t have to battle with other music; and we didn’t have to worry about other people.
We started set up at 10:00 am, wedding was at 4:00 in the green area in front of the ballrooms, cocktail hour was in the lobby of the ballrooms and the reception went on until 10:00, everyone loved the place, is modern and well taken care of.
I would recommend anyone to have their special event here.