The Grand Long Beach Event Center

The food is amazing. My wedding was 2 weeks ago and I have family still telling me how good the food was. They are very generous with their alcohol in the mixed drinks. I honestly coiuld not say anything bad about this place. Viviana was my sales person and she is a sweetheart.

This place is beautiful. The food was incredible. Alex was our coordinator and she was more than helpful. They really take care of their clients.

Had our wedding ceremony in the Palm Terrace and our reception in the garden room. Received many positive compliments on the location, hors d'oeuvres and dinner. Alex Weiss was our coordinator and she was a pleasure to work with. She was very helpful with all my questions and always responded in a timely manner. The staff was very professional from the servers to the bartenders.

If we could do it all over again we would definitely do it at The Grand. Everything was perfect from the rep who helped us (Viviana), to the food, decor, and service. They are the absolute best at what they do. We are want to have our 10th Anniversary there as well! Thanks for everything The Grand!

My husband and I worked with Viviana at the Grand for our wedding event. I can't tell you how wonderful our experience with her was. She always emailed or called us back the same day, and if she was busy, she would let us know so that we weren't waiting and waiting for her. Everyone said how good the food was. We chose the salmon and prime rib for our guests and everyone said how tasty the salmon was, and how tender the meat was. The appetizers were also a huge hit with the salmon and cracker bar. The waitstaff was polite and made sure we were okay. All our vendors had a very easy time with the Grand. The Grand provides a cake when you book with them, and we chose Torrance Bakery, which was also a pleasant experience and had the best cake. I would highly recommend this venue for your special event. They really do take care of you, and Viviana is the sweetest person to work with there.

I have nothing but positive things to say about the Grand. Viviana, our sales person, was so helpful and responsive to all of my requests, I must have emailed her dozens of times with questions and she responded quickly every time. They were professionals in every aspect. Our reception room was set up complete with table linens by 9:30am for a 6pm start time. So i was able to do last minute set up there myself and not be stressed for time. Also, I received many compliments on how good the food was - we served chicken with melted goat cheese. It was delicious. I would highly recommend the Grand to anyone for ceremonies and receptions.

the grand was very helpful in helping me plan my wedding. the staff was wonderful! they were polite and very helpful and treated my guests and my husband and i with the utmost respect. I had a wonderful time on my wedding day. i loved it especially because we did everything at one venue, including ceremony. good times!

We just had our wedding and reception at The Grand. All of the details were taken care of to our satisfaction. We had no worries on the day of the event. We had a wonderful wait staff and contact person. All of our vendors were pleased. All of the planning--from the booking of the room, to the tasting, to the menu selection--were all very straightforward and easy. They were even able to accommodate our small (75) number of guests.

The Grand was a delight to work with. They are VERY attentive, will help you set up your menu. The tasting was amazing, and so was the final result at the wedding! They will also let you switch out some things on your menu if you get a package which was very nice. Their servers were friendly and made sure to check with guests often even though it was a buffet. Don't hesitate to use them, they do a wonderful job.

From start to finish, this venue was nothing short of exceptional. The site inside and out are beautiful. The food is amazing and a fantastic value for the price. They included all the linens, chairs, cake, and much more in their reasonable package pricing. The staff is fantastic too! I recommend this venue to everyone having a wedding in Southern California!

I'm am so happy I chose The Grand for my wedding reception. They staff was so very helpful, the coordinator whop worked wit me (Jodi) was awesome and they just helped my whole day go by without a single problem. all of my guests loved the food, the facility was absolutley beautiful. it was the reception of my dreams. i highly recommend The Grand for the bride/groom that's look for a high quality one stop shop for their wedding reception. having it here alleviated so much stress.

The Grand made our 'wedding dreams' come true!!! EVERYBODY was blown away with the Grand Ballroom and the service. Lisa McIntyre is phenomenal!!! She was always available to answer our questions and made the wedding planning so easy!!! I would, and do, recommend The Grand to any couple that wants the best value for their money and a wedding that will have people talking for months....ours did!!! =)

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Viviana was a great event coordinator and ensured we had an amazing event!

My husband and I decided to get married at the last minute. We were going to go to the court and get married and my mom and sister in law said NO WAY! So we has a month to put together a ceremony that was going to accomodate 65 guests. The Grand was AMAZING!!!! The staff was so helpful and we got the mexican buffett and the food was sooo good!! I can't tell you how many compliments we got on our wedding. Lots of parking.... You can't beat their prices either :-)

IÂ’d recommend the use of this very accommodating venue to any bride to be! The venue staff, food and location were ideal! I'm still receiving compliments on how great the food tasted the location, the wait staff and the room. Thanks for making my day special.

Although, The Grand was not a choice we made (it is the only caterer you can have at the EBM Japanese Garden), it is the best choice in the Long Beach area. The food is so amazing, we talked them into letting us come to two tastings (I so needed one for the wedding and one for the rehearsal dinner ;). Becky was so accommodating and we got everything we wanted.

Very, very pleased with this reception venue. Very professional, the site it beautiful and was a perfect fit for what we were looking for. Also very accommodating to last minute changes.

I had my wedding here 6/18/11. The venue was beautiful and for a banquet hall catering for 160 people, the food was better than one could expect. It was actually pretty good!Our even manager, Alex was awesome, she helped move everything along and the whole planning process was smooth and really non eventful (which is a good thing).The only mistake was that on the day of the wedding, they got my tablecloth color wrong. We had 45 minutes before the guests started arrving and when we found out that they messed up the color, they fixed it in less than 15 minutes for all 17 tables! So yeah they got it wrong, but they were able to correct it almost immediately which was great.As for service, the ONLY complaint our guests had was that when they served the wedding cake, they cleared the tables before some of our guests were even able to have some cake! But if thats the worst complaint i have to mention they hey... that tells me the wedding was great!Great value for the venue and great venue - they bundle everything up for you so nicely it really does take the stress out of wedding planning. I will definitley use them again if I ever have another large party to throw.

We recently got married at The Grand in March, and we were content with the results. My bestfriend and I had been looking everywhere for a venue that was beautiful but affordable at the same time. Upon some web research, we found that The Grand was having a promotion for 20% off. We fell in love with the Monarch room because we could meet the room minimum (150) and it was more private compared to the other rooms offered. Of course, it was booked for all the dates we wanted…but we were taken to the Grand Ballroom where they had beautiful swag hanging from the ceiling and gave a very open feel. We presented the promo we found online and raised concern about meeting the room minimum (220). Our consultant at the time was very accommodating and tried to work with our budget, since we had budgeted for a smaller guest list. She put our day and room on hold, and if offered another promo if we booked within a week (free appetizers). We put down a deposit and booked our special day! Once we booked the venue, we felt huge relief! Everything was starting to come together.We did run into a bump in the road when we tried to reach our contact a few months later. I did not receive any response… two emails later and a week later…still no response. At this point, I was a little stressed out and called the front office, in which they informed me that our consultant was no longer with the company. I was disappointed that my emails were not being responded to and that nobody had notified us of who the new contact would be. I was quickly transferred to Viviana. She was really a doll and was responsive through the rest of the process. After we resolved the consultant issue, everything else was smooth sailing. We had our tasting, and chose the Salmon & Chicken Marsala as our entrée options. Other than the normal items on the worry list, we were really hoping for some great food and appetizers. The Grand has about 2 tastings a year in which both prospective and currently booked clients are able to see one of the rooms dressed up and have a tasting of their menu. For appetizer, we really enjoyed the NY Strip Steak on a baguette, Ahi Tuna on cucumber slice and cheese tray. At the tasting we had options of prime rib, shrimp, salmon and chicken. We particularly enjoyed the salmon, which we chose for one of our dinner options. Our 2nd split menu was the chicken. The shrimp was nice, but we felt it was more of a side dish and it may get cold by the time it was served.Results: We received a lot of compliments on the venue and the food. We really could not have found a better place for both the quality of food, beauty of venue and the price that it offered. It was convenient having both the ceremony & reception at the same location because guests did not have to drive around looking for the reception venue, and parking was plentiful even with another wedding going on.