The Backstage Event Center

Guest capacity

Up to 170 seated guests

About this venue

Your wedding day should be a dream, come to life. At The Backstage Event Center, we take pride in making your dreams a reality from beginning to end. Our facility combines traditional, rustic décor with modern elegance, creating a distinctive and charming space for your guests. The unique floor plan can be customized to accommodate parties of up to 200 guests, more intimate parties for your closest friends and family, and every event in between.

Seated guest capacity

  • 10-170

Venue type

  • Industrial Spaces
  • Urban Locations

Venue setting

  • Indoor
625 Walnut St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Our event spaces

The Terrace Room

Our facility combines traditional, rustic décor with modern elegance, creating a distinctive and charming space for your guests. The unique floor plan can be customized to accommodate parties of up to 300 guests, more intimate parties for your closest friends and family, and every event in between.

The Terrace Room

Our facility combines traditional, rustic décor with modern elegance, creating a distinctive and charming space for your guests. The unique floor plan can be customized to accommodate parties of up to 300 guests, more intimate parties for your closest friends and family, and every event in between.

Available services that can be provided by The Backstage Event Center

Services & amenities

  • Bar services
  • Catering services
  • Clean up
  • Dance floor
  • Event coordinator
  • Event rentals
  • Event staff
  • Pet friendly
  • Service staff
  • Set up
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Wifi

Rentals

  • Barware
  • Flatware
  • Glassware
  • Linens
  • Sound / AV
  • Standard Chairs

Reviews

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  • Affordable Cincy Gem

    •Verified review
    •Juliana•Oct 15, 2024

    We had a great experience having our wedding at The Backstage Event Center. It’s a great location in the heart of downtown Cincy with a cozy romantic vibe. Communication was good from our day of coordinator and everything day of went incredibly smoothly. We were impressed by their wait staff. At the end of the night, they even packed up all of our stuff for us which made it so smooth the next day to pick it up. I wouldn’t have changed anything about our experience at Backstage.

  • The perfect venue for a perfect day!

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    •Olivia F.•Oct 1, 2024

    The Backstage Event Center was an absolute dream to work with for our wedding. From our very first interaction, the staff was friendly, helpful, and responsive, making the planning process stress-free. Prior to the wedding they worked with us to plan the order of events and helped us plan our vision for decorations. On the day of, they executed our vision flawlessly and made the set up and rehearsal process so easy. Elenya and her team even improvised when we lost the cord to our neon name sign before drop off and they searched everywhere until they found a backup. The Backstage's combination of stunning exposed brick, warm lighting, and flexible layout allowed us to create the perfect ambiance for our special day. The celebration was perfect from start to finish and everyone was on the floor dancing all night. The entire time the event team was there to help, and they even boxed all of our decorations up for an easy pick up the next day. We couldn't have asked for a better venue or team to bring our wedding dreams to life.

  • Beautiful venue

    •Verified review
    •Leah H.•Nov 19, 2022

    The Backstage Event Center was such a terrific venue. From the tour, my fiancé (now husband) and I loved that we could have both the ceremony and reception in the same location. After the tour, we canceled all our other venue tours as we already knew BEC was the venue for us. Kudos to Cara and her team as they did an outstanding job! On the day of the rehearsal, Cara was so accommodating and helped make sure our rehearsal went smoothly. She even let us start setting up some of the décors early. On our wedding day, Cara and her team were ready for us; the rest of the décor looked amazing and she really captured my vision. The food was delicious; highly recommend the crab cakes as an appetizer and the caramelized brussels sprouts as a side dish. We got a lot of compliments on our choice of venue and everyone was super happy with the wait staff and bartenders’ exceptional work. BEC and Cara exceeded our expectations and I highly recommend this venue!

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