The Venue at Madison Avenue Central Park — Attraction in Derby

Dawn was our point of contact for The Venue at Madison Central Park and she was amazing! She was extremely communicative over e-mail. In the months/weeks leading up to the wedding day we were able to access the venue whenever we needed or whenever one of our vendors needed to do a walk through.

It checked nearly all of the boxes for us.

400 guest capacity. Had the option for us to rent from the Friday night before the wedding. Location was ideal for us since it was less than 10 minutes away from our house (this came in clutch when we had to make multiple trips back and forth during setup). Freedom to bring in our own vendors. We had kids at our wedding so the playground was great.

We brought in Le Luci Lighting to install all of our lighting, especially the dance floor lighting. It was the first time they did an installation like this and this space is so great, there's so much room to transform the venue into your...

It’s a community park, yet, HALF THE PARK IS A PARKING LOT??? the world is increasingly more bike centric and the community needs to develop around that, not build a gigantic parking lot with a small park attraction hooked on to it

It was alright. Too small and it seemed there could be more upkeep work done on the grass area.

I had time to kill before a dentists’ appointment that is right down the street and I was thinking I could go check this park out.

If you have a small kid 3-7 years old, this place is perfect, for anybody else, it seems you have to be there for whatever little theatre/choir/band performance is going on to have fun at the amphitheater. Good amount of benches and sit down areas for older and...

We went to a playground in Augusta and we heard about the great playground in Derby. Drove from Augusta to Derby just to bring my 11yr old to play chess.... ummm.... it’s a great looking board, but plan to bring your own life sized chess pieces. He was extremely disappointed and we could have saved 30-45 min and just drove home instead of to Derby. Don’t advertise you have a life sized chess board if you can’t play on it.

The rest of the playground was good. But we only stayed for 10-15 min.

Overall clean and the parents/kids there were respectful. That is something we don’t find too often at public parks.

If the chess board would have had pieces to play, it would have been a...