Riverside Convention Center

Riverside Convention Center is a wedding venue in Riverside, California. It hosts weddings alongside corporate events, meetings, conventions, galas, quinceaneras, graduations, anniversaries, and holiday parties, with rooms ranging from small spaces for intimate affairs to large rooms for hundreds of guests. Sweeping ballrooms, lush grounds, and an open-air plaza are available for celebrations. The venue holds a rating of 4.50 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The center offers 68,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor space and a farm-to-fork culinary program, with curated menus built around locally sourced ingredients. It sits in downtown Riverside, steps from five hotels, including the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, and near a walkable downtown pedestrian mall with restaurants, shopping, microbreweries, specialty coffee shops, entertainment, sports bars, and museums. The Riverside Convention & Visitors Bureau supports events here through a Concierge Program that handles hotel and convention center arrangements for meeting planners, and the Bureau customizes its services to each planner's needs, from coordinating site visits to negotiating final contracts.

The venue is located at 3637 5th St in downtown Riverside. It is about 0.1 miles from the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, a similar distance from a native plant garden and the Riverside Citrus Labels public artwork, and roughly 0.2 miles from 3rd Street. Market Street is about 0.1 miles away.

Riverside Convention Center is operated by Raincross Hospitality Management Corporation, which was named Best Meeting Venue in the Inland Empire in 2024 by Inland Empire Magazine and earned a Top Workplace award in 2023.

For couples and event hosts in Riverside, the center pairs its ballrooms and open-air plaza with a downtown location surrounded by the city's museums, gardens, and walkable core.