Last weekend I was invited to a wedding at the Trailside Event Center, located in the Trefzger’s building in Peoria Heights. I was excited to go because I had taken photos of this event space when it was being built over six years ago, but I’ve never been to an event there. And then I got even more excited to find out that there’s a bar in there, so we can make this wedding part of our bar tour! Here’s the invitation to this wonderful wedding.

Shailey Heuermann and Jeremiah Peterson were getting married last Friday evening at the Trailside Event Center and I was honored to be among the guests they invited.

Let’s head on over to this wedding at the Trailside Event Center in Peoria Heights!

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Bar Number 222: Trailside Event Center, Friday, September 25, 2026

Here we are at the Trailside Event Center, located on the side of the Trefzger’s Bakery building in Peoria Heights.

When you enter the building you have to climb these stairs and then…

Whoomp, there it is!

Wow, this is such a nice place for a wedding!

And what’s great about it is that you can have the wedding and the reception all in this one luxurious room. This way the guests have just one location to travel to for both events.

Here’s the Trailside Bar over here in this corner of this magnificent room.

This is a very nice looking bar in here!

It’s stocked with a nice inventory and there’s the singular beer on tap back here.

Okay, we’ll return here in a little bit, but first…

There’s a wedding to focus on in here.

A nice crowd has arrived for this marvelous event!

There’s the beautiful bride, Shailey and the handsome groom, Jeremiah exchanging their wedding vows up in the front of the room.

There’s the newly married couple walking down the aisle after completing the marriage vows!

Here’s the mother of the groom, my friend Nancy!

Nancy’s looking beautiful and I have been friends for years and here she is with her friend David. David is the owner of David’s Antiques and it was great to meet him and it’s always wonderful to see Nancy!

And now, as promised, we’ll return to the impressive bar in here.

Lizzie was one of the pretty bartenders on duty and here she is serving me up a bottle of Bud Light. Cheers!

They had a fabulous dinner in here with the wedding party seated at the front of the room and guests dined at tables on both sides of the room here at the event center. It was a delicious meal and everyone enjoyed it.