The Setting
The Chicago Cultural Center
Opened in 1897 as Chicago's first central public library, the Cultural Center was built to prove the city had become a great metropolis, with Carrara marble staircases, walls inlaid with Favrile glass and mother-of-pearl mosaics, and not one but two stained-glass domes. We fell in love with it the way everyone does: by walking in and looking up.
78 East Washington Street · Chicago, Illinois
Preston Bradley Hall
Our ceremony and reception unfold in a hall of white Carrara marble beneath the world's largest Tiffany dome, made of 30,000 pieces of Favrile glass cut like fish scales, with the twelve signs of the zodiac glowing at its center. We'll say our vows, dine, and dance under a stained-glass sky.
GAR Hall
Cocktail hour is held in the Grand Army of the Republic Hall. Deep green Vermont marble, arched windows, and mahogany doors surround a second dome of Renaissance-patterned glass by Healy & Millet, freshly restored to its 1897 brilliance.
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”Joseph Addison — inscribed at the base of the Tiffany dome