The Event Studio
3,290 sq ft · Windows onto the gardenFloor-to-ceiling windows face the garden. Dinner and dancing under café lights.
Weddings
A Chicago wedding venue with a working glass studio.
Three spaces for one evening: the Event Studio, the Urban Garden and the Rooftop Deck, with the hot shop a few steps away.
The Urban Garden · 2,460 sq ft
A hot shop, gallery and event venue in West Loop. Our artists blow glass for Michelin-starred restaurants. On your wedding day, they make it for you.
- Guests
- Up to 220
- Space
- 9,000 sq ft
- Rental
- 12 hours, setup and breakdown included
- Where
- 401 N. Armour St.
The spaces
Three spaces, one evening.
Say your vows on the Rooftop, do cocktail hour in the Garden, and sit down to dinner and dance the night away in the Event Studio.
The Urban Garden
2,460 sq ft · Lawn, fruit trees, glass artA lawn among fruit trees and glass sculptures, with a wall of colorful glass plates as backdrop for your ceremony.
The Rooftop Deck
3,290 sq ft · 360° skylineCocktails or the ceremony, with skyline views.
With the full venue: the gallery, for registration, and a private green room for 12.
Sample layouts
How the evening can sit.
Three real layouts from past weddings, with the ceremony, dinner and dance floor placed for each guest count.
The glass ceremonies
A ceremony you can keep.
The hot shop · Live demonstrationTwo traditions, both made in our hot shop.
For Vessel of Us, our glass unity ceremony, you each pour your colors into one vessel. For the Breaking of the Glass, the glass you break is made in up to four colors you choose. Both are included with a full-venue rental.
Afterward, our artists can blow your ceremony glass into a keepsake: using the colors you poured, or the shards you broke. The final piece is ready for pickup or shipping in 1–2 weeks.
- Vessel of Us, our glass unity ceremony
- Included$150 on its own
- Breaking of the Glass
- Included$150 on its own
- Premium colors
- +$40each, up to four colors included
- Keep the piece
- +$500made live or in our studio
From pour to piece
How the keepsake is made.
- 01 · Choose
You choose your colors.
Before the wedding, you pick up to four colors and the shape of your piece.
- 02 · Pour
You pour them into one vessel.
During the ceremony, your colors of crushed glass, called frit, go into one vessel.
- 03 · Hand off
The vessel comes to our artists.
Live during a demonstration at your wedding, or in our studio afterward.
- 04 · Marver
Your colors meet molten glass.
The artist pours your colors onto the marver and melts them into glass gathered from the furnace at about 2,000°F.
- 05 · Shape
It's shaped by hand.
Reheated and shaped at the bench into the form you chose.
- 06 · Anneal
It cools slowly.
The annealer brings the glass down gently so it won't crack.
- 07 · Engrave
Your date, on the bottom.
Your wedding date is engraved for free; custom engraving is quoted on request. Ready in 1–2 weeks.
Illustration · Classic Vase
Design your keepsake
Your colors, your piece.
Choose the ceremony, your glass and pattern colors and how the piece is made. Price determined by your selections. Up to four colors are included; the full library is on the Glass Unity Ceremony page.
Every piece is made by hand. Color, size, shape and small bubbles vary, and that is part of the work.
In the hot shop
Live demonstrations
Live glassblowing demonstration
Your guests watch an artist work 2,000°F glass in the hot shop. Keep the piece for $500 more.
$1,000Ceremony, demonstration and the piece
Your ceremony glass becomes your keepsake live, in front of your guests. Ready for pickup or shipping in 1–2 weeks.
$1,500Marrying elsewhere
Pick up the ceremony vessels and your colors before the wedding and bring them back afterward, or have the kit shipped anywhere in the US; we make your piece in our studio either way. Design it on the Glass Unity Ceremony page
$750
Couples
The grass courtyard, rooftop, and indoor space created the perfect mixture for our guests, and we appreciated the art and atmosphere. Amelia was a joy to work with…
Wedding was spectacular, and all our guests raved about the scenery and glass garden. … The blown glass wedding piece they offer is a really special keepsake.
The live glassblowing demonstration added such a unique and memorable touch to our celebration — our guests are still talking about it!
With three distinct spaces in one venue … garden ceremony, rooftop cocktail hour, and indoor reception.
Such a unique wedding venue! Amazing rooftop city views for cocktail hour…
It has such a unique colorful aesthetic with the glass structures and it has two different outdoor spaces (the garden and the roof deck)…
The second we walked in to the garden, we knew it was the place. … The ceremony was held in the garden, with the beautiful blown glass plates as the backdrop.
4.8 stars from 113 Google reviews, as of October 3, 2026 · Featured on WGN TV
Pricing
Full-venue pricing.
One rental gives you all three spaces and the gallery for 12 hours, setup and breakdown included. From November to April, the Event Studio is guaranteed, and the Urban Garden and Rooftop Deck are yours too, weather permitting.
| Season | Monday–Thursday | Friday and Sunday | Saturday |
|---|---|---|---|
| May–OctoberAll three spaces | $7,500 | $9,000 | $10,500 |
| November–AprilEvent Studio guaranteed | $6,500 | $7,000 | $8,000 |
Included
- Two on-site facilities managers
- 40 padded white chairs
- 10 cabaret and 10 highboy tables
- 8 color-changing uplights
- Café and string lights
- Lounge groupings in the garden and on the roof
- Coat racks for 150
- 4 easels and a chalkboard welcome sign
- Lawn games
Add-ons
- Premium colors
- +$40each
- Keep the piece
- $500made live or in our studio
- Live demonstration
- $1,000
- Ceremony, demonstration and the piece
- $1,500
- Marrying elsewhere
- $750Chicago pickup · kits by mail from $850 delivered
- Glass favors
- from $18
- Engraved place-card favors
- $25–$45a guest · 4–6 weeks
- Engraved wedding-party gifts
- $45–$120each · 4–6 weeks
- Tables-and-chairs package
- $1,500
- Extra time
- $250a half hour
- Security
- $50an hour
50% deposit at signing, the balance 30 days before. 15% off the space rental for nonprofits and military members, active-duty and veterans.
Small weddings
November–April: Monday–Friday and select Sundays
Small weddings, on weekdays.
Up to 40 guests for a 3-hour event, plus setup and breakdown, with Vessel of Us, our glass unity ceremony, and a short glassblowing demonstration. Available for elopements and vow renewals too. All three spaces are included.
May–October: Monday–ThursdayNovember–April: Monday–Friday and select Sundays
In winter, the Event Studio is the space we guarantee.
$2,500–$4,500
Before & after
Before and after the big day.
The proposal, the photos, the parties and the anniversaries, in the same rooms.
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Just the Two of Us · $550
A private moment in the hot shop.Hidden in the Glass · $650
During a private lesson, with the artist in on it. We send a short questionnaire first.Bring Your Vision to Life · $950
Decor, setup, the proposal and breakdown, 2 hours in all. -
The Rooftop Deck's clear view of the skyline, the Urban Garden's plants and colorful glass, and the gallery's glass art.
$250–$450 an hour -
Showers and bachelor or bachelorette parties: make glass together. Groups of up to 40 work with 1–4 artist instructors, with the hot shop to yourselves for $500. Book 15 business days ahead.
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Rehearsal dinners and welcome parties on Thursday, Friday or Sunday, four hours.
$3,000–$6,000 plus catering -
Glass is the modern third-anniversary gift. Couples who did Vessel of Us or the Breaking of the Glass keep their leftover colors or shards, bring them back on an anniversary, and make a piece together.
$150–$300
Planning
The details.
What couples ask before they book.
Catering
Choose from 13 approved caterers with no fee. Outside caterers allowed with a $500 fee, plus signed agreement, insurance and licensing.
Alcohol
Through your caterer.
Sound
Outdoor amplified sound ends at 9pm on weekdays and Sundays and at 10pm on Saturdays.
Recommended hotels
Hotel Chicago West Loop, The Hoxton Chicago and The Emily Hotel.
Getting here and parking
CTA Green and Pink Lines to Ashland/Lake, about 2.5 miles from the Loop. Unmetered street parking around the building during events; valet on request.
Extra time
$250 a half hour.
Visit
Come see it.
Tours are by appointment. The gallery is open Monday to Friday.
West Loop Wedding Walk
Sunday, February 7, 2027
We're part of the West Loop Wedding Walk every year. Meet us at the next one.