A reception venue 10 minutes from Des Plaines that hosts one wedding per day. The room is yours from the first guest arriving to the last sparkler send-off — for intimate weddings of 50 to 150.
A wedding reception is the night you replay for years. That replay only happens if the night had room to breathe — if the head table didn't share a wall with another wedding's DJ booth, if the service door didn't slam behind the toasts, if the room felt like yours. Our reception venue 10 minutes from Des Plaines hosts one wedding per day. We specialize in 50 to 150 guests because at this size, every guest gets seen, every toast is heard, the energy never feels stretched.
Start PlanningThe room is built for the small-wedding sweet spot — large enough for the full program (head table, dance floor, photo booth, gift table) and small enough that the energy stays in one place. Custom lighting that shifts from warm-and-elegant during dinner to dance-floor-bright after the cake cut. Out-of-town guests staying near O'Hare reach us in 10 minutes; the rideshare back at midnight is short and cheap.
The food format isn't a logistics detail — it's the rhythm of the night. Whether your guests sit and are served, gather around shared platters, or move to the buffet decides how the room feels for the next four hours. Here's the honest trade-off.
Three stages. The wedding industry has spent 50 years convincing couples this needs to be harder than it is.
Tell us your target date, expected guest count, and reception format (plated, family-style, buffet, or stations). Same-day availability check. We hold the date for 7 days while you decide.
Your event manager builds the night with you — menu, room layout (round vs long tables), bar package, dance floor placement, timeline beat-by-beat. Outside DJs, florists, photographers, and officiants all welcome and coordinated directly.
Arrive to a fully prepared venue with food on the timeline, bar staffed, and a team that has run thousands of receptions. The bride and groom enjoy their wedding. The parents enjoy their kid's wedding. Nobody runs logistics.
Three packages, scaled to the wedding format. Per-person pricing — no separate room rental hidden in the contract.
Sunday afternoon weddings, daytime receptions, and smaller-budget intimate weddings. The price isn't a downgrade — many of our most beautiful weddings are at this tier.
The default for Friday and Saturday evening receptions. Multi-generation friendly, dietary needs sort themselves, dance time is longer because the meal moves faster.
Formal Saturday evening weddings with full program — first dance, toasts, parent dances, cake cut, send-off. White-glove plated service and 3-hour open bar.
Multi-cultural weddings often run as custom packages — two-religion ceremonies, dual-cuisine menus, and extended timelines for tea ceremonies, henna, or traditional dances are all common at our venue.
View Full Menu120 guests, full plated dinner, first dance and parent dances, the whole program. The flow was perfect — nobody waited at the bar, nobody ate cold food, the timeline ran on schedule. Worth every dollar of the upgrade.
Our daughter's wedding — 95 guests, ceremony plus reception with a flip during cocktail hour. Three sets of dietary restrictions and not a single hiccup. The team understood we wanted a real wedding, not a banquet hall production.
We had 60 guests and got nervous it would feel empty in a venue this size. It didn't — the room was warm, the energy was full, and our families talk about the wedding years later. Better food per dollar than every larger venue we toured.
The questions couples ask most often when comparing reception venues.
We're at 1863 W Central Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005 — a straight shot up Mount Prospect Road, about 10 minutes from downtown Des Plaines. Easy from Mount Prospect, Park Ridge, Rosemont, and especially convenient for guests staying at O'Hare-area hotels.
Our reception capacity is 50–150 guests. Below 50, the room reads as too large for the energy. We don't book weddings over 150 — at that size, intimacy and food quality both start to suffer.
Two reasons. First, our kitchen is built for plated quality at 150 guests — beyond that, the food has to compromise. Second, weddings over 200 read as productions, not celebrations. We'd rather host the right wedding than the bigger one.
Yes — outside vendors are welcome across the board. DJs, florists, photographers, officiants, and cake from any bakery. Our team coordinates with them directly during planning so you don't have to play telephone.
Yes — we accommodate full weddings (ceremony + reception) with a room flip during cocktail hour. We've done dozens. Your photographer will get the first-look photos in the morning, and you'll never see the flip happen.
Every guest parks 30 feet from the door, free. No valet, no garage fees, no reimbursable parking receipts. Especially appreciated for guests in formal attire and for older relatives who shouldn't walk far.
Saturday peak-season dates (May–October) fill 8–14 months in advance. Friday evening and Sunday afternoon weddings — both excellent options at this venue — usually have availability with 4–8 months notice.
For a 100-guest Saturday plated wedding with 3-hour open bar, expect roughly $6,500–$7,500 total in food and bar costs. For a 100-guest buffet wedding with bar package, roughly $3,400 + bar. The difference is the format, not the room.
