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| The distinctive wedding ceremony room at the W City Center |
You cannot get more centrally located than the W City Center at 172 W. Adams. The Sears Willis Tower is just around the corner, and you are close to transportation and the lakefront as well. The hotel itself has a long Chicago history beginning in 1930 as the private Midland Club. Several renovations later, it is an extremely hip boutique hotel, with distinctive public spaces.
We started out in this room at the front of the hotel on the second floor. Unfortunately, the candles were not yet lit when I had the chance to take this photo, so you will have to imagine. The room is very sophisticated, and the many candles gave it a lovely, soft glow.
While the guests went to the upper lobby (just outside the doors) to have their cocktail hour, I set up in the banquet space at the other end of the floor. This is a large hall with plenty of space for food stations, me, the DJ, and a dance floor for later! Like all of the spaces in the W, they kept the old structure, but added modern lighting and materials to keep things fresh. I played a mixture of Gershwin, Cole Porter, and more modern love songs, so as to keep up the theme of mixing the old and the new!
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| My harp with one of the beautiful 1930 chandeliers. |
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