AMAZING! The Central Library is the absolutely perfect location for a beautiful wedding! We had our wedding and cocktail hour in the historic and classically beautiful Simon Reading room and it's mezzanine. The beautiful built in bookshelves, marble steps and paintings and chandeliers on the ceiling created an incredibly unique and beautiful backdrop for our fall wedding. All of our guests commented on the incredibly unique architecture and setting and how beautiful it all was.
Our reception was in the atrium which was a beautiful contrast to the classical architecture in the Simon Reading room. This beautiful, open, modern space was beautifully uplit and highlighted the high ceilings and columns in this room. Our guests couldn't stop raving over how beautiful the entire wedding was and having the entire celebration in one unique and beautiful place was so convenient for us and our guests. I could not have imagined a more perfect spot for our beautiful October wedding and am incredibly grateful to the library and its staff for helping to create the perfect day for us!

From planning meetings to food and service, this is an excellent venue. Our wedding was perfect--if anything went wrong, I don't know about it! We got several comments that the food was the best wedding food our guests had eaten. The catering company also worked with us to design a menu in our budget.

The staff was kind, efficient, and helpful. At the end of the night, our centerpieces and gifts were packed up and ready to go. Everything was flawless!

It's beautiful venue. It's stunning, impressive, and will make the day easily remembered by friends and family. I really enjoyed working with the catering side. Tati is warm and impressive. The only thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was the planning side. During the tasting, we were told that the coordinator bends over backwards for her bride. A whole spiel from the planner about taking the wedding dress out overnight and keeping it in her office as well as taking cell phones away from planning mothers. It didn't become a big deal until the week of the wedding, when I received an email that I was not able to have candles in container down the aisle. I was also informed that the room that we were shown and told we could get ready in wouldn't be open until 2PM (because she had paperwork to do). After an unreturned call, I sent an email that was later confirmed that everything would be okay candle wise and we could get into the room at noon (but nothing valuable could be left in it overnight). These things had been communicated 6 months out, and it threw a large amount of stress into the mix the week of the wedding. The icing on the cake was when the florist called while I was on my way to the rehearsal dinner to say that the planner called and cancelled the aisle candles part of the order. This is something that we had already paid for, and had already been confirmed as okay by the library. I cannot understand why the planner from the library would cancel something a day before the wedding that she did not pay for. At the rehearsal she had a few passive aggressive comments to make, and I was trying to figure out why we were paying so much for this location and a planner that was cancelling orders, not fulfilling the promises she had made, and someone who was fighting with my wedding planner.