Pleasant Home 217 Home Avenue • Oak Park • IL 60302

Booking Pleasant Home in Oak Park gives you exclusive use of the first and second floors, the front and side porches and two second-floor wedding suites for getting ready. Every rental includes 100 mahogany chairs, eleven 60-inch round tables, rectangle and highboy tables, a Sonos speaker system, a microphone and Wi-Fi. Your caterer brings all linens, tableware and glassware, so that's part of your catering bill. Extra time is $400 an hour, an additional room is $200, coat check from October through April is $150 and a docent-led tour for guests is $100.

Yes, you can host both at Pleasant Home for up to 100 guests. You can marry on the expansive tiled front porch, which opens onto an airy first floor where the Drawing and Dining rooms seat 100. Your ceremony begins 30 minutes after your event start time, and inside you'll find the Great Hall's stained glass, mahogany entryway and massive fireplace. The arched stained-glass window upstairs makes a natural first-look spot, and adjacent Mills Park is available for photos.

Yes, you can bring your own caterer to Pleasant Home, though choosing one outside the preferred list adds a fee. The list has eight caterers, including Maya Del Sol, Premier Catering and Events and Zelda's Catering. Any caterer has to be a licensed food handler with a certificate of insurance, and homemade food isn't allowed. You can buy alcohol through your caterer or on your own, but only licensed catering staff can serve it, and it has to stay on the property, out of the park.

At Pleasant Home in Oak Park, wedding rentals run $2,600–6,000, depending on the day, the time of day and the season. From April 16 through December 31, a Saturday is $3,200 for a five-hour evening, $2,600 for a four-hour morning or $6,000 for a full day with 9am access. Earlier in the year, Saturdays drop to $2,900 for an evening and $5,500 for a full day. Fridays run $2,900–5,500, Sundays $2,600–5,000 and weekday weddings $2,600. Oak Park residents and non-profits save 15% Monday through Thursday. Your caterer and alcohol are separate, extra time is $400 an hour, and a $500 security deposit is returned after your event, minus any charges.

Most Pleasant Home weddings run four or five hours, and full-day rentals give you access from 9am plus an extra event hour. You and your vendors can come in two hours before your start time, and every event has to end by 11pm. Outdoor music on the front porch ends at 10pm on Fridays, Saturdays and holiday-weekend Sundays, and at 9pm on other Sundays. Indoor music ends when your event does, amplification inside needs the manager's approval to protect the stained glass and subwoofers aren't allowed.

At Pleasant Home in Oak Park, your ceremony simply moves inside the house, and the fully indoor backup is set before your wedding day. The front porch is the outdoor space, and for a 100-guest wedding the plan uses the indoor rooms instead. On the first floor, the Drawing and Dining rooms seat 100 theater-style, surrounded by the Great Hall's stained glass, mahogany woodwork and carved details. Because you have exclusive use of the first and second floors all day, your wedding party still has its two upstairs suites to get ready in, and the second-floor arched stained-glass window is still there for your first-look photos.

Pleasant Home is a preserved Prairie School house in Oak Park designed by architect George Washington Maher, and most of its original detailing is still intact, from the Great Hall's stained glass and mahogany entryway to its massive fireplace. You get exclusive use of the first and second floors and the tiled front porch for up to 100 guests, with two wedding suites upstairs for getting ready. Rentals start at $2,600, and you can bring your own caterer and alcohol. For 50 guests or fewer, the Petite Wedding package bundles venue, ceremony and catering into one price.

Yes, you can book a rental tour of Pleasant Home through the appointment calendar on its website. While you're there, look at how the tiled front porch and the first-floor Drawing and Dining rooms would work for your 100-or-fewer guest count, see the two upstairs wedding suites and ask how your indoor rain plan would be set up. It's also worth asking which preferred caterers have worked in the house and how the porch music curfew, 10pm on Saturdays, fits your timeline.