The Drake Hotel Website | 1150 Queen Street East, Toronto, ON M6J 1J3 | 416-531-5042
Drake Weddings are as unique as the Hotel. The dedicated wedding planning team will make sure you are taken care of and looked after. They can help you with the menu and decor ideas.
The Drake offers 7 rooms/venues inside to hold your wedding or reception:
THE DINING ROOM
Drake’s Dining Room is a luxurious space that offers a sophisticated setting for a wide variety events. Drake’s event coordinators are happy to assist you with your dinner or lunch functions every step of the way. From cocktail selection to personalized menus or host gifts, the Drake events team will polish every detail. Additional services such as valet, guess transportation and décor can be arranged by your coordinator, who has ongoing relationships with Toronto’s leading vendors. Dining affairs have never been so easy and affordable!
FEATURES
+ Accommodates parties up to 70 seated guests
+ Easily transformed for intimate strolling cocktail parties
+ Digital projector and wall mounted projector screen and full AV capabilities
+ Floor to ceiling blue velvet and leather banquettes, a custom chandelier and a wall to wall light box with a rotating exhibit of local photographers
ROOM 222
Available day and night for private dinner parties, cocktail receptions, meetings, workshops and product launches; Room 222 has everything you need. With full audio-visual and digital amenities and personalized event planning, Room 222 transforms from a mid-century modern private Dining Room to an intimate Cocktail Lounge. Take advantage of our incredibly personalized service found only at Drake.
FEATURES
+ Accommodates up to 14 seated dinner and 23 Cocktail style
+ Marble tables, swivel arm chairs, teak walls, customized mural
+ Exclusive Sky Yard access
THE UNDERGROUND
The Drake Underground is one of the most flexible and original venues in Toronto. Our two tiered, fully equipped event space is located on the lower level of the Hotel. This almost hidden gem easily transforms to suit the stature and style of any event. The Underground has played host to some of the cities most memorable live performances, launches, weddings, presentations and cocktail parties. With sophisticated audio-visual equipment including digital projectors, screens and extensive sound and lighting equipment, the Underground is extraordinarily diverse.
FEATURES
+ Private events of up to 150 people: up to 66 seated for meetings, 60 for sit down dinners and up to 150 for Cocktail-style parties
+ Advanced sound system, stage lighting and built in sound booth
+ 3 digital projectors and 3 projector screens for total media immersion
+ Full dance floor, lighting and stage
+ Leather couches, terrazzo floors, mahogany walls, customized fringed curtains, bronze bar tops
THE LOUNGE
Drake’s signature room re-introduces a bygone era, the Mid Century lounge experience; when cocktailing was dignified, music was sultry, thoughtful furnishing was essential and sublime food was the fuel in Gotham’s tank.
Capture this exclusivity and glamour in Drake’s newly renovated main floor Lounge, the perfect venue for a decadent strolling-style diner party or an elegant cocktail soirée. With nightly entertainment and exquisite furnishings, the Lounge appeals to a wide variety of events. Overlooking Queen Street West, the Lounge is a destination unto itself.
FEATURES
+ Accommodates parties up to 180 people
+ Non-exclusive reservations of up to 50 people
+ Cocktail, strolling or plated dinners handled with ease
+ Rich digital sound system and built in DJ booth
+ Digital projector and wall mounted projector screen and full AV capabilities
+ Communal tables for large party dining
+ 2 full Bars spanning the length of the room, including a Raw Bar
+ Leather booths, green leather banquettes, custom chandeliers, fireplace, artist commissioned murals, bronze bar tops
+ Exclusive raised platform section for staging or VIP seclusion
Sky Yard
When the celebration calls for a party in the sun or cocktails under the stars, Drake’s breezy Palm Springs influenced Sky Yard and inspired choice. It’s the city’s secret hot-spot. Our breezy island styled open-air rooftop playground is where Drake design meets Mother Nature. Your party can contemplate the moon while sampling Drake’s deliciously imaginative cocktails and world class cuisine. A new feature of the Sky Yard, the playful Taco + Tequila Shack reinforces why our rooftop space is an innovative paradise for the urban stargazer or nocturnal adventurer.
FEATURES
+ Accommodates reservations or private events of up to 150 people
+ Rich sound system with multiple surround speakers
+ Digital projector and street-visible projector screen
+ Island Bar with 360º access
+ Teak and cherry wood tables, over-stuffed day beds and banquettes
+ Palm trees and fully landscaped frontage
+ Roofed section for shade and shelter
+ The Drake Outdoors is a smoker friendly, climate defiant, all season space
Since the Drake is a Hotel, it offers you a perfect backdrop for getting ready pictures. It also allows you to take some really cool shots of you two as a couple.
Notes: If any wedding planners have attended a function at The Drake Hotel, please email any notes and we will add them into this post. Please tell us what works and doesn’t work with the venue. We will post them in this section of the post and list your details + contacts so brides can contact you since you have experience at this venue. We are just looking for honest feedback.
Photographers Notes: We have not photographed a wedding at this venue. But what we love about it is the location in the city and all the backdrops close by to get some cool urban photos of the bridal party and just the couple alone. Inside is awesome and provides some unique rooms and little hiding spots for intimate pictures for just the couple. The Hotel rooms are perfect for shooting before the ceremony and after if you wanted to shoot some cool shots of the couple together. We would recommend you getting a room since it will provide you a place to get ready and also provide you a great place to end your evening. We just love the “New York” feel to this venue.
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