Henderson Brewing Co.

Some couples picture chandeliers when they imagine their wedding.

Others picture exposed brick, cold beer and a room full of people having such a good time that nobody wants to leave.

Henderson Brewing Company was made for the second kind.

Set on Sterling Road in Toronto, the neighbourhood brewery now welcomes weddings alongside its everyday life as a working brewery. Its event spaces can host approximately 150 guests for dinner and up to 300 for cocktail-style celebrations.

There is something wonderfully easygoing about getting married somewhere people already associate with gathering together.

Guests arrive and immediately relax.

Drinks begin appearing.

Friends find one another at the bar.

Then the brewery changes.

A space normally filled with casual afternoons becomes the setting for vows, dinner, speeches and dancing.

The industrial character means couples do not need to make the room feel overly formal for it to feel special. Brick, brewing details and the energy of a Toronto brewery already give the celebration a personality of its own.

After the ceremony, the nerves disappear.

The newlyweds can finally have a drink.

Dinner begins.

Someone tells a story during a speech that perhaps should have stayed private.

Then the music gets louder and the carefully planned wedding becomes exactly what it was always meant to become.

A really good party with everyone you love.

For couples who want their wedding to feel unmistakably Toronto, wonderfully relaxed and completely different from a traditional ballroom, Henderson offers a place where celebrating already comes naturally.