A pre-Chicago Fire manufacturing building, thirty-two thousand square feet of exposed concrete and steel, built around the idea that you will bring your own design. Which also means you are bringing your own acoustics. Where the quartet sits at Morgan changes from one wedding to the next, driven entirely by the drape plan and the floor layout.
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The Space
Morgan Manufacturing is a renovated pre-Chicago Fire building at 401 North Morgan in Fulton Market. Over 32,000 square feet across a main hall, mezzanine, and outdoor courtyard, with soaring ceilings, exposed concrete, glass, and steel. Capacity runs up to 600 seated, 1,700 standing. The building was redesigned for modularity, meaning the room you walk into in April is not the room you walk into in October, because every wedding builds its own floor plan, drapery, and lighting rig from scratch. Project String Quartet has performed at 200+ Chicago-area weddings, rated 5.0 on Google, with conservatory-trained musicians on every booking.
Empty, the space is acoustically bright and long. A row of arriving guests, a tented drape ceiling, ten-foot florals, and a dance floor with pad underneath change that completely. The working assumption for strings is that the room as it is finalized for your wedding is the room we are tuning to, not the room we rehearsed in last week. Founder Rebecca Hamilton, a conservatory-trained violinist, sets the standard for every booking, and the quartet's Bridgerton-style pop arrangements alongside full classical repertoire fit naturally in Morgan's dramatic setting. You can browse the full music library or use the playlist builder to map out your ceremony and cocktail hour.
Because every event is a custom build, we scout the layout with the planner in the week leading up to the date and confirm our position relative to DJ speaker stacks, band risers, and the final drape plan. If you're still comparing options, our guide to choosing a wedding string quartet walks through exactly what to ask every ensemble you contact.
The Variables
Three decisions your planner makes that change our setup.
A fully tented ceremony deadens the room by a noticeable margin; an undraped industrial look keeps every reflection alive. We confirm the final plan with the planner before prelude because the difference between those two scenarios is whether we play acoustic or ask your venue or AV team to add a pair of condenser mics into the house PA.
Morgan is built for both. If the reception is a band with a full backline, our setup has to account for where their stage lives; we usually work from the opposite end of the main hall. If it is a DJ, we have more latitude and often share the same booth speaker system during ceremony.
Under 200 guests, acoustic is usually fine as long as the drape is up. Over 200 in an undraped main hall, we recommend that your venue or AV team provide sound reinforcement. Morgan's main hall is large enough that for a 600-guest ceremony, venue-provided reinforcement is essential.
Ensemble Fit
Violin + Cello
Works only for the courtyard, and only when the courtyard is the cocktail-hour venue rather than the ceremony. The main hall will swallow a duo at any headcount.
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Fits a heavily draped, smaller-footprint ceremony (under 200) or a mezzanine-only event. For a full main-hall wedding we still lean toward the quartet.
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The default for Morgan. Four voices give us the textural density a 32,000 square foot industrial room asks for, whether we are playing acoustic under drape or the venue's AV team is adding light reinforcement through the house PA.
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Send us the date, the planner's contact, and (if you have it) the draft floor plan. We can sketch in where the quartet should sit once we see the final layout.
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