What to know
- Toronto’s first Vegas-style wedding chapel, Two of Hearts Chapel, was created by founder Hannah Stein after she couldn’t find an affordable, fun, and non-traditional wedding venue for her own planned wedding.
- Despite her engagement ending, Stein continued the project, renovating a 1,500-square-foot space in just weeks and hosting the chapel’s first wedding in August 2025.
- Since opening, the chapel has hosted around 30 weddings and offers a range of customizable, budget-friendly packages designed to simplify the wedding process while creating memorable experiences.
- The LGBTQ2+-friendly venue welcomes all kinds of couples and themes, from pets in tuxedos to roaring ’20s celebrations, with plans to eventually offer walk-in ceremonies.
A Vegas-style chapel might not be too far of a trip for Toronto residents looking for a budget-friendly but meaningful way to get hitched.
Two of Hearts Chapel was opened by founder Hannah Stein, who created the marriage venue as a solution to a lack of Vegas-style chapels in Toronto for her own wedding.
“It was February 2025 and I was actually engaged at the time,” she explained to Now Toronto. “When we were looking around, we didn’t see anything that we vibed with, our options just sort of seemed like city hall, a church, which was definitely not going to happen, or like a wedding hall, which was like starting at 20,000 [dollars] plus… we just weren’t interested in being a part of that.”
Stein added she always wanted to get married in the Vegas-style venue, along with the classic quick, cheap and kitschy aspects it comes with.
“I looked in Ontario, the closest I found was sort of out in Wolfville, Nova Scotia,” she said. “There were definitely little chapels outside of the city, but they all sort of followed the same aesthetic of the white wedding, there wasn’t anything that was that campy, sort of tacky, kitschy over the top stuff that was existing in the city.”
From concept to reality
So, Stein’s solution was to create her own wedding venue.
“‘We have a little bit of money for the wedding, why don’t I just take that money and build it, and we’ll be the first ones to get married there,’” Stein initially told her now-former fiancé.
Stein said although her wedding didn’t come to fruition, the chapel still did.
“Even though I was upset, obviously, that my relationship ended, and it took some time to get myself out of it. I realized that I was never actually building the chapel for me and him, like that was sort of like the motivating part to start,” Stein explained. “The motivation of bringing something to a city that I love was the thing that sort of kept me going.”
Stein began by signing a lease by the end of June 2025. A bit over a month later, the chapel held its first wedding.
“I booked my first wedding for Aug. 5, 2025, which was f*cking crazy,” she said. “I had to renovate an entire 1500 square foot building, and I did that in basically less than three weeks with some help from family and friends.”
No-fuss wedding planning
Since then, Two of Hearts Chapel has held around 30 weddings.
“The joy that I’ve seen come out of it has been the most rewarding thing ever,” Stein said.
Two of Hearts Chapel provides those interested in using the space a variety of themes for their wedding event.
Stein provides clients with three packages to choose from – the quickie package which allowed them 20-minutes to get married by signing the document and bringing in a witness, the sweet spot package which provides the couple an hour long custom ceremony as well as digital and video elements to take home, and the flagship package, which includes a 90 minute ceremony and double the photos to the sweet spot package.
Following the ceremony, wedding parties are welcome to continue the festivities at the Drake Hotel, which the Two of Hearts Chapel partners with.
Budget-friendly approach to a memorable wedding
“There’s a million details that go into planning a wedding, and the chapel idea, it’s not a new idea,” Stein explained. “It’s always been a no-fuss sort of thing. As soon as I started looking into planning my own wedding, I was like, ‘What the actual f*ck?… Why is adding [a] blade of grass another $50,000?’”
Stein said she created Toronto’s first Vegas-style chapel as a way to cut the costs, and simplify the process of getting married, while also still providing a memorable experience.
“There’s so much life that comes after the wedding,” she explained. “If you’re putting that much pressure on something to be this massive grand scale, doesn’t mean that it can’t be special, of course it’s going to be special, but that pressure takes you out of actually being able to enjoy the moment.”
For right now, Two of Hearts Chapel operates through reservations, straying away from the walk-in style of other Vegas-style chapels.
“I really would love to be able to do the walk-in one day,” Stein said. “I will be doing that eventually, but right now the booking process is… through a form.”
From cardboard cut out cats, to bringing in tuxed-up pets, to the roaring 20s, this chapel can accommodate any theme.
The chapel is open to all kinds of couples and is LGBTQ2+ friendly.
“People are able to be themselves, which makes me really, really happy, and whatever makes them feel like they’re being themselves, they’re always welcome to bring to the chapel,” Stein said.
