A Luxury Wedding Venue with a Grand Ballroom and Outdoor Plaza

440 Elm offers a beautiful creative canvas for luxury weddings. Our historic grand ballroom is one the largest non-hotel ballrooms in the Los Angeles/ Orange County area. Our outdoor Plaza offers the option of having a beautiful ceremony outside. We focus on providing a platform to create highly personalized weddings that are beautifully presented and executed. We offer a range of elements to get you started on a creative journey with ample support:

A Flexible Space with Many Options

440 Elm is a newly renovated historical space designed to enable a number of different experiences that you can incorporate into your wedding vision. We have a rare combination of private indoor and outdoor spaces for larger groups in an urban setting

• Our outdoor Plaza area is permitted for wedding-related activities and allows for a long walk down the aisle (or a baraat), a fire ceremony where the flames can be seen by the guests, and beautiful mandaps or chuppahs. We can also incorporate dining under the stars.
• Our gorgeous Sanctuary space is a throwback to 1910's elegance and glamour. We offer one of the largest non-hotel ballrooms in Southern California.
• Our Parlor space and foyers allow for additional spaces for cultural ceremonies, a more relaxed lounge setting with a jazz band, or a post-wedding DJ setup for dancing into the night
• Our garden space and the surrounding neighborhood provides many picturesque spots for photos
• Smaller rooms including a tasting room, ready rooms, a production room, etc provide areas that can be used for setup, command centers, break areas
• We offer a rare, private and enclosed space that will have be exclusive to your wedding during your event timeline, unlike a hotel or other shared access facility

A Selection of Talented & Creative Wedding Professionals

We've focused on putting together a list of people who are excellent at what they do but may complement each other with different areas of expertise, different areas of focus, and different creative perspectives. We hope this enables both creative conversations and an ability to accommodate weddings with different specialty needs, including awareness of cultural requirements, specific cuisines, and deep relationships with relevant wedding services.

• We have curated a highly responsive and creative group of wedding professionals to help you find your creative partners of choice in music, photography, florals, and planning.
• We bring a highly experienced and creative team of culinary professionals who love to create custom wedding menus and food/ beverage experiences

In-House Package Starting Points with Ability to Extend/ Customize

• We have in-house tables and chairs that can be used for ceremony and/ or reception
• We have an in-house set of display pieces, tableware, and glassware that can be used with our catering and bar services
• We have pre-scanned the property with a 3D camera to generate a virtual walk-through and floor plans

Located in Downtown Long Beach near Los Angeles and Orange County

We have a historic church facility that is open to people of all faiths, beliefs, orientations, and traditions.

Our location in downtown Long Beach is a wonderful place for a wedding, with plentiful hotel rooms, beautiful oceanfront views, great restaurants, a world-class aquarium, lots of cultural activities, and plenty of parks. Our Long Beach location is convenient to clients coming from Los Angeles and Orange County and provides a convenient central location for those with guests across Southern California. We are near 3 major airports: Long Beach, Los Angeles (LAX), and John Wayne/ Orange County (SNA).

A Historic Wedding Venue

440 Elm offers the glamour and grandeur that couples traditionally seek in a historic wedding venue. Our 30' ceilings, tall arches, coffered ceilings, and hand-carved organ grate provide the sense of being in a ballroom set up for a well dressed crowd. The beautiful stained glass, bronze chandeliers, and distinctive capitals on the top of our columns also showcase the beauty of the work of the artisans of that era.