About this vendor
On your wedding day, O’Maine Studios transforms and personalizes our space to make your urban chic wedding unforgettable. Planners to florists love our venue because they have the freedom to tell your story with unique warehouse designs.
Our industrial kitchen is available for your caterer, or if you prefer you can hire a food truck and have them drive right into our space. There is also plenty of room for seating and a dance floor, and as a bonus we also have our own 2,000-sq.-ft. garden patio. The studio is a large indoor venue with an outdoor feel.
Photo credit to Brea McDonald Photography, Julie K Gray Photography, and Justine Johnson Photography
Amenities + details
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Liability Insurance
Reception Area
Wireless Internet
Covered Outdoors Space
Indoor Event Space
On-Site Accommodations
Outdoor Event Space
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Garden
Reviews
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This fun and unique location in the heart of Portland made for the perfect location for our wedding day.
Alexis and the rest of the team at O'Maine Studios were professional but n...
ot stuffy, great communicators, and very accommodating all throughout our planning process...this made for an incredibly smooth wedding day!
The space has a lot of character but also makes for a great canvas to go any direction you want with decor.
We can't recommend this venue enough for weddings or beyond!
We absolutely loved having our wedding at O'Maine. The venue is so dynamic and fun and even though we had rain, there was more than enough room for everyone. The staff were respons...
ive and helpful throughout and the value cannot be beat for how central the location is.
My son and daughter- in- law chose O’Maine Studios as the venue for their wedding weekend in June, 2023. The space is incredible with the different areas as options for specific p...
arts of the wedding or reception. Unfortunately, it also was dirty and greasy.
Some examples:
All the countertops were greasy and most of the available cookware and dishes were greasy, stained (that elbow grease removed) and/or had food remains on them.
The vent in the room we had the rehearsal dinner in had thick black dust (maybe mold?) on it and the wall of windows were dirty inside and out.
I had to ask an employee to pick food out of one of the trash cans, whose bottom was covered in black mold, before I could replace the trash bag.
I emailed a more detailed list to Mr. Strunk and the venue and did get a response from Alexis that said “We will have a team meeting this week to discuss what we can do better with your review and revamp our in-house check list.” I hope they do.
Most of my concerns would not take a lot of time, money, or elbow grease to correct if they were completed on a regular basis. It seems as if there is no list of cleaning in preparation for an event. If there is, it isn’t very comprehensive and/or the person responsible did not complete it.
It wasn’t until after the event that we saw the review of the venue that said a couple’s meal was late because the caterers spent an hour cleaning the kitchen before beginning work. I want a venue with the same standards that that caterer had.
This space is very cool, but the client should spend their time enjoying the event and not cleaning.
O'Maine is definitely not your traditional wedding venue and I mean that in the best way possible. The space has a cool, industrial look that still feels warm and inviting. The abi...
lity to really make the space your own throughout the weekend is a ton of fun and gives you a blank canvas to make it exactly what you were thinking. The indoor/outdoor nature gave people plenty of options to hang out and allowed us to separate the different phases of the day. The location was fantastic right in the heart of Portland with so many hotels, Airbnbs and bars/restaurants right near the venue. Ian and Rory were incredible throughout the planning phase, quickly answering questions and adjusting to our constantly changing plans with Ian even giving us a virtual tour of the venue before we could see it in person. Ian was also amazing throughout the weekend helping us with setup and learning the intricacies of the space. We highly recommend booking this gem that us and our guests both loved.
We would VERY highly recommend O’Maine Studios to anyone looking for a venue in Portland (ME) with a warm, industrial vibe. We got married there in November, on a chilly, sunny day...
. O’Maine is beautiful, hip, modern, and rustic but with a lot of character. It fit our vibe completely and had a very warm aesthetic inside that balanced out the chilly November temperatures. We rented the entire venue for the whole weekend, which made it super easy to do our rehearsal dinner right there Friday night. We were also able to load a bunch of our wedding items and decorations in during the day on Friday so that Saturday was not too hectic for us or our coordinators! We also hosted a casual breakfast for our friends and family on the morning after the wedding, which gave us more time to spend with them without having to rent another venue for this type of gathering.
Ian and Rory were extremely easy-going and fun to work with. We had lots of questions leading up to our day, and they were responsive. They were kind enough to let us know of a wedding happening in the Fall months (about a year before our scheduled date) so that we could see the space completely outfitted for a Fall wedding. They were also flexible and accommodating - Ian was there whenever we needed him. We had some elements from the reception and ceremony that needed to be dropped off earlier than when we booked the space and they were accommodating. Even though we had full control of the venue throughout the weekend, Ian always made sure everything was locked up and secured at the end of the evening on Friday & Saturday, which gave us extra peace of mind.
The space is just beautiful! The farm tables we rented from O’Maine were beautiful and we received so many compliments on them. There are lights made of driftwood and string lights that had many of our guests asking where they could purchase lights like that. The spaces that comprise O’Maine flow into each other nicely, but also break up the space, allowing you to completely utilize the full venue. We used the beautiful backyard/patio area for our ceremony.
We used the largest space for dancing, dinner, the bar, and guest & head tables. Then, we used the kitchen area for our caterer to set up and serve the buffet dinner and desserts. We also used the Gathering Room, a beautiful room in the back area, as a gathering space for our wedding party. This space was perfect to take a breather from the reception and also to store important items that the wedding party needed.
We were looking for something that had an industrial vibe and came with lots of character, but that we could also infuse our own style into it. We found that and more at O’Maine Studios!
O’Maine was the absolute perfect place for our wedding. We rented out the whole space for the weekend and it was amazing. On Friday night we had a rehearsal dinner in the gathering...
room with about 25 friends and family members coming in from out of town, on Saturday we had our wedding with the ceremony outside and the reception both inside and outside, and on Sunday morning we had a brunch for all of our guests. Throughout the weekend Ian was incredibly responsive and helpful, and did absolutely everything to make sure the weekend was perfect for us. He made it clear that he would help with whatever we needed. Not only was the staff incredible, but the space was perfect. O’Maine studios has such a unique personality and can be tailored to any style. The feel is industrial and rustic, yet also natural and beautiful. Also, they have so many different spaces there that can be used so that your guests have plenty of room and variation. I feel very lucky that we even got to have a fire outside on the night of our wedding. I can’t say enough great things about Ian and O’Maine, 10/10 would recommend.
The good:
The space is beautiful. Perfect for our wedding size of 86 people. Space comes with bar, cool vintage furniture, lots of decorative lights, making it really inexpensive t...
o have a decorated looking venue. The tables they have there are also fantastic. We used 7 of them to seat 86, but I can't imagine having more than that in the layout. The outdoor space is great for people to hang outside and cool off if your wedding is in the summer. They also have 75 extra chairs you can use free of charge for the ceremony which was a big plus. Location is right downtown so easy to find parking and walk to everything before or after the event.
The bad:
The space gets HOT. The temperature outside was 87, but even during our 5pm ceremony it felt like 100 inside. I rented two industrial size fans the morning of our wedding and I am so thankful that I did. The venue does not have air conditioning.
The ugly:
The kitchen. Our catering company was about an hour behind schedule for all of the food. I found out the next day that the kitchen was unsuitable for cooking when they arrived. We only rented the venue for one day, so when the catering company arrived to cook they had to spend a full hour deep cleaning the entire kitchen before they could begin their meal prep.
Overall:
It's really an awesome venue. There is plenty of room to do the ceremony inside if it rains (it did on our day). Even knowing the heat situation & the kitchen situation I still wouldn’t have changed a thing. Hope this helps!
O'Maine Studios was the PERFECT venue for our wedding. The space is incredible - it is so unique and versatile. We loved that we were able to rent the space from Friday through S...
unday - we had our rehearsal dinner there and our morning after donuts.
The O'Maine team is also awesome. Rory is great to work with - he was incredibly responsive to every e-mail I sent as I was planning our wedding from afar. We couldn't recommend O'Maine enough - it was everything I could have asked for in a venue.
We got married this past weekend at O'Maine Studios and it the absolute best day of my life.
Rory and the team was such a dream to work with. His response time on my emails was al...
ways within hours.
The space was exactly what I had dreamed of. The kitchen was perfect for our catering team, and the patio out back was the icing on the cake.
Thank you Rory for helping to make my dream a reality.
Rory was amazing throughout our entire wedding process. We looked at the space countless times and asked so many questions, and he was so patient with us. He matched so well with o...
ur laid back style, which made the whole process less painless.
Rory and his wife have turned this industrial space into something some warm and unique. The main area has high ceilings and a garage door that can be opened. There are beautiful lights throughout the space, including driftwood chandeliers that our guests thought we had special ordered as decorations. There is a backyard space with a fire pit and more lighting that our guests loved on the warm October night. We really did not need to do much extra to make this already beautiful space ready for our wedding.
There is also a full industrial kitchen and AV/lighting for use, which really cut down our costs and made way less stress for us. I am so happy we stumbled upon this venue. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect venue.
Contact
PO Box 174, Portland, ME
O'Maine Studios