Most city hotels stage a wedding in a ballroom on the top floor and leave the city outside the window. The Augustine does the opposite. It is a five-star Luxury Collection hotel, yes, but it is built into a thirteenth-century Augustinian monastery in Mala Strana, just below Prague Castle, and a wedding here happens inside the history rather than beside it: a garden cloister, a frescoed refectory, a brewery that has poured since 1352.
The Augustine’s real strength is a genuinely rare pairing for a five-star hotel: a working thirteenth-century monastery complex, not a themed interior, with a green garden cloister for the ceremony and a functioning historic brewery for the after-party. It suits a couple who want Prague itself woven into the day, not just a backdrop glimpsed from a ballroom window. What to understand before shortlisting it: this is not exclusive-use, the hotel continues operating around your wedding; published pricing is indicative from a third-party directory and reception minimums vary significantly by space (from 35,000 Kc in the Brewery to 80,000 Kc in the Ballroom), so confirm current figures directly; and the Sundial Garden, the signature ceremony setting, is a genuine outdoor space with no purpose-built wet-weather marquee, so ask specifically about the indoor fallback.
At a glance
- Location: Mala Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
- Venue Type: Historic Monastery, Luxury Collection Hotel
- Exclusive Use: No, a working hotel
- Wedding Capacity: Up to 150 (evening reception)
- Ceremony Capacity: Up to 100 (Sundial Garden or salons)
- Indoor Ceremony: Yes, the frescoed salons or Refectory
- Outdoor Ceremony: Yes, the Sundial Garden
- Accommodation: 101 rooms & suites
- Catering: In-house, the Augustine Restaurant
- Nearest Airport: Prague (PRG), ~30 min
- Venue Hire: From 61,000 Kc (indicative)
- Best For: Historic Prague & Baroque weddings
The setting is extraordinary. Seven historic buildings knit together around the old St Thomas’ Monastery, a few minutes’ walk from Charles Bridge, with the castle rising just above. Inside, the Baroque survives everywhere: painted ceilings, frescoed salons, a vaulted Monastic Refectory of real gravity, all of them beautiful, atmospheric rooms for a ceremony or a wedding breakfast that need almost nothing added to them.
Ceremony & Wet Weather Plan
The Sundial Garden is a genuine outdoor space, a walled parterre rather than a covered courtyard, so it is worth asking directly about the indoor fallback: the frescoed salons and the vaulted Monastic Refectory both take a ceremony as readily as a reception, so a change in the forecast trades a garden setting for a Baroque one rather than a diminished day.
The heart of a wedding here, though, is outside. The monastery opens into the Sundial Garden and the arcaded cloister gardens, quiet green courtyards hidden within the city, the principal place to marry beneath the open sky with the castle and the Baroque rooftops above. To exchange vows in a garden cloister in the middle of Prague, with none of the noise of the streets, is the venue’s rare and particular gift.
Food & Wedding Dining
Then there is the brewery. The St Thomas Brewery has brewed on this exact site since 1352, and its vaulted cellars give an Augustine wedding an after-party unlike any other in the city, dark beer drawn beneath the arches long after the dinner has finished. Before that, the Augustine Restaurant cooks Czech and modern European menus beneath the frescoes, poured with Czech wines and Champagne, unhurried and generous.
Wedding Costs & Commercial Conditions
Pricing is indicated from a third-party Prague directory rather than the hotel’s own published rate card: a garden-ceremony package from around 61,000 Kc, with reception minimums that vary sharply by space, from 35,000 Kc in the Brewery to 80,000 Kc in the Ballroom. These figures should be treated as a starting point for a conversation, not a fixed budget, and confirmed directly with the hotel.
Accommodation
And because there are 101 rooms and suites across the monastery buildings, many with views to the castle, some with their own original Baroque frescoes, the wedding is never just an evening. Couples and their guests stay in the heart of Mala Strana, the whole party together, and the celebration spreads either side: a walk to Charles Bridge, breakfast beneath painted ceilings, a few days in the loveliest quarter of old Prague.
A five-star hotel woven into a thirteenth-century monastery below Prague Castle: garden cloisters, Baroque frescoes and a 1352 brewery, for an atmospheric city wedding in the heart of old Prague.
The Augustine, Prague
Getting There & Guest Logistics
The Augustine sits in Mala Strana, a five-minute walk from Charles Bridge and about 30 minutes from Vaclav Havel Airport Prague. For a wedding party without a car, that means most of a Prague wedding weekend, the castle, the cathedral, the old town, is genuinely walkable rather than a series of taxi rides.
A Wedding at The Augustine
For a couple who wants Prague itself, a garden cloister to be married in below the castle, Baroque halls to dine in and a medieval brewery to end the night, few hotels in the city combine a working monastery, a Baroque salon and a medieval brewery this well. Vows in the Sundial Garden, dinner beneath the frescoes, beer in the old cellars, and 101 rooms in the monastery to fall into: historic and elegant, atmospheric and alive, a few days in the heart of old Prague rather than a single evening in a ballroom.
Know before you go
- This is not exclusive-use; The Augustine continues operating as a working hotel around your wedding.
- Published pricing is indicative from a third-party directory, not the hotel’s own rate card; confirm current figures directly, including the reception minimums that vary sharply by space.
- The Sundial Garden is a genuine outdoor space with no purpose-built marquee; confirm the indoor fallback (the salons or Refectory) for a wet-weather ceremony.
- Catering is exclusively the Augustine Restaurant’s own kitchen; there is no external catering route.
- The hotel is in the heart of Mala Strana, a five-minute walk from Charles Bridge, so most of a wedding weekend is walkable without needing transport.
Best for
- Historic & Baroque Weddings
- Prague City Weddings
- Destination Weddings
- Garden Cloister Ceremonies
- Multi-Day Celebrations
Questions
What kind of venue is it?
A five-star Luxury Collection hotel set across seven historic buildings around the 13th-century Augustinian St Thomas’ Monastery, with Baroque salons, garden cloisters, a historic brewery and 101 rooms and suites.
How many guests can it hold?
Up to around 100 for a ceremony in the Sundial Garden or the salons, and around 120 for a seated wedding breakfast in the salons, the Monastic Refectory or the ballroom, with more for an evening reception.
Where are ceremonies held?
The Sundial Garden is the principal ceremony spot, a green cloister garden with Prague Castle above, with the Baroque frescoed salons and the vaulted Refectory for an indoor ceremony.
Is there an after-party space?
Yes, the historic St Thomas Brewery, brewing on this site since 1352, whose vaulted cellars make a memorable after-party with beer drawn beneath the arches.
How much does a wedding at The Augustine cost?
A garden-ceremony package is indicated from around 61,000 Kc, with reception minimums applying by space (from 35,000 Kc in the Brewery and 80,000 Kc in the Ballroom). This figure is indicative from a third-party listing; the LWD team confirms current pricing with the venue and makes the introduction.
The Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Prague
- Venue: The Augustine, Letenska 12/33, Mala Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
- Images: Courtesy of The Augustine, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Prague
