Vancouver Island & the Gulf Islands

Places to marry here.

Lavender fields on Salt Spring. A heritage farm running down to the water. A tall ship built in 1903 that still sails. These are the places we would send our own couples to, written down properly rather than remembered one couple at a time.

Sandy beach with shallow water and wet sand in foreground, calm sea and cloudy sky beyond — 40 Knots WineryComox

Bride and groom embrace on dark rocks with ocean and forested shoreline beyond at Black Rock Oceanfront Resort — Black Rock Oceanfront ResortUcluelet

Terraced hillside with moss-covered stone structures and white wildflowers blooming at water's edge below — Bodega RidgeGaliano Island

Bride in white dress and groom in dark suit stand with officiant on wooden platform between moss-covered cedar trees — Cedar Haven WeddingsSooke

Couple embracing inside a glass greenhouse at Duck Creek Farm, surrounded by green plants and garden beds — Duck Creek FarmSalt Spring Island

Bride and groom in white fabrics embrace outdoors in bright natural light, eyes closed in an intimate moment — Galiano Oceanfront InnGaliano Island

Hastings House Country House Hotel & SpaSalt Spring Island

Timberlands, a wedding venue in Port Alberni — TimberlandsPort Alberni

Groom in dark suit carries bride in white veil across grassy field with tree line and house visible behind them at dusk — Keating FarmCowichan Valley

Couple walking hand-in-hand down a gravel path lined with lavender plants and tall evergreen trees in dappled sunlight — Lavender & BlackNorth Salt Spring Island

Woman in white lace dress and wide-brimmed hat standing by weathered wooden fence with forested hillside beyond — Lost Field FarmSalt Spring Island

Bride in white tulle gown with open back stands before a weathered concrete wall with cascading water and green foliage — Nimmo Baythe Great Bear Rainforest

Couple in wedding attire stand at a weathered wooden farm gate with a bouquet, dense forest and water visible behind them — Ruckle Heritage FarmSoutheast Salt Spring Island

Outdoor wedding ceremony on a grass lawn overlooking a blue ocean and distant mountains, with white chairs and a wooden arbor — Sea Breeze LodgeHornby Island

Stone Bridge Island FarmSalt Spring Island

Couple embracing under gnarled tree branch with lake, moorland and conifer forest visible beyond in golden afternoon light — Sundown Point FarmSalt Spring Island

Couple kissing at the helm of a wooden sailing vessel with hands on the ship's wheel — The ProvidenceSailing the Gulf Islands

Groom in dark suit and bride in white dress kiss on sandy beach beside calm water, holding wildflower bouquet — The Tides CottagesPender Island

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For couples

Find the place first.

Everything else follows from where you stand. Browse by island, by setting, by how many people you actually want there, and see the places properly photographed before you decide.

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Your place, in front of the right couples.

We photograph and plan weddings on these islands for a living, and couples ask us where before they ask us anything else. Get on the list, or take the whole system we use to run bookings and run yours in it.

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The region

Small islands, short ferry rides,

Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands hold more good places to marry than anywhere else on this coast, and most of them are not on a list anywhere. They are a family farm, a headland, a hall the town built in 1947. You find them by knowing someone.

We have spent years photographing and planning weddings across this region, so we know the questions that decide it: which field goes soft in May, which room holds a hundred, which shoreline is worth the drive. Every listing here has to answer them before it goes up.

This is that knowledge, written down and photographed properly, so you can find the place without needing to know anyone.

What they have in common

There is no one shape of wedding.

Every kind of place

Open fields and working farms, shoreline and old timber, heritage halls, hotels, wineries, gardens and one tall ship. A wedding looks like whatever the two of you want it to look like, and the index is built the same way.

Whatever size the day is

Some of these hold a dozen people standing in a field. Others seat several hundred under a roof. Filter to the number you actually want there and you only see the places that fit it.

You reach the right person

Sometimes that is the family who has farmed the land for four generations. Sometimes it is an events team who does this every weekend and does it well. Either way the listing tells you who answers.

Start somewhere

Go and look at them.

Browsing is free and always will be. If you own one of these places, come and talk to us about being on the list.

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