Ariss Valley Golf & Country Club

Ariss Valley gives couples something wonderfully useful on a wedding day: room to decide whether the celebration should feel intimate, enormous or somewhere beautifully in between.

Just outside Guelph, the 27-hole golf course stretches around a clubhouse built to host weddings from ceremony through reception.

The landscape naturally becomes part of the day.

Greens and open views surround the clubhouse, giving couples somewhere to disappear for photographs while guests settle into cocktails and the celebration begins changing gears.

Inside, the spaces offer very different possibilities.

The solarium-style banquet room seats around 120 guests, surrounding the celebration with views across the course and filling the room with natural light.

For the bigger party, Ariss Valley's banquet facilities can welcome up to 300 seated guests.

That means there is room for the wedding where absolutely everybody is coming.

Grandparents and cousins.

Childhood friends.

Coworkers who somehow became family.

And the person one of your parents insists you met once when you were seven.

Then there is the outdoor patio.

As the afternoon softens, guests can step outside and look across the course while inside the tables, music and dance floor wait for the evening ahead.

The venue's event team helps carry the practical details behind the scenes, while food and banquet service remain part of the wider experience.

Eventually everyone comes back inside.

Dinner becomes speeches.

The sunlight disappears from the golf course beyond the windows.

And the room that looked polished and perfectly arranged a few hours earlier becomes exactly what you hoped it would.

Full.

Noisy.

Happy.

And filled with the people who came to watch the two of you begin.