Bayview Golf and Country Club

Some wedding venues have the space for a celebration.

Bayview Golf and Country Club has the kind of setting that lets the celebration feel elegant before anything else is added.

Located in Thornhill, the club combines manicured grounds, sweeping golf-course views and versatile event rooms designed for weddings of up to approximately 250 guests.

That gives couples plenty of room to shape the day.

The ceremony can feel intimate even when the guest list is generous.

Then cocktails begin while the newlyweds disappear into the surrounding grounds for photographs.

For a little while, there is only green space around them and the strange, wonderful realization that the ceremony they spent months planning is already over.

Then they return.

Dinner begins.

Glasses are raised.

The formal feeling of the afternoon slowly gives way to music, laughter and a dance floor full of people.

Bayview's culinary and event teams help carry the celebration through the day, but the loveliest part is simpler than that.

Everyone is together.

The course stretches beyond the windows.

And one elegant room has become the setting for a memory the couple will carry far beyond the evening.