Club de golf Le Blainvillier

Le Blainvillier has enough space for a grand wedding, but the countryside keeps it from feeling like one enormous room.

In Blainville, the club surrounds celebrations with two established golf courses and a landscape designed around long stretches of green, mature surroundings and the calm that comes from being away from the denser parts of the city.

Weddings are welcomed here whether or not the couple belongs to the club.

That opens the property to celebrations of very different sizes, with event capacity reaching as many as 300 guests.

A professional events team helps couples bring the day together, while the club's culinary operation keeps food at the centre of the reception.

Before dinner, though, the grounds have their moment.

Wedding photographs can borrow the course and its country setting, giving the couple time away from the crowd while guests begin settling into the evening.

Then everyone comes inside.

A wedding of two or three hundred people has a particular kind of energy once all those conversations occupy the same room.

Dinner becomes speeches.

Speeches become applause.

Then the first people venture onto the dance floor and, usually, everyone else follows sooner or later.

Outside, the course grows quiet.

Inside, the opposite happens.

That is the contrast Le Blainvillier does particularly well.

A wedding surrounded by calm, green countryside.

And a celebration that has absolutely no obligation to remain calm once the music starts.