Le Noranda Hotel & Spa, an Ascend Collection Hotel

A wedding at Le Noranda has the lovely feeling of bringing everyone together in one place, then giving them a reason to stay a little longer.

In the heart of Rouyn-Noranda, the hotel connects directly with the city's convention centre, giving couples access to ten different event spaces and room for celebrations of up to 500 guests. It means a wedding can grow to fit the people invited to it, from a more intimate gathering to the kind of reception where generations of family and friends fill the room.

There is something particularly wonderful about a hotel wedding when many of the people you love are travelling to be there.

Guests arrive and check in. Familiar faces begin appearing in the lobby. People who may not have seen one another in months meet downstairs for a drink, and slowly an ordinary hotel begins to feel like wedding headquarters.

Then the celebration begins.

The event spaces can be arranged around the size and style of the wedding, while the hotel's team helps with everything from room setup to bartending and catering. Food comes through the hotel's own culinary operation, allowing cocktails, dinner and the celebration that follows to remain part of one connected experience.

And because everything is happening together, nobody has to disappear when dinner ends.

Speeches become music. Tables begin to empty. The dance floor fills and the carefully arranged reception slowly becomes the wonderfully less organised party everyone hoped it would.

Eventually the elevators carry everyone upstairs.

Then morning arrives, and the people who danced together the night before start finding one another again.

For couples bringing family and friends together in Rouyn-Noranda, Le Noranda offers something beautifully simple: plenty of room to celebrate, somewhere for everyone to stay and an entire wedding gathering that can unfold beneath one roof.