Rodd Brudenell River Resort

Some weddings last an evening.

A wedding at Rodd Brudenell River Resort has every reason to become an entire Prince Edward Island escape.

Set beside the Brudenell River in eastern PEI, the resort surrounds celebrations with water, rolling golf-course greens and tall pines, creating the kind of setting where guests arrive for the wedding and immediately understand why everyone was asked to travel.

The ceremony can begin outside.

With the river and Island landscape around you, vows here can feel beautifully removed from a traditional ballroom wedding. Guests gather in the open air, photographs can make use of the surrounding resort landscape and afterwards everyone is already exactly where they need to be for the celebration.

Then the wedding moves inside.

Several reception rooms allow couples to choose a setting that fits the size of their gathering rather than the other way around.

Montague and Georgetown can be combined for up to 160 guests at a banquet or 200 for a reception, creating room for dinner, speeches, entertainment and the dance floor without separating the celebration into different places.

Brudenell offers another bright, spacious option, accommodating up to 180 for a banquet.

Behind it all is an experienced wedding team helping couples carry the day from ceremony to reception, while the resort's culinary team brings dinner into the wider experience.

And because this is a resort, the wedding does not have to begin when the ceremony music starts.

Guests can arrive earlier.

Rooms fill with family and friends. People meet for drinks. Someone inevitably starts treating the entire resort as wedding headquarters.

Then the day arrives.

Vows happen beside the river.

Everyone comes together for dinner.

Speeches begin, glasses are raised and eventually the dance floor fills.

Much later, when the music finally stops, nobody staying at the resort needs to make the long journey home.

The newlyweds even receive a guest room for the night as part of the resort's current wedding offering.

Then morning arrives on Prince Edward Island.

People who danced together the night before find one another again. Stories are already being retold over breakfast and the river is still outside, looking much the way it did before any of this began.

Except now this particular corner of PEI belongs to the story too.

For couples who want more than a few hours in a reception room, Rodd Brudenell River Resort gives the wedding somewhere beautiful to settle in and stay awhile.

• Options intérieures et extérieures, avec un plan en cas de pluie
• Au bord de l’eau, ou avec vue sur l’eau
• Jardins et terrains
• Un cadre historique
• Chambres pour les invités sur place
• Une personne pour coordonner la journée
• Piste de danse et scène
• Système de son et audiovisuel
• Un patio ou une terrasse
• Sur un terrain de golf
• Petits mariages et fugues amoureuses aussi
• Souper de répétition et brunch du lendemain