13th Street Winery

At 13th Street Winery, a tiny wedding does not have to feel like a smaller version of something else.

It can feel completely intentional.

Set among vineyards, gardens and contemporary art in Niagara wine country, the winery currently welcomes intimate ceremonies for up to 20 guests, creating the kind of celebration where every person standing beside you belongs to the innermost part of the story.

And twenty people can make a wedding feel wonderfully full.

The ceremony unfolds against the winery landscape, surrounded by the vines and grounds that make 13th Street feel distinctly Niagara.

Then there is time to actually enjoy the place.

Guests can linger over wine rather than immediately disappearing into a huge reception room. The winery's current wedding experience can be extended with dinner or reception options, allowing couples to build the rest of the celebration around good food and wines produced right here.

That feels especially fitting at 13th Street.

This is not simply a vineyard with chairs arranged for a ceremony.

Wine, food and art are all part of the property.

The Sculpture Garden gives the landscape an unexpected contemporary edge, while the winery's culinary program brings the celebration back to the table.

Perhaps the loveliest thing, though, is the scale.

With only twenty guests around you, nobody watches the vows from the other side of a ballroom.

Everyone is close enough to see the look exchanged before the first word is spoken.

Dinner can become one long conversation.

A toast does not need a microphone to feel important.

And when the glasses are finally raised, the wine comes from the same Niagara landscape surrounding the people drinking it.

For couples who have discovered that their perfect guest list is not enormous at all, 13th Street Winery gives a little wedding somewhere beautiful enough to feel like a very big occasion.