Albatross Hotel feels like the kind of Newfoundland wedding where the magic is not only in the reception itself, but in having everyone you love arrive in Gander and slowly gather beneath the same roof.
One by one, familiar faces begin appearing through the hotel doors. Family has driven across the island. Others have flown in. Dresses are hanging upstairs, flowers are arriving and relatives who have not seen each other in far too long are suddenly meeting again in the hallways.
And somewhere downstairs, your wedding is waiting.
The Albatross currently welcomes celebrations from intimate gatherings of around 10 people to weddings of up to 200, with six flexible event spaces spread across two floors. Rooms can be arranged in banquet style, giving couples the freedom to shape the celebration around the number of people they actually want beside them.
Then the transformation begins.
Tables are dressed, flowers arrive and a room that might have hosted an entirely different gathering the day before slowly becomes unmistakably yours. The hotel's experienced wedding planners can help bring the details together, while in-house decorating packages mean couples can hand over some of those final touches instead of spending the hours before the wedding worrying about them.
Food can be part of the celebration too, with catering available through the hotel and the wider Steele Hotels wedding offering built around on-site catering and menu options.
But perhaps the sweetest part of a hotel wedding happens outside the formal timeline.
It is seeing your favourite people at breakfast.
Running into somebody in the lobby who arrived late the night before.
Hearing laughter coming from another room while everyone is getting ready.
Watching the hotel slowly fill with people who have travelled to Gander for one reason.
You.
Then the doors to the reception open.
Everyone gathers. Dinner becomes speeches, speeches become stories and eventually the music starts. The event room that looked so quiet earlier is suddenly filled with family, laughter and a dance floor that nobody seems quite ready to leave.
And when the final song eventually plays, the night does not have to end with everyone immediately disappearing in different directions.
The people who travelled all that way are still close.
There are stories to replay, photographs to look at and one very important fact to wake up remembering the next morning.
You came to Gander with all your favourite people.
And somewhere between the arrivals, the speeches and that last dance, you became a married couple.
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