Bayshore Inn

There are places where the scenery becomes part of the wedding, and then there is Waterton.

Bayshore Inn sits beside the water in Waterton Lakes National Park, where mountains rise beyond the lake and almost every glance outside feels like it should be framed.

For couples marrying here, the ceremony does not need much help feeling extraordinary. Guests can gather near the lakeshore with the water stretching behind the vows and the Rockies filling the distance. It is the kind of setting where even the few minutes before someone walks down the aisle can feel special, simply because everyone has stopped talking and started looking around.

Afterwards, the celebration can move indoors to reception spaces overlooking the lake, allowing that landscape to remain part of the wedding even after everyone has taken their seats for dinner.

And because Bayshore Inn is also a hotel, the people who have travelled to celebrate do not necessarily have to disappear at the end of the evening. Guests can stay in Waterton, wake up surrounded by the same mountains and meet again the next morning with stories from the night before.

There is something wonderfully romantic about that.

A wedding can become more than a ceremony and reception. It can become a little escape for everyone you love.

But perhaps the moment couples will remember most comes somewhere between the photographs and the party.

You have just been married. Your guests are waiting inside. For a few minutes, the two of you are standing beside a glacial lake with mountains surrounding you, realizing that this enormous landscape somehow became the backdrop to one of the most personal days of your lives.

That is difficult to recreate anywhere else.