Brix and Mortar

Brix and Mortar feels like the kind of Vancouver wedding that begins with old brick and candlelight and ends with everyone wondering how dinner somehow became a party.

Set inside a 1912 heritage building in Yaletown, the restaurant has spent years becoming part of people's wedding stories. Hundreds of couples have celebrated here, and it is easy to understand why.

The building already has romance in its bones.

Historic brick surrounds contemporary dining spaces, while the glass-covered courtyard brings natural light into one of the restaurant's most distinctive settings. It is heated and covered too, allowing couples to capture some of that outdoor feeling without putting quite so much trust in Vancouver weather.

Weddings can take several shapes here.

A seated dinner can gather up to 90 guests around the tables for a multi-course celebration, while cocktail-style receptions can welcome up to 120.

For something much smaller, the private dining room seats up to 24, creating the kind of wedding dinner where everyone can genuinely share the same conversation.

And the courtyard can become an intimate celebration of its own, seating up to 34 beneath the glass.

Food is naturally at the heart of everything.

Brix and Mortar is a restaurant first, which means dinner does not feel like an obligation squeezed between the ceremony and dancing. It becomes one of the reasons everyone is here.

Wine is poured.

Plates arrive.

Speeches begin while people are still lingering over dinner.

Outside, Yaletown carries on around the old brick building.

Inside, the restaurant slowly stops feeling like somewhere you booked a table and starts feeling completely like your wedding.

Eventually the carefully planned meal gives way to the considerably less carefully behaved part of the evening.

And that may be exactly what Brix and Mortar does best.

It gives couples the intimacy and food of an extraordinary Vancouver dinner, then lets them turn the whole thing into a wedding.