Brookstreet Hotel

Brookstreet gives couples the rare luxury of changing the scenery without changing the address.

A ceremony can begin outdoors beneath the draping and chandeliers of the Pavilion, with daylight around the vows and the surrounding grounds giving the moment a softness that would be difficult to create inside a traditional ballroom.

Then the wedding can become something completely different.

Brookstreet has three ballrooms and reception spaces for celebrations of up to 350 dinner guests. The Newbridge Ballroom opens toward a bright foyer with windows and a balcony overlooking The Marshes Golf Course, while the Grand Scheme Ballroom gives larger weddings the scale they need.

That means the day can have chapters.

Outdoor ceremony.

Cocktails.

Dinner beneath ballroom lights.

Then dancing until nobody remembers how carefully everyone was standing for photographs a few hours earlier.

The hotel also makes the celebration easier to turn into a weekend.

There are 276 rooms and suites, a full-service spa, restaurants, indoor and outdoor saltwater pools and The Marshes Golf Club on the property. Guests travelling into Ottawa can settle in rather than treating the wedding as a single evening they need to navigate home from afterward.

Couples have a dedicated Wedding Event Manager to help connect the pieces, while the culinary team offers plated and buffet reception dining.

And when the ballroom finally empties, the wedding does not immediately scatter across the city.

People head upstairs.

Friends meet again the next morning.

Someone appears at breakfast wearing sunglasses indoors.

And the stories begin before everyone has even checked out.

• Ceremony and reception in one place
• Indoor and outdoor options, with a plan for rain
• Gardens and grounds
• A ballroom or banquet hall
• Rooms for guests on site
• In-house catering and menus
• Bar service
• A coordinator to guide the day
• Wedding packages
• Sound system and audio-visual
• A patio or terrace
• String lights and candlelight