Cabane à Sucre D'Amours

There is something unmistakably Québécois about celebrating a wedding at an érablière.

At D'Amours, the tradition of the sugar bush becomes the backdrop to something much more personal: a room filled with family and friends watching two people begin their life together.

Set in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, the property is surrounded by the kind of country landscape that immediately changes the pace of a wedding day. It feels removed from city streets and hotel corridors, replacing them with trees, open surroundings and the warmth of a place built around people gathering together.

Couples can celebrate in a private reception room with its own terrace, while the ceremony itself can also take place on the property.

That allows the day to remain wonderfully connected.

Guests arrive in one place for the vows, linger together afterwards and slowly make their way into the reception rather than everyone disappearing into cars between each part of the celebration.

Inside, dinner can stretch on before the room changes again and the evening gives way to music and dancing.

But it is the setting that gives this wedding its personality.

A sugar shack carries generations of Québec tradition with it. These are places built around long tables, shared meals, music, families and the simple pleasure of being together.

There is something rather fitting about beginning a marriage in a place with that spirit.

Imagine the ceremony finished, the nervousness finally gone and everyone you love gathered inside. Someone tells a story during a speech that you had completely forgotten. Parents are talking across the table. Children are becoming sleepy. Eventually the music starts and the room that began the evening so neatly arranged becomes a proper celebration.

Outside, the countryside has gone dark.

Inside, nobody is quite ready to go home.

For couples who want their wedding to feel warm, familiar and deeply rooted in the joy of gathering people together, D'Amours offers a celebration with a character all its own.