Cedar Brae Golf Club

Cedar Brae Golf Club gives a Toronto wedding something increasingly difficult to find in the city.

Space to breathe.

Less than half an hour from downtown, the club trades streets and towers for fairways, greenery and a modern clubhouse designed to look outward rather than shut the landscape away.

Weddings here lean toward the intimate.

The elegant dining room becomes the heart of the celebration, while an outdoor garden patio gives guests somewhere to step into the air between the more formal parts of the day.

That connection between indoors and outdoors makes the wedding feel less contained.

Photographs can borrow the grounds.

Cocktails can drift toward the patio.

Then everyone comes back together around the tables.

Food can be shaped around the wedding too, with custom menus designed to reflect the couple's traditions rather than asking every celebration to eat exactly the same dinner.

That is particularly meaningful when family and cultural traditions are part of what makes the wedding itself.

And because Cedar Brae is not trying to be an enormous convention hall, the celebration can retain that feeling of everyone actually being together.

The speeches are heard across the room.

People move easily between tables.

The dance floor feels connected to dinner rather than occupying another postcode at the far end of a ballroom.

Eventually the garden outside goes dark.

The golf course disappears beyond the windows.

And a club that felt calm and green during the afternoon becomes a room full of music, family and considerably less calm.

For one night, that seems exactly right.

• Gardens and grounds
• In-house catering and menus
• Sound system and audio-visual
• A patio or terrace
• On a golf course
• Small weddings and elopements too