Nipawin Evergreen Centre

There is something unmistakably Saskatchewan about celebrating beneath enormous skies, with the edge of the boreal forest in one direction and the sweeping greens of a golf course in the other. At the Nipawin Evergreen Centre, couples can bring that landscape right into their wedding day.

The Evergreen Centre sits beside the 18-hole Evergreen Golf Course, creating a setting where the practical pieces of a large celebration are indoors while some of the most beautiful moments can happen outside.

The wedding team can help couples bring both the ceremony and reception together, and the Centre offers an impressive collection of flexible spaces for gatherings ranging from intimate celebrations to very large weddings.

Guests can arrive through the grand foyer and rotunda before moving into a reception space dressed for the occasion. Draped ceilings, chandeliers and illuminated columns bring a sense of celebration indoors, while outside, the golf course and surrounding natural landscape offer somewhere for the newlyweds to escape for photographs.

It is easy to imagine those few minutes after the ceremony when everything suddenly feels different. The two of you wander onto the grounds together, the reception carries on nearby and for the first time all day there is a little quiet in which to realize that you are actually married.

Then everyone comes back together.

Dinner is prepared through the Centre's catering service, speeches begin and eventually the banquet auditorium gives everyone enough room to do what wedding guests have been waiting to do all evening: abandon their chairs and find the dance floor.

And outside, Saskatchewan keeps doing what Saskatchewan does particularly well.

The sky stretches far beyond the golf course. Evening settles over the boreal landscape and the photographs begin to take on that softer light that no amount of decorating could ever recreate indoors.

For one night, the Evergreen Centre becomes something more personal than a community and recreation space. It becomes the room filled with your people, beside the landscape where you took your first photographs as a married couple.