Hollyburn Country Club

There are wedding views, and then there is West Vancouver stretched out beneath you.

Hollyburn Country Club sits high on the hills above the city, where the landscape opens toward Burrard Inlet and gives couples a celebration that feels wonderfully removed from everything below. It is elegant without needing to shout about it, with the kind of setting that becomes more beautiful as afternoon slowly gives way to evening.

The Club welcomes weddings in a collection of versatile event spaces, allowing couples to shape the celebration around the number of people they want beside them and the feeling they want the day to have. A dedicated events team works with couples throughout the planning, helping bring together the details before the first guest ever arrives.

But it is difficult to imagine celebrating here without the view becoming part of the story.

During the day, Burrard Inlet and the surrounding landscape stretch beyond the property. It gives newlyweds a chance to slip away together for photographs while their guests gather nearby, capturing that brief, wonderful space between the ceremony being over and the celebration truly beginning.

Then everyone finds their way back together.

Glasses appear. Dinner begins. Someone stands to give the speech they have been quietly rewriting for weeks. The room fills with the sound of different parts of your lives meeting one another around the same tables.

And outside, West Vancouver begins to change.

Daylight disappears over the water, lights appear across the landscape below and the view that looked beautiful when everyone arrived becomes something completely different after dark.

By then, though, most people are looking in the other direction.

Toward the dance floor.

Toward the people they love.

Toward the two of you, somewhere in the middle of it all, beginning married life high above the city.

• Indoor and outdoor options, with a plan for rain
• A patio or terrace