Humber Valley Resort

Humber Valley Resort gives a Newfoundland wedding the kind of backdrop that makes guests stop before they have even reached the celebration. In western Newfoundland, the resort sits high above the Humber River, with the Eagles Perch Clubhouse looking across Deer Lake and the Appalachian Mountains.

Weddings are part of the resort's current event offering, alongside its championship golf course, wellness spa, luxury condominiums and chalets. The clubhouse sits roughly 400 feet above the Humber River, turning the surrounding valley into a view that no amount of wedding décor could ever recreate.

There is something wonderfully cinematic about gathering here. Family arrives in the Humber Valley, settles into the resort and then comes together in a place where mountains seem to stretch far beyond the wedding itself.

The setting can carry the quieter moments as beautifully as the celebration. Photographs against the valley, a pause to take in the view and then a room full of favourite people make the day feel less like an event booked at a resort and more like an entire Newfoundland landscape was chosen for the beginning of a marriage, leaving the kind of warm, romantic memory that feels almost storybook long after the last dance.

• On a golf course