Kurtz Orchards

Kurtz Orchards feels like a wedding held in the middle of a working Niagara farm, with orchard rows and vines on every side and the escarpment standing blue in the distance.

The farm sits on the Niagara River Parkway in Niagara-on-the-Lake and offers three settings for a wedding. Gracewood Estate is entirely outdoors, an orchard and vineyard property ringed by tall maples and flowering gardens, with views across the orchards to the escarpment. Kurtz Estate is the second outdoor option, where mature orchards, vineyards, a bridge and a fish pond become the backdrop for the vows.

The Kurtz Market is the indoor choice, its cathedral ceiling carried on posts and beams, with warm wood throughout. Ceremonies can be held in the gardens just outside, near the water features and a steel bridge, then move under the beams for dinner. Food is part of the farm's identity, with its own gourmet foods program on site.

Picture a ceremony between the trees at the height of summer, then a long table dinner as the light leaves the orchard. Kurtz Orchards gives a Niagara wedding the farm itself as the setting.

• Ceremony and reception in one place
• On the water, or with water views
• Gardens and grounds
• Vineyard and wines of their own
• A historic setting
• Tented celebrations possible