Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre

The Lamplighter Inn lets couples plan something that sounds almost impossible in London, Ontario.

A tropical wedding without getting on a plane.

At the heart of the hotel is its extraordinary indoor atrium, where lush greenery grows beneath a soaring glass retractable canopy and the outside world seems to disappear somewhere beyond the doors.

It means the wedding can have the feeling of escaping somewhere warm while remaining right here in the city.

And almost the entire day can happen beneath one roof.

The ceremony.

The photographs.

Dinner and dancing.

And, when everyone has finally had enough celebration, the walk back to a hotel room.

That simplicity can feel like a luxury of its own.

Nobody is checking the weather every fifteen minutes and wondering whether the garden ceremony needs to move.

Nobody has to shuttle a hundred beautifully dressed people across London between different venues.

Guests arrive, settle into the hotel and from that point forward the wedding has somewhere to live.

The atrium gives photographs a backdrop unlike a conventional Ontario hotel, surrounding couples with greenery and the feeling of an indoor garden.

Then the celebration can move into the hotel's wider event spaces.

With more than 20,000 square feet spread across 16 rooms, the Lamplighter can shape weddings of very different sizes and styles, while its dedicated wedding team helps pull the pieces together.

Eventually dinner ends.

The formal photographs are finished.

The dance floor becomes considerably more interesting than the seating chart everyone spent weeks perfecting.

And when the last song finally plays, nobody has to leave paradise and drive home.

They simply head upstairs.

Tomorrow morning, everyone wakes up in London.

But for one wedding night beneath the glass and greenery, it may have felt somewhere much farther away.