Plaza du Parc

Plaza du Parc gives couples something particularly lovely for a city wedding: the chance to begin outside and still have the entire celebration waiting only steps away.

In Longueuil, the venue combines four contemporary banquet rooms with a 3,000-square-foot tented garden, allowing a wedding to change atmosphere without asking guests to travel between locations.

The garden can become the beginning.

Under the tent, surrounded by the outdoor setting, couples can exchange vows, gather everyone for cocktails or even bring dinner outside.

Then the celebration can move indoors.

Each of Plaza du Parc's four banquet rooms can accommodate up to 250 guests, giving couples the flexibility to build the reception around the size and style of the wedding rather than squeezing everyone into a space that never quite fits.

And the meal can look different from one celebration to the next.

Cocktail receptions, international food stations, buffets and family-style dinners are all part of the venue's current catering possibilities, allowing food to reflect the people gathered around the tables.

An assigned event coordinator helps bring the pieces together.

But eventually, all the planning disappears behind the actual wedding.

The ceremony chairs have served their purpose.

Cocktail hour has become dinner.

Someone stands up to make the first speech and suddenly the room is filled with stories rather than schedules.

Then comes music.

The doors between the carefully planned part of the wedding and the party seem to disappear altogether.

Guests move between conversations and the dance floor, and the ballroom that looked pristine only a few hours earlier begins to look exactly as a good wedding should.

Lived in.

Laughed in.

Completely taken over by the people who came to celebrate you.

For couples who want an outdoor moment without giving up the ease of a full banquet venue, Plaza du Parc offers both sides of the day in one Longueuil setting.

• Gardens and grounds
• A ballroom or banquet hall
• In-house catering and menus
• Small weddings and elopements too