Summerland Waterfront Resort & Spa

Summerland Waterfront Resort gives couples something wonderfully simple.

Wake up beside Okanagan Lake.

Get married beside Okanagan Lake.

And when the celebration is finally over, stay right there.

Set directly on the waterfront in Summerland, the resort turns a wedding into a little Okanagan escape, surrounded by water, wine country and the warm landscape of the valley.

The lake becomes part of the day almost immediately.

It is there while everyone gets ready.

It waits outside for photographs.

It changes colour as afternoon moves toward evening.

And for guests who have travelled to be part of the celebration, it becomes the backdrop to an entire weekend rather than something they only glimpse through a ballroom window.

The resort's suite-style accommodation makes that especially lovely.

Friends and family can stay on site, with lake-view suites opening onto private balconies or patios and larger suites giving groups room to settle in rather than simply sleep and leave.

That means the wedding can begin long before the ceremony.

Someone is having coffee overlooking the water.

Someone else is already at the spa.

Family members bump into one another around the resort.

The people who normally live hours apart suddenly have nowhere more important to be.

Then it is time.

The photographs begin.

The carefully chosen clothes finally come out of garment bags.

And the same Okanagan Lake everyone has been admiring all weekend becomes part of the wedding itself.

Later, when the formal celebration is finished, there is no complicated journey home for the people staying here.

Everyone simply disappears back into the resort.

Then morning arrives over the lake.

The wedding is technically over.

But your favourite people are still here.

And somehow breakfast together the next morning becomes one more little piece of the wedding you did not know you were planning.