The Prairie Creek Inn

The Prairie Creek Inn is for couples who believe forty people can feel far more romantic than four hundred.

Hidden in the countryside south of Rocky Mountain House, this intimate inn specializes in the smallest kinds of weddings, from an elopement for two to a celebration surrounded by up to 40 of the people who know you best.

In summer, the ceremony can happen beside Prairie Creek.

Water moves nearby.

Towering trees surround the grounds.

And instead of rows and rows of guests disappearing into the distance, every face waiting at the end of the aisle belongs to somebody who truly matters.

Winter changes the story completely.

The celebration can move indoors, turning the country inn into something warm and cosy while Alberta settles into the cold outside.

There are different ways to make small feel special here too.

A tiny wedding of eight to twenty can gather close around the day, while celebrations of thirty to forty can turn the property into their own little destination wedding without travelling halfway across the world.

Then there are the suites.

The couple can stay right where everything happened, allowing the wedding night to end without the sudden interruption of packing everyone into cars and leaving the place behind.

That is part of the beauty of an inn wedding.

The day softens rather than simply stops.

The last guests disappear.

The creek keeps moving.

The grounds become quiet again.

And upstairs, two people who woke up that morning unmarried finally have a moment to look at one another and realize they actually did it.

For couples who want intimacy rather than enormity, The Prairie Creek Inn keeps the wedding beautifully close.