There are Toronto weddings, and then there are weddings where Toronto itself seems to become part of the celebration.
At The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto, the city waits just beyond the windows. Set in the heart of downtown, the hotel brings together sweeping urban views, grand ballrooms, beautiful food and the kind of polished service that allows a wedding to feel wonderfully removed from everything happening outside.
For couples dreaming big, the Ritz-Carlton Ballroom is the showpiece. At 7,400 square feet, with dramatic 18-foot ceilings and space for up to 500 guests for a wedding banquet, it gives a grand celebration room to truly become grand. There is space for the entrance everyone cheers for, tables filled with family and friends and, eventually, a dance floor surrounded by hundreds of people who came to celebrate the two of you.
But a Ritz-Carlton wedding does not have to mean hundreds of guests.
The Wellington Ballroom offers a more intimate setting for up to 200 guests for a plated dinner, while the Gallery Room can welcome up to 80 and surrounds smaller celebrations with natural daylight, floor-to-ceiling windows and dramatic views across the city.
Then there is the Grand Foyer.
Wrapped in glass and overlooking David Pecaut Square and Roy Thomson Hall, it creates a beautiful transition between the ceremony and the celebration to come. Guests can gather here for cocktails while daylight moves across downtown and the city begins to change outside the windows.
Behind the scenes, the hotel's wedding specialists work alongside couples and their planners to bring the details together, from the room itself to the menu and table settings. The culinary team can create internationally influenced menus, allowing dinner to become part of the story rather than simply something served between the speeches and dancing.
And because everything is happening inside one of downtown Toronto's luxury hotels, the people who have travelled to celebrate do not necessarily have to disappear when the last song ends. Guest rooms and suites are only an elevator ride away, allowing the wedding to stretch into the kind of city weekend people talk about long after they have gone home.
Perhaps the loveliest moment, though, comes after dark.
The windows that filled the rooms with daylight now hold the lights of Toronto. Dinner has become speeches, speeches have become music and somewhere inside the ballroom, the carefully arranged tables are beginning to empty as everyone finds the dance floor.
Outside, Toronto carries on.
Inside, for one extraordinary night, the city feels as though it belongs to the two of you.
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