The Savary Island Resort

The Savary Island Resort is for couples who want their wedding to begin with everyone leaving the mainland behind.

Hidden among ferns and cedars and only steps from Savary Island's white-sand beaches, this intimate resort turns a wedding into the kind of little island escape that feels wonderfully separate from ordinary life.

Celebrations here stay beautifully small.

Up to 60 people can gather for the ceremony, reception and long-table dinners, keeping the wedding large enough for a real party but intimate enough that nobody disappears into the crowd.

And the island is part of everything.

Guests arrive knowing they have travelled somewhere for this.

The forest surrounds the resort. The ocean is only a short walk away and the beaches give couples a completely different landscape for photographs, quiet moments and the hours surrounding the celebration.

The resort itself gives couples unusual freedom to create the wedding their way.

There is a commercial kitchen available for the couple's chef, and couples can bring together their own vendors and ideas rather than having the celebration dictated by a conventional ballroom package.

Then some of the people closest to them get to stay.

The resort accommodates around 20 guests, with the possibility of bringing more of the group into the experience through camping.

Suddenly the wedding is not one evening.

It is people waking up on an island together.

It is a ceremony surrounded by forest.

Dinner stretching along a table while the light changes beyond the trees.

A walk toward the beach.

Music somewhere back at the resort.

And eventually that strange, lovely feeling that comes when the mainland seems very far away and almost everyone who matters is right here.

For one wedding weekend, Savary Island becomes part of the guest list too.