Gallery

The estate, without the wide-angle lens

Every photograph below was taken here, on days that actually happened. Where a season outruns our photo library, you get its palette in words instead of somebody else's wedding.

Wisteria blooming against the stone south wall of the 1872 farmhouse — The south wall in late May — wisteria week

Garden ceremony set with white chairs and a draped floral arch on the long lawn — The Ceremony Garden, set for 140

Styled by season

Spring

May – June

Wisteria · apple blossom · new grass

The garden argues its case. The garden wins.

Candlelit harvest table dressed with taper candles, petals, and florals for a reception — Taper light down the harvest tables

The glass conservatory at dusk, strung with warm bulbs over a dinner table — A conservatory dinner for twenty, October

Styled by season

Summer

July – August

Ivory · deep green · gold hour

Long light, doors open at both ends of the hall.

Black-and-white portrait of a couple at the railing above the millpond valley — Above the millpond, four o'clock light

Iron ring chandeliers under the white-limed timber ceiling of the great hall — The hall's ring chandeliers, morning of

Styled by season

Autumn

September – October

Copper · smoke · late roses

The alders turn first. Book the last October Saturday early.

Reception tables washed in deep sapphire uplighting with candles and white linens — A New Year's Eve wedding, styled in sapphire by the couple's designer

Styled by season

Winter

November – April

Candle · woodsmoke · first snow

Ninety hurricanes lit by three o'clock.

Couples' photographers shoot the estate far better than we do — three of them are on the preferred vendors page, and they know where the four o'clock light lands.

Caledon, ON · One wedding a day

The garden does its own marketing

Photographs flatten forty acres into rectangles. Come stand in the middle of it — tours run Wednesday to Sunday.

Check your date & book a tour or call (905) 555-0181