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The Alder House

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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 to June

Wisteria · apple blossom · new grass

The garden makes its case. The garden wins.

Candlelit reception table dressed with taper candles, petals, and florals
Taper light down a long table
The glass conservatory at dusk, strung with warm bulbs over a dinner table
A conservatory dinner for twenty, October

Styled by season

Summer

July to 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
The timber-frame Great Hall strung with warm lights and set with round tables in white linen
The Great Hall, set with rounds for dinner

Styled by season

Autumn

September to 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 to April

Candle · woodsmoke · first snow

Ninety hurricane candles 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.

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