The Best Places to Elope in Victoria
Butchart Gardens, the historic Inner Harbour, the wild Dallas Road coast, and Beacon Hill Park each give a completely different photograph. Here is what each delivers.
Couples file Victoria under gardens and stop there.
The city has a wild coast and a Gilded Age harbour a few minutes from the flowers.
Victoria is the most refined elopement destination in Canada, and it photographs four completely different ways. Pick the feeling, and the place follows.
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The Butchart Gardens are 55 acres built in a former limestone quarry, one of the most spectacular gardens on earth: the Sunken Garden, the Rose Garden, the Italian and Japanese gardens. For a garden elopement of genuine grandeur, there is nothing like it in Canada.
Butchart Gardens and the Inner Harbour
The Butchart Gardens are 55 acres built in a former limestone quarry, one of the most spectacular gardens on earth: the Sunken Garden, the Rose Garden, the Italian and Japanese gardens. For a garden elopement of genuine grandeur, there is nothing like it in Canada.
The Inner Harbour, framed by the Parliament Buildings and the ivy-clad Empress, is the Gilded Age heart of the city, a refined architectural counterpoint to the gardens.
The coast and the city gardens
The windswept Dallas Road waterfront faces the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the Olympic Mountains beyond, driftwood beaches and open water giving the wild oceanic counterpoint to the cultivated gardens.
Beacon Hill Park adds flower beds, ponds, and ocean views in the heart of the city, and the mild climate keeps Victoria green and blooming nearly year-round.
The right place depends on what the photographs need to hold. I plan that around you, arrange the Butchart or park permits, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Victoria is the one place in Canada where gardens and coast are both in reach on the same mild day.
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