The Best Season for a Kelowna Elopement
Blossoms in spring, golden vineyards in summer, the harvest in fall, and crisp quiet in winter. Kelowna has the warmest, sunniest climate in the Canadian interior.
Everyone books Kelowna in high summer for the golden vineyards.
Two of the best windows are the ones on either side of it.
Kelowna has the warmest, sunniest climate in the Canadian interior, so it has no off-season, only the vineyard and the lake in four different moods.
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Spring is orchard blossom: apple, cherry, and peach across the valley in white and pink, a soft delicate window that is brief and spectacular. The vines are just leafing out and the crowds have not arrived.
Spring and summer
Spring is orchard blossom: apple, cherry, and peach across the valley in white and pink, a soft delicate window that is brief and spectacular. The vines are just leafing out and the crowds have not arrived.
Summer is the golden signature: full vineyard rows, the lake at its warmest, long light late into the evening. Peak season, and the busiest at the wineries.
Fall and winter
Fall is the harvest: the vines turning gold and russet, the light lowering, the valley at its warmest-toned and its most alive with the crush. The most golden and arguably the most beautiful window in wine country.
Winter is crisp and quiet, the vines bare and graphic, the dry hills dusted with snow, the wineries calm. The mildest interior winter in Canada, and the most private.
Pick the season for the frame you want, then hand me the date. I plan the day around the vineyards and the light, arrange the access, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, shifting a Kelowna date two weeks can move you from bare vines to full blossom.
