The Best Wedding and Elopement Venues in Prince Edward County
Two hours east of Toronto: vineyards, dunes, farm tables, and design-forward inns on a limestone island in Lake Ontario. Ten venues I shoot, all my own frames.
Two hours east of Toronto, a limestone island in Lake Ontario has become the most design-forward wedding country in Ontario. Prince Edward County is vineyards, dunes, farm tables, and boutique inns, a place couples go for a slower, more curated elopement with a room and a dinner worth staying for.
These are the County venues I take couples to, from lakeside estates to working farms, and every frame here is mine.
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The Drake Devonshire. The County's famous design hotel right on Lake Ontario, art on the walls and a lawn to the water. The most photographed inn in the region, and it earns it.
The lakeside estates and inns
The Drake Devonshire. The County's famous design hotel right on Lake Ontario, art on the walls and a lawn to the water. The most photographed inn in the region, and it earns it.
Lakecroft. A restored heritage estate on the water with lawns to the lake, one of the County's most elegant private settings.
100 Acre Wood. A forest property of trails and clearings, private and green, for a couple who wants the woods rather than a manicured venue.
The Merrill House. A restored Victorian mansion in Picton, refined rooms and a garden, a design-lover's base in the heart of the County.
Compass Rose Suites. Boutique waterfront suites, understated and modern, an intimate place to stay and marry on the shore.
Waupoos Estates Winery. The County's original winery, vines running to the lake with the hills of Prince Edward County beyond. Classic wine-country romance.
The Cape. A modern waterfront resort on a spit of land with water on both sides, clean architecture and big sky.
The Brighthouse Farm. A restored farm with fields and outbuildings, rustic and warm, for a farm-table elopement.
The Meadows. Open meadow and sky, a soft, pastoral setting for a ceremony under the wide County light.
The Eddie Hotel and Farm. A boutique farm-hotel of restored barns and fields, design-forward and self-contained, one of the newest and loveliest bases in the County.
How I run a Prince Edward County elopement
The County rewards a plan: a room, a winery, a ceremony spot, and a dinner, ideally within a few minutes of each other. Tell me the base you love and I will book it all, handle the licence and officiant, and photograph and film the whole day myself.
Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the County is the most curated elopement in the province, and the couples who let me line up the room and the vines and the table are the ones who never had to think about a thing.
