Real Weddings

Real Weddings: Inside a backyard wedding attended by Sarah Nurse, Marie-Philip Poulin and Natalie Spooner

Featuring custom-made Adidas runners, personalized champagne bottles and the who’s who of women’s hockey

Real Weddings: Inside a lavish week-long Hindu ceremony

Featuring five outfit changes, private vows and a choreographed Bollywood dance

Real Weddings: Inside a charming greenhouse celebration with a bubble tea truck

Featuring a Chinese tea ceremony, a Chatime food truck and breakdancing

Real Weddings: Inside two restaurateurs’ Sicilian celebration

Featuring coastal views, a vintage convertible and an Italian feast

Real Weddings: Inside a cross-cultural ceremony on a private beach in Cabo San Lucas

Featuring Turkish, Iranian and Bulgarian traditions; a private desert villa; and a surprise mariachi band

Real Weddings: Inside a romantic sunset ceremony at the Broadview Hotel

Featuring skyline views, a paparazzi-style photoshoot and a mosh pit

Real Weddings: Inside an elegant starlit celebration on the waterfront

Featuring bubble guns, a live watercolour sketch artist and bubble tea party favours

Real Weddings: Inside a scenic celebration in the Sicilian countryside

Featuring a restored 19th-century farmhouse estate, a Mediterranean folk band and a three-week honeymoon across Italy

Real Weddings: Inside a minimalist cottage-chic celebration in Port Severn

Featuring 35mm photography, live jazz trumpet and an astrological seating chart

Real Weddings: Inside a laid-back Mediterranean island ceremony

Featuring a fishing boat entrance by the bride, a Greek bouzouki band and a taverna-style meal

Real Weddings: Inside a romantic rustic-chic celebration in a 150-year-old barn

Featuring a multi-course vegan dinner, foraged flower bouquets and an all-night techno dance party

Real Weddings: Inside a raucous live concert–themed celebration

Featuring an LED-lit stage, disco balls and special performances by a gospel choir, Chantal Kreviazuk and queer singer Betty Who

Real Weddings: Inside a Met Gala–themed rococo extravaganza

Featuring a runway entrance, winged ballerinas and a first dance performed by stunt doubles

Toronto Life’s top Real Weddings of 2022

Creative celebrations of love and life-long commitment

Real Weddings: Inside a sleek minimalist ceremony at the Aga Khan Museum

After an almost decade-long romance and Covid delays, the Rodrigues’s finally celebrated their wedding this summer