Gulf Island Weddings
A Guide to Local
Wedding Vendors
Gulf Island weddings carry a sense of calm, intimacy, and wild beauty that defines this region of the West Coast. From rocky coves and golden summer light to cedar forests and deeply creative island communities, each celebration here feels shaped by the land itself. These islands offer an atmosphere that inspires couples to slow down, embrace intention, and create gatherings rooted in place.
Please note that we have dedicated guides for Salt Spring & Gabriola Islands
The Gulf Islands are also home to several Folklore Wedding Company creatives, including Sydney, Stasia, and Stephanie, whose work is shaped by the landscapes they live within. Their insight helps guide the creation of this resource, ensuring couples planning Gulf Island weddings are connected with trusted creatives who understand these islands deeply.
Whether you’re envisioning a quiet elopement on a forest trail, a barefoot ceremony on the rocks, or a full gathering overlooking the ocean, this guide is your starting point to discover the people, places, and possibilities that make Gulf Island weddings so memorable.
If you’re exploring other areas, we’ve also the following guides:
Salt Spring Island
Gabriola Island
Tofino, Ucluelet & Bamfield
Mid Vancouver Island
North Vancouver Island
Together, these pages form the Folklore Weddings Vendor Collective, a growing regional network built to support local wedding creatives and help couples discover the most inspiring people and places across coastal British Columbia.
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Whats makes
Gulf Island Weddings special?
Stasia
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Updated on April 7th - 2026
Photography + Video
Sydney Woodward Folklore Profile
Sydney Woodward Instagram
Sydney Woodward
Sydney Woodward is a passionate storyteller who, alongside his partner Taryn Strong, co-founded Folklore Wedding Company. He combines his love for tintype photography with digital wedding photography and cinematic wedding video, bringing a collaborative, artful approach to Salt Spring Island weddings and celebrations across the coast.
Rooted in a dedication to preserving love stories in meaningful ways, Sydney works with the 19th-century tintype process to create one-of-a-kind heirlooms while also crafting emotive digital imagery and film.
Location: SALT SPRIG ISL
Photography + Video
Stasia Garraway Folklore Profile
Stasia Garraway Photography Instagram
Stasia Garraway
Stasia Garraway has been working as a professional photographer for the last 15 years, offering wedding photography for the last eight. She specializes in natural, documentary-style images, focusing on candid photos that capture the essence of each special moment. At every wedding, she likes to work on a series of poetic and editorial-style photographs to tell the couple's story of love, family, and connection. She is always looking for gorgeous scenes, exceptional light, and the possibility of a moment that feels sublime or cinematic.
Location: SALT SPRInG ISL
Photography + Video
Stephanie Artuso Folklore Profile
Stephanie Artuso Instagram
Sydney Woodward
Stephanie Artuso is a skilled photographer based on Gabriola Island and a valued member of the Folklore Wedding Company team. She brings a deeply artistic approach to documenting weddings, focusing on real emotion, meaningful connection, and the subtle beauty of each moment. With an eye for detail and a calm, intuitive presence, Stephanie helps couples feel comfortable, seen, and confident in front of the camera. As part of the Folklore Wedding Company collective,
Location: Gabriola Isl
Photography + Video
Jessica Kirkwood Website
Jessica Kirkwood Instagram
Jessica Kirkwood
Jessica Kirkwood Photography is a Galiano Island–based photographer offering maternity, family, and wedding sessions with a focus on storytelling, natural light, and intimate, unscripted moments. During each session she aims to capture the weather and ambiance, the flora in bloom, and the moments not to be missed, from first looks and first kisses to the quiet glow of an expectant parent or siblings dissolving into giggles, alongside the surrounding ferns, roses, and eagles that frame the day.
Location: galiano Isl
Stasia
Garraway
Galiano Inn Website
Galiano Inn & Spa Instagram
Galiano Inn & Spa
Galiano Oceanfront Inn & Spa is a boutique oceanfront resort on Galiano Island, set along the sandstone shores of Active Pass with all-oceanfront suites and villas, each with a wood-burning fireplace and private terrace or deck. Guests can stay steps from the water, enjoy contemporary West Coast dining at Atrevida Restaurant, wander the gardens, and relax on a private swimming beach, all within a short walk of the ferry and village. For weddings and elopements, the inn offers oceanfront ceremonies and receptions for up to 100 guests, as well as intimate island weddings and elopement packages.
Location: Galiano Island
Stasia
Garraway
Hornby Heart Vineyard Website
Hornby Heart Vineyard Instagram
Hornby Heart Vineyard
Hornby Heart Vineyard is a boutique vineyard estate on Hornby Island, combining five acres of Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Noir and Turan vines with a small-batch winery, tasting room, and event spaces surrounded by forest, fields, and views of Mt. Geoffrey. Guests can sip “wines from the heart” in the tasting room, explore the grounds, and, for events, make use of a romantic outdoor setting that includes ceremonies on a small island in the pond and receptions with a vineyard backdrop.
Location: Hornby Island
Galiano Inn Website
Galiano Inn & Spa Instagram
Avalon Flower Farm
Avalon Flower Farm is a 10-acre oceanfront wedding venue on Pender Island, offering “say I do by the sea” celebrations on a pebble beach or lawn with panoramic harbour views. Couples can book the historic beachfront house, which sleeps 14 and sits just steps from the water, and use the property’s cut-flower gardens, open lawns, and ocean backdrop to host gatherings of up to 100 guests with on-site parking. With three-night venue bookings, flexible ceremony and reception spots, and easy access to ferries and seaplanes, it creates a relaxed, all-in-one Southern Gulf Islands wedding escape.
Location: Pender Island
The Tides Cottages Website
The Tides Cottages Instagram
The Tides Cottages
The Tides Cottages is a 3-acre oceanfront getaway on Pender Island, offering coastal cottages and a heritage house overlooking the Salish Sea, a quiet base to unplug, reconnect, and soak in the beauty of the Southern Gulf Islands. Guests can enjoy private patios with ocean views, a seasonal oceanside pool and year-round hot tub, direct ocean access down the stairs, and communal lawn and fire-pit areas set up for lawn games, sunsets, and stargazing. With pet-friendly stays, mobile in-cottage massage, and access to fresh prepared meals through a partnership with Truss Farm Food,
Location: Pender Island
bodega ridge Website
bodega ridge Instagram
Bodega Ridge
Bodega Ridge is a Gulf Islands retreat on Galiano Island, offering cozy log cabins, seaside Panabode cabins, and a lodge tucked between ocean and forest. Spread across 22 acres, it includes Bodega Ridge’s three-bedroom log cabins and Bodega Cove’s restored 1960s beach cabins, each with full kitchens and comfortable living spaces that make an easy home base for wedding parties and guests. For weddings and elopements, Bodega Ridge offers exclusive use of the property, a ceremony site with views over Trincomali Channel, and flexible reception areas, along with in-house coastal cuisine.
Location: Galiano Island
Sea Breeze Lodge Website
Sea Breeze Lodge Instagram
Sea Breeze Lodge
Sea Breeze Lodge is a waterfront resort on Hornby Island, offering an intimate, all-in-one setting for West Coast weddings with ocean views, cozy cabins, and a relaxed island atmosphere. Couples can host a beachside ceremony framed by mountains, sea, and sky, then move indoors to a vaulted-ceiling dining room with ocean views that seats up to 130 guests. Their weekend wedding package includes exclusive use of the 10–11 acre property, a beach ceremony site, three fresh, West Coast–inspired meals, and 17 ocean-view cottages that together accommodate up to 80 guests.
Location: Hornby Island
Norra Han Lodge Website
Norra Han Instagram
Norra Han
Norra Hem is a cliffside guesthouse on Hornby Island, set on a 6-acre property with sweeping ocean and forest views and a 450 sq ft outdoor living space designed for al fresco evenings. Inside, the light-filled main floor features curated, design-forward details, a large built-in bench nook, and a fully equipped kitchen with white oak cabinetry and integrated appliances, while upstairs two bedrooms (king and queen) sit beneath a timber ceiling milled from storm-fallen trees on the property.
Location: Hornby Island
Florists
Gossip Floral Website
Gossip Floral Instagram
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Garraway
Gossip Floral
Gossip Floral is a wedding and event floral studio and specialty flower farm on Galiano Island, led by designer Lauren, who grows local, seasonal blooms using sustainable practices and brings them directly to celebrations across the Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island, and Vancouver. The studio offers full-service wedding design with hands-on delivery and setup, elopement and à la carte florals, and a rental inventory spanning vases, candle votives, arches, chuppahs, and lounge décor.
Location: Galiano Island
Florists
Keep Floral Website
Keep Floral Instagram
Keep Floral
Keep Floral is a Denman Island–based wedding and event florist founded by Emma Scheurwater, specializing in sustainable, garden-inspired designs using seasonal blooms grown on the Keep homestead and sourced from local flower farms. Their work leans into organic form, unique colour palettes, and native BC species, with wedding services ranging from elopements and micro-weddings to full-service ceremony and reception florals.
Location: Denman Island
Florists
Gossip Floral Website
Gossip Floral Instagram
Evermore House
Evermore House is a floral studio and cutting garden on Pender Island, led by florist and flower grower Mercedes Papalia, offering artfully arranged garden-style bouquets, Pender Island flower delivery, and bespoke bridal floristry. Drawing on a lifelong connection to flowers and a decade in the wedding world, Mercedes “writes poetry with flowers,” creating whimsical, organically arranged seasonal designs that honour the unique botany and locally grown blooms available in the moment a couple chooses to say “I do,” with real Evermore weddings unfolding across the Southern Gulf Islands.
Location: Pender Island
Florists
Avalon Flower Farm Website
Avalon Flower FarmInstagram
Avalon Flower Farm
Avalon Flower Farm offers on-site wedding florals designed from blooms grown on their own 10-acre oceanfront property, with seasonal arrangements spanning bouquets, boutonnieres, flower crowns, and more. From spring wildflowers to late-summer dahlias, their rotating palette of cosmos, snapdragons, and specialty blooms means every design feels genuinely of the place and the season. Couples can also add a hands-on flower workshop where the wedding party handpicks and arranges their own florals by the sea, pairing the oceanfront setting with flowers grown just steps from where they say "I do."
Location: Pender Island
Cakes + Caterers + Restaurants
Embers & Atlas Website
Embers & Atlas Instagram
Embers & Atlas
Embers & Atlas is a live-fire catering company serving Victoria, the South Gulf Islands, Vancouver, and beyond, bringing unforgettable outdoor dining and fire-crafted menus to weddings, corporate events, and private celebrations. From intimate private dinners on Pender Island to large-scale BBQs, they design gourmet BBQ, buffet, and elevated plated dining experiences using local ingredients cooked over open flame, with flexible service options including drop-off, buffet, and full-service catering tailored to each event.
Location - pender Island
Cakes + Caterers + Restaurants
Oxeye Website
Oxeye Instagram
Oxeye
Oxeye is a modern Pacific Northwest café and bakery in the heart of Sturdies Bay on Galiano Island, celebrating the wild and cultivated abundance of the Southern Gulf Islands. Known for housemade sourdough breads, pastries, coffee, and seasonal breakfast and lunch plates, its menus shift with the harvest and often even the weather, drawing on ingredients from local growers, makers, and island artisans. With a bright, welcoming room and patio just a short walk from the ferry, Oxeye is a natural gathering spot for morning coffee, easy brunch, or a relaxed bite during a Galiano wedding weekend.
Location - Galiano Island
Cakes + Caterers + Restaurants
Pilgrimme Website
Pilgrimme Instagram
Pilgrimme
Pilgrimme is an acclaimed forest-set restaurant on Galiano Island, offering hyper-local tasting menus built around coast, forest, and farm ingredients that honour the seasons and landscape of the West Coast. Tucked among the trees near Montague Harbour, its intimate woodland dining room pairs nuanced, ingredient-driven dishes with a BC-only wine and beer list. While Pilgrimme doesn't offer off-site catering, it's a natural gathering spot for any Galiano wedding weekend, a destination dinner where couples and guests can share a slow, memorable meal that becomes part of the wider celebration.
Location - Galiano Island
Planners + Commissioners
Folklore eddings & Events Website
Folklore Weddings & Events Instagram
Folklore Wedding Company
Folklore Wedding Company offers all-inclusive elopement and micro-wedding packages across Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, pairing breathtaking venues with trusted local vendors and thoughtfully curated details. Every package includes in-house photography and video, with digital, film, and tintype options, so the day is documented with cohesive, artful storytelling while couples focus on each other.
Location: Vancouver /Gulf Island wide
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Planners + Commissioners
Across The Watters Website
Across The Watters Instagram
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photography
Planners + Commissioners
Across The Watters Weddings & Events
Across The Watters Weddings & Events is a Pender Island–based planning studio founded by Allie Watters, who brings over 15 years in hospitality and eight years of wedding experience to celebrations across the Southern Gulf Islands. She offers full planning, partial planning, and day-of coordination, covering timelines, vendor curation, decor setup, and weekend logistics so couples can be fully present on the day.
Location: Pender Island
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Lodging
Norra Han Lodge Website
Norra Han Instagram
Norra Han
Norra Hem is a cliffside guesthouse on Hornby Island, set on a 6-acre property with sweeping ocean and forest views, a 450 sq ft outdoor living space, and a light-filled interior full of curated, design-forward details including white oak cabinetry, a timber ceiling milled from storm-fallen trees, and spa-like touches like heated floors and organic bath products. Perched roughly 100 feet from the unfenced cliff edge with a private yard and decks, it's a luxurious, nature-immersed retreat for couples or small groups seeking a genuinely removed Hornby Island escape.
Location: Hornby Island
Lodging
The Haven Lodge Website
The Haven Instagram
The Haven
The Haven is a private retreat B&B on Mayne Island built around restoration and embodied healing, pairing modern, comfortable accommodations with therapeutic bodywork and a Nordic-style circuit (sauna, salt water hot tub, and cold plunge). Guests can book everything from a self-guided stay to multi-day immersion retreats, with access to forest trails, outdoor sitting spaces, locally grown food, and a calm waterfront setting designed for nervous-system downshifting and deep rest.
Location: Hornby Island
Activities.
Quadra Island Boat Tours Website
Quadra Island Boat Tours Instagram
Quadra Island Boat Tours
Quadra Island Boat Tours offers private, small-group boat tours from Quadra Island, exploring the surrounding Discovery Islands, including Quadra and Cortes, their dramatic shorelines, waterfalls, and rich marine wildlife. Led by a knowledgeable local captain, tours are customized to your group and often include sightings of whales, dolphins, sea lions, seals, and seabirds, all with a focus on fostering awareness, preservation, and respect for the coastal waters and the Indigenous territories they operate within.
Location: Quadra Island
Makeup + Wellness
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Heart Journey's Website
Heart Journey Bridal Hair & Make-up
Heart Journey offers expert on-site bridal hair and make-up services across Galiano Island, Salt Spring Island, and the broader Vancouver Island region. With over 15 years of experience working on photo shoots, film sets, special events and weddings in West Coast locations like Whistler and Tofino, the stylist Asaya brings a refined yet relaxed aesthetic, perfect for couples seeking naturally radiant beauty in an island setting.
Location - Galiano Island
Makeup + Wellness
Madrona del Mar Spa Website
Rachel Jannati Artistry Instagram
Madrona del Mar Spa
Madrona del Mar Spa is the oceanfront spa at Galiano Oceanfront Inn, offering a serene garden-tucked retreat where ocean, sky, and forest create a calming backdrop for rest and renewal. Set just above the water, the spa features massage, facials, body treatments, and add-ons using Eminence Organic Skin Care, along with tranquil treatment spaces that include private indoor and outdoor rooms and access to a spa hot tub nestled in the spa garden.
Location - Galiano Island
Supporting local vendors keeps more of your wedding budget within Gulf Island communities, which helps sustain small businesses, local jobs, and the long term vibrancy of these places. Island based vendors also bring lived experience with local venues, ferry schedules, weather, and seasonal rhythms, which can make planning smoother. Not every type of vendor will be available on every island, especially smaller or more remote ones. In those cases, it is completely fine to look to nearby communities on other Gulf Islands or Vancouver Island. Our other regional vendor lists can help you find trusted vendors who can travel to your location while still supporting the broader coastal economy.