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.
Folklore Wedding Company currently hosts full, dedicated guides for Salt Spring Island and Gabriola Island, two well-loved destinations for Gulf Island weddings. Within this broader resource, you’ll also find guidance for Pender, Galiano, Mayne, Saturna, and the southern islands, extending north through the Discovery Islands and into communities all the way up to Denman, Hornby, Cortes and Quadra Island. Each island carries its own rhythm and charm, and this guide is designed to help you explore the vendors, venues, and creative possibilities unique to each one.
These resource guides were built to support couples planning Gulf Island weddings while uplifting the small businesses that make these celebrations possible. Every listing and recommendation connects you with local vendors who live and work in the communities where your wedding will take place, supporting the regional economy and helping you build a celebration grounded in real island knowledge.
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.
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Stasia
Garraway
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.
Photography + Video
Stasia Garraway Folklore Profile
Stasia Garraway Photography Instagram
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Location: Salt Spring Isl
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. His commitment to intentional, lasting storytelling shapes every celebration he documents, especially Salt Spring Island weddings that honour the island’s beauty and sense of place.
Photography + Video
Sydney Woodward Folklore Profile
Sydney Woodward Instagram
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Location: Salt Spring Isl
Stephanie Artuso
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, she works seamlessly with other creatives to craft cohesive and compelling photo and video storytelling that captures the full spirit of your celebration.
Photography + Video
Stephanie Artuso Folklore Profile
Stephanie Artuso Instagram
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Location: Gabriola Isl
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. With a background as a writer and magazine storyteller, Jessica brings a narrative approach to her work, highlighting the beauty and intricacy of each person’s story while living and creating on Galiano Island.
Photography + Video
Jessica Kirkwood Website
Jessica Kirkwood Instagram
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Location: galiano Isl
KR Photo
KR Photo is a Tofino-based photographer on Vancouver Island, blending immersive coastal lifestyle storytelling with wedding and couples photography. With a background rooted in outdoor adventure, surfing, forests and beach life—the photographer offers a vibrant, nature-rich aesthetic that’s especially suited to West Coast weddings, elopements and intimate couples sessions.
Photography + Video
KR Photo Website
KR Photo Instagram
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Location: Tofino
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, with on-site accommodations, spa services, and tailored planning support that make it easy to host a full destination celebration in one place.
Galiano Inn Website
Galiano Inn & Spa Instagram
Location: Galiano Island
Stasia
Garraway
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. Couples are encouraged to connect directly with the Hornby Heart team for the most up-to-date details on weddings, events, and stays.
Hornby Heart Vineyard Website
Hornby Heart Vineyard Instagram
Location: Hornby Island
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.
Galiano Inn Website
Galiano Inn & Spa Instagram
Location: Pender Island
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, The Tides is well suited for relaxed wedding weekends, guest accommodations, and small group retreats that feel like a true island escape.
The Tides CottagesWebsite
The Tides Cottages Instagram
Location: Pender Island
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, a full-service bar, and on-site tables, chairs, and sound, ideal for multi-day celebrations where everyone can stay, dine, and gather in one place.
bodega ridge Website
bodega ridge Instagram
Location: Galiano Island
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, creating a true gather-and-stay experience for family and friends.
Sea Breeze Lodge Website
Sea Breeze Lodge Instagram
Location: Hornby Island
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. With spa-like touches such as heated bathroom floors and organic bath products, plus a private yard and decks perched roughly 100 feet from the unfenced cliff edge, Norra Hem offers a luxurious, nature-immersed retreat for couples or small groups seeking a Hornby escape.
Norra Han Lodge Website
Norra Han Instagram
Location: Hornby Island
Gossip Floral
Gossip Floral is a wedding and event design studio and flower farm on Galiano Island, led by owner and principal designer Lauren, who grows local, seasonal blooms using sustainable practices on her specialty flower farm. The studio specializes in full-service weddings across the Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island, and Vancouver, offering personalized consultations, custom floral design, and hands-on delivery, setup, and styling so every arrangement is placed with care on the day. Couples can also book elopement and à la carte florals (pickup from Galiano), rent items like vases, candle votives, arches, chuppahs, and lounge décor, and look forward to farm visits and U-cut appointments beginning in Spring/Summer 2026.
Florists
Gossip Floral Website
Gossip Floral Instagram
Location: Galiano Island
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Keep Floral
Keep Floral is a Denman Island–based wedding and event florist specializing in sustainable, garden-inspired designs using seasonal blooms grown on the Keep homestead and sourced from local flower farms. Founded by florist and flower farmer Emma Scheurwater, the studio offers a range of wedding services—from elopements and micro-weddings to full-service floral design for ceremonies, receptions, and personals—aimed at adding life and colour to intimate celebrations. Their work leans into organic form, unique colour palettes, and the native species of British Columbia, with offerings that also include custom arrangements, subscriptions, and floral installations for spaces like cafés, shops, and Airbnbs.
Florists
Keep Floral Website
Keep Floral Instagram
Location: Denman Island
Evermore House (Mercedes Papalia)
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.
Florists
Gossip Floral Website
Gossip Floral Instagram
Location: Pender Island
Avalon Flower Farm
Avalon Flower Farm also offers on-site wedding florals, designing bouquets, boutonnieres, arrangements, and flower crowns using blooms grown on their own 10-acre oceanfront flower farm. From spring wildflowers to late-summer dahlias, they create seasonal, farm-grown designs that highlight dahlias, cosmos, snapdragons, and more, with the option to add a hands-on flower workshop where the wedding party can handpick and arrange their own florals by the sea. Couples simply reach out with their details for a custom quote, making it easy to pair the venue’s oceanfront setting with florals grown just steps from where they say “I do.”
Florists
Avalon Flower Farm Website
Avalon Flower FarmInstagram
Location: Pender Island
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.
Cakes + Caterers + Restaurants
Embers & Atlas Website
Embers & Atlas Instagram
Location - pender Island
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.
Cakes + Caterers + Restaurants
Oxeye Website
Oxeye Instagram
Location - Galiano Island
Pilgrimme
Pilgrimme is an acclaimed forest-set restaurant on Galiano Island, offering hyper-local coast, forest, and farm-to-table tasting menus that honour the seasons and landscape of the West Coast. Tucked among the trees near Montague Harbour, its intimate woodland dining room serves nuanced, ingredient-driven dishes built around locally grown, foraged, and preserved foods, paired with a BC-only wine and beer list. While Pilgrimme doesn’t offer off-site wedding catering, it’s a must-stop during any Galiano wedding weekend, a destination dinner where couples and guests can gather for a memorable, slow-paced meal that becomes part of the wider celebration.
Cakes + Caterers + Restaurants
Pilgrimme Website
Pilgrimme Instagram
Location - Galiano Island
Folklore Wedding Company Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands Elopements
Folklore Wedding Company offers all-inclusive Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands elopement and micro-wedding packages, designed as intimate, place-based escapes that pair breathtaking venues with thoughtful, locally rooted details. Their team collaborates with trusted island vendors for venues, decor, and services, creating a romantic, low-stress experience where everything is curated to reflect each couple’s story. Every package is supported by in-house photography and video, blending digital, film, and tintype options so the celebration is documented with cohesive, artful storytelling while couples focus on each other.
Planners + Commissioners
West Coast Weddings & Events Website
West Coast Weddings & Events Instagram
Location: Vancouver /Gulf Island wide
Across The Watters Weddings & Events
Across The Watters Weddings & Events is a Pender Island–based wedding and event planning studio founded by planner Allie Watters, specializing in small-town celebrations with big personalities across the Southern Gulf Islands. With over 15 years in hospitality and eight years focused on weddings, Allie offers services ranging from full planning to partial planning and day-of coordination, helping couples with timelines, vendor curation, decor setup and takedown, rehearsal execution, and weekend logistics so they can be fully present on the day. Rooted in a commitment to sourcing, supplying, and supporting local vendors, Across The Watters blends deep island knowledge with warm, hands-on support for weddings on Pender and neighbouring islands.
Planners + Commissioners
Across The Watters Website
Across The Watters Instagram
Location: Pender Island
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Lodging
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. With spa-like touches such as heated bathroom floors and organic bath products, plus a private yard and decks perched roughly 100 feet from the unfenced cliff edge, Norra Hem offers a luxurious, nature-immersed retreat for couples or small groups seeking a Hornby escape.
Norra Han Lodge Website
Norra Han Instagram
Location: Hornby Island
Lodging
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.
The Haven Lodge Website
The Haven Instagram
Location: Hornby Island
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.
Activities.
Quadra Island Boat Tours Website
Quadra Island Boat Tours Instagram
Location: Quadra Island
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. A small spa boutique stocks Canadian self-care lines such as Eminence, Purely Salt Spring, and more, so guests can take a piece of their wellness retreat home.
Makeup + Wellness
Madrona del Mar Spa Website
Rachel Jannati Artistry Instagram
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.