Salt Spring Island Weddings
A Guide to Local Wedding Venues, Florists, & More
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Salt Spring Island weddings are celebrations held on the largest and most-visited of the Gulf Islands, where natural beauty, working farms, and a deep community of local artists come together to create a day that feels rooted in place. This is the island with the deepest bench of working artists: potters, weavers, cheesemakers, growers, cidermakers, many of whom have been here for decades and whose work ends up woven through the weddings held on the island.
Salt Spring offers more than beautiful wedding venues. From oceanfront restaurants and local wineries to spas, markets, and outdoor adventures, this is a place where a wedding and a holiday naturally blend together, and where guests who come for a weekend tend to spend it exploring rather than waiting around between events.
At Folklore Wedding Company, we can help bring it all together with our wedding planning services. Whether you're dreaming of a grand celebration or a quiet elopement, our team knows the island, its venues, and its community of vendors inside and out. We'll work with you to design a day that feels seamless, meaningful, and true to your story.
Practically, Salt Spring is reached by ferry from Swartz Bay, Crofton, or Tsawwassen, and floatplanes land in Ganges Harbour. Guest accommodation is the piece to sort first, the island fills through July and August and most couples hold a summer date twelve to eighteen months ahead.
Who will photograph and film your wedding?
Sydney Woodward
Sydney Woodward is a passionate storyteller who 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.
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.
Folklore Multi-Creative Wedding Media Package
The Folklore Multi-Creative Package is a one-stop offering that brings together all of your wedding media needs under one cohesive creative team. Blending digital and film photography, cinematic videography, and Folklore's signature tintype process, this collection ensures your celebration is captured with artistry, consistency, and care. Designed to work seamlessly alongside our regional Folklore Creatives, it's ideal for couples who value storytelling that feels both timeless and true.
Which venue suits your celebration?
Lavender & Black
Tucked into the quiet north end of Salt Spring Island, Lavender & Black is an intimate working farm and one of the island's most romantic venues for elopements and micro-weddings. Surrounded by rolling fields of lavender, it offers a serene setting for couples seeking a celebration grounded in beauty and simplicity. Designed for gatherings of up to twelve guests, it's a space that invites you to slow down, focus on each other, and share your vows somewhere that feels both natural and deeply personal.
Ruckle Farm
Perched on the southeastern shoreline of Salt Spring Island, Ruckle Heritage Farm is a place where history, nature, and love come together. Established in 1872, it remains the oldest working family farm in the Gulf Islands, offering open pastures, forested trails, and sweeping ocean views, an idyllic setting for couples seeking a celebration rooted in place and meaning.
Lost Field Farm
Lost field Farm is a working farm and all-inclusive wedding venue on Salt Spring Island, offering a carefully curated celebration experience with elegant rustic charm for guest lists of 30 to 150. For couples planning off-site weddings, they also provide complete floral design services, bringing fresh blooms straight from their fields to venues across the Southern Gulf Islands and Victoria.
Stone Bridge Island Farm
Stone Bridge Island Farm is an 80-acre Salt Spring Island property with arbutus and oak trees, ocean views, and sandstone cliffs setting the scene for weddings of all kinds. The 8,000-square-foot barn opens on all sides to mountains, fields, water, and sunsets, making it equally suited to ceremonies, receptions, and dancing, while on-site bed and breakfast accommodations let couples and guests settle into the island's beauty for the full stay.
Hastings House
Nestled on 22 acres of oceanfront property on Salt Spring Island, Hastings House Country House Hotel offers heritage charm and sweeping ocean views across multiple ceremony settings, including a wedding arbour perched above the water. Eighteen well-appointed guest suites surrounded by manicured gardens make it easy for couples and their guests to settle in and savour the island for the full weekend.
Duck Creek Farm
Duck Creek Farm is a family-run outdoor wedding venue on thirteen acres of Salt Spring Island, tended by Sue Earle and her family since 1990. Set among gardens, greenhouses, seventy-five fruit trees, and five acres of forest, with Duck Creek and its salmon run threading through, the farm hosts ceremonies, receptions, and accommodation in one place, from the furnished "Lovers Tipi" to a walk-in campground. Couples can even source produce from the fields for their meal. It's a grounded, homegrown setting for those who want their day held close to the land.
Who will bring the flowers?
Buttercup Sandwich Florals
Buttercup Sandwich Florals creates floral designs with locally grown, organic flowers that reflect the uniqueness of every client and the plants of each season. They grow many flowers themselves, as well as sourcing from other local growers, to produce lively arrangements. As a florist based on Salt Spring Island, Buttercup Sandwich serves BC Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island, Mainland BC, and Okanagan.
Sea of Blooms Farm
Sea of Blooms Farm is a Salt Spring Island flower farm growing locally and sustainably raised cut flowers for all occasions, working in harmony with the seasons to supply weddings and events, everyday bouquets, and a small farm shop. Their flowers can be ordered for celebrations or picked up directly from the farmstand at the end of King Road across from Woodshed Provisions South.
Lost Field Farm
Lost Field Farm is not just one of Salt Spring Island's best wedding venues but also a dedicated cut-flower farm. With a dedicated team of florists, they create fresh farm arrangements, backdrops, and decor grown on-site. For those planning off-site events, across other wedding venues in the Southern Gulf Islands and Victoria area, they also offer complete floral design services.
Where can your party unwind before or after the day?
Solace Organic Spa
Solace Organic Spa is a holistic forest spa in the south end of Salt Spring Island, offering private hydrotherapy sessions and spa rituals designed for wedding parties, elopements, and pre- or post-wedding retreats. Groups can book exclusive use of the Forest Hydrotherapy Circuit, cedar sauna, hot tub, cold plunge, and relaxation lounge, along with professional massage and spa treatments tailored to the occasion. Spa & Dine options featuring local charcuterie, kombucha, non-alcoholic bubbly, and chocolates make it a peaceful, nature-rooted place for couples and guests to unwind.
Mehndi Nomadic
Mehndi Nomadic is a travelling (mobile) henna-art and body-decoration studio, offering hand, arm, back, and full-body henna designs for weddings, celebrations, and special events. Their services deliver a beautiful and traditional form of adornment, perfect for couples who want to include a unique, culturally rich, and visually striking element in their wedding day or celebration.
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.
Arbutus View Thermal Spa
Set in the old-growth forest of Salt Spring Island, Arbutus View Thermal Spa offers a private outdoor hydrotherapy experience built around a sauna, hot tub, cold plunge and shower. Every booking is exclusive, shared with no one else, and the spa is both dog-friendly and clothing optional. Beyond quiet soaks in nature, it hosts private gatherings from bachelorettes to family celebrations, with catering available. For couples marking a wedding here, it's a restful place to slow down before or after the day.
Who will plan the day and supply the pieces?
Folklore Wedding Company
Folklore Wedding Company curates all-inclusive elopements and intimate weddings on Salt Spring Island, partnering with the island's most beautiful venues, from the lavender fields of Lavender & Black, to the oceanfront heritage grounds of Ruckle Farm, to sailing celebrations aboard the historic Providence tall ship. With local planners, photographers, and vendors working together, we create curated wedding experiences that make planning effortless, now including full-size wedding planning on the island, as well as month-of (day-of) coordination.
Salt Spring Island Event Rentals
Salt Spring Island Event Rentals is Folklore Weddings' anchor rental partner on the island, offering couples a curated collection of tableware, glassware, candle holders, vases, table runners, arch drapes, vintage ladders, and decorative signage available to rent directly for celebrations on Salt Spring. Items are listed with clear pricing and damage deposits, making it easy to piece together a cohesive table and ceremony setup without sourcing from the mainland.
Turningtables
Turningtables is a woman-owned, nonprofit event staffing collective offering trained, reliable servers, bartenders, and day-of coordinators wherever your celebration lands. Alongside staffing, they bring in a sommelier for guided local and international wine tastings (charcuterie optional), creative chefs building menus around the flavours you love, and mixologists crafting a custom cocktail program of your own. Everyone is local, the pricing is budget-minded, and they work by the hour to suit the day. Booked through 2026, they are now taking 2027 and 2028 weddings.
Who will feed your guests and quench their thirst?
Sweetgrass Food Co.
Run by Dan and Chigusa, Sweetgrass Food Co. cooks from The Root food hub on Beddis Road, where they have been part of the Salt Spring community since 2024. Their weekly Backdoor Dinner menu moves between classic European, west coast, and Asian cooking: westcoast chowder, Moroccan spiced lamb skewers, seared albacore niçoise, braised pork chashu don, katsu curries. The food is simple, approachable, and true to its origins. For couples who want catering with range and an honest local hand, they take event inquiries directly.
Woodshed Provisions
Woodshed Provisions is a Salt Spring Island food hub and catering kitchen led by chef Haidee Hart, offering beautifully curated West Coast dining rooted in the farms, forests, and ocean of the Gulf Islands. From their gourmet deli at The Jam Factory and whimsical farm stand in the island's south end, they create seasonal takeaway meals, soups, salads, baked goods, picnic fare, and pantry provisions. The Woodshed team also caters weddings, special events, and corporate gatherings with prepared platters and full-service on-site menus, often partnering with beloved venues like Bullock Lake Farm and Lightwater Cove.
Salt Spring Catering
Salt Spring Catering is led by Red Seal chef Brody Paine, who brings over 20 years of experience from premier properties including the Westin Bayshore, Fairmont, and Marriott, alongside a culinary journey that has taken him across Italy and to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin as a chef for Team USA. His menus are seasonal, locally rooted, and designed to feel both refined and genuinely personal. Brody and his tight-knit team are known as much for their generosity and joy to work with as for the exceptional food they put on the table.
SydneyLove's Galettes
Salt Spring Island is famous for its farm-to-table ideology, but Adina Guest of Love's Galettes is starting a farm-to-cake revolution. She is a one-woman custom pastry company who celebrates all that Salt Spring has to offer, with creations bursting with colour, texture and flavour. Each cake comes engulfed in a cascade of petals and blooms, with layer upon layer of fresh and locally sourced ingredients.
Haan Palcu-Chang
Haan Palcu-Chang is a Taiwanese-Romanian chef and caterer based on Salt Spring Island. As a chef, Haan has led award-winning kitchens in Toronto and Paris, worked in some of the best restaurants in Europe, Singapore, and Canada, and recently appeared on a season of Top Chef Canada. His cooking style is eclectic, inspired by his Eurasian heritage and experience cooking abroad, but all his food is centered around big, vibrant, crave-able flavours.
Salt Spring Wild Cider
Set on a hillside orchard with sweeping views, Salt Spring Wild Cider is both a cidery and a gathering place. Their craft ciders are made from heritage apples and wild foraged fruit, creating a taste that is uniquely tied to the island. With a relaxed patio, seasonal tasting room, and a focus on local ingredients, it's a favourite stop for wedding guests and couples looking to share a true Salt Spring experience.
Where will your guests stay?
Salty Stay Cabin
Salty Stay Cabin is a Scandinavian-inspired retreat on Salt Spring Island, tucked behind a willow tree on a rural half acre and a short walk from nearby beaches. Designed with a clean, minimal aesthetic, it's a cozy home base for slow getaways with friends or family. The cabin sleeps up to six across two bedrooms (plus a spacious loft set up for yoga or stargazing), and includes a luxury kitchen with a gas range, an open living area with a gas fireplace, and outdoor hangout spaces.
The Cottages
The Cottages on Salt Spring Island is a lakeside resort-style stay set on the edge of Bullock Lake, a short drive from Ganges. The property offers bright, well-appointed cottages positioned for space and lake views, with private patios or balconies for slow mornings outdoors. It's also set up well for wedding weekends and group stays, where guests can book multiple cottages together and use the resort as an easy home base.
Harbour House Hotel
Harbour House Hotel is a waterfront stay at the head of Ganges Harbour on Salt Spring Island, with many rooms offering harbour views and furnished patios or balconies for slow mornings and sunrise watching over Ganges Bay. Set just steps from Ganges Village (and the Saturday Market), it's an easy home base for wedding weekends and guest stays, with an on-site full-service restaurant plus flexible event and meeting spaces.
Mariner's Loft Salt Spring Island
Mariner's Loft is a collection of seven ocean-view condos perched directly above Ganges Harbour on Salt Spring Island, walking distance from the shops, cafés, and Saturday Market. Each two or three-bedroom suite comes with full kitchens, gas fireplaces, floor-to-ceiling windows onto the water, private decks with BBQs, and parking, and all units are pet-friendly. The 2,025 sqft penthouse sleeps a crowd, with room for family and friends to spread out. For couples marrying nearby, it's a comfortable base to gather the people they love.
Saltspringaccommodation
Planning a Salt Spring wedding often means finding somewhere special for everyone to stay. Salt Spring Accommodation Group connects couples and their guests with locally owned B&Bs, cottages, inns, guest suites, vacation rentals and other unique island stays. Explore accommodation options across the island, connect directly with local hosts, and find a welcoming home base for the wedding weekend—and a little island exploring in between.
Who else should you know?
Bassos Rancheros · Wedding DJ
Bassos, also known as Bassos Rancheros, is a Salt Spring Island–based wedding DJ with 15+ years of experience, known for vibrant sets that pull from world music, Latin rhythms, and global funk. He works closely with couples to shape the soundtrack and flow across the full day, including ceremony audio, cocktail hour, dinner, speeches, and a dance floor that matches the energy you want. He arrives with a pro sound system suited for weddings up to 100 guests.
Oliver Swain · Musician
Oliver Swain is a JUNO and WCMA-nominated roots musician based in Victoria, playing banjo and upright bass with a vocal range and presence that tends to stop people in their tracks. His "chamber folk odyssey" style is whimsical, deeply felt, and rooted in Appalachian and folk traditions while being entirely his own thing. Available solo or with his full band, he is one of Folklore Wedding Company's favourite musicians to bring into a celebration.
Emily Hartwell Jewelry
Emily Hartwell is a Salt Spring Island jeweller creating hand-crafted pieces with organic forms inspired by the West Coast. Alongside ready-to-ship jewelry, she designs bespoke engagement rings and wedding bands in a one-on-one process, shaping heirloom pieces that carry real meaning for couples. Orders ship from her Salt Spring Island studio, and you can also visit her showroom by appointment or find her at the Salt Spring Saturday Market.
Lux Rosa Jewellery
Lucie Rose, owner and operator of Lux Rosa Jewellery, has spent over fifteen years slowly and intentionally honing her craft as a goldsmith. Her passion for antiquities and history guides her hands toward the art of adornment, creating pieces that feel timeless, tactile, and deeply human. Her work draws inspiration from ancient Roman and Etruscan design, celebrating imperfection, texture, and the quiet beauty of something truly handmade.
Atelier Jacobsen Jensen · Goldsmith
Based on Salt Spring Island, Atelier Jacobsen Jensen offers handcrafted jewellery that blends timeless design with modern artistry. Paul Jacobsen Jensen specializes in creating bespoke pieces, as well as restoration and redesign of heirlooms, making his work a meaningful choice for weddings and celebrations. His studio is a destination for couples seeking custom rings or keepsakes that carry the spirit of the Gulf Islands.
Anh Le Studio · Tattoo
Anh (pronounced Anne) offers custom and flash tattoos in an ornamental line and dot work style, with designs drawn from Nature (trees, plants, animal and ocean life) merged with patterns from typography, calligraphy and graffiti. Tattoo offerings at wedding receptions feature a small selection of pre-drawn designs reflecting love and the celebration of Nature, tattooed on site and bookable in advance or in person.
Who will marry you?
Katie Brennan
Katie Brennan is a licensed wedding officiant based on Salt Spring Island, offering personalized ceremonies for couples at all life stages. Serving Salt Spring and surrounding areas such as the Southern Gulf Islands, Cowichan Valley, Saanich Peninsula, Greater Victoria, and Vancouver Island, Katie crafts unique ceremonies that reflect each couple's story and vision: themed weddings, vow renewals, and ceremonies for blended families, all praised for her warm, calming presence.
Her Wild Hearth · Ceremonies & Ritual
Her Wild Hearth offers wedding ceremonies and vow renewals that feel grounded, personal, and true to the two people standing in them. Kelsey Robson takes the time to know you and your relationship, then builds a ceremony around your values, your shared history, and what you actually want to say, something you can settle into rather than perform. Kelsey isn't a licensed officiant, so the legal side happens separately, or you can fold a marriage commissioner into the ceremony you shape together. For couples travelling from out of the country, or anyone who simply needs someone to hold the ceremonial space with care, she is a wonderful choice.
Frequently Asked Questions about Salt Spring Island Weddings
How do we get to Salt Spring Island? +
Salt Spring is reached by ferry from Swartz Bay, Crofton, or Tsawwassen, and floatplanes land in Ganges Harbour. In summer, plan ahead and allow extra time for busy sailings.
How far in advance should we book a summer wedding on Salt Spring? +
Guest accommodation is the piece to sort first, as the island fills through July and August. Most couples hold a summer date twelve to eighteen months ahead.
Can our guests stay on the island for the weekend? +
Yes. Salt Spring has a range of stays, from cabins and oceanview condos to lakeside cottages, waterfront hotels, and venues with on-site accommodation. These book quickly in peak season, so it is worth securing them early.
Do we need to bring in off-island vendors? +
Not usually. Salt Spring has a deep community of florists, chefs, bakers, musicians, officiants, and other artists. Choosing local talent simplifies logistics and roots the day in the island itself, and Folklore can help bring it all together.
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