Salt Spring Weddings: A Guide to Local Wedding Venues, Florists, & More
Planning a Salt Spring wedding or elopement? This Southern Gulf Island is a dream destination for couples leaning into natural beauty and artistic charm.
Salt Spring wedding venues offer stunning ocean views, lush forests, and farm-to-table energy.
Our florists and caterers love to work with locally grown produce and decor. And our wedding photographers know how to use the island's natural beauty and secret backdrops to capture memories that last a lifetime. It's the perfect setting for everything from grand celebrations to small elopements.
Why Get Married on Salt Spring Island?
Salt Spring Island offers couples a one-of-a-kind wedding experience with:
-Breathtaking Scenery: Wedding venues on Salt Spring Island offer private beaches, arbutus forests, and rolling farm fields.
-Laid-Back, Intimate Atmosphere: The island is ideal for small weddings and elopements that focus on connection, simplicity, and natural elements.
-Talented Local Vendors: Salt Spring is home to a fantastic community of wedding professionals, from florists to wedding photographers.
-Easily Accessible: A short ferry or float plane ride from Vancouver or Victoria makes the island a perfect getaway.
Bullock Lake Farm
www.instagram.com/bullocklakefarm
Bullock Lake Farm is a working farm and all-inclusive wedding venue on Salt Spring Island. They provide a carefully curated wedding experience infused with an elegant yet rustic charm.
The Bullock Lake venue can accommodate guest lists of 30 to 150. For those planning off-site weddings, they offer complete floral design services. They'll bring the freshest blooms straight from their fields to your chosen wedding venue within the Southern Gulf Islands and Victoria area.
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www.bullocklakefarm.com/weddings-landing-page
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Stone Bridge Island Farm
Stone Bridge Island Farm sits on 80 acres of Salt Spring Island farmland and is an idyllic setting for your wedding. Their property features arbutus and oak trees, ocean views, and sandstone cliffs as the essential backdrop for your special day.
The 8,000-square-foot barn is ideal for receptions, banquets, and dances, with large sliding doors on all sides that open for views of mountains, fields, water, and sunsets. For guest accommodations, the farm offers a bed and breakfast, allowing you and your loved ones to fully enjoy the island's beauty.
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www.stonebridgeislandfarm.com
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Ruckle Heritage Farm
www.instagram.com/rucklefarm
Ruckle Heritage Farm, established in 1872 and located within Ruckle Provincial Park on Salt Spring Island, offers a historic and picturesque setting for weddings and special events. With its pastoral landscapes, vibrant gardens, and heritage farm scenery, the venue provides an ideal backdrop for your celebration. The farm also offers accommodations in its historic homes, allowing you and your guests to fully immerse yourselves in the tranquil farm atmosphere. To ensure an exclusive experience, the farm hosts a limited number of events each year. For availability and pricing, please contact their event director, Marjorie Lane.
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www.rucklefarmsaltspringisland.com
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hastingshouse
www.instagram.com/hastingshouse_
Nestled on 22 acres of oceanfront property on Salt Spring Island, Hastings House Country House Hotel has a heritage charm with ocean views. Their estate features multiple ceremony options, including a beautiful wedding arbour overlooking the ocean.
Accommodations include 18 well-appointed guest suites surrounded by manicured gardens for a comfortable and memorable stay for you and your guests.
www.hastingshouse.com/plan-an-event/weddings/
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Bullock Lake Farm
www.instagram.com/bullocklakefarm
Bullock Lake Farm is a working farm and all-inclusive wedding venue on Salt Spring Island. They provide a carefully curated wedding experience infused with an elegant yet rustic charm.
The Bullock Lake venue can accommodate guest lists of 30 to 150. For those planning off-site weddings, they offer complete floral design services. They'll bring the freshest blooms straight from their fields to your chosen wedding venue within the Southern Gulf Islands and Victoria area.
www.bullocklakefarm.com/weddings-landing-page
STASIA
GARRAWAY
Wedding Venues
Stone Bridge Island Farm
Stone Bridge Island Farm sits on 80 acres of Salt Spring Island farmland and is an idyllic setting for your wedding. Their property features arbutus and oak trees, ocean views, and sandstone cliffs as the essential backdrop for your special day.
The 8,000-square-foot barn is ideal for receptions, banquets, and dances, with large sliding doors on all sides that open for views of mountains, fields, water, and sunsets. For guest accommodations, the farm offers a bed and breakfast, allowing you and your loved ones to fully enjoy the island's beauty.
www.stonebridgeislandfarm.com
STASIA
GARRAWAY
Wedding Venues
Ruckle Heritage Farm
Ruckle Heritage Farm was established in 1872 and is located within Ruckle Provincial Park. With its pastoral landscapes and heritage farm scenery, this Salt Spring wedding venue provides an ideal location for your celebration.
The farm also offers accommodations in its historic homes, allowing you and your guests to fully immerse yourselves in the tranquil island atmosphere. To ensure an exclusive experience, the farm hosts a limited number of events each year. For availability and pricing, please contact their event director, Marjorie Lane.
SYDNEY
WOODWARD
www.instagram.com/rucklefarm
www.rucklefarmsaltspringisland.com
Wedding Venues
Ruckle Heritage Farm
Nestled on 22 acres of oceanfront property on Salt Spring Island, Hastings House Country House Hotel has a heritage charm with ocean views. Their estate features multiple ceremony options, including a beautiful wedding arbour overlooking the ocean.
Accommodations include 18 well-appointed guest suites surrounded by manicured gardens for a comfortable and memorable stay for you and your guests.
SYDNEY
WOODWARD
www.instagram.com/hastingshouse_
www.hastingshouse.com/plan-an-event/weddings/
Sydney Woodward
instagram.com/folklore.wedding.co/
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 his belief in the power of creative collaboration.
Sydney's journey as an artist is rooted in his dedication to preserving love stories in meaningful and enduring ways. His work in tintype photography, a 19th-century process that produces one-of-a-kind heirlooms, is at the heart of his craft, offering couples a tangible connection to history and tradition.
Photography & Videography
folkloreweddings.com/sydney-woodward-bio
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Stasia Garraway
instagram.com/compasswedding
photography/
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 & Videography
www.stasia-g.com
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folkloreweddings.com/stasia-garraway
Photography & Videography
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 his belief in the power of creative collaboration.
Sydney's journey as an artist is rooted in his dedication to preserving love stories in meaningful and enduring ways. His work in tintype photography, a 19th-century process that produces one-of-a-kind heirlooms, is at the heart of his craft, offering couples a tangible connection to history and tradition.
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instagram.com/folklore.wedding.co/
folkloreweddings.com/sydney-woodward-bio
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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.
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instagram.com/compasswedding
photography/
www.stasia-g.com
folkloreweddings.com/stasia-garraway
Bullock Lake Farm
www.instagram.com/bullocklakefarm
Bullock Lake 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, bringing the freshest blooms from their fields for spectacular designs.
Florists
www.bullocklakefarm.com/weddings-landing-page
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SYDNEY WOODWARD
SYDNEY WOODWARD
earth candy farm
www.instagram.com/earthcandyfarm/
Earth Candy Farm, a small family farm on Salt Spring Island, specializes in providing organic, hand-grown flowers for weddings or special events. Their full-service floral offerings are personalized, transforming your venue with seasonal blooms based on personal consultations, design proposals, and on-site arrangements.
For simpler celebrations, they also offer à la carte creations, including bridal bouquets, table arrangements, and bud vase centrepieces, available for purchase online and pickup at the farm. Their flower philosophy emphasizes the beauty of each season, combining farm-grown flowers with foraged plants and naturally dyed ribbons to craft unique, thoughtfully designed arrangements that reflect the natural splendour of the moment.
Florists
https://www.earthcandyfarm.com/weddings
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Buttercup Sandwich Florals
www.instagram.com/buttercup.sandwich
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.
Florists
www.buttercupsandwich.com
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Florists
Bullock Lake Farm
Bullock Lake 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, bringing the freshest blooms from their fields for spectacular designs.
SYDNEY
WOODWARD
www.instagram.com/bullocklakefarm
www.bullocklakefarm.com/weddings-landing-page
Florists
Earth Candy Farm, a small family farm on Salt Spring Island, specializes in providing organic, hand-grown flowers for weddings or special events. Their full-service floral offerings are personalized, transforming your venue with seasonal blooms based on personal consultations, design proposals, and on-site arrangements. For simpler celebrations, they also offer à la carte creations, including bridal bouquets, table arrangements, and bud vase centrepieces, available for purchase online and pickup at the farm. Their flower philosophy emphasizes the beauty of each season, combining farm-grown flowers with foraged plants and naturally dyed ribbons to craft unique, thoughtfully designed arrangements that reflect the natural splendour of the moment.
www.instagram.com/earthcandyfarm
www.earthcandyfarm.com/weddings
Earth Candy Farm
Florists
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.
www.instagram.com/buttercup.sandwich
www.buttercupsandwich.com
Buttercup Sandwich Florals
Love'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.
Take a peek at Love's Galettes' Instagram, and you'll find yourself on a joyous ride through the cakes infused with Salt Spring Island flavors. Each cake comes engulfed in a cascade of petals and blooms, with layer upon layer of fresh and locally sourced ingredients.
Cakes + Caterers
www.instagram.com/lovesgalettes
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Haan Palcu-Chang
Haan Palcu-Chang is a Taiwanese-Romanian chef and caterer based on Salt Spring Island. Born and raised in Toronto, he grew up eating cabbage rolls at his bunica's and going out for dim sum with his Taiwanese family.
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. He is also the author of a small collection of Romanian Recipes.
His cooking style is eclectic—inspired by his Eurasian heritage, experience cooking abroad, and the influences of growing up in one of the world's most multicultural cities—but all his food is centered around big, vibrant, crave-able flavours.
Cakes + Caterers
www.instagram.com/haanpc
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www.haanpc.com
Cakes + Caterers
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.
Take a peek at Love's Galettes' Instagram, and you'll find yourself on a joyous ride through the cakes infused with Salt Spring Island flavors. Each cake comes engulfed in a cascade of petals and blooms, with layer upon layer of fresh and locally sourced ingredients.
Read more on edible vancouver island
www.instagram.com/lovesgalettes
Love's Galettes
Cakes + Caterers
Haan Palcu-Chang is a Taiwanese-Romanian chef and caterer based on Salt Spring Island. Born and raised in Toronto, he grew up eating cabbage rolls at his bunica's and going out for dim sum with his Taiwanese family. 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. He is also the author of a small collection of Romanian Recipes. His cooking style is eclectic—inspired by his Eurasian heritage, experience cooking abroad, and the influences of growing up in one of the world's most multicultural cities—but all his food is centered around big, vibrant, crave-able flavours.
www.haanpc.com
www.instagram.com/haanpc/
Haan Palcu-Chang
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If you’re dreaming of a stunning, intimate elopement, our Salt Spring Island package includes a breathtaking location, professional wedding photography, and a curated experience with trusted local vendors. Your wedding can take place in 2025 or 2026, giving you the flexibility to plan your perfect day.
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