Ottawa wedding day timeline when you stay on one property

Lock the ceremony and the meal

Write the ceremony time, when the reception space opens, and when dinner is served. Portraits and family photographs have to fit around those times.

Put getting ready on the map

Getting ready is often in a hotel or a house, even when the ceremony and the reception share one venue. Add the drive and parking. A timeline that starts at the ceremony undercounts the morning.

Stay on the property, or plan the crossing

Vicky and Ryan were married at Stonefields in Ottawa. That is the published Ottawa wedding. When the ceremony and the reception are on one property, do not add a crossing between Ottawa and Gatineau. If they are on opposite sides of the river, time that drive on the weekday you will actually travel.

See Vicky and Ryan’s photographs · Ottawa–Gatineau timeline

Place portraits between the fixed events

Ask the venue which lawn, room, or entrance you can use, and for how long. Confirm that photographs are allowed there. The portrait place should be one you can reach in the clothes the wedding party will wear.

Give photography and film the same schedule

If you are booking both, one timeline has to work for still photographs and for film. Speeches, the ceremony, and the first dance cannot be in two places at once.

Ask how travel from Montreal is quoted

Travel is included within 20 km of Montreal. An Ottawa wedding is arranged individually. Ask for the travel amount in the written quote, next to the collection you are booking.

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