My Fiancé and I are high school sweethearts. We have been together for twelve years, engaged for the last two. We always knew that we would be getting married but planning the big ordeal is just not our style.
After our nine month old came into the world we decided that there was no time like the present to make it official. We went on line and found everything we needed to plan our special day. We customized a celebration for ourselves that was completely perfect for just the two of us.
Being 7 hours away, we thought we might find it difficult to trust strangers but found everyone in Niagara to be extremely helpful. Our day was everything we wanted it to be, including a beautiful falls view room and a magical dinner for two we shared at an upscale restaurant.
There was something really wonderful about it being just the two of us and Niagara Falls, in all its beauty was exactly the right choice for us!!
Erin & Kevin - October 14, 2008Getting married in Niagara Falls was a dream come true! I always knew I wanted a destination wedding while keeping in mind that I would be planning from afar. I planned all the details with suggestions from others, web sites and blind faith. After the months of planning and phone calls, everything was in place. I had to trust everything would be ready when I arrived in Canada - and it was. Everything was ready and the day went better than planned.
I would recommend this process to anyone considering it. Everyone hopes that their wedding day is perfect. They want it to be a fairytale story and mine was in every sense of the word.
Feeling the mist of the Falls hit me as I read my wedding vows is not something I will ever forget. I found some of the vendors I used on a brand new site that I have come to find out wasn't even officially launched yet! www.elopeniagara.com.
I am happy to send in this testimonial with my positive experience with everyone in Niagara Falls! My wedding dream come true!!
Liz & Mike - October 2, 2008My husband and I live in Scotland and, following our engagement, booked and began planning the traditional Scottish castle wedding. However, a small family wedding began snow-balling and we soon realized it wasn't what we wanted. We made the decision to elope and immediately set our sights on Niagara Falls. Having searched on the internet, we chose an officiant and after one phone call our wedding was booked! Via email, our officiant and his company helped us plan our big day -they organized a venue, a photographer, flowers, a hair dresser and even recommended a fantastic restaurant.
On the day, we were both so nervous, but within minutes of meeting our officiant and photographer, they made us feel so welcome and at ease. We were on our own in a foreign country but by no means felt alone. We were married in a beautiful garden, opposite the magnificent falls - the whole day was simply magical!
On returning to our hotel room at night, we were overjoyed to find our photographer had already delivered our photos to our room - they were stunning - the most perfect way to end the day.
Our fairytale Niagara Falls wedding was amazing; our only regret is that the day ever had to end!!!
Aimee & Doug - May 30, 2009
We were VERY excited to receive this testimonial! We were in the beginning stages of promoting this site and Kim asked one of her brides to check out ElopeNiagara.com (after the wedding) just to get some feedback from a destination brides point of view and guess what!!! The ElopeNiagara Site was the site that cemented their decision to come to Niagara for their destination wedding! We came to find out that every professional they used they were thrilled with! Read on.....
Hi Kim
I had actually visited the web site www.elopeniagara.com whilst organizing our wedding! We were especially interested in the same-sex couples page – as there aren’t many web sites which mention they cater for same sex couples (in fact one web site we visited mentioned that they specifically do not work with same sex couples!). So it was important for us to org anise our wedding working with professionals who were not just tolerant, but supportive and took as much care with us as with hetero couples to help celebrate our special day! So yes, the web site did help us consolidate our decision to come to Niagara, knowing we would be welcome!
The web site is ‘clean’ and not too cluttered, which makes it easier to navigate. The information for getting a marriage licence was spot on!
Here is our story:
After a surprise proposal in Rome from my girlfriend, we looked into arranging our wedding.
We’re a female couple from London England and we wanted to get married, not just civilly partnered in the UK. But we discovered only a handful of English speaking countries grant same sex marriages. Canada was our obvious choice (we were unfamiliar with South Africa and the US states seem to be able to overturn previous same sex marriage rulings). Niagara Falls was the perfect backdrop of our wedding ceremony, it is unique and picturesque. The area has great transport with a choice of two airports to fly into and there are plenty of things to do to cater for all ages groups.
When we arrived in Niagara, we soon discovered how friendly the people are and everyone was excited for us when they found out we were due to be married in their city! We received endless congratulations and really felt at home.
All of the professionals we worked with were absolutely amazing! We found that we receivedprompt responses to our email enquiries within 24 hours, in most cases less! Nothing was too much trouble and all our ‘silly’ questions were answered. We had everything under control and even last minute requests were not a problem! We finalized our wedding flowers less than one week before our wedding! Our photographer was brilliant, she really put us at ease and the quality was superb! Same excellence goes for our vintage Rolls Royce & driver – he went the extra mile to give us a scenic tour of west Niagara & provided a free bottle of champagne for us to celebrate! Our make up artist and hairstylist were great, they did a brilliant job whilst we merrily gossiped away.
All the above contributed to perfecting our special day, making it a fun and memorable for all the right reasons! My in-laws were surprised that we were able to org anise everything without having to fly over to ‘scout out’ beforehand.
I highly recommend Niagara as Wedding destination Location!
Cheers
Angela & Joe - September 9, 2009
Our wedding in Canada was such a wonderful experience and having eloped it was important for us to return with "wow" pictures!
The photographer we chose from this site made us feel so comfortable and took pictures that were so natural and also allowed us the option to suggest some photographs that we would like too. Being from Dublin, Ireland was no issue, our photographs were delivered promptly via express mail.
I do strongly recommend hiring a professional . Our minister helped us with all the ceremony and legal details and the limo driver was fantastic!
Everyone in Niagara was very kind and helpful and made us feel very welcome. Coming all the way from Ireland, we weren't sure how things would go having booked everything over the internet, but we were pleasantly surprised at how wonderful the whole experiance was.
Niagara is a beautiuful place to get married and enjoy a honeymoon!
Brid & Shane August 31 2009