Any Alberta or British Columbia registry can provide you with a marriage license, but it’s best to contact them in advance so they know your information before you arrive. Some registries have only specific days of the week they can provide licenses, others are more flexible. Most registries will have a form for you to complete and email over before you go for your marriage license appointment.

Once you have picked up your marriage license, keep it safe, do not fold or bend it, and give it to your marriage officiant at your ceremony. They are then responsible for getting it signed correctly by the right people and sending it off to Vital Statistics.

• In Alberta, once your wedding ceremony has taken place, you need to head back into the registry to order your marriage certificate. This is the official document that proves the wedding happened. The certificate will then be sent in the mail within a few months, the marriage certificate is valid worldwide.

• In BC, they include the marriage certificate as part of the package when you pick up your marriage license from the registry so you can do everything within 1 visit.

• We have a partnership with Banff Registry where they let us pick up the license and pre order your certificate in one visit to save you having to return to the registry after your wedding ceremony.

You can pick up your marriage license any time within 3 months of your wedding date. If you reschedule or change your wedding date or location, you will need to repeat the process to get a new one and pay a new fee for it.

Yes. If you are stopping in any national park, your vehicle requires a national parks pass. This applies to all national parks across the country, we mostly work in Banff National Park, Yoho National Park and Jasper National Park.

Even if you are staying outside of a national park in a place like Canmore, then driving into the park for your wedding then returning to Canmore afterwards, you will still need a 1 day pass. These can be purchased at any national parks gates on the day.

Yes, pretty much. If you are eloping, you must keep your group (including wedding vendors) to 20 people or less. If you plan to have your elopement ceremony in a national park, you must fill out the national park wedding registration form in advance. If you are eloping anywhere else, there is no form required, but to make any marriage legal you will of course still need to sign a marriage license and your officiant will make a note of the location on there.

If you think a vendor has done an incredible job, you can absolutely tip them, but it is not mandatory. Hair stylists and Makeup artists typically expect a gratuity, $20 CAD is standard per person per service. Your photographer, planner, officiant, florist, baker do not expect it but it’s of course welcomed.

Most venues and some vendors will include gratuity in their pricing automatically, this is not unusual for private transportation bookings for example.

This is a very common question these days. To put it simply, a venue coordinator or anyone on the venue team can be super helpful for all venue related items. However, when you look at your wedding day as a whole, the parts that take place in the venue are just a percentage of the overall day.

Booking your wedding officiant, hair and makeup, flowers, photographer or wedding cake are not items your venue staff will ever be involved with because it’s not part of their job description due to it not being something that’s to do with the venue.

So to put it simply, if you’re comfortable booking and managing your own wedding vendors, and the venue have said they will manage all decor set up and tear down including any items you’re bringing along, then no you may not need a wedding planner/coordinator.