Located in Egmont, British Columbia, West Coast Wilderness Lodge is a venue that specializes in creating lasting memories by hosting waterfront weddings and special events. All set to the picturesque backdrop of British Columbias wild fjords, which we guarantee will take you breath away. West Coast Wilderness Lodge is a weekend getaway which allows your friends and family to come together in celebration of your love, over excellent wine, scrumptious food, and dazzling views. Situated near Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park and overlooking Sechelt Inlet, this scenic venue is ideal for adventurous couples who want to say their I Dos in the wilderness.
Experience
The West Coast Wilderness Lodge has been the winner of the Georgia Straights Best Wilderness Resort for 10 years. Most recently the Lodge has been awarded The Best Ocean View Wedding Venue in BC 2018, presented by Global Wedding Awards & Lux Magazine, as well as The Most Romantic Wedding Venue in BC 2019, presented by the BC Wedding Awards by Oceanic Events.
The West Coast Wilderness Lodge specializes in a hands on approach and will work closely with you throughout your entire Wedding planning process to help you achieve the Wedding of your dreams. In our experience over the last 15 plus years, we understand the importance of catering to the unique atmosphere and design of each of our couples. With our team by your side we can guarantee that all details of your big day will come together in a seemless and effortless way. Your guests will leave behind your Wedding Weekend in awe of not only the stunning scenery, but for every perfect moment they have shared with you and your friends and family.
Facilities and capacity
The facilities found at this West Coast venue include the lodge with its majestic decks and spacious dining room. The main deck overlooks the Sechelt Inlet and is used for both the ceremony and to dance under the stars. Our side patio offers an alternative ceremony space with wynding wisteria vine that remains lush throughout our season. This space is also for your guests to enjoy the cocktail hour post ceremony and remains available as a seating area with fire place lounges and hanging string lights during the dance. Our main dining room has vaulted high ceilings, and a wall of windows framed in hardwood to match our dazzling floors. The accents of this room will provide a unique and warm ambience for you and your guests.
Our waterfront space includes a beautiful green lawn perfect for a backyard Welcome BBQ. With lawn games such as bocci, to play and juicy burgers to be had. Your guests will never forget their time at our lodge whil they roast marshmallows under a starry sky to kick off your Wedding Weekend.
Our facilities can easily accommodate up to 135 seated guests or 150 guests for a standing cocktail reception. Also included is a beachfront with campfire pit, to accommodate for a welcome reception of 135 guests maximum with mixed seating. Guest accommodation is also included with 26 luxury rooms either forest view or ocean view.
For our smaller events we offer alternate venue spaces. Our waterfront is the perfect space to host a private reception for up to 40 guests. Enjoy all the lawn games and campfires as mentioned above for a intimate celebrations of your love taken up a notch with a gourmet banquet buffet. Also available is our semi-private Wisteria Patio, which may also accommodate up to 40 guests for a semi-private reception. Make this space your own with cocktail hour mingling and a delicious 3 course plated dinner.
Feeling more intimate, and you may choose one of our Elopement Packages below, for which you may add on a private dining area on our small side patio with a maximum capacity of 15 guests. This patio overlooks the gorgeous Sechelt Inlet and is the perfect space for an intimate gatering with hanging string lights and blooming flower pots.
Services offered
West Coast Wilderness Lodge offers brides and grooms the following services for their big day:
Outdoor welcome reception space
Outdoor ceremony space
Indoor and outdoor reception space
Alternative sheltered ceremony space (outdoor atrium)
Ceremony chairs
Optional wooden arch for ceremony
Banquet set up and take down
Banquet tables, chairs, linens, napkins, white china, and glassware
Guestbook table and linen
Gift table and linen
Lounge seating
Wireless microphone for dining room
Sound system with iPod dock
Access to your personal online Event Portal
A lodge wedding representative to assist you throughout the planning process
The West Coast Wilderness Lodge offers a variety of Wedding Packages to suite each couples independent needs. Firstly, the Lodge offers a full Weekend Wedding Package for which you and your guests have the privacy of the entire resort for an entire weekend. Starting the weekend off with a Welcome BBQ and followed by the Ceremony and Wedding Reception the next day. This packge is available for celebrations over 50 guests.
The Lodge also offers a Small Wedding Package which is designed for celebrations of 20-40 guests. This package is a one day package with Ceremony and Wedding Reception to which accommodations and a prior rehearsal dinner may be added on. For our more intimate gatherings the Lodge offers a variety of reception spaces from the serene grasses of our waterfront lawn, to our side patio with hanging wisteria vine.
Lastly, the Lodge offers several Elopement Packages as well. These packages have a maximum of 10 guests, and are designed to be the most romantic get away of your dreams. Designed for 2 guests these packages are fully inclusive of everything you need for a beautiful and intimate Wedding Celebration. With these packages the Lodge takes the majority of the planning experience off your hands by looking after floral arrangements, the Wedding Cake, celebration dinner, and more. Each of these packages will include all of your meals for breakfast and dinner, including a romantic room service breakfast with mimosas, and a VIP Chef Designed Tasting Dinner for your Wedding Celebration. With our Elopement Package you will have the opportunity to choose your ideal experience, by enjoying a peaceful sunset kayak along the coastline, or the privacy of an intimate evening Jet Ski. You may also choose to listen to the adventurer in your heart and book with our Chatterbox Falls Elopement Package, which includes a private boat trip to one of the most serene inlets of British Columbia, to be married in front of the thunderous Chatterbox Falls. This is a truly once in a lifetime experience.
WCWL was a dream venue! Perfect place to gather friends and family for a weekend of celebration. From the moment we booked until our wedding weekend everything was so smoothly handled. Communication with the venue is easy and fast, the food was delicious, the views beautiful and and the whole experience one we will forever remember! We were able to fully enjoy every minute of the weekend knowing that WCWL are experts at what they do. We worked with makeup and DJ from their suggested vendor and it was great.
We highly recommend this venue!
Sent on 21/10/2019
Robyn Kelly
ยท Getting married on 25/09/2021
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Engagement Party
The WCWL staff were amazing, planning this event was simple and easy. We were able to pick out menu and we even had a few signature drinks that the bartender created just for us. We had the whole patio to ourselves with a view of the beautiful straight. I would definitely suggest this venue to anyone planning a wedding or engagement party.
Sent on 18/10/2019
Seleena Foehr
ยท Married on 23/09/2019
4.8
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
4.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Stunning Venue
My husband and I had the pleasure of getting married at the WCWL. It did not disappoint. We stayed for a total of 2 nights at the lodge and it was beautiful. Our even coordinator walked us through the whole process as we planned our wedding. She was very helpful with all of the information etc. Everything went as planned and I had not one thing to worry about. The food was spectacular. All of our guests could not stop talking about how amazing the food was. We will definitely be coming back for our honeymoon next year.
Sent on 30/09/2019
David Parker
ยท Married on 01/06/2019
4.8
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
4.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Beautiful location & great service
We are both from outside of BC but have lived here for nearly 10 years. When we started looking for a venue for our wedding, we were trying to find a location that reflected what we love about BC, somewhere that gave our out-of-province family and friends a taste of BC and our local guests a great weekend.
When we were recommended to check out WCWL we had friends nearby and thought we would go take a look. Pulling in to the parking lot you are faced with a nice rustic looking lodge and well-maintained landscaping, which was nice but we had seen other places with similar looks. Once we walked through reception and into the main dining room with its high ceiling and large windows overlooking the Narrows and mountains and forest, we knew there and then that this was the place for us.
The rest of the tour confirmed it but we were all in already. The patio deck, the dining room the lounge room, the fire pit and dock area, all worked perfectly for what we wanted to achieve.
Genevieve was good to work with and they have great packages for you to choose from depending on what you want to do. Communication leading up to the event was good and over the actual weekend, the staff were amazing and very helpful.
We had ~100 people for our wedding and we held it in June. People arrived on Friday afternoon, we had a welcome BBQ that evening down by the water so all our guests could get to know one another, the ceremony on Saturday afternoon and people left Sunday morning. It fit our group well, with us using the Back Eddy and Bathgate resorts nearby to house the guests that couldn't fit into the WCWL.
The food at both the BBQ and the dinner was delicious with something for everyone.
We did luck out on the weather but I believe it would have been a great weekend even it had rained.
Our guests could not have been happier. We are an active couple so many of our guests are too. Throughout the weekend, many of our guests made use of the next-door boat tours and kayaking, the Skookumchuck Narrows hike, and other activities in the area. What we hoped was that our guests would feel like they had a mini-vacation for themselves and not just attending a wedding. I believe we achieved that.
The photographs we got were amazing as anywhere you pointed a camera there was another stunning vista.
We stayed an additional night to decompress and soak it all in a little and the comment my newly minted partner made summed up the whole experience, "The weekend delivered"
Thank you to all the staff at WCWL. It has made choosing an anniversary trip location, remarkably simple.
Sent on 27/10/2019
Mariane Lacroix
ยท Married on 13/05/2019
5.0
Quality of service:
5.0
Responsiveness:
5.0
Value:
5.0
Flexibility:
5.0
Professionalism:
5.0
Perfect elopement
The WCWL went above and beyond to make our day as smooth and enjoyable as possible. They met all our expectations and more, over-delivering on their promises. The views are breath-taking and make for stunning photographs, the staff is very friendly and accommodating, and our wedding coordinator Genevieve was always at our disposal and promptly answered any of our questions. All of our meals at the lodge as well as the wedding cake were delicious!! We couldn't have been happier with our venue choice!
As a family run business I have grown up with the lodge as my own back yard. Being a part of the lodge team and seeing the behind the scenes of their events is what inspired me to pursue Event Coordinating as my career. I studied Event Marketing at BCIT and have worked my way up over the past 9... Read more
