A Hometown Wedding Reimagined as Tulum
LISA & GARRETT at BAZART GRIFFINTOWN
Lisa and Garrett's summer wedding at Bazart Griffintown was a destination wedding for most of their guests, who flew in from New York and beyond — and a homecoming, in every sense, for Lisa. She and Garrett live in New York now, but Lisa was raised in Montreal, and she chose to come home to marry him. The weekend began the night before with a welcome party at the Westmount Tennis Club — a relaxed, summery evening that gave their out-of-town guests a soft introduction to the city. Read more: the welcome party at Westmount Tennis Club →
The next morning, Lisa got ready at her childhood home in Westmount, where her mother still lives. Her first look with Garrett took place in the backyard she grew up running through. Her bridal portraits, after, were made at King George Park — the park she'd played in as a child, now the setting for one of the most quietly extraordinary days of her adult life. There's a kind of meaning that only comes from getting married in the places that already mean something to you. The childhood home, the backyard, the park bench — these are the details that turn a beautiful wedding into a layered one. And someday, perhaps, places Lisa will walk through again with the family she's about to begin.
Because there was another layer to the day, one most of their guests didn't yet know. A few months earlier, Lisa and Garrett had learned she was pregnant with their baby girl.
Her custom Daniel Franklin gown was designed to accommodate the early weeks; the wedding itself carried the unspoken weight of three people about to become a family. It is one thing to photograph a wedding. It is something else to photograph the quiet, private radiance of a couple who know what's coming next.
After portraits in the Old Port, the day moved to Bazart Griffintown — a Montreal warehouse venue Lisa and Garrett had transformed into something genuinely transporting. Banana leaves and exposed brick, vintage coupe glasses, a Tulum-meets-Mexico styling that made it hard to believe you were still in Montreal. Cocktails were outdoors in the venue's exterior space, the ceremony unfolded across the indoor-outdoor flow, and dinner stretched long into the evening before the indoor space transformed entirely — into a full dance club, complete with Lisa changing into her party outfit after a memorable first dance. By the end of the night, Bazart felt less like a venue and more like a place Lisa and Garrett had built for one perfect summer evening.
Why Bazart Griffintown Is One of Montreal's Most Versatile Wedding Venues
Bazart Griffintown is one of the Montreal wedding venues I most love photographing — a former warehouse in one of the city's most design-forward neighborhoods, with the kind of indoor-outdoor flexibility that lets couples shape it into almost anything they can imagine. Cocktails on the patio, ceremonies in the open air, dinner under exposed brick and beams, dancing late into the night with the venue transformed into a club: it is rare to find a single Montreal venue that can hold every part of a wedding day with this much range. For couples drawn to industrial-architectural spaces with editorial styling potential, and for destination couples wanting a Montreal wedding that doesn't feel like every other Montreal wedding, Bazart is in a category of its own.
