Wedding limousine service in Vaughan

A Vaughan wedding day, from the chauffeur's seat

Vaughan hosts an extraordinary number of weddings for a city of 323,000. The reason is the banquet halls: Chateau Le Jardin on Highway 27 in Woodbridge, Paradise Banquet Hall on Jane Street, Bellvue Manor and Riviera Parque in Concord, Fontana Primavera in Woodbridge, The Venetian on Romina Drive, the Terrace, Universal EventSpace and a dozen more, many with several rooms running on the same Saturday. Add the churches — St. Margaret Mary and St. Peter's in Woodbridge, St. Clare of Assisi, the Thornhill parishes — and the photo locations, and you have a city where the same stretch limousine can do the church at two, the McMichael grounds at three-thirty and the hall at six, and do the same thing again next Saturday. That repetition is the whole advantage of a Vaughan-based operator: the chauffeurs know which hall's driveway a stretch can turn in, where the photographers want the car for the door shot, and how long the drive from St. Margaret Mary to Chateau Le Jardin really takes on a Saturday in June (twelve minutes, unless Highway 27 is closed for the Woodbridge fair).

The vehicles, and who rides in what

• Stretch limousine for the couple: eight seats, a bar console, fibre-optic ceiling, privacy partition, decorated as agreed. The stretch page covers it in detail.
• Executive Sprinter for the wedding party: fourteen forward-facing seats, standing headroom for the dresses, a rear compartment for the bags and the emergency kit. One vehicle instead of four cars losing each other on Islington.
• Luxury SUVs for parents and grandparents: the door height and floor height matter for anyone in their eighties.
• Party bus for the guest shuttle between the hotel and the hall, or for the late-night run home: twenty to thirty seats, and the party continues.
• Executive Sedans for airport transfers: the out-of-town guests landing at Pearson across three days, each met with a fixed fare.

The timeline we build with you

A wedding booking starts with the ceremony and reception venues and the times you have. From that we build a vehicle plan and a minute-by-minute timeline, share it with the planner, and revise it until everyone is happy. A typical Vaughan Saturday:

Every hall has its own quirks — where the grand-entrance door is, whether the driveway is one-way, which side the photographers set up — and every church has a parking arrangement the chauffeur needs to know about. We do not learn these on your day.

What the booking includes

The vehicles you chose for the hours you booked, a chauffeur in formal dress for each, decoration of the stretch as agreed (ribbon, a "just married" sign, or nothing — your choice), bottled water, champagne flutes for the couple on request, an umbrella for the photographs in the rain, and the timeline. The booking is by the hour with a minimum that depends on the season: a six-hour minimum for a stretch on a Saturday between May and October is normal, and the engine shows it before you commit. Gratuity is at your discretion. A deposit holds the date because a stretch booked for a June Saturday is turning away other June Saturdays.

Guests from away

Vaughan weddings draw family from Italy, from Florida, from Vancouver. They land at Pearson over three or four days and need moving to the hotel — usually the cluster at Highway 7 and Jane — and then to the church and the hall. We book those transfers as fixed-fare sedans and SUVs against the flight numbers, so a delayed flight from Rome moves the pickup without anyone at the rehearsal dinner making calls. For twenty guests at one hotel, a Sprinter or party bus shuttle to the hall and back is cheaper than ten cars and gets everyone there for the entrance. Through the travel desk the guests can book the hotel too.

Photographs, and where the car should be

Photographers ask for the car in three places: the departure from the bride's home (the stretch at the kerb, doors open), the arrival at the church, and the grand entrance at the hall. The chauffeur positions the vehicle for each and keeps it clean between them — a stretch that has done a rainy Islington in April is wiped before the hall. For the photo location itself, chauffeurs know the McMichael's arrival area in Kleinburg, the Boyd Conservation Park entrance, the Kortright Centre and the lakeside spots in Woodbridge, and how long each takes to reach from each church.

Cultural and religious weddings

Vaughan's weddings are Italian, Portuguese, Jewish, South Asian, Filipino, Chinese and everything else, and the transportation shape changes with the tradition. A South Asian wedding may need a Sprinter for the baraat party and a stretch for the couple across two days and two venues. A Jewish wedding at a Thornhill synagogue and a hall in Concord has a tighter afternoon. An Italian wedding has the largest guest transfer and the longest reception. Tell us the tradition and the venues; the timeline is built around it, not around a template.

Booking a Vaughan wedding limousine

Send the date, the ceremony and reception venues, the addresses for the couple and the party, and the timeline you have — through the contact page or the notes in the reservation engine. You get a vehicle plan and a fixed price for the day. Saturdays from May to October and the December weekends go first; six months ahead is comfortable, three is usually still possible, and a sedan for the couple can be found at shorter notice than a stretch.

The day before, and the morning of

The chauffeurs assigned to a wedding call the couple or the planner the day before to confirm every address, every time and every stopping place — the bride's parents' cul-de-sac in Maple, the church's parking arrangement on Islington, the hall's grand-entrance door. The stretch is detailed that evening and decorated in the morning; the Sprinter's rear compartment gets the emergency kit, the water and the garment bags. On the morning the first chauffeur is at the first address fifteen minutes early, because the photographs with the car begin before the schedule says.

What can go wrong, and what we do about it

A ceremony that runs forty minutes late compresses the photo session; the chauffeurs know which stops to shorten and the timeline is revised in the car. Rain moves the photographs from the McMichael grounds to the hall's covered entrance; the chauffeur has the umbrellas and the alternative route. A guest shuttle from the hotel finds the hall's lot full at six; the party bus drops at the agreed overflow and returns for the second run. A stretch that will not turn in a Kleinburg driveway meets the couple at the street, which was agreed the night before. None of it reaches the couple, which is the job.

Pricing a wedding day

Occasion vehicles are hourly with a minimum, and a wedding is priced as a fixed day through the contact page: the stretch for six or eight hours, the Sprinter for the party's movements, the shuttle for the guests' loop, the sedans for the airport transfers, each stated separately and totalled. Gratuity is at your discretion. A deposit holds the date; the balance is due as stated. The figure does not change on the day unless you add a vehicle or extend the hours, and both are agreed with you, not discovered on an invoice.

Anniversaries and vow renewals

The same circuit, smaller: a stretch or a Premium Sedan for the couple, dinner at a Kleinburg or Woodbridge restaurant or downtown, the drive along the lake, home. Three or four hours by the hour; the stretch page covers the vehicle.

Where to start

Send the date and the two venues through the contact page; the plan and the fixed day price come back, and the banquet halls guide and the McMichael guide fill in the venues while you wait.

The rehearsal, and the day before

Many couples book a Sprinter for the rehearsal evening — the party from the hotel to the church for the run-through and on to the rehearsal dinner in Woodbridge or Kleinburg — and the same chauffeur who will drive the party on the day drives the rehearsal, which is a rehearsal for the transportation too: the church's parking, the doors, the timing. It is not required; it is what the planners who have done this before ask for.

Plan a wedding booking

The details that make a Vaughan wedding run

Chateau Le Jardin's entrance is off Highway 27 and the grand-entrance door is around the side; the stretch waits in the front loop. Paradise's driveway takes a stretch but not a party bus at the door — the bus drops at the lot. The Venetian on Romina is a short hop from Highway 7 and the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre hotels, which is why so many guest shuttles run there. Major Mackenzie's construction between Highway 27 and Weston adds ten minutes to a Kleinburg photo stop on a weekday afternoon but not on a Saturday. And the Woodbridge fall fair closes Highway 27 near the fairgrounds on its October weekend — the one Saturday a year when the church-to-hall route changes. We know because we have driven it.