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Wedding traditions of Toronto

In Toronto, weddings are held in more than a hundred languages and at the Marriage Bureau at City Hall.

Canada legalised same-sex marriage nationwide in 2005, and Ontario in 2003. Toronto has a Civil Marriage Office at the City Hall and a diverse range of venues.

Toronto: Picture of the Toronto skyline at sunset taken from the Snake Islands of the Toronto Islands . This is a crop of a larger panorama.
Photo: Jchmrt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A wedding here

Many couples marry at a Toronto civic centre office or at one of the licensed venues in the city. A reception includes a first dance, speeches and cake, and a Polish-style dollar dance or an Italian-style envelope custom may appear.

Communities

Toronto's large South Asian, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Caribbean and Jewish communities each have a distinctive wedding culture.

Wedding customs of Toronto

Same-sex marriage in CanadaLegal since 2005.

Also part of it, and being written: Wedding (General customs.), Dollar dance (A custom in some communities.), Tamil wedding (A major community in the region.).

Communities and their weddings in Toronto

  • Tamil and South Asian Large halls in Scarborough and Brampton.
  • Italian and Greek Family weddings in banquet halls.
  • Chinese Banquets and tea ceremony.
  • Caribbean A feast and a long dance.
  • Jewish Weddings under the chuppah.

A wedding trail idea for Toronto

  1. Toronto City Hall Home of the marriage bureau.
  2. Distillery District A heritage area for photographs.
  3. Casa Loma A castle used for weddings.
About this page

Written by the EveryShaadi desk with AI assistance. Opening hours, venues and wedding-season dates change; check locally before travelling. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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StageFinding a matchEngagement and betrothalThe weeks beforeThe eveProcession and arrivalThe ceremonyThe wedding feastReception, dance and giftsAfter the wedding

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