7 Outdoor Wedding Venues in Orillia (For Couples Who Refuse to Get Married Under Fluorescent Lights)

There’s a version of “outdoor wedding venue” that means an event room with patio access. The patio has string lights, a few planters, and a view of the parking lot if you angle the camera right. When it says “outdoor ceremony option” in the listing, this is usually what it means — an outdoor-adjacent experience inside a building that also happens to have a door to outside.

These seven are not that. Braestone Farm has a ceremony orchard tucked between fruit trees where you say your vows looking across 100 acres of preserved Oro-Medonte farmland. Quayle’s Brewery has a private hillside ceremony spot on a 57-acre working hop farm where the hops grow in rows behind you and the Simcoe County landscape goes as far as you can see. Mother Fudrucker’s Farm puts you on a 146-acre cash crop operation that’s been working the same land since the early 1990s, with a horse-drawn carriage entrance that wasn’t installed for atmosphere — it was installed because this is a farm and they have horses.

Orillia and Oro-Medonte are mid-size market wedding country. The venues here don’t compete for attention the way Collingwood or Muskoka does. They’re genuinely good without being famous for it. And seven of them will put you outside in a setting that’s real, not rented.

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Braestone Farm — Oro-Medonte

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Braestone Farm is 100 acres of preserved Oro-Medonte farmland, and the outdoor wedding experience here is built around a detail most venues can’t replicate: a ceremony orchard. A medley of fruit trees lined in neat rows behind the barn provides the setting, framed by open fields that run down to a serene pond. In the background, horses graze in a paddock. The tree-lined driveway greets guests on arrival with a green canopy that filters the light in a way that photographers have been documenting at length.

The barn interior is a modern-rustic barn with whitewashed walls and cathedral ceilings — genuinely good for receptions. But the outdoor ceremony in the orchard, the pond at golden hour, the fields at dusk, two stone fire pits on either side of the barn at night — this is a property where the outdoor experience is the primary one and the barn is the excellent secondary option, not the other way around.

Best for: couples who want rolling Oro-Medonte farmland as the ceremony setting, apple-orchard vows, anyone whose photographer has been trying to book Braestone since they shot their first wedding there.

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Northbrook Farms — Near Orillia

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Northbrook Farms is a farmhouse and historic barn property near Orillia that runs exclusively one wedding per weekend — which means the open garden grounds throughout the property are entirely yours, not shared with another event on the other side of a dividing partition. The 1901 barn is 3,000 square feet with large windows and whitewashed walls. The outdoor grounds are designed around the ceremony and celebration flow rather than around maximizing booking density.

The exclusive-use model matters more for an outdoor venue than an indoor one. When the ceremony is in a garden and the cocktail hour is on the grounds, having the space to yourselves means the whole property functions as your wedding, not just the room you booked. The farm doesn’t feel like a venue on a busy Saturday. It feels like the farm where your wedding happened.

Best for: couples who want exclusive use of the whole property rather than a booked room, open garden grounds for ceremony and cocktail hour, anyone who wants “the farm where we got married” to be literally true.

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Evergreen Acres Farm — Severn

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Evergreen Acres is a 50-acre farm in Severn, 15 minutes from Orillia, with one of the more distinctive outdoor ceremony setups in the region: a massive timber-frame event space with skylights and a barn door that opens directly onto the ceremony field and the sunset beyond it. You stand inside a 3,200-square-foot timber frame looking out through a barn door at the open farmland — or you walk through and say your vows in the field itself, with the timber frame as the backdrop behind you. Both work. The combination of the two is genuinely unusual.

The 1901 barn provides the reception anchor. The forest clearings on the property offer additional ceremony options for couples who want something more sheltered. The 50 acres give enough geography that the outdoor experience feels like a property rather than a staging area.

Best for: couples who want a ceremony field with a timber-frame barn door as the backdrop, the combination of forest and open land on the same property, anyone who wants the outdoors to feel expansive rather than managed.

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Mother Fudrucker’s Farm — Near Orillia

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Mother Fudrucker’s Farm is a 146-acre working cash-crop operation — wheat, soybeans, hay — 10 minutes from Orillia, and the family has been farming the same land since the early 1990s. The outdoor wedding experience starts before the ceremony does: the bride’s entrance is by horse-drawn carriage, with actual Percheron horses from the property’s own team that have been doing this since long before the wedding venue existed. That’s not a rental. That’s the farm.

Seasonal May through October, up to 200 guests, and the whole property is yours — no other events on the same day. The century barn provides the reception setting with hand-hewn timbers and overhead draperies. The outdoor setting is open countryside with the scale of a 146-acre working farm behind it.

Best for: couples who want a horse-drawn carriage ceremony entrance as a literal reality rather than a hired feature, open-countryside outdoor settings, anyone who wants a working farm’s scale as the backdrop without paying a resort to simulate it.

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Quayle’s Brewery — Oro-Medonte

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Quayle’s Brewery is a 57-acre working hop farm in Oro-Medonte, and the ceremony location here is one of the most specific outdoor settings in the entire region: a private hillside with 12 acres of growing hops in neat rows behind you and the Simcoe County landscape extending past the property line. It’s not a generic field. It’s a hop farm in active production, which is a setting with a very specific visual identity that photographs like nothing else in the area because nothing else in the area looks like it.

The tented hop-yard reception handles up to 150 guests while keeping the outdoor character — you’re under canvas on the farm, not inside a building that happens to have farm views. Multiple rustic event spaces spread across the property for cocktail hour, and the brewery’s on-site beer is genuinely good, which most couples discover at the tasting before they book.

Best for: couples who want a ceremony setting unlike anything in the Orillia/Oro-Medonte market, outdoor-first events where “under canvas” is more appealing than “in a ballroom,” anyone whose wedding photos should be immediately identifiable as unique.

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The Lovely Teahouse — Guthrie, Oro-Medonte

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The Lovely Teahouse is a historic Victorian teahouse in Guthrie, Oro-Medonte — elegant tea rooms, hand-painted ceilings, and fine china inside, and a garden setting outside that matches the vintage character of the building rather than contrasting with it. Customized dining, full in-house officiant services, and a team that runs weddings at an intimate scale where the details get personal attention because the guest count is small enough to give personal attention.

This is the venue on this list for couples whose outdoor preference runs garden and intimacy rather than farmland and scale. Victorian garden rather than rolling acres. Thirty people rather than two hundred. A venue where the outdoor setting is curated and quiet rather than wide and open. Different sensibility from the farms, genuinely its own thing.

Best for: intimate micro weddings, couples whose aesthetic is vintage garden rather than rural landscape, anyone who wants hand-painted Victorian ceilings and a garden setting in the same afternoon.

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The Briars Resort & Spa — Lake Simcoe

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The Briars is a historic estate on Lake Simcoe with wooded trails, blooming garden paths, and that particular quality of light that a large established property gets when the mature trees have been filtering the afternoon sun for a few decades. It’s the most classically “estate wedding” option on this list — gardens, heritage architecture, lake access, the kind of backdrop that reads as grown rather than built.

For couples who want their outdoor ceremony to be a garden on a lakefront estate rather than a field on a working farm, this is the cleanest path to it in the Orillia market. Sophisticated outdoor character without the farm-first identity of the other six venues on this list. Different audience, equally valid outdoor experience.

Best for: couples who want estate garden character rather than farmland, anyone drawn to Lake Simcoe as the water backdrop, outdoor weddings where the setting should read elegant rather than rustic.

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Frequently Asked Questions — Outdoor Wedding Venues Near Orillia

So Which One?

If you want an apple orchard ceremony on 100 acres of Oro-Medonte farmland: Braestone Farm.

If you want exclusive use of the whole property and open garden grounds: Northbrook Farms.

If you want a ceremony field opening off a massive timber-frame barn door: Evergreen Acres Farm.

If you want a horse-drawn carriage entrance on a working 146-acre farm: Mother Fudrucker’s Farm.

If you want a private hillside ceremony in a hop-yard unlike anything else in the region: Quayle’s Brewery.

If you want a Victorian garden at an intimate scale: The Lovely House.

If you want a Lake Simcoe estate with wooded trails, gardens, and the most elegant outdoor character on this list: The Briars Resort & Spa.

None of these have a drop ceiling. All seven have a sky. That’s the whole brief.

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If Orillia isn’t the one — no pressure, no bad feelings, and absolutely zero passive-aggressive “are you SURE?” from us. We cover every major wedding region in Ontario and we’re equally obsessed with all of them. Pick the one that keeps coming up in conversation.