Salle des Promotions Wedding in Old Quebec

Some venues are chosen for how they photograph. This one was chosen because of who built it. One of Francis's ancestors worked on Le Petit Séminaire in 1675 — which means Aisha and Francis were married in a room their own family helped raise, three and a half centuries earlier.

The Salle des Promotions

The Salle des Promotions sits inside the Séminaire de Québec in the upper town. It is an all-white hall with immaculate carved walls and a distinctly French sense of proportion, and it is unusually forgiving for wedding design: bright enough to need no additional lighting, ornamented enough that a simple palette does not look bare.

Aisha and Francis kept to that. All-white roses, fresh greenery and candelabra centrepieces by Elysee Fleurs gave the room brightness and a vintage weight at the same time.

Liberian tradition in a French room

The reception included a traditional kola nut ceremony, honouring Aisha's Liberian heritage. Placing that ceremony inside a seventeenth-century Quebec hall is exactly the kind of juxtaposition that makes a wedding specific rather than generic, and it gave the evening its centre of gravity.

Details that made the room theirs

A custom crest ran through the stationery, the napkins and the bar menu. A champagne escort wall with vintage glasses and rolled scrolls greeted guests with old-world charm. The gown was Millanova, a ball gown with a dramatic train paired with simple pearls; the suit came from Moores and the bridal party wore Birdy Grey.

The day was planned by Elisabeth B. Weddings & Events, with the ceremony at St. Michael of Sillery Church, catering by Équilibre traiteur, cake by La Fleur Sucree, film by Loic Dupuis, rentals from ABP, La Vie Est Une Fête and Occasion d'embellir, and transport by Unitours and Limo Québec.

Planning a multicultural wedding in Quebec City

If you are bringing a cultural ceremony into a historic Quebec venue, ask early about what the room will allow — open flame, drumming, timing, movement of furniture. Heritage buildings are usually more accommodating than people expect, but the conversation is easier six months out than six days.

The wedding was featured on MunaLuchi Bride.

If you are planning a wedding in Quebec City, I would love to hear about it.