We Won: Ethereal Creators Takes Home Canadian Event Awards 2026: Best Wedding Creative
Full room overhead view — Rachael & Kyle's Ivory Garden at Liberty Grand, Toronto | Mango Studios | Canadian Event Awards 2026 Best Wedding Creative
The Win
We don't say this lightly: this one meant everything to us.
At the Canadian Event Awards 2026 — Canada's premier recognition for excellence in events, productions, and experiences — Ethereal Creators was named Best Wedding Creative for the design of Rachael and Kyle's wedding at Liberty Grand, Toronto.
The Canadian Event Awards honours the best work produced by event professionals across Canada every year. Best Wedding Creative recognizes the highest standard of design vision, creative execution, and artistic impact in a wedding setting. Out of every wedding staged across this country in the past year, Rachael and Kyle's Ivory Garden was judged the most outstanding.
We are honoured. And we want to tell you exactly what went into it.
Best Wedding Creative — Canadian Event Awards 2026. Presented to Ethereal Creators for Rachael and Kyle's Wedding at Liberty Grand, Toronto.
The Brief: A Garden Inside a Grand Hall
When Rachael and Kyle first came to us, they knew they wanted Liberty Grand — but they weren't sure yet what they wanted inside it. They loved the venue's heritage character: the original chandeliers, the arched windows, the warm amber of the heritage interiors. They didn't want anything that would compete with that. They wanted something that would belong.
The brief that emerged over weeks of conversation came down to a single image: a garden. Not a garden wedding in the traditional sense — not ribbons and picnic tables. A real garden: layered, lush, architectural, with the quality of something that grew rather than something that was arranged. Something that, in a room of 270 people, would stop guests at the door.
The concept we named Ivory Garden was our answer. Everything white. Everything botanical. The form of the garden — its verticality, its ground-level drama, its interplay of light through organic shapes — translated into a grand ballroom through two tools: custom installation design and a single, disciplined floral choice.
White calla lilies. Only calla lilies. For the entire room.
Statement focal moment installation — oversized drum shade, gold geometric frame, cascading glass globe orbs, and calla lily pedestals | Mango Studios
The Statement Focal Moments
THE CENTREPIECE DESIGN
Two custom installations that defined the entire room
The award-winning design was anchored by two identical statement focal moment installations — one at each end of Liberty Grand's main hall, creating visual bookmarks that every guest could see from every table.
Each installation began with an oversized drum shade: a large circular pleated fabric shade in charcoal and slate, suspended from the ceiling. Below it, a custom-built gold geometric grid frame structure descended toward the floor, its intersecting vertical bars draped in cascading glass globe orbs of varying heights that caught and scattered the room's warm light. The whole structure sat on a curved cream stone platform at floor level, flanked on either side by two white cube pedestals holding tall glass cylinder arrangements of white calla lilies.
The result was a single installation that operated at every level simultaneously: overhead drama from the shade, mid-height sparkle from the cascading globes, and floor-level botanical presence from the calla arrangements. Guests seated anywhere in the hall had one of these installations in their sight line. They anchored the room the way a fireplace anchors a living room — everything oriented toward them, everything in dialogue with them.
This was the detail the judges singled out. Not because it was the largest element in the room — though it was substantial — but because it was the most architecturally resolved. It felt designed. It felt intentional. It felt like it could not have existed anywhere but here.
Long family table detail — crystal ribbed taper candle holders, white calla lilies with bear grass, mirror-top surface | Mango Studios
TABLE DESIGN
The Long Tables & Crystal Runners
Mirror surfaces, crystal tapers, and white calla lilies — the Ivory Garden at table level
The two long rectangular family tables — each 28 feet long, running the length of the hall on either side of the dance floor — were designed as a continuation of the focal moment's language rather than a separate element.
Mirror-top table surfaces reflected the ceiling above, doubling the candlelight and the chandelier glow into the table itself. Down the centre of each table, tall crystal ribbed glass taper candle holders stood at regular intervals, their translucent bodies catching the amber light from every angle. Between them, low arrangements of white calla lilies with architectural bear grass in clear glass vases brought the botanical element to table height — intimate, touchable, present.
Gold taper candles throughout. Crystal votives at ground level. The chain-link charger plates — a brushed circular link design — added texture and modernity to the place setting without disturbing the palette. Every detail existed in service of the same story: white, gold, glass, botanical, light.
Sweetheart table calla lily moss garden — white calla lilies planted in preserved green moss, surrounding the mirrored circular table | Mango Studios
SWEETHEART TABLE
The Calla Lily Moss Garden
The most photographed detail of the night
If the statement focal moments were the architectural centrepiece of Rachael and Kyle's reception, the sweetheart table was its most intimate and emotional moment.
The table itself was positioned in front of Liberty Grand's long mirrored bar wall — a placement that doubled every detail in reflection. But what stopped guests in their tracks was what surrounded it: a floor-level calla lily moss garden.
Lush preserved green moss was laid across the floor in a wide organic carpet around the base of the table. From it, dozens of white calla lilies grew — stems rising at natural angles, blooms open and facing outward, the way they would in a real garden after rain. No vases. No structure. Just flowers, moss, and earth, as if the table had been placed in the middle of a living garden.
The mirrored table surface above reflected the lilies back. The mirrored wall behind reflected the whole tableau into infinity. Rachael and Kyle sat at the centre of it, surrounded on three sides by their guests and on the fourth by their own reflection — and by a garden that felt impossible and real at the same time.
It was, by every account, the detail of the night. And it is the image that has lived longest from this wedding.
The sweetheart table looked like something out of a film. White calla lilies just growing out of moss on the floor — I've never seen anything like it. We cried before we even sat down.
Stage area with custom earth-tone geological art backdrop — warm strata layers in ivory, sand, and caramel against the Ivory Garden room | Mango Studios
STAGE & BACKDROP
The Geological Art Backdrop
Earth and ivory — a custom-printed canvas backdrop inspired by geological strata
Behind the 12-by-8-foot stage — where the couple was first presented and where toasts were delivered throughout the evening — Ethereal Creators installed a custom-printed art backdrop inspired by geological rock strata.
The design featured layered horizontal bands in earth tones: ivory, warm sand, caramel, and pale amber — colours pulled from the natural world below the garden, from the deep stone layers that underlie all growing things. Photographed against the ivory and white of the room, the backdrop read as a warm, natural counterpoint — grounded, organic, timeless.
It was not a floral backdrop. It was not a drape wall. It was a piece of art — and in a room full of white flowers and crystal, it gave the stage a distinctive visual identity that separated it from every other element without breaking the story.
Rachael and Kyle's grand entrance into Liberty Grand — Rachael in her gold feather-trimmed reception lehenga | Mango Studios
Rachael & Kyle
Rachael entered the reception in a gold heavily embellished two-piece lehenga with feather trim detailing — a look that matched the warmth and luminosity of the room she was walking into. Kyle in a black tuxedo, bow tie, white pocket square. The room they walked into had been built for exactly this moment.
They held hands. Rachael covered her mouth with her henna-covered hand when she saw the room. That image — that moment of speechless, overwhelmed joy — is what every design we have ever made has been working toward.
About Ethereal Creators
Ethereal Creators is a Toronto luxury wedding floral and décor studio founded by Abdul and Hafsa Qureshi. We have designed over 200 weddings across more than a decade, working at Toronto's most prestigious venues including Liberty Grand, Casa Loma, Fairmont Royal York, the Omni King Edward, the Ritz-Carlton, and many others.
The Canadian Event Awards 2026 win for Best Wedding Creative is a recognition we carry with enormous pride — not as a trophy, but as a confirmation of the standard we hold ourselves to on every wedding, regardless of scale or budget.
Every couple we work with deserves the same level of creative thought, conceptual rigour, and design execution that earned this award. That is the promise we make with every project we take on.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Canadian Event Awards Best Wedding Creative award?
The Canadian Event Awards is Canada's premier event industry recognition programme, honouring excellence in events, productions, and experiences across the country. The Best Wedding Creative category recognizes outstanding design vision and execution in a wedding context. In 2026, Ethereal Creators won Best Wedding Creative for Rachael and Kyle's Ivory Garden wedding at Liberty Grand, Toronto.
What did Ethereal Creators design for Rachael and Kyle's wedding?
Ethereal Creators designed a full 270-guest reception at Liberty Grand, Toronto under the Ivory Garden concept, including two custom statement focal installations, floor-level calla lily moss gardens at the sweetheart table, long family tables with mirror surfaces and crystal taper runners, a geological art backdrop, and white calla lily arrangements throughout. Photographed by Mango Studios.
Has Ethereal Creators won any awards for wedding design?
Yes. Ethereal Creators won the Canadian Event Awards 2026 for Best Wedding Creative — one of Canada's most prestigious event industry honours — for the design of Rachael and Kyle's wedding at Liberty Grand, Toronto.
What is the Ivory Garden concept?
The Ivory Garden concept was Ethereal Creators' design vision for Rachael and Kyle's wedding — bringing the layers, drama, and botanical architecture of a real garden into a grand ballroom setting. The palette was ivory, cream, gold, and deep botanical green, using white calla lilies exclusively throughout. Custom statement installations, floor-level moss gardens, and a geological art backdrop gave the room its award-winning editorial character.
What makes a wedding design award-winning?
Award-winning wedding design is defined by conceptual clarity — a single unified idea executed at every scale, from the largest installation to the smallest place setting detail. Ethereal Creators' Ivory Garden concept won Best Wedding Creative because every element served the same design story. The result was a room that felt like a single cohesive work of art rather than a collection of individual pieces.
Who photographed Rachael and Kyle's wedding at Liberty Grand?
Rachael and Kyle's award-winning wedding at Liberty Grand, Toronto was photographed by Mango Studios.
What venue did Ethereal Creators win the award for?
Ethereal Creators won the Canadian Event Awards 2026 Best Wedding Creative for Rachael and Kyle's 270-guest Ivory Garden reception at Liberty Grand, Toronto, August 3, 2025.
How do I hire Ethereal Creators for my wedding?
Contact Ethereal Creators at etherealcreators.com/contact or etherealcreators@gmail.com. We recommend reaching out 9–12 months in advance for full custom designs. We design weddings at Liberty Grand, Casa Loma, Fairmont Royal York, and venues across the GTA.
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