The Macdonald hands you a stone frontage, an awning that reads in any weather, and the river valley opening up behind it. We have photographed there. The difference on the day is knowing where to stand before the light moves off the building.
The stone and the awning give you a backdrop that needs nothing added to it, and they hold up in flat light and in rain, which in Edmonton is most of the year. We photograph the arrival and the leaving there because those are the two minutes the building is genuinely part of your day rather than a wall you posed against.
It is a working hotel with a street in front of it. Getting a clean frame means knowing which side is quiet at which hour, and that is the sort of thing you only know by having stood there.
Rooms upstairs, the river valley a short walk down, and downtown a few minutes either way. A wedding here does not lose an hour to a car, which is the hour most couples wish they had back.
That matters more than any single frame. The schedule is what decides whether the photographs are of your day or of you hurrying through it.