Lessard Coutu Presents
Come Away Together.
The Niagara Engagement Ring Weekend
Forget the hustle and bustle of New York, LA, or Toronto. Indulge in each other with a private three-night experience in Niagara-on-the-Lake, created for couples who want to design their engagement ring together. Spend the weekend among beautiful estates, historic streets, intimate restaurants, gardens and quiet places to reconnect. Then join the Lessard Coutu family inside our Niagara atelier, where the stories, memories and seemingly insignificant details that belong only to the two of you begin to take form on paper.
Not chosen from a display case.
Discovered through the two of you.
Limited private appointments available throughout Summer 2026.
This is not a ring-shopping trip.
It is time set aside for the person you have chosen.
Time to remember how you arrived here.
Time to speak about what you admire in one another, what you have survived together and what you hope to build next.
Over four unhurried days in Niagara-on-the-Lake, your relationship becomes the itinerary. The final destination is the Lessard Coutu atelier—where everything we have learned about you begins to take form on paper.
The ring does not create the meaning.
It gives the meaning somewhere to live.
The Experience
An unforgettable four-day weekend. One engagement ring designed around the couple.
Friday
Arrive Somewhere Beautiful
The world can wait.
Saturday
Design a Day Around the Two of You
Before the ring, remember what it represents.
Sunday
Let the Weekend Linger
Nothing important needs to be decided today.
Monday
One Last Morning
One last view of the water.
Every weekend is shaped around the couple. Venues, timing, accommodations and experiences may be adjusted according to availability and preference.
Friday
Arrive Somewhere Beautiful.
The world can wait.
1:00 PM
Colaneri Estate
Begin among Italian architecture, sweeping vineyard views and the feeling that you have travelled much farther than you have.
2:30 PM
Amo Estate
Settle into the weekend with a relaxed estate experience surrounded by Niagara countryside.
4:00 PM
Château des Charmes
Walk the grounds of one of Niagara's most recognizable château estates and begin imagining what your own traditions might become.
6:00 PM
Dinner at Ravine
A farm-to-table evening rooted in Niagara's landscape, history and agricultural character.
9:00 PM
Old Town After Dark
Walk Queen Street, find a quiet table and allow the first evening to unfold without an agenda.
Your Stay
124 on Queen
A contemporary retreat in the centre of Old Town, selected for couples who want to begin the weekend with comfort, wellness and immediate access to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Suggested itinerary. Final times and reservations are confirmed during planning.
Saturday
Design a Day Around the Two of You.
Before we design the ring, remember what it is meant to represent.
8:30 AM
Couples Massage
Begin slowly, with nowhere else you need to be.
10:45 AM
Brunch at 11th Post
An easy morning together in the heart of Old Town.
12:15 PM
A Shared Scent at Orris Labs
Create a fragrance associated with the weekend—a sensory memory that may later become part of the ring presentation, proposal or wedding day.
The Private Fragrance Experience
A more immersive scent-design experience.
The Express Scent Keepsake
A shorter fragrance experience for couples who want a more relaxed afternoon.
Two fragrance experiences are available. Selection is confirmed during planning.
Choose Your Saturday Experience
Choose the afternoon that feels most like you.
A final relaxed stop before the weekend turns inward.
Your selection is captured in the application form.
3:30 PM — The Main Event
The Lessard Coutu Private Atelier
The doors close. The appointments end. For the next three hours, the atelier belongs to the two of you.
We begin without asking what shape of diamond you saw online. Instead, we ask about the life around it.
What does this person notice about you that no one else does?
When did you first understand that this relationship was different?
What have you carried one another through?
What private language, ritual, place, promise or memory belongs only to you?
What do you hope never changes about us?
From that conversation, The Lessard Coutu Team begins sketching. Not a collection. Not a variation of someone else's ring. The first visible expression of yours.
Your Private Atelier Experience
Choose How You Design Together
You decide how much surprise remains.
There is no wrong way to design together. There is only the way that feels most like you.
Saturday Evening
A Celebratory Close.
The evening moves slowly through Old Town.
7:30 PM
A Celebratory Dinner
Allow the couple to select one preference.
9:30 PM
Private Horse-and-Carriage Ride
End the evening moving slowly through the illuminated streets of Old Town.
Your Stay
The Scotsman
A private historic stay selected for couples who value intimacy, character and a more personal expression of Niagara hospitality.
Sunday
Let the Weekend Linger.
Nothing important needs to be decided today.
10:00 AM
Breakfast and Garden at The Scotsman
11:30 AM
Queen's Royal Park
Walk to the water, sit beneath the trees and look across Lake Ontario. This is the quiet Niagara moment the weekend needs.
12:30 PM
Choose Your Sunday Estates
Allow the couple to select up to two.
Select up to 2.
3:30 PM
Unscheduled Niagara
Return to the hotel. Walk Queen Street. Browse the shops. Sit in a garden. Take a nap. Luxury requires blank space.
6:00 PM
Dinner at Revé
9:30 PM
Bacchus Lounge & Patio
Your Stay
Queen's Landing
A grand final evening near the waterfront before returning home.
Monday
One Last Morning.
One last view of the water.
9:30 AM
Choose Your Niagara Breakfast
11:00 AM
The Waterfront
Follow the lakeshore or return to Queen's Royal Park for one final quiet moment.
12:00 PM
Farewell Lunch
Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club Waterfront Patio.
One last view of the water. One last conversation about the weekend. Then return home knowing that somewhere in the Lessard Coutu atelier, your ring has begun.
Optional Niagara Experiences
Make the weekend your own.
What the Couple Leaves With
The weekend ends.
The commission begins.
Before leaving Niagara, the couple may receive a thoughtfully assembled record of what has begun.
Preliminary Lessard Coutu hand sketch
IncludedWritten summary of the design concept
IncludedSelected material and centre-stone direction
IncludedPrivate digital commission page
Available UpgradeTimeline for the next design reveal
IncludedShared fragrance, when selected
Booked SeparatelyA sealed keepsake from the weekend
Available UpgradeThe story behind the ring preserved for their archive
IncludedWhy Niagara
Why begin here?
Because a ring this important deserves more than an appointment squeezed between the rest of your life.
Niagara gives you space to leave the familiar behind, reconnect with one another and enter the design process with more clarity, honesty and intention.
Lessard Coutu Jewellery combines the intimacy of a family atelier with access to more than 2,700 suppliers globally. You do not have to choose between emotional meaning, world-class procurement and an unforgettable experience. Here, they become part of the same story.
The intimacy of a family atelier. The reach of a global house.
Real Couples. Real Stories.
Love stories that began long before the ring.
Every ring starts with a conversation. These are a few of the couples who trusted us with theirs.
He had the challenge of taking two of my heirloom engagement rings and crafting them into a new beautiful custom design that encompassed our love.
— A Lessard Coutu Client
Heirloom Engagement Ring · Custom Designed
Jewellery is designed from your imagination into a work of art.
Excerpt from a client review
“Incredible! My fiancee is OBSESSED with her new ring! We both went into the process with little knowledge on engagement rings and appreciate all of the guidance that the Lessard Coutu team provided us with.”
— A Lessard Coutu Client
Custom Engagement Ring · With The Lessard Coutu Team
“Seeing the final result in-person was even better!”
— A Lessard Coutu Client
Custom Jewellery
“They were absolutely amazing with helping me design a custom engagement ring, they take pride in their work and are incredibly friendly and kind people to work with.”
— A Lessard Coutu Client
Custom Engagement Ring · Lessard Coutu Atelier
4.9 · 146 Google Reviews
Loved by couples across Niagara, Ontario and beyond.
The next story could be yours.
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Request Your Weekend
This is the ring you will live with.
Give its beginning more than an afternoon.
The Niagara Engagement Ring Weekend is created for couples who believe the experience of designing the ring should be as meaningful as wearing it. Private Summer 2026 dates are limited.
Step 1
The Two of You
Step 2
Your Weekend
Step 3
Your Ring
Step 4
Your Experience
Step 5
Your Story
