The Bellweather wedding

This was one of the locations that I was really looking forward to visiting.  The location of the Bellweather wedding from Motherland episode 1.05.  It didn’t disappoint.

The Bellweather wedding was filmed at Casa Mia.  Address:  1920 SW Marine Dr, V6P 6B2

We met the manager and explained what we wanted to do and asked permission to take photos.  The venue is now a nursing home, so we knew there would be no chance of going inside the building.  But we were given permission to take photos.  Talking to the manager also allowed us to get an idea of the changes that had happened to the building in the years since Bellweather Season was filmed there. 

This is what it looked like when we see the mansion on screen for the first time. 

The porch and front entrance are unchanged since filming. 

The Bellweather mansion front door is just as we saw it in the episode, when Petra and her sister welcome Major Hoke at the door and go inside. 

As well as the front porch, there was filming at the side of the building.   The wedding itself and the dance tent were at the back of the building.

These are the gardens at the back of the building as we saw them on screen.

The manager told us that the land at the back of the building had been sold to developers.  The grounds we saw in the episode are no longer in existence; the gardens have turned into a building site.  The development of the back of the building has impacted on the side of the building because some of that was sold too and there has been some change of use.

One of the iconic moments from this episode was filmed at the side of the building. 

The behind the scenes shot.

The on screen shots.  Filming was from the back of the building facing forwards.

And then Scylla appears. 

This is what it looks like now. 

Although we were not able to go inside the building itself, it was possible to see inside from the porch.  In the episode, we see Petra, her sister and Major Hoke walk through this area into the foyer.  A little beyond this are the stairs. 

I did manage to get hold of a partial production sheet showing the layout of the ground floor to the mansion.  In this plan we can see the porch and the entry security as well as what is just beyond what I could see from the porch.