There are so many wedding traditions associated with weddings that it can be overwhelming! With input from Mom, Dad, aunts, uncles and grandparents you might start thinking that you are going to need two full days to get it all in and twice your wedding budget! This can be especially hard for younger brides and […]
The thought of attending a wedding without alcohol might make some people cringe but for me, I don’t really care. I’ve been to enough weddings and have seen it all. I’ve seen invoices where the drink tab is higher than the meals at the wedding. I’ve also seen seven alcoholic drinks on the entire wedding […]
Photo credit: Adam Susong For the majority of my adult life, I have lived with roommates with the exception of the year before Adam and I got married and the year after.We made the mistake of renting an apartment that was too expensive for our budget in central Washington, D.C., which promptly entered us into […]
Photo credit: Elle Danielle Photography Recently, I had some clients ask me when their wedding day should end. I looked at them blankly because I thought the answer was obvious. They filled in the silence and explained they didn’t want their guests to feel like they didn’t get enough time with them at their wedding, […]
I met my husband when we were in grade 7, but we didn’t start dating until we were 16 and have been together ever since. We have been married for almost 11 years and have three wonderful children. I remember our wedding day as if it were yesterday. It was one of the happiest days […]
Photo by Rachel Baransi My husband and I spent half of the last year apart. We were not forced into a distance relationship by factors outside of our control, but rather, like many Millennials with our privileged upbringings, lifestyle options seemed endless despite limited career realities, and our jobs and interests led us in different […]
Photo Credit: Jamie Delaine Photography As if fighting with your significant other doesn’t suck enough, but fighting on your wedding day is just that much more…sucky. This is supposed to be the happiest day of your life. You are marrying your soul mate. All eyes are on the two of you and you two are fighting. […]
I worked for my husband as a personal assistant for 4 months before an emergency business trip. We went to China and I fell in love with the “idea” of him not knowing he was falling in love with me at the same time. He proposed we spend our lives together on the plane back […]
I first met my husband Todd four years before we “really” met. I was travelling to the Okanagan for a friends wedding and had another good friend Cori driving with me – she needed a lift to the Okanagan for her family reunion. We drove up in my new blue sports car…with only two speeding […]
I met Katherine after college on a dating website. I never thought I would also find a woman who shared a common love of God. While my parents have not been very supportive and loving, thankfully our friends and church family have been. Overcoming discrimination caused us to have quite a bumpy road throughout this […]
I have wanted to write a post on wedding photography and budgets for awhile now, but was reluctant for many reasons. One, wedding budgets are always a touchy topic. And two, everyone has their own budget and it’s difficult to generally shout-out acceptable photography budgets to the masses. Budgets are always a subject that many […]
By all accounts, Josh and I are an unlikely couple. We don’t share the same tastes, interests, or hobbies, and other than the fundamental practices of eating and working out there are very few things that we both enjoy! But perhaps because of – rather than in spite of – our very different preferences and […]
Tradition outlines that your maid of honor is an unmarried woman. Brides have been disregarding this tradition somewhat and have included married woman as their matron of honor. Now, what if your BFF is a guy and you want him to be your maid of honor? What are the rules to this? Quite frankly, in […]
When I was a little girl & into my preteen years I (like many girls out there) dreamed of when & who I’d get married to. In my mind 20 was a good marrying age, little did I know that I’d have my prayers answered. Not quite seven months after graduating high school I’d meet […]
It was 19 years ago that both Bruce and I both ended up at a party that neither of us were supposed to be at…we had never crossed paths before, he was from Ontario and I am an island girl through and through. Looking back now, the Universe was working its magic. I was immediately […]
The first thing anyone is going to tell you as a newly married couple is that marriage is hard. They are wrong. Marriage isn’t hard, well, my marriage isn’t hard. My marriage isn’t hard because it is where I belong. I remember years ago, 16 to be exact, I was a bright eyed engaged gal working […]
From the very first moment he saw me, he fell in love. He remembered me from lives past. The first words he spoke to me were “You have my Favourite Face.” He caught my attention with his alluring eyes, but it was his hug that drew me in. When my heart edged in closer to […]
Wedding traditions are sentimental, meaningful, and heartfelt. Traditions can be about your family history or just something that personally speaks to your style. However, I have been witnessing a change in wedding traditions. Couples’ are making their own traditions, which can add lovely personal touches to the wedding day. I have noticed a big shift […]
I fight with my husband. “We’re just on the same page” is a phrase we would always say when we started dating. I was 20 and Andrew 22. We were smitten. I loved him because how he made me feel. I felt special, adored, respected, spoiled, taken care of and encouraged. From an outsider things […]
Thanksgiving Day through Valentine’s Day is what we call Peak Engagement Season. The holidays are here and the ring boxes are ready to be filled, but there is more to the process than just picking a pretty rock for your pretty bae. The engagement ring, historically, is all just one massive marketing scheme, from 1948, […]
Who’s hand do you want to be holding? It started with a cheesy move and a simple number on a piece of paper. Now here we are 10 years of marriage and three kids later. Older, greyer and definitely with bigger bags under our eyes. We didn’t know that our life would end up like […]
I was blessed to have Ed walk into my life in 1998, when we were both just kids really. He caught my eye and as I later found out, we were actually both *stalking* each other at the time. I would ‘stop by’ where he worked and he would do the same…pretending we were there […]
I met Ty almost 3 years ago on a night out with friends. Pretty quickly after we went on a few dates I knew he was someone special. He was very respectful of me and was always a gentleman. He genuinely cared and was interested in making my day to day life better right from […]
(Photo credit: Christy D. Swanberg Photography) I met Oscar over 5 years ago when I was living in La Paz, Bolivia volunteering with a Canadian non-profit organization. He was very shy at first so I asked him to help me improve my Spanish and it worked! We were inseparable for the remaining month of my […]
I’ve always heard that when you meet “the one” you’ll know it. It’s true. When I met my husband I knew that, even despite some pretty monumental hurdles, that he was the one I would spend the rest of my life with. Tom married me and my three children over 22 years ago and we’ve […]
