Weddingbee Blog

I love: reading, crafts, theatre, musicals, pretty gardens, Lord of the Rings, big mossy trees that look like Ents, animals, opera, baking, tasty food, good wine…

He loves: reading, video/computer games, theatre, musicals, music, epic fantasy book series, animals, opera, cooking, tasty food, good wine…

We’re geeks. We know this. Why, yes, I have read The Silmarillion. More than once. And I enjoyed it.

Now, a lot of those things are going to end up in our day somehow, some way. We both work in the theatre professionally, and we wouldn’t have met if it hadn’t been for a theatre-training program in Banff, Alberta.

(Technically this is Lake Louise, not Banff, but they’re close! And this is one of the best scenery pics I have! Yes, I am standing on the lake. Photo taken with my camera by a random tourist.)

One of the first questions non-work people ask us when they find out that we are two theatre professionals getting married is: “Oooh, are you doing it in a theatre? That’d be so cool!” There’s definitely a place for theatre weddings (a friend of my had Wedding! The Musical, and it looked awesome, not to mention fellow bees Mrs. Star and Mrs. Robin’s sweet theatre weddings), but if we were two dentists marrying each other, would you suggest we get married in a dentist’s office? Probably not. Also, some of our friends would have to be working instead of enjoying themselves—a theatre wedding needs theatre staff! I’m sure Mr. Cinnamon Buns’s work would have let us use the building for no cost, but then we both be at work. Also, theatres are not known for their natural light—it interferes with the stage lighting. I want somewhere with windows.

That’s not to say there will be no theatre in the wedding—just that it isn’t a “theme” per se. Our current favourite invites are these theatre ticket -esque ones:

From Etsy seller letterboxink

The RSVP card is a ticket stub!

Our jobs won’t be a part of our wedding, unless you count the fact that most of our friends in attendance will be co-workers in the industry. Mr Cinnamon Buns would like me to stop right here and tell you all again (in the interests of full disclosure) that stage managers are to shows as wedding planners are to weddings. Only, you can have a wedding without a planner, but you can’t have a show without a stage manager. So I’m getting pretty into this wedding planning thing because it’s kinda like my job, and I love my job! I love planning the wedding more because for once I (or rather, we) are actually the ones who get to make the decisions instead of just making other people’s decisions come to life.

I have to admit, being the one having the ideas took a little getting used to! But thinking about what we like has been a great help in figuring out what we want to do with this wedding.

Are you working your passions into your wedding? Do you love your job enough to get married at work?