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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate Engagement Date: October 2009 Wedding Date: December 2010 Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.
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Despite  brainstorming  ways to keep warm during our outdoor shoot, ultimately I just told people to dress as warmly as they could and left it at that. I’m not going to lie, it was cold and painful, BUT it was also so much fun and I absolutely love the photos we have from it.

With a backless dress with cap sleeves, there wasn’t much chance of me being able to keep warm, but I made an effort by wearing my trusty Lululemon Groove Pants under my dress. I also kept my feet dry and warm-ish by wearing my Wellies.

Glamour shot of the Wellies:

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After our first look we started by taking some more pictures of Mr. Knitting and I around the gardens.

I love how you would never know we’re in the middle of downtown Toronto in these photos:

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The property has a few huge pine trees that we decided to take advantage of. Here we are peeking out:

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We of course had to work the fact that we are patriotic Canadians into our photos:

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My hand is on the left and Mr. Knitting’s hand is on the right. I’m sure no explanation is needed for any Canadian readers, but for everyone else these are really popular mittens that are sold by the Hudson’s Bay Company in support of Canadian Olympic athletes. Our original plan was to buy these for our whole wedding party for the photos, but we ended up scaling back to just include the two of us. I love how they look in our photos and we’ve had the bonus of wearing them for the rest of the winter! Yes, we’re now one of those hilarious couples that have a matching clothing item. Maybe we should get matching yoga clothes next…

I found these blocks at Winners a few weeks before our wedding thought they would work well since they pretty accurately described what we were feeling and because I think red looks amazing in the snow:

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You’ll see that by this point functioning with out a coat was not an option. It was actually really hard to put on this coat because it has quite a few buttons and I’d lost pretty much all manual dexterity by this point!

We then headed over to the gorgeous house to use it as a back drop. We started off with some snuggles:

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and then moved on to a back bend:

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Finally, we went on a fake walk in the orchard:

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and headed off to be married:

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Just kidding. We then stuck around for another half hour to take more freezing outdoor photos!

All photos by the amazing Josh Levinson

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29 Responses to “A Cozy Christmas Wedding: Then We Frolicked and Froze”

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Miss Candy Apple (message)  1,465 posts, Bumble bee

Love the ones of you two in the pine trees! :)

 
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Love the mittens but kind of sad that you didn’t use the actual mittens from the Olympics. (The flag is on the palm for those). Being in Vancouver for the Olympics I saw those everywhere I turned. Maybe T.O. was different. Loved the boots under the dress :)

 
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Miss Tartlet (message)  3,207 posts, Sugar bee

The photos of you two are so sweet. The panoramic (I’m probably butchering that term) photo of you two looking off into the distance tugs at my heart strings.

 
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Kcoleybear (message)  683 posts, Busy bee

You are a brave bride. The pictures are absolutely gorgeous though.

 
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Miss Magic (message)  628 posts, Busy bee

Brrrr. Beautiful pictures, way to stick it out!

 
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Miss Lox (message)  1,128 posts, Bumble bee

These pictures are beautiful, but I’m cold for you just looking at them! Still, now that you’re all thawed out, I bet it was totally worth it. :)

 
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TheFutureMcBride
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TheFutureMcBride (message)  4,479 posts, Honey bee

Love these photos!

 
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hotchocolate
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hotchocolate (message)  257 posts, Helper bee

I can feel how cold it is in those photos! You are brave. I have those mittens too… they’re so warm :)

 
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PitBulLover
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PitBulLover (message)  8,314 posts, Bee Keeper

Ah so cold! But you look gorgeous still!

 
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Miss Brooch (message)  1,721 posts, Bumble bee

These pictures are gorgeous!

 
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Damselfly (message)  96 posts, Worker bee

SO cute! My FI and I would have totally braved the cold for pix too. Just chalk it up to “something silly we did” that was worth it!

 
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Miss Carousel (message)  590 posts, Busy bee

Beautiful pics! I would have never thought from the pics that you were in any pain at all, would have thought (with some envy) “ah she must not even feel the cold, how nice!” :-)

 
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Mrs. Lemonade (message)  274 posts, Helper bee

The photos are beautiful and I am in love with your dress + wellies combo. Seriously adorable!

 
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NJmeetsBX (message)  997 posts, Busy bee

beautful! I especially love the ones by the tree!

 
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Miss Waffle (message)  1,121 posts, Bumble bee

Hooray for Wellies and Lululemon! I love the shot with the Wellies btw!

 
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Mrs. Socks (message)  1,323 posts, Bumble bee

Good for you for sticking it out in the freezing weather!! Your photos are, as always, gorgeous!

 
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MsJeep23 (message)  1,375 posts, Bumble bee

Y’know, I’m glad you did photos in the coat. Of course it’s good that it kept you from freezing (duh!), but also…there’s something so classic about wintry wedding-day photos in a jacket and gloves. Lovely!

 
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@ Erin re: the mittens. The original versions of them had the leaf on the palm and they were available in Toronto before, during and just after the Olympics. Those are no longer available. The new version is the one worn by the lovely Mrs. & Mrs. Knitting. It’s not a TO thing. There’s nothing to be sad about.

 
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Mrs. Earrings (message)  2,477 posts, Buzzing bee

Beautiful :) Those photos of you two sitting on the bench are completely ethereal. And I love the J-O-Y blocks!

 
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Mrs. Cardigan (message)  8,645 posts, Bee Keeper

Oh man, you’re a trooper! It looks like it was cold! But it was so worth it - the photos are awesome!

 
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Mrs. Knitting, Toronto Age and Occupation: 24, Student Recruitment Assistant Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Neuroscience PhD Candidate Engagement Date: October 2009 Wedding Date: December 2010 Venue: University of Toronto Faculty Club About Me: I'm a pearl wearing, etiquette book reading Toronto girl who loves cooking and baking, museums, charm bracelets, and collecting books on Jackie Kennedy (a lot). I've been known to spend Sunday mornings at the antique market, Wednesday evenings at sister sushi dinners, and any bit of spare time reading. After six and a half years of many late night walks, watching DVDs together in bed, travelling to places like New York, and Tobermory, doing Sudokus together on the couch, lots of Indian food, the occasional yoga class, moving in together and so much more, Mr. Knitting and I are planning a cozy Christmasy (it's a word!), vintage wedding in Toronto complete with many DIY projects (eek!) and lots of help from our amazing group of family and friends.

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