Wedding Blog

A picture of Kim’s (a.k.a. zombiebride’s) rain boots. She was the only one prepared for the weather.

They say into every life a little rain must fall. Well, it fell into mine. Hard.

The night before our wedding, there was a huge thunderstorm. I woke up at 1:30 in the morning to a huge bolt of lightning. I felt my stomach turn. Best case scenario, it was…

What I am about to write will probably make me sound like more of a Loon than a Hummingbird (ha ha bird joke), but two years before I met Mr. Hum, I had a dream about him.

Now normally I pay no attention to dreams, but this particular one was so clear and the sensations were so strong, that I wrote it down when I woke…

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Because it’s the home stretch and we’re dealing with the last rush of wedding bills, the big ideas that Mr. Hum and I had for wedding gifts for each other have been indefinitely delayed. However, I wanted to still do something for my Mister, so the night before I’m giving him a couple of smaller gifts to enjoy.

Since Mr. Hum is…

Since we started planning the wedding, I have been dreaming of an outdoor ceremony. I pictured fresh wild flowers, white chairs on a lush green lawn and a day with a soft warm sun. I even checked the historical forecast data and in the past 7 years, it has only really rained once on our day.

As of two weeks ago (once The Weather Network started…

The night before the wedding (which is only a few days away - yikes!), Mr. Hum and I have agreed to spend the night in different places. He will stay at our ceremony/reception site with the boys - his dad, his brother Nick and our friend and videographer Alex (a.k.a. Zombiegroom), while I head over to Ancaster with my future sister-in-law Erin and our friend…

With our wedding coming up, I’ve been thinking about the past weddings in my family, specifically, my parents who are celebrating their 27th anniversary this August. They met back when they both lived in Montreal and worked for a company there. My mom was friends with my dad’s cousin and had seen him around the office a few times when he worked there for the…

Our Hummingbird Geek Fest continues with our specially design programs! Since I have a background in journalism and spent some time after my college graduation working for an alternative arts newspaper, Mr. Hum suggested that we design our programs after one of Toronto’s popular weeklies. So, we got to work. Playing to our strengths, Mr. Hum worked on the layout and I wrote the program’s…

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A while ago, I blogged about our plans for a combined bachelor/bachelorette pub night. Well Saturday was the big day . . . of drinking!

After months and months of organizing and planning and crafting and blogging (I started on this blog way back in September, I’m such an old timer!), I am officially one week out from my wedding.

I’m feeling many things right now. I’m excited. I’m happy. I’m nervous. But mostly, I’m in disbelief.

For so much of our planning, the wedding has felt like this incredibly hypothetical thing.…

Courtesy of www.cbc.ca. My music playlist has left me feeling the same kind of
disbelief Rob from High Fidelity experienced when he heard Marie DeSalle’s version of a Peter Frampton song.

Yesterday, after about four hours of fiddling about, I finally managed to nail down the song order for our iPod wedding reception. It required patience, a keen ear for transitions (I listened to the first ten seconds and the…

Over the course of a relationship, two people change each other. They share their loves and their personal experiences and through these exchanges, their personal opinions and tastes are altered. As I’ve written before, Mr. Hum and I have shared a lot over the four years we’ve been together and I think that this kind of sharing has been for our better. We’ve introduced each…

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Mr. Hummingbird and I are both fairly easy going people. Throughout the planning of our wedding, we have tried to be as conscious of the feelings of others as possible, because we love our friends and families and we want them to have fun and enjoy themselves over the course of our big day.

Just after our one year anniversary, I accompanied Mr. Hum to his brother’s wedding where he was the Best Man. They got married at the lovely Old Mill in Ancaster, having the ceremony outdoors and a bunch of their pictures taken by the Old Mill’s waterfall before the rain, which had been threatening to fall all day, finally came pouring down and we all ran…

Or more appropriately, a blank tent.

Mr. Hum’s dad graciously arranged for us to have a 40 x 40 tent for our wedding reception. It’s a pole tent so it’s got a peaked roof and aside from the basic interior lighting included in our package, it’s pretty much bare inside in terms of decor.

As things are winding down in terms of wedding planning and as I…

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June 28th not only marks Mr. Hum’s and my anniversary/wedding, but as I have discovered, another special occasion. You see one of Mr. Hum’s cousins, Kara (one of the constructors of the ribbon hat that ate Toronto) is also celebrating a milestone - she is turning 17 years old.