Wedding Blog

Since, as I have mentioned before, Mr. Hum and I are full blown geeks, there are a number of elements to the wedding that are on the geeky side.

The very first geeky project that we started working on way back in the fall was the video game themed table signs and escort cards. We don’t have a hard and fast rule about where people are supposed…

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Before I dated Mr. Hummingbird, I went out with about 12 different people and of those dirty dozen, as I affectionately call them, I really only seriously dated three.

I met the first of the three back when I was a senior in high school. I was 17 and fasttracking so I could graduate early, so I was reasonably smart when it came…

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In my vow post, I mentioned that we originally were interested in the idea of including a handfasting in our ceremony. Sadly, over the course of ceremony retooling, we ended up removing this ceremony (as well as all of our readings) for the sake of time and clarity.

However, because handfastings are really beautiful and an awesome old tradition, I figured I would…

Before I started dating Mr. Hum, I had never in my life heard of Lee Valley. We moved a fair amount when I was a kid and we really didn’t do enough home renovation to be familiar with the high end hardware store.

However, my first Christmas from Mr. Hum, his family gave us a tonne of Lee Valley tools and I came to see how…

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The whole thing about writing vows is, there is practically nothing you can say that won’t sound a little bit cheesy or like you ripped off a Beatles song. However, working on our wedding ceremony, we wanted to make sure that through the haze of love, we said the things we really wanted to say to each other.

Joe Cocker always kind of looks like he’s in the process of having a stroke when he sings, doesn’t he?

After my etsy ordered hair clips didn’t work out and after I realized that we’re about four weeks out from the wedding now, I embarked on round two of Operation Hair Accessory.

Mr. Hum and I searched through a number of stores in the core until I came across something I felt would work. And where did I find this mysterious and elusive item? Well much…

I think somehow someone has hit a switch somewhere and turned everything into bizarro world because I’ve been feeling almost as though, the closer the wedding gets, the calmer we get and the more everyone else freaks out.

Picture courtesy of www.badastronomy.com. What kind of geek would I be if I didn’t make a Douglas Adams reference?

Though our parents were sweet enough to help us with some of the big ticket items for our wedding (Mr. Hum’s dad is helping pay for the tent and rentals and my parents are helping with the catering bill), we are paying for pretty much everything else ourselves.

As I’ve mentioned before, we are on a budget since Mr. Hum and I both work in creative…

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When Mr. Hummingbird and I picked the date for the wedding, we discussed a couple of dates before we ended up on what I thought was the best choice - June 28th.

Not only would my workload by slow enough that I could actually take a honeymoon (wahoo!), but June 28th this year will be the four year anniversary of our very first…

And the flower is off my head.

Not too long after I wrote my post about hair accessories, I knew I needed to buy mine, so I rushed out to order myself some. I was looking for something purple in the hopes that I could find something to compliment my bouquet, which was especially tricky, but I managed to find a shop on etsy that seemed…

Dear Wedding Shoes,

I really hate to say this, because you know how much I love you, but, way back in February I almost cheated on you.

(My Naturalizer Shoes - the pair I bought are pewter)

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Way back around the time I started blogging in the fall, I wrote about a falling out I had with a person I referred to as my best friend. The thing I’ve come to learn about friends is, the real ones, the ones who love you and care about your happiness are the ones who will stand by you and be there…

The lady rocking the 1980s perm and pearls is my mom. The little gremlin shoving food in its mouth is me (some things never change.)

I love buying dresses. Being as tall as I am, dresses tend to be one of the few clothing items I can buy without any fuss or muss, so when I see one I like and it fits, I go for…

This weekend, thanks to my lovely and talented Maid of Honour Erin, I was the guest of honour at a truly awesome bridal shower complete with special kitty guests! (but I’ll get to that later).

Things were a little crazy leading up to the shower as I had a bit of “stage fright” and Canada Post lost a bunch of the invites (Grrr!) which left us…