Wedding Blog

With sushi-filled bellies, my sisters and I waddled our collective way back to the car and headed home from the rehearsal dinner. Toto’s “Africa” was playing much too loudly on the stereo, and we were bopping our heads along much, much too vigorously. Ever since I moved across the country that song has become our adopted ’theme song’ and any time it comes on (even…

Ten days after our cross-country road trip, six days after my father and I took our engagement pictures, five days after I met our photographer, baker, and florist for the first time, we had our rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.

The rehearsal was held, naturally, at our wee itty bitty church. My sisters and I were very late, even after previous admonitions from our minister to not…

My birthday gift from Mr. Shortcake has arrived - a new lens! I thought I’d take the opportunity to test out all 85mm of its goodness on some wedding paraphernalia. No photos were taken of my getting-ready details, so I’ve decided to take photos of the pieces I have left (some items are back in BC or were destroyed by the wedding-day storm).

… was, hands-down, the worst part of our wedding. Photography was, is, and continues to be such a huge aspect of that day, that it really kills me to do this.

I’m not going to review him.

So, suffice it to say that he was the most unprofessional photographer that I, my family, or guests had ever met, and I still get emails about his antics to…

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Joanna from A Cup of Jo found this first, and I’d thought I’d pass it along. For those of you on a budget, or even for those of you who like to give flowers as a gift, Real Simple has a guide to making rather lovely bouquets from supermarket flowers!

{Continued from PART I: A Journey of Three Thousand Miles }

So, where were we? Ah yes, crammed into the back of the family van, sandwiched between suitcases and suits and boxes and dresses and giant mountain dogs. Good times. We drove across the Prairies and experienced all the wonder of the plains (Hay! Horizon! More hay! Ooh, corn, that’s different…), and when those fifteen minutes had…

Wow. If I could do our cake topper over again…

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The French girl:

*and by “teaser” I mean one of the four semi-decent wedding photos we have.

(Post processing done by me, full review of our “photographer” to come later)

My mother was always (and still is) afraid of candles. Whether that fear was because of the possibility of a fire, or because of an unfounded belief that the ceilings might get mussy, I still don’t know. She has passed on that fear to only one of us, the middle Sister Shortcake. Youngest Sister Shortcake has always been one match short of being a pyromaniac,…

Mr. Shortcake and I got married on October 4th because it was one of the only two dates available for our reception. The other date was October 31st, and I struggled to decide between the two. Loving Halloween as much as I do, I was pumped at the thought of having such a unique un-wedding-y wedding. In the end, we chose the 4th because our…

I L-O-V-E photography. It’s not even funny. If I didn’t have such an understanding husband, I’m sure I would be receiving my share of funny looks when I stroke my camera, caressing its body, whispering sweet nothings into the lens hood. Now that The Party has passed, I finally feel free to concentrate on the little flickers (flickrs?) of hobbies that have burst into flame…

One bad thing about being on vacation for 2+ weeks (What? There’s a CON?!), is that you have to be away from loved ones for 2+ weeks. I don’t know about you, but I am SUCH a family person that everything I see, or do, or eat on vacation makes me think, “oh, so-and-so would LOVE this!” This has happened more times than we can…

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Pssst, I love Mr. Shortcake! Pass it on!

Wow. I never, ever expected such an outpouring of love and support. 100+ comments? Thank you.

I really shouldn’t be writing anymore (Mr. Shortcake is all suited up, board in hand, waiting to go down to Waikiki beach), but after so many expressions of concern, I thought it might be cruel not to fill you all in on the second part of The Shortcake Saga.

Yes, the…