Our Wedding: A Primer

Date: June 27th, 2009

Format: private morning ceremony & luncheon followed by an open evening reception/cake-cutting party at our place

Venue: garden ceremony, luncheon in a haunted 1800s Georgian style manor transformed into a Keg restaurant; evening party at our home

Ceremony: most likely a tailored handfasting ceremony that includes a traditional exchange of rings

Music: a mixture, anything from Benny Goodman to Sean Paul to the Sex Pistols - don't forget to send us your favourite dance tunes for the party playlist!

Theme: vintage/old Hollywood; it wasn't really planned, it sort of organically came together from a shared love of jazz, vintage flair & classic movies

Traditions: another mixture, Dave's a traditionalist and Steph spent a lot of time surfing sites like Offbeat Bride and A Practical Wedding, so don't be surprised if some of the usual wedding traditions are skipped altogether and others are there, but with a twist

Priorities: vows, meaning, good food, good drink, and celebration with friends & family!

The Invites Are Out!

If you are reading this site, then the above should look familiar to you, as by now, you will have already got one of these in the mail.

The invitations were a tag team effort: Stephanie with the wording, hand addressing (my penmanship is not that neat! ;-) and design tweaking; and myself with the graphic design, layout and printing (oh the printing!). We both picked out the colours for the papery.

Initially we tossed around a few ideas for the wedding, but as we have a relatively short engagement, our options were limited. Eventually a theme just kinda organically developed as we began to make some choices in venue, etc. In the end we went with a retro, "elegant simplicity" theme for the invitations. The fonts used are vintage 1920's and 1930's fonts, and the graphic was of a 1920's bride. The colours: the tan parchment, black text and the most commented thing, the black envelope, are very monochrome, elegant and evocative of a simpler time.

In a way it is fitting, as Stephanie and my first date was dinner and the watching of the 1950 black and white movie, Harvey. Yes we are both old movie buffs and yes there is a blasphemous colour version of Harvey, though Steph rightly held out to rent the superior black and white version! It's little things like that that helped me decide to marry her! ;-)

--The Groom

Bienvenidos!

Hi and Welcome!

We’re not sure exactly how this wedding blog will take shape, but with Dave being a techie geek and Steph being a word nerd, it was simply a matter of time before we launched something online. Plus it is the 2000s so we're tryin' to keep with the times.

Over the next few months we thought we'd...

• offer you tidbits about each other that the new in-laws might not know (Dave's family & friends, meet Steph; Steph's family & friends, meet Dave),
• post maps to the wedding venues, hotels & local attractions,
• introduce you to the cast & crew involved in the wedding (assuming they're willing to be exposed here!),
• answer any FAQs,
• show off our engagement photos, and
• indulge in any other fun stuff that tickles our fancy.
  

We’ll keep the dirty laundry and some surprises to ourselves though. It’d be boring if you knew EVERYTHING about the wedding beforehand wouldn’t it?

Hope you’ll join us for the ride.

Steph & Dave