Another Weekend, Another Great Wedding!

K and I just got back from a whirlwind trip to Ottawa this past weekend to celebrate Tracy and Kevin’s wedding. The weather was very nice, cool but sunny, perfect for a breezy, tented ceremony on the grounds of the Brookstreet Hotel in Kanata. The evening continued with a very beautiful reception and dinner in one of the modern banquet halls at Brookstreet.

Here’s our yummy dessert - a pyramid of chocolate with a creme brulee centre and a crunchy Ferrero Rocher base. Congrats to Tracy and Kevin!

K and I stayed at the Westin right in the heart of Ottawa because he had a free weekend night stay lined up from all of his visits to MN this past year. We highly recommend it, especially if you can get the corner room ending in “26” - a huge bathroom, very spacious bedroom/sitting area and floor to ceiling windows with a view of the parliament. Yeah, we know, the parliament isn’t THAT exciting, but we felt special anyway.

…And speaking of special, we felt pretty special when my sis gave us a parting gift of lady fingers and almond-lemon tart to take home to Toronto. She’s just started her pastry chef adventure at Le Cordon Bleu, and is baking up a storm up there in the nation’s capital!

How to Be a Gracious B****

I’m not a huge fan of email forwards, but when I got this one today, I had to laugh - thanks OS for sending it to me!

Jennifer’s wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement — not even her parent’s nasty divorce. Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!

A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father’s new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother! Jennifer asked her father’s new young wife to exchange it, but she refused. ‘Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I’m wearing it,’ she replied.

Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, ‘Never mind sweetheart. I’ll get another dress. After all, it’s your special day.’

A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ‘Aren’t you going to return the other dress?  You really don’t have another occasion where you could wear it.  Her mother just smiled and replied, ‘Of course I do, dear. I’m wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.’

NOW I ASK YOU - IS THERE A WOMAN OUT THERE, ANYWHERE, WHO WOULDN’T ENJOY THIS STORY?

~sd

Month 1: In Sickness and in Health

A Serbian friend told me that back in her home country, many people get sick after they wed, and all it means is that you have lived through the event fully. If that’s the case, I really did live through my wedding to the fullest!

…I didn’t mention this in my wedding recap, but the other side of the story was that I was under the weather a couple days before the big day. I was determined not be sick on the wedding day though, and was popping back Buckley’s pills, Halls and Vicks like no tomorrow. My throat was still killing me, and by the time our speech rolled around, my voice was going. The next morning, it was completely gone.

So now, I really do know that someone loves you when he can deal with your painful, hacking cough all night; when he doesn’t recoil at your endless snot and the nasty phlegm; when he can look you in the eye when you have pinkeye; and when he has the patience to try and decipher what you’re trying to say when you have no voice.

One month after we said our vows, it seems that the bug I caught has been incubating in K, and so, in sickness and in health, it’s now my turn to take care of him.

Another Switch-Up

Yes, I am suffering from wedding withdrawal (and a lot of procrastination), and have just changed the look of the site yet again. I mean, who knows if anyone still reads this blog? Anyway, it’s all in preparation for an update and refresh of our photos page.

~sd

Married Life: A FAQ About sdK

The top three questions we’ve been asked since getting married:

1. Where (and when) are you going on your honeymoon?
2. Do you feel different (now that you’re married)?
3. When’s the first baby coming?

And our answers are:

1. We went on a mini-honeymoon to Muskoka for a couple of days after the wedding. We enjoyed some true R&R, with K fishing off the dock of the boathouse B&B we were staying at (the same place we stayed at on our first anniversary together), and me catching up on some much needed sleep! As for our “real” honeymoon, we’ll be going in December so we can tack on those precious statutory holidays, and we think it’ll be fun for the two of us to experience New Year’s together outside of the country. As for where, well, we don’t know yet! K is supposed to surprise me with the location, but I can’t help but fill the void left by wedding planning searching for deals and beautiful locales online. K’s got a bundle of Aeroplan and Starwood hotel points gathered up from his hard-earned and often frustrating work travels, so we’d like to use them to their fullest. We think we might go to Greece but if we go in the winter we perhaps won’t be able to enjoy the Mediterranean coast to its greatest potential, so we’re at a crossroads right now. Unless K is keeping a huge secret and has already planned everything! Has he???


2. We’ve been living together for two years now, so we feel pretty much the same, except that we don’t have a big, huge, event to plan for anymore. It feels good to have “Project Wedding” behind us! We have a bit more time to just enjoy each other’s company, and to return to doing some of the things we like to do, or taking up new challenges. K has faithfully returned to writing in his tried and true blog of over seven years and is playing more tennis these days, and I’m trying to do some more volunteering while also turning my efforts towards my next “project”, preparing for my first half marathon in September.


3. Hmmm…we’ll have to get back to you on that! Of course I am reminded constantly by my parents that my clock is ticking, and that it has been ticking for many years now, and that, according to them, time is running out! And of course K still wants to be young enough to teach the kids to play sports! So…we’ll keep you posted ;)

And…before I go, I also just want to say another congratulations to our friends Rob and Anna, who are enjoying a well-deserved honeymoon in the South Pacific after their amazing wedding a week ago.

Table 15!

Both Rob and Anna looked smashing and the wedding itself was beautiful and tons of fun!

And here we are at the end of the night :)

~sd