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!

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

Wedded Bliss

We did it! And it was amazing. We’re so glad that people said they liked the food and that they had lots of fun. We did too, and though the day was long, it was relatively stress-free. The day included:

• My bridesmaids making Khiem prove his worth and love for me with some crazy games before the tea ceremony at my parents’ house - in which our groomsmen performed a convincing rendition of My Heart Will Go On while Khiem prooved that he will likely never win a hoola hoop contest
• Our switcheroo into traditional Vietnamese garb (hats and all!) for the tea ceremony at K’s house
• Pouring rain while doing our photo shoot with Dave & Charlotte at the Old Britannia Schoolhouse - super excited to see the outcome and really glad we were able to take pics inside!
• A short and sweet ceremony that included some awesome reading by Stan and Dan
• A rollicking Raptors team entry into the reception
• Our crooked but very cute and stylish wedding cake
• Some very well prepared speeches and another awesome slideshow a la Tom
• Extremely good use of the open bar by our guests (how many Lemon Drops were ordered again? hehe)
• The paparazzi that is our family and friends (we will never want for photos!)

Thanks to everyone who helped out with the wedding and made our day one to remember! We love you all!

The happy couple!

Today is also wedding #3 for Khiem - he’s flown out to Vancouver to celebrate with our friends Vi and Solomon, whose wedding day it is today! We wish you all the happiness and joy in the world!

~sd

Congratulations!

It’s almost t-3 days to the wedding! Craziness. Well, before we get to that, we’d like to say a big congratulations to Khiem’s sister, An and her new hubby Chris. An and Chris got married last Sunday on the grounds of the beautiful Royal Ambassador. Both bride and groom looked great, and with a lake, gardens and a nice day, who could ask for anything more? (Khiem of course wanted to go fishing but luckily I made him take the fishing rods out of the car before we left his parents’ place!) The evening continued with a wonderfully decorated hall, dinner, candy bar and a huge chocolate fountatin to boot. Congrats guys!

And now…to get ready for wedding #2 - ours! Almost everything is done - I feel like we say this everytime someone asks about it, but little things always seem to come up! The nervousness/excitement is building now, but we’re still keeping our sanity so hopefully it’ll last until the day of! I just had a nice relaxing evening with my bridesmaids, who organized a girls’ night in with dinner, facials and movies, so I’m feeling pretty relaxed now ;)

~sd