shooting my own wedding-crazy, right?

When David and I first got engaged one of the questions I heard most is "Who is going to do your pictures?" A lot of people even suggested I do them myself!!  First of all: that's a little ridiculous and second: nearly impossible!  Obviously I love taking pictures but shooting my own wedding is something I'd never even consider!!  Actually, finding a photographer was a top priority of mine.  If I remember correctly, we chose a date first then a photographer, reception venue and church.  Everything else just fell into place afterwards.

Several months ago I came across this amazing photographer who actually did his own wedding pictures!!  Click right here to see those images.  Apparently, there was a second shooter but still...that's a crazy idea.

I'm pretty sure if I shot our wedding, the pictures would look turn out somewhat like this...

But our super awesome photographer can make us look like this!!

SO...hire a pro people!!

post out of boredom

I'm currently dog-sitting for my future in-laws and watching a lot of TV...I'm really into wedding shows, especially Four Weddings and Four Weddings Canada:)  I think our wedding would win that show because we will have a cohesive look/theme, it's very personal, the venue is amazing and we're super in love!
While we have put a lot of thought into all the decisions we have made, we realized even before we were engaged, that the marriage is more important the wedding itself.  I had actually been keeping a notebook of all these wedding ideas for a few months before David proposed and I had so much I thought I wanted for my wedding. Pretty much as soon as we started planning (within weeks of the proposal) I realized that none of the stuff I had wanted before mattered anymore.  All that I had written and thought of before seemed really trivial and insignificant.  There are things we aren't compromising on or excluding.  Finding the perfect photographer and choosing the right songs for key moments were two of the things we (me probably more than David!) deemed important.
Something else that was really important to us was keeping our costs down.  Our parents are generously paying for everything so that we can save all our money for a house.  We never set a budget because our parents know we aren't going to be extravagant, but we still believe in spending what money we have been given wisely.  You would be surprised how easy it is to plan a great wedding without spending a lot.

I've just realized that I jumped from a TV show to rambling about a bunch of other stuff!!  In case you haven't seen the show, it's about 4 brides who attend each others wedding and judge them.  Whoever gets the most points from the other brides wins a honeymoon to a secret location.

Right now we are 249 days away from our wedding day:)
That's all i have to say for today.

engagement session!

here are some pictures from our session with Jenn Austin-Driver!!

so much has happened!

At the end of September we booked our wedding photographer and I'm so excited to be working with her (here's her website)! We are doing our engagment session on Friday, which we are also excited for:)
A few weeks ago we went to visit the venue we like and seeing it set up for a wedding made us like it even more! They cater as well which we find to be a plus. We are going to set up a tasting and hopefully book it very soon. I've decided on my dress but it needs alterations so I found a seamstress whom I'm meeting with shortly. She is actually one of my teachers from high school and she worked on my friend's wedding dress a few years ago.
Hmmm, what else? Oh! We registered for a bunch of amazing stuff:) It was so fun making lists of things to pick and seeing all the great stuff the store had (I kept imaging how we could use each piece).

More updates:
*David told me his ideas for what the guys will wear
*We went to look at rings
*The search for a house continues

that's all that I can think of right now. But so much will be happening in the next few weeks so come back and see what we have posted!

christina

two months and one day

This update is probably long over due but there's not much to update about.  Here's the list!

*We set up a date/time to take another look at the venue we like
*The search for the perfect photographer continues
*The guest list is almost complete
*I've begun collecting brooches for my brooch bouquet
*David has been collecting seeds for something that can not be disclosed yet:)
*We bought a slow cooker with a gift card from David's grandma
*Etienne gave us a coupon for Home Sense which we used to buy an awesome clock and a neat tray

We've been engaged for about two months and it seems to have flown by. Hopefully the next year and 59 days will go by just as fast!

christina

uber productive

the day after we met the photographer (see previous post), Kaitlyn and i went to look at more dresses. i didn't see anything i liked...except my 'wedding buddy' (jessica) from work in her gown! she was modelling it for her family and Kaitlyn and i got to see all the loveliness. the gown is big and poufy and flowery...its so pretty. jessica is getting married in October of this year so we have been comparing plans and she has been sharing a lot of ideas. it's pretty fun:)
on sunday David and i went to look at a venue for the reception. i'm not giving any hints about it so that if we choose it, the small group of people coming for the dinner can be wowed! we like it a lot and the owners actually make all the food fresh that morning.
i thought i knew what colours i'd like for everything but i changed my mind this weekend...the new colour scheme is also a secret! only David, our mothers and my girls know:) speaking of the girls: we're going to look at bridesmaids dresses next month.  YAY!

that's all for now.

christina

he uses canons

Yesterday after work David and I met one of the photographers we're interested in.  He's the first of any 'vendors' we have actually met so I was excited. He showed us a sample wedding album he can make and a slideshow of selected pictures/video clips of another wedding.  He actually asked us a lot of questions, which was kind of unexpected. He said we both seem really calm and not nervous about marriage and he's right! I'm so ready and excited to be married and I know David is too:)  As we were concluding out meeting the photographer said our wedding sounds like it will be nice and intimate (small guest list) and he would love to work with us.  We didn't book him though because there are other we are considering.

Finding the right photographer is so important to me because I'll look at wedding pictures for the rest of my life.  While David and I certainly know enough people with digital cameras who could take pictures there's something so awesome about a picture of top quality.  I want to look at the pictures and forget they are still images because they look so real.  I believe wedding photography is the number one thing to pay top dollar for.  That being said, it's no wonder my photographer to consider list has about 6 different people:)

I'm going to look at more dresses today with Kaitlyn; hopefully we find something!


*Christina