In just over 6 months...

...we're getting married! Wow, time flew. I remember like it was yesterday, posting that I was engaged. That was over a year ago now and so much has been planned, prepped, and purchased since.

We've settled on a theme. Rustic Elegance. Don't ask me where I came up with that. Probably from reading too many Better Homes and Gardens magazines while waiting in crowded doctor and dentist offices through the years. In any case, I could not have thought of a more fitting theme for RB and I. We are both outdoorsy, love the warmth of candlelight, the smell of cedar and pine, and the reflection of the sun off a calm lake. However, we didn't want to feel like we were taking our guests on a camping trip, and so somehow our wedding would still have to say "wedding". I wanted it classic, elegant. So, hence rustic elegance came to be. May I present this vision to you below.


Each of these photos inspired us/me. The photo in the bottom left is actually where we are getting married. It's at the end of an eternity dock that floats out into the lake. It is surrounded by evergreen trees...you'd never know you were only a 20 minutes from the big city here. I simply loved this photo because it completely captures what I feel for RB.

This isn't a wedding blog. So, I'm not going to give away too many finalized details. I'll show our ideas with pictures, but the real professional pictures I will post after the wedding will do our vision much better justice.

Key words to use for our wedding: spring, lake, wood, candlelight, peonies, bagpipes...yes you heard it.

My family is super Scottish and I am partaking in nearly all of the traditional traditions. Yes, I just said traditional traditions. It is tradition for the Bride to be piped up and back down the aisle. I will also be wearing my family Clan's tartan as a sash over my dress. In addition, my great aunt from Scotland is sending her lucky horseshoe to my granny and this will be tied to my bouquet for good luck. We are also planning a "pinning ceremony" which traditionally would have the groom or the groom's parents pin a bit of their family tartan on the Bride as a symbol of acceptance into the clan. We are reversing this, and RB will have some of our clan tartan pinned to him. It's beautiful. It's traditional. Yet, not something you see every day, and many have never seen it.

I should mention our colour palette.

A wedding would not be complete without a colour palette. As is becoming more and more popular, I have chosen to go with a colour scheme rather than simple one or two or three colours only. Our aim is that when our guests enter the reception hall, they won't exactly know the specific colours I used to inspire the decor. It won't be super obvious. The colours will be strewn throughout, with some colours used more often than others. The palette includes these five colours with accents of gold. I am a yellow gold girl through and through---no white gold for me!

Anyway. I hope this gives you a good update as to what we've got planned. 99% of my vendors are signed, sealed...now for delivery. I have invested in a month-of/day-of wedding coordinator team and I am very excited to work with these ladies. I believe it will be well worth the money to allow myself to not worry on the day of my wedding. I am a worrier by nature.

Well it's 2:30am and one redbull five hours earlier has kept me awake. However, it's Remembrance Day here in Canada. Memorial Day for you folks to the south. Lest we forget. Support our Troops!